What is it lately?
I had my bridal portraits taken back on November 6th and still haven't gotten my proofs yet. For over three weeks I have been trying very very hard not to be a horrible antsy bride. But I think I'm justified at this point! The photographer's work is amazing and I'm really psyched to see how my pictures turned out. I haven't tried to get back in touch with him -- I figured cut people some slack over the Thanksginving holiday -- but I am just about to! I made a little extra money last month and I am eager to spend it putting together an album with my favorites out of all the tons of pictures he took. (Yes of course I will keep the album stashed away from fiance until after the wedding! It's really important to him to be surprised and he won't spoil it for himself by looking at the pictures).
Also, about a month ago fiance and I put in the information to order invitations from a local stationer. We had shopped around a little and since we only need about 50 invitations we're splurging and having everything custom designed and going first class, we didn't even worry about the price and just went with the place we liked best. The ladies at the stationer prefer to communicate via e-mail following your consultation. Fiance was leery of this but we figured it would be best to play their game as long as everything went smoothly. Unfortunately there seem to have been miscommunications every step of the way after our consultation. We were expecting them to send us some graphics that they could use, for us to choose from, before they set anything up, but they went ahead and generated proofs -- at least we did hear back from them within a few days as promised. We attempted (via e-mail) to clear up any misunderstandings and provided our changes on the proofs...it took me a few days to get back with them, but everything seemed fine when they followed up with me and I said we were still looking over everything and I got our changes to them a few days later. I've hardly heard from them since, except to say that they did receive our changes and they had started creating a custom graphic for us. They had mentioned this as a possibility, but I had told them that I would prefer not to pay extra for a custom graphic and wanted to try to change the size and placement of the one they had been able to find from another source, before we incured extra charges. Like I said, I was trying to cut people some slack over the Thanksgiving holiday, but you would think they could have at least shot me a quick note by now that they were jammed with Christmas party invitations or whatever. Our last communication was the week before Thanksgiving wherein they mentioned sending me something by the end of the week, which obviously never happened. At least we didn't give them any money yet. I shot them another note last night and if we don't hear from them by tomorrow we will take the printout of our proof to another stationer on Saturday.
Not wedding related, but I also ordered a decorative item for Christmas from one of the third party sellers on Amazon.com and when fiance and I went to assemble it, there were parts missing. The seller has not yet replied to my phone call or e-mail. I'm pretty sure I have remedies through Amazon and my credit card, but I still really wanted to enjoy this item at Christmastime and I want to get this resolved ASAP so I can get the item set up or get my money back and get another one.
Okay...rant over. Thanks!
Whoever said it was supposed to be happily ever after is a big fat liar.