Photographer, Cake & Thoughts

Okay, so The Longhorns won their Bowl game!!! Wahoo!!! It was a close one though....almost too close for comfort but I loved the excitement. I just LOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVEEEE Colt McCoy....he's going to make some girl very lucky!
Edgar and I have a meeting with a potential photographer. This is her website. www.number9photography.com and their package is only $800. This is totally alot more reasonable and I don't think I will have to sale my soul to get good pics. She will be at our wedding for 8 hrs, and I get ALOT of good things on the side. I will update tomorrow about whether or not it was too good to be true. Hopefully I'm satisfied. The only iffy thing is that the deposit is $300. While this is okay, I don't get paid until the 15th and we're kind of low on cash right now. It would be more reasonable to pay the deposit in February. The only problem with waiting that long is that it will be less than 5 months before the wedding and I don't really want to risk the chance of losing her. I think we will meet with her, talk it over, and possibly pay the deposit after Edgar gets paid on Friday. ::Crosses fingers everything turns out fine::
I also talked to the Cake lady from last year. We met with a couple of cake makers last Summer because I wanted to do it before school started. One lady never even got back to me until about a month AFTER she said she would....which was an immediate red flag. Another lady never got back to schedule the tasting. We went to another lady which is about 30 minutes away and she charges $125 to deliver the cake. It was kind of pricy, but we let Edgar's parents know, unless they wanted to go and pick the cake up and risk it falling over and us being pissed at them for forever it-will just get paid no questions asked. :) We never put the deposit down because Edgar's aunt said she found someone that would do it for us (her friend) for only the cost of ingredients. I was okay with it, we tasted the cakes and they were alright. THEN, she says she can only do fondant....umm no thanks! I don't want fondant, I want yummy icing. So I e-mailed the original nice cake lady to see how much her prices went up for the new year. She said they went up to 2.10/serving instead of 2.00/serving and her deposit was still $100. I was excited because she said it was only an $18 increase, and if we went ahead and paid the deposit by the 15th then she would just surpass the increase and give us last years prices. YEA! Then, Edgar and I talk about not getting his grooms cake, which was all chocolate, and shaped into an igloo ice chest with beer! lol Sooo cute, but we decided to just get the main wedding cake from her for 180 servings. Hopefully she doesn't get fed up with me changing stuff....and just accepts me with open arms! haha I'll wait until I get a response from her to update.
Well, it's back to work tomorrow. Augh! 6:00 AM, here I come......