Taking Care of Your Wedding Vendors

If you want the wedding day you’re planning to be as awesome as you see it to be in your mind’s eye, then take a moment to consider the level of care that you’re providing to your wedding vendors. Wedding vendors like planners, photographers, videographers, florists and bands don’t need you to provide them with a high level of care, they are all industry professionals who know how to get the job done no matter what. However, the more you take interest in their lives by considering little details, the more they will bust their backside to make you happy. Give a little, get a lot. Here are three ways for you to take care of your wedding vendors.

1. Answer Your Emails

It’s simple, but it means so much to us and to so many other vendors we’ve talked with. Take a moment and reply to your vendors emails when they come in. Answering emails promptly is something most of us do for our businesses but few of us do personally. When you reply in short order you’re carving yourself out in your vendor’s mind as a client who cares.

2. A Detailed Itinerary Goes A Long Way

We’re huge fans of itineraries, in fact all vendors are. When you provide vendors with an itinerary for your wedding you give us all peace of mind and you liberate yourself from having to worry about what comes next on the biggest day of your life. Wedding planners are often a very valuable resource when it comes to creating itineraries that keep the world spinning. We’re big fans of pre-planning and forethought, in fact, an itinerary is one of the things we require from our clients.

3. Feed Us

Believe it or not, our contracts explicitly state that we need to be fed dinner by our clients. In Winnipeg, feeding your vendors dinner alongside your guests is pretty standard practice, but this isn’t the case in many other markets. While we don’t have to sit at a table with guests of honour (we were sat at the parents table once!), making sure that we have a couple minutes to scarf down some food and rest our legs goes miles in our books.

At the end of the day your vendors will do good work for you, but putting a little bit of thought into how you can care for them will pay dividends for you in the future. If you take care of your wedding day team, I can guarantee they’ll take care of you.