This is why we keep telling people over and over that wedding photography cannot be taken lightly, by either the couple or the photographer. Get a copyright release and take the files to a professional photographer or retoucher. Not everything can be fixed, Photoshop is not a magic wand, but perhaps some important pictures can at least be improved.
Plan to pay quite a bit, image retouching work ain't cheap. I starred this. Every newbie wanna be wedding photographer who has to ask what settings and what lens etc etc etc needs to read this.
I am sorry you are disappointed, hopefully something can be salvaged. Good luck.
First, there is no reason photos on disc should play in your DVD player. This only happens with special photo discs. Normally you cannot get a CD or DVD full of photos to play on your DVD player.
As for the white borders, this is also completely normal. Photos have a 2X3 aspect ratio, so if you want to make an 8X10 print, you either need to crop a couple inches of the long side of the image, print the image with white borders on two sides, or choose a size of paper that is full frame like 8X12. As to the actual image quality, I can't speak to that without seeing it.
However for £300, I would not expect very much. I think this might be a case of you get what you pay for. I decent wedding photographer will easily cost £2000 to £6000.
So, for the price you paid, as long as some of the photos were in focus, I would say you should be happy you even got that. Edit: You could take these some place to be retouched, but expect to pay up to £5 per image, possibly even more.
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