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Tips on How to Negotiate and Deal with Your Wedding Vendors

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4 Tips on How to Negotiate with Your Wedding Vendors

Every bride’s biggest worry is finding the right wedding vendors and service providers to help her create her dream wedding.

Your wedding vendors, whether it is your florist, your cake baker, or your photographer, are people you should feel comfortable with, trust, and enjoy working with.

Most brides-to-be dread negotiating prices and money issues with their wedding vendors and even discussing wedding budgets with their fiancés, but sometimes you have to deal with wedding planning’s less glamorous aspects.

Although it is not fun, you shouldn’t worry about negotiating rates with your wedding vendors, because we have some amazing tips to help you speak up and stick to your wedding budget!

To help you be the best bride anyone has ever met and worked with and to make your wedding planning process go smoothly, there are important things most wedding vendors agree on and want their brides to know.

 

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Here are 4 tips to help you negotiate with your wedding vendors:

  • ​Accept It: As most brides-to-be don’t like that part when they have to negotiate rates with their wedding vendors, your goal should be to develop a good working relationship with them so that you can then get what you want at a reasonable price.
  • Show Them They Have Competition: Don’t start negotiating with your wedding vendors until you get a chance to receive proposals or meet with their competitors. This means knowing exactly what your competitors are offering you for the same price. So you can point out to your vendor what offer his/her competitor is giving you and ask what he or she can give you differently.
  • Be Nice to Them: Remember to use the right words, attitude, and tone of voice. As we mentioned in the first point, your goal should be to establish a good working relationship with your wedding vendors; if they like you, they will help you.
  • Compromise: A lot of couples get better deals by avoiding a weekend-night or picking a date during the off season.
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4 things your wedding vendors want you to know:

  • They Do Care: If your wedding vendor seems eager to meet you and excited to share his/her ideas and listen to yours, then he/she probably truly is! They want you to have your dream come true, and this is what they work for day and night.
  • They Don’t Ignore You On Purpose: If your wedding planner or any other wedding vendor is not answering your call, be patient; he/she will respond because this is part of their job and they have a reputation to maintain. But do keep in mind that you're not the only client your vendor has.
  • They Love a Bride Who Brings Her Ideas Along: Your vendors love listening to your ideas, and will help guide you and give you advice on how they can implement them. It is helpful for them to know what exactly you have in mind, so be specific and show them that you know exactly what you want.
  • They Want You To Trust Them: Your wedding vendors have seen it all, the good and the bad, so they know all the worst-case scenarios and have backup plans to fix them.

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