Long story short:
We've been looking for a champagne photographer on a beer budget. I've scoured the surrounding areas finding the best of all the photographers within my budget. I narrowed it down to a handful, picked and chose my favorites and contacted them. *note, both photographers are out of town.
Photographer A: Offers 10 hours of photography, and a picture CD with print release for $700 including travel cost.
Photographer B: Offers 4 hours of photography, a picture CD with print release for $750 with no additional travel cost, they also offer mix and match options as far as addons.
Now, I right away got excited about photographer A because that would cover my entire wedding, and it is right where I need my budget to be. We contacted through email a handful of times and I finally called her Thursday morning to see about meeting - i'm a slave to my work schedule and the soonest I could meet her is the 17th, she said she didn't know her schedule and she'd let me know. I still haven't heard back from her.
I understand photographers work on weekends so i've been lenient with my expectations, but when I contacted Photographer B to ask about packages his response letter was very warm and made me feel like I was already a client, whereas when I contacted photographer A, she made me feel rushed like I needed to book her immediately and make my deposit.
I already emailed Photographer A reminding her I was interested in meeting her and discussing packages and deposits but i'm having second thoughts. She's yet to respond to my letter (I know it's saturday so I didn't expect immediate response) but i'm having second thoughts.
My gut is telling me to use B, I don't want to burn any bridges just yet but I did let B know I was interested in meeting him.