paypal

despite the fact that this may be a bit embarrassing, i am sharing it anyway so you know the reason behind some of my practices. this is why i require a paid paypal invoice before a session.
against my better judgment i planned a session on saturday without following through with the paid paypal invoice (i always send a paypal invoice to someone prior to a session). on this occasion, i did send it, i just didn't make sure it got paid prior to the session. i kind of had a "feeling", but made the drive to the arboretum anyway. the session was supposed to be at 6:00... at 6:15 no one was there. i called the client and left a message. she called back to say that something had come up and she was not going to be able to make it.
i am a mom of three young children and in order to make it to an early evening session i have to rearrange quite a lot of things. i am not sharing this to complain, i love love taking pictures and i am more than happy to rearrange my schedule to make a session happen! but i share this to say that it does require some work on my part to make it to each and every session.
so in the future i will no longer meet someone (that i don't know or i haven't worked with in the past) without a paid invoice. i am not being rude or insensitive, i will just politely suggest that we reschedule the session until a time after the invoice is paid.

i was able, however, to take the opportunity to take some pictures of the beautiful flowers in bloom at the arboretum :)