The One with the Wedding Photographers

I don't believe in leaving things till the last minute but work schedules and general every day lethargy sets in and we go all floppy and lazy. I researched for wedding photographers back in April and discovered much to my joy that all the photographers which I have shortlisted were still available for our ROM. Was excited and complacent. Far.too.complacent.

Now that it's May, I thought it'll be a good time that we decide on the photographer and give a deposit to secure the date. I referred to past emails and forwarded requests to double confirm that the date was still available. Out of the 6 I sent out, 5 were all booked and I started panicking. Why oh why why did I procrastinate?? Argh! I ought to shoot myself! *knocks head against wall*

I put my self-proclaimed awesome googling skills to full use and scouted the internet for good photgraphers and chanced upon several great ones. But their charges were sky high and dearie and I were perspiring profusely at the thought of forking out more than $1000 for just 3-4 hours of coverage. Thank goodness out of the 6 email I sent out, N**k G** photography replied and said he was still available for photography on our ROM date and we heaved a major sigh of relief. We arranged for a meet up with him at his studio to decide on which package we wanted. But of course, something had to go wrong. Damn Murphy and his stupid law.

A day before our appt as I was sms-ing N**k to double confirm our meeting, he replied saying he was sorry because his last photographer had been booked the day before. There he was confirming with me via sms that the appt is on and the following msg from him within the next 5 mins had me going into a frenzy. What the heck?! You confirmed the appt with me and suddenly the slot's gone? How the heck did that happen?
His whole logic of first pay first serve basis got me even more pissed but of course being pissed won't get me a photographer for my ROM day. *SIGHS*

The next 3 hours saw poor me sitting in front of the computer browsing pages after pages of wedding photography, emailing pictures to dearie, have him give his opinions, emailing more photographers and I suddenly remembered Venetta Lopez's wedding photos. I found Avenue 8 on the web and sent them an email immediately. Dave Wong from Avenue 8 replied me within 12 hours saying he was still available. Needless to say, we were down at Avenue 8's office within 24 hours to sign the contract and secure our photographer. *MAJOR SIGH OF RELIEF* If I'm gonna suffer more heart attacks like these for the next 6 months, dearie may be potentially marrying a zonked out zombie on our wedding day.