09/01/2023
"Why do vendors charge more the moment they hear the word 'Wedding'?" 🤔
I hear this a lot, and to be honest ,they don’t. 🚫
They charge for the work that they’re going to be doing and the painstaking care with which a wedding is handled.
Your wedding is, ideally, a once in a lifetime experience and everything has to be perfect. The expectations of your guests and family are high; so are yours. We, as vendors, have one chance to get it right.
You probably wouldn’t schedule a tasting for a birthday cake and you probably wouldn’t freak out if the icing wasn’t the exact shade of Tiffany blue. For a wedding? Totally different.
If the DJ played the wrong song at a casual party, it can be easily fixed... But at a wedding - there are intros, a ceremony to orchestrate with special songs, a multitude of cues. A great DJ will be the concierge for your night. They’ll read your crowd, handle all the events (cake cutting, couples first dance, parent’s dances, speeches etc) gracefully. At a birthday party, all they have to do is make sure music is playing.
Photos have to be perfect and they have to be done fast. They are heirlooms in the making, and horrible ones? They’re, well, horrible.
Most Photographers I know are using equipment that cost more than my car!
All of those factor in, in every specialty. You will talk to every vendor multiple times, you’ll be more exacting in what you expect and time translates into money.
Your venue needs staff, linen, cleaning, perhaps the grounds mowed or maybe you would prefer a dirty venue?
Then there are transport and supply chain costs, utilities, GST and other taxes plus, and it is perfectly acceptable, for the service provider to make some money, I am sure you don't work for free?
Just accept that weddings do cost money and you are engaging with highly specialised people, many with formal and trade qualifications.
Sure you have a budget and can find many cheaper options but always remember you will get exactly what you pay for! 🤔🥰
