This week I’m bringing back another post from the blog archives!

It’s an important time of year for engaged couples as many are beginning the long process of choosing their wedding vendors. Naturally, it’s a big task as the people you choose will help to create, execute, and document one of the most important days of your life. It’s important to thoroughly research each vendor, and choose based on who you feel is the best fit for your wedding style, your personality, and your wedding budget. This blog post includes some great tips for how to have a great working relationship with your wedding vendors but I also thought I’d expand on them with one more thought:

- For most wedding vendors, this is our full time job and career, and we are so thankful to be able to do what we love for a living. But we all have lives outside of this business. We have homes, and families, and hobbies…and while each wedding is very very important to us, so is our personal life. As a result, we need to keep relatively normal office hours and make time for our families. This means that it may take a vendor a few days to respond to your email or phone call (especially if it’s a weekend) and that vendors need days off too. Since often we work weddings on Saturdays, most vendors take Mondays or Fridays off to take care of personal things and spend time with their family and friends. Also, many vendors don’t take meetings on Saturdays or Sundays (typically because of weddings) so be prepared to take time off of your own work schedule to meet with them during normal business hours.

And speaking for myself personally, when I don’t have a wedding on a particular weekend, I take the weekend off. Why? Because my husband works weekdays and it would be nice to see him once in a while. I often take meetings 2-3 evenings during the week so if I also met with my clients on the weekends, I would never see my husband. So it’s not that I don’t love my clients, or want to be stubborn and make it difficult to meet, it’s just that I deserve to see my family and friends and have some off each week too.

If you are ever unsure of a particular vendor’s business hours or communication policy, just ask! They would be more than happy to discuss the best way and time to work most effectively with them.

Now, onto our archived post that includes more thoughts on how to have the best possible relationship with your wedding vendors!

Be Kind to Your Wedding Vendors

Simply Stunning Events
Nashville Wedding Planning