So we had our engagement pictures taken last October with our photographer and he did a great job. We loved the shots and thought he was very nice. We didn't have our date set at the time but discussed having a small wedding and we wouldn't be needing him all day. He mentioned creating a custom package for us. Fast forward to now, we just recently set our date so I emailed our photographer in June to discuss booking him for our wedding on 9/27/15.
He and I were emailing back and fourth about his packages because he seems to lack in giving detailed information on his brochure. There has been an occurrence of events with emailing him that is now under my skin and I don't know what to do.
1. Originally he had a deal posted online stating he would give a free engagement session whenever you book a package with him. We discussed this in October and he said he would take that off once we booked a package. But now when I mentioned it to him, he said he would just "comp" us for it within his package. So really, I guess what we paid for the engagement shoot will never actually be free because it's already included in his packages.
2. He provided me with new pricing which has gone up. I asked if he could honor the pricing he previously gave me and he agreed with giving me a deadline to choose a package and submit the contract with initial payment by today. That gave FI and I 2 weeks to decide on a package. As I said, we had a lot of questions so I had to ask!
3. I mentioned in one of the emails that it was difficult for us to decide on a package because of our small wedding, not needing him all day, etc. and that we would love to meet him to discuss to help us decide better. Well, he never really responded to that and just replied to me via email.
4. Our last questions we had I emailed to him A WEEK AGO and I haven't heard jack squat since. It's like he fell off the face of the earth! I politely emailed him a follow-up email 2 days ago stating that I wasn't sure if he got my last email or was out of town but we had those couple of last questions before submitting the contract and I hoped he would still honor the pricing even though the deadline was going to pass. STILL NOTHING! No response.
I get that photographers are busy this time of year but this is making me sick. I don't want to spend all of this money on someone who is going to ignore me! Maybe he has a good reason, but to me that isn't very professional if he wants our business. What really bothers me is the fact that we liked this guy and love our engagement pictures. I just don't know what to do but I haven't submit the contract with initial payment (it's online) because he seems to have disappeared. I'm not sure if he's blowing me off thinking he wont make any money off of me but if this were the case he should tell me so I can move on. I really don't want another photographer because this guy already took our engagement pictures and we were comfortable with him. But I really feel like I don't have my entire life to waste waiting for a response. I also feel like if I send another email or text him that will just be too annoying. This is very frustrating.