Am i wrong - covid related.

Good afternoon everyone. I booked my wedding for April 2021 and had paid my deposit to my photographer. I was about to send in my deposit for the venue but I didn’t do so because Covid had began to run rampant here in New York. But I did secure my photographer because I didn’t want him to get booked. In the midst of all of this mess with the pandemic I lost my job, furloughed in March and essentially laid off in June therefore not being able to save the required funds for our wedding. I reached out to the photographer to ask if I could get my deposit back since I’m not able to reschedule at this point because we don’t know if the venue was going to allow us to do so also we didn’t have the means to finance it because we lost our jobs due to the pandemic. I asked for the full deposit but I also said if that was unreasonable if I could get back half the deposit since the unemployment came as A result of a global pandemic. I did not hear back anything from this photographer not even an acknowledgment of my email. My question is am I wrong for requesting that back? Should I have gotten back my deposit? This is probably a reach.