I want to be clear in this review that my fiancé and I did not end up using Hunter or Bearmane. The quality of the product was excellent for the price range. My review is more of a "buyer beware" to a situation that happened with my experience ...working with the company.
We met with Hunter in person after reviewing his work online. We really liked his personality. We decided to get a contract (which stated Hunter would be our primary videographer) and have it reviewed by our wedding coordinator, as well as send it to our Venue coordinator to ensure Hunter had the appropriate required insurance, etc. We were in discussions with Hunter to sign the contract, no changes were left to be made at this time. This was the end of January 2018 through the first week of February 2018. While we were awaiting these responses from the Venue (Hunter was CC’d on all Venue communication emails), he told us his company was growing and he was no longer available to shoot our wedding. This was a change in a matter of one week. So the last week of January his company was not growing and then all of a sudden the first week of February Hunter no longer had the capacity to film for our wedding. No other vendor would tell clients that they aren’t available anymore, especially during a contract review. All other wedding related vendors would notify clients that another party is interested, giving the right of first refusal to the first potential clients. When approached about this, Hunter became very defensive and even sent a defensive email (which I still have) about trust. It was interesting he brought up trust, when he was the only person that created any distrust. I would highly recommend working with someone more professional. For a company trying to gain market share in a saturated Chicago market it doesn’t seem like the best idea to do what he did. Again, his product is good for the price, and initially he seemed like a good person to work with, but when you expect to pay thousands of dollars to someone to deliver purely based on professionalism and trust, there’s plenty of other choices in Chicago.