My finance and I have a dilemna. We found a photographer with a fantastic style and great prices that has shot at our location before. By looking at his blog, he doesn't seem to do a ton of weddings and he didn't have any reviews on any websites.
So, we filled out a contact form. He contacted us about a week later, saying he was on vacation and doesn't check his email on vacation. Okay. We meet him, he calls us when we're on the way saying he'll be about 30 minutes late. When we talked with him, he said it was a family emergency, that his grandma almost passed. No judgement whatsoever, I was impressed he still met with us.
So we do the engagement shoot and he says it'll take him two weeks to process the photos and then he'll send them to us. He knows we are using them for our save the dates. Well, three weeks go by and we haven't heard from him. I emailed him on Sunday and I still haven't gotten a response (Tuesday).
I'm starting to feel nervous about this guy. I'm concerned about his responsiveness and I'm concerned we're not a priority. I mean, if the engagement photos take an extra few weeks it's not the end of the world, but what if this behavior carries over to the wedding? I am going to be DEVASTATED if this guy flakes out on our wedding day. We paid a deposit of $450 but I am considering cancelling the rest of the contract after we get our engagement photos.
Am I being overly paranoid? Did anyone else have an unresponsive photographer and if so, how did it end up?
Would you give this photographer the boot? 17 votes