Mackadeese Salem

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• WhoDoYou Review from March 08, 2016
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  Meg A. wrote: I wish I could give Noah a Zero, but 1 star is as low as it goes. Our experience with Noah was absolutely and utterly awful, and I can only say that he is not a good person. He is a narcissist, he discriminates against military, and when it comes to doing the right thing he is slimy. My husband is an army Ranger, and deploys every year and at a moments notice. When we had our date set for a Monday in October '15, I told this to Noah and he gave me a verbal agreement, before I signed the contract, that if my husband were deployed he would move the $843 deposit to the new date. Well, my husband was deployed. While I was trying to salvage our wedding, I approached Noah with two other dates that were good for the other vendors, Dec. 28, and Jan. 1, but he refused them. What's more, he would not tell me what would happen if I booked a date he was not available for, but pressured me to "make a decision." Because I was bending over backwards trying to fit Noah into our wedding, the entire wedding in Roanoke unraveled. So I informed Noah we would be having the wedding where my husband was stationed, Savannah, GA. Then my husband's father died suddenly, a week before our original date. While the entire family was reeling, Noah was trying to pressure us into paying $600 more, and threatened that we would receive none of our $843 deposit back, despite having told me before that he had settled on a fair amount of money refunded with another bride. He stated "his lawyer advised him" not to give a refund, because he was technically available for our new date, despite having REFUSED the other dates that were more feasible! I told him that my in-laws were paying for the photography and my widowed mother-in-law couldn't afford that much on top of the funeral fees. Afterward he agreed to honor our original contract, but even this was a lie. I spent MONTHS and sent COUNTLESS emails, phone calls, and texts to Noah, trying to get him to send me the new contract. Noah spent that time sandbagging us, often not responding to my emails at all, and other times lying and saying the contract was sent, and BLAMING me for not receiving it! Three weeks from the wedding, Noah gave us three options: 1) pay $600 extra for our original package of unlimited photography, 2) pay our original price for only 5 hours of photography (NOT our original package), or 3) Opt out of the contract as soon as possible, sign a piece of paper, and receive a $400 "Donation" to our wedding. We were so sick of his greedy behavior that we agreed to the third option, leaving us to find a photographer 3 WEEKS before our wedding! AGAIN, I sent email after email waiting for the "document" I needed to sign, and I was met with either no response, or "my office is on vacation for three weeks," "waiting for the Attorney's office," and "didn't want to send it while you were on honeymoon." Finally, my husband started emailing him, a month after our wedding, to which he responded "I'll check the office to see what's taking so long." Another email: no response. To this date, we have paid $843 and received nothing in return but headache. I was obviously trying to do everything that I could to keep Noah as our photographer, and let him know that plans change in the military , though even I could not have foreseen us having to change not only our date but also our location. My desire to keep him as our photographer and attempt at accommodating was essentially giving him enough rope to hang me with. Despite Noah's best attempts to ruin our wedding, it was beautiful.

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