I have had by far thee worst experience with a photographer living in the chicagoland area. Around about late November I contacted an ad over a craigslist for a wedding photographer offering his services for $250. Now at first I thought it was a scam but when I looked at the photographers website and info I became really excited. After reaching the photographer directly I decided to meet up with him one day. He was a very busy man. While the hubby and I were working part-time and attending school full-time I did manage sometime for him. We tried over Christmas break to meet up with this man and he was also busy during that time as well. So we decided after the New Year that we would set aside time to sit down and go over our wedding with the photographer. Now by Feb I had already signed contract saved on my computer but unfortunately his schedule did not allow us to meet again to finalize everything. My wedding began to approach so I decided to send the photographer a copy of the contract signed with out his deposit so that we could start moving this right along. We kept communicating up 90 days before my wedding. I did not hear from the young photographer until exactly sixty days before my wedding da. He stated that he would not be able to do my wedding. There was no reason in the e-mail or phone call explaining this.
Mind you ladies this man wanted us originally to send him the original contract signed with the deposit.
All I can say is please be careful when using these vendors that post ads on these website. PM me if you want the photographers name ladies.