INDIANAPOLIS -- Eleven couples say a wedding photographer took hundreds of pictures at their ceremonies but failed to deliver the goods.

Julie and Joe Dant hired Silver Lotus to photograph their wedding in October 2007, but said the company, and its owner and photographer -- Joseph Brewster (pictured) -- never delivered any prints, Call 6's Rafael Sanchez reported.

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All they received was a movie of the pictures.

"It was a beautiful fall day. It was probably about 70 degrees," Julie Dant said. "My dress was all lace all the way to the floor."

"It was all about her," Joe Dant said.

The Dants said all they want are the snapshots of that special day -- once-in-a-lifetime moments to cherish forever.

"The photographs mean so much to us," Julie Dant said. "We'll never have our friends and family in the same room ever again like that."

The Dants contacted Brewster several times in the year and a half after their wedding.

"He did an amazing job. There's no question that he's a talented photographer," Joe Dant said. "He's made us two or three empty promises, and we've never gotten them."

Brewster's Web site is still up, but he told Call 6 that he's closing the business and focusing on bankruptcy. He refused to talk to Call 6 on camera, but said over the phone that a family tragedy and a computer hard drive crash in the last year caused most of the problems.

But Brewster's explanation doesn't sit well with Kathleen and Travis Gaither, who said they have been waiting five years for everything they ordered.

"We had already designed an album. We just don't have it," Kathleen Gaither said.

The Gaithers did get a few prints and a slideshow of the pictures, but never got their album.

"It was devastating to us that we don't have our most cherished moments of our special day," Kathleen Gaither said.

Brewster told Call 6 that he stopped working on the album when he decided it would take another 40 hours to complete.

"I can't afford to put them together. They simply cost me too much money," he said. "I'm trying to make things right."

Brewster said complaints to Call 6 represent just a fraction of the 1,000 weddings he and his company photographed over 13 years.

Six months after Jackie Sydnor's father walked her down the aisle, he escorted her to court as her attorney. She is one of at least six brides who have sued Brewster or his companies over the last four years.

All won their cases, but none of the $20,170 judgments have been paid, which Brewster said he can't afford.

"It's not satisfying. What we're really looking for are the photographs," said Steven Sams. "Those are what's important to us."

"My biggest thing, I don't want this to happen to somebody else," Kathleen Gaither said.

Brewster told Call 6 that the problems will haunt him until the day he dies.

"We want something to put on our walls. We want something to show our children or our grandchildren," Julie Dant said. "I would give up almost anything that I have now for that."

Brewster contacted the Dants last week and told them he will send a CD of their photos, along with a copyright release, but it had not arrived by Thursday evening.

Brewster told Call 6 that he would give each couple a CD with copyright release in place of their album if he still has their pictures.

He said some of the photos were lost in a computer crash last fall and that he's trying to determine if any of them can be recovered.

When Call 6 called and e-mailed Brewster to confirm the details of getting the photographs to each couple, he failed to respond.