Sadie was very unprofessional. She started out pretty strong and I am always looking to help small businesses and anyone new in the industry. However, the strong start quickly turned into a nightmare.
For our engagement shoot, she was an hour late and her reasoning was because "she went out the night before, woke up in a frat house and got locked out of her apartment". We drive 2.5 hours for a 30 min shoot, because she was late and hung over.
Then I hired her to take some bachelorette photos for my party that was in Flagstaff. She rescheduled the shoot from the first day to the second day of my party because of the snow, completely understand. But then the next day she tried to cancel again!! She texted me an hour before the shoot to tell me her car was covered in snow. Well, sweetheart, better grab a shovel. I would never just leave a client hanging like that because of laziness. She eventually came because I told her she better find a way. She came to the shoot looking hung over as shit.
Fast forward to our wedding day. I paid for an extra shooter because I honestly didn't trust her and wanted to get more opportunities for shots. 20 mins before the second shooter was supposed to be there, she tells me the shooter cancelled on her... like excuse me? Cancelled??? What kind of business are you running? This is my wedding day and you can't get a second shooter out here that I've paid for months ago?!
So I kept my cool because it's my wedding day and there are worse things. But then she tries to leave early.... I sent her the timeline for 6 hour coverage a week before and she tried to tell me that she was only booked for 5 hours, I have a contract from her that says different. She asks me at the 5 hour mark if she could leave... we didn't even cut our cake yet! Then I later find out that she was bugging my coordinator that she wanted to leave because I didn't pay for 5 hours! Excuse me?!
So overall, I would not recommend Sadie as a wedding photographer. I think her talent is there, however her professionalism and honestly work ethic, is not. I wish I could've hired someone else, but she didn't take refunds and we were on a budg read more