An English couple planned to have a picture-perfect wedding, but say it was completely ruined by their amateur photographer — who was too busy taking snaps of herself in the photo booth.

Paul and Chareen Wheatley told Caters News Agency they hired a “photographer from hell” for their September wedding last year in Leeds, England and are now suing to recover the $850 they shelled out to remember their big day.

“The photos aren’t a true reflection of our day and we can’t replace that, we can’t redo the photos,” said Paul, a 42-year-old insurance broker. “It’s really disappointing.”

The trouble started shortly after they paid 20-year-old shutterbug Chloe Johnston, who advertised herself as a professional on Facebook.

“We couldn’t get in touch with her again and we didn’t think she was going to turn up until she sent us a message at 10 p.m. the night before our wedding,” he said.

On their big day, Johnston showed up 45 minutes late with a single camera in hand, and things only got worse from there.

A posed photoshoot went wrong when Johnston had the couple walk down a muddy path in a wooded area near their venue, damaging Wheatley’s white dress and causing Paul considerable pain as he had just had knee replacement surgery.

“It was a complete disaster,” Paul said. “Chloe didn’t have a clue what she was doing.”

The newlyweds said they didn’t see Johnston much throughout the night and later discovered she had spent some time in their photo booth that they had set up for their guests — posing for at least four pictures with her Nikon DSLR and one of the mustache props.

Johnston insists that she only went into the photo booth for a few minutes because “there was nothing going on.”

She also defended her snaps, claiming she thought she did a good job.

“I showcased the day through their eyes on the wedding day itself,” she told Caters. “I did everything I could have and more.”

The couple said they only received 15 pictures from her.

“They are awful, most of them aren’t taken properly with some people partly cut out,” Paul fumed. “The quality of the images were rubbish, too.”

One of the pictures shows the couple locked in a loving embrace on the dance floor — but it’s overexposed and cuts out the bottom of Chareen’s dress.

The wedding disaster has now turned into a legal nightmare as the Wheatleys can’t get Johnston to show up in court after they filed a claim in Leeds County Court.

They managed to get nearly $700 back after a bailiff tracked her down two weeks ago.

And now they’re just hoping that no one else will hire her to photograph their special day.

“While it’s too late for us to get nice pictures that actually reflect our wedding day, at least we can warn others to hire a professional photographer,” Paul said.