Final payments and a lot of faith
Most vendors require their final payment two weeks before the wedding. The florist, the musicians, the DJ, the babysitters, and even the coffee cart guy. I am sure if I had hired an actual “wedding photographer” he would have done the same thing. Two weeks before. Fully paid. And most of them don’t take credit cards. This makes me a tad nervous. While I understand that in the eyes of the vendor it is a great way to make sure that you don’t have any unpaid invoices, in the eyes of the bride, it creates a small voice in your head asking “what incentive does a fully paid vendor have to actually show up?” Yes, yes, I know, word of mouth, small claims court, honesty, but still.
In defense of the vendors, trying to get money on the day of the wedding is pretty much out of the question, or very difficult to say the least. I’d imagine that trying to get money after the fact puts the vendors in the same position as the bride is in as it currently stands. What incentive does a newly wedded couple have to pay a vendor after the job has been done? That money could be much better spent on the honeymoon. This assumes that said newlywed couple is dishonest and as my father would say “suck as human beings”. I am sure that all of the vendors could tell stories of “those” people.
In the end, I just have to have faith (and the knowledge that I will have a TON of free time to research small claims court in a week….)
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