Payment & Cancellation Policy
BOOKING: For all portrait sessions; a 30% non-refundable session retainer is required to book and hold the date for your session and serves as a cancellation fee.
For wedding packages; a 30% retainer is due immediately to book and hold the date of your event and also serves as a cancellation fee. The remaining balance is due two (2) weeks before the date of the wedding.
PAYMENT: All sessions and packages can be paid using cash, check or card.. If a client pays by check, the check must clear and any uncleared check will have an additional charge of $35 to cover bank fees. Write all checks out to “Katie M. DeWalt Photography”.
CANCELLATION POLICY: For portrait sessions, client forefeits their session retainer paid to book the session. The fee can be credited towards a future session if the client reschedules the appointment by calling 72 hours prior to the date of session and re-booking at an agreeable date and time upon photographers approval.
For weddings and events, if for any reason the Client cancels before the wedding date, the Photographer will keep the the event retainer fee paid to hold the wedding or event date as a cancellation fee. Cancellation must be made and sent in writing, by mail or e-mail. However, if the client requires to change the wedding date, I will do my best to accommodate the change and no fee will be charged as long as the new date is available and within five months of the original event date. If I am not available for the new date, the original contract will be cancelled and subject to the cancellation policy.
If Katie M. DeWalt Photography cannot perform this Contract due to fire or other casualty, strike, act of nature, or other cause beyond the control of the parties, or due to Photographer’s illness or emergency, then the Photographer shall return the retainer fee to the Client but shall have no further liability with respect to the Contract. This limitation on liability shall also apply in the event that photographic materials are damaged in processing, lost through camera or other media malfunction, lost in the mail, or otherwise lost or damaged without fault on the part of the Photographer.