How to Select Your Wedding Vendors

After you have chosen your wedding venue, and hopefully your planner too, it’s time to start selecting your other wedding vendors. This part can be overwhelming with all the vendors from each category, but I always recommend working on one vendor category at a time. I personally like to start with photography, but this is something I like to discuss with my couples to see what’s most important to each of them on their wedding day.

Listen to recommendations of other vendors that they have personally worked with so you can hear from them. I’ve worked with some amazing ones and some that I would prefer my couples not to have the headaches my past couples had. It’s your wedding planners job to help make your day flow smoothly and you want the best team possible for your day.

You need to do your homework on each wedding vendor. Regardless of recommendation from other vendors or brides, make sure you like their work, personality, or product. Next, read their reviews on multiple sites like The Knot, Wedding Wire, and Google. You want to compare reviews they have received and see if anything is common in the reviews. It’s not necessarily a red flag if they have one or two poor reviews but be mindful in what those poor reviews say and how the company responds to those. Don’t hire someone that you don’t feel confident in or have concerns after reading reviews.

Once you narrow down your choices, look at anything the venue may require of the wedding vendors on your day. Several venues are now requiring for all your vendors to provide proof of insurance and sign a vendor agreement. You need to let vendors know ahead of time what policies they made need to adhere to before you hire them.

In the next few weeks, we will talk about each wedding vendor category to help with choosing the perfect vendors for you big day! Stay tuned!