Paying your Vendors

seanmc1980

Quick Question.

We are getting married in Sept and most things are booked and deposits paid.
Are we expected to pay the balances to everyone the day after the wedding and if so if we dont have a chq book would they accept transfers?

Thanks

seamus

Many of your vendors will have been paid in full beforehand. You really have to check with each vendor as to how they wish to be paid and whether they will accept a cheque. I suspect most won't, especially for large amounts.

Typically there are some people that you pay on the day - any hired vehicles or equipment and the DJ or band. Usually the best man carries this money and discreetly hands it over before that person leaves.

If you have catering not being carried out by your venue, they too may need to be paid on the day.

You usually settle up with the hotel when you check out.

goldenhoarde

As seamus says all the main stuff will have been paid upfront.

For all the others (band dj, priest if a church wedding etc) figure out the amount and get some small white envelopes and label them and give to the best man for distributing on the day!

the hotel will be looking for payment the next day - CC might be possible if you have no cheque otherwise get their bank details setup in your online bank account and do the transfer with them present!

clint_silver

seamus wrote: »

Many of your vendors will have been paid in full beforehand. You really have to check with each vendor as to how they wish to be paid and whether they will accept a cheque. I suspect most won't, especially for large amounts.

Typically there are some people that you pay on the day - any hired vehicles or equipment and the DJ or band. Usually the best man carries this money and discreetly hands it over before that person leaves.

If you have catering not being carried out by your venue, they too may need to be paid on the day.

You usually settle up with the hotel when you check out.

Speaking from the entertainment side, the Dj or band will need to be paid in cash before they start playing. Reason is whoever has the money could be anywhere in the hotel with any amount of drink taken at 2am. Happened us before where the best man who had the envelope could not be found before we started so we began anyway (against our better judgement), end of night, no best man. Neither bride or groom could care less. "must be up in bed asleep, sure get it tomorrow." Wont get caught with that again. :mad:

Band should stipulate this in dealings with them anyway and as mentioned above, a discreet envelope from the best man or money holder is fine.

hoodwinked

clint_silver wrote: »

Speaking from the entertainment side, the Dj or band will need to be paid in cash before they start playing. Reason is whoever has the money could be anywhere in the hotel with any amount of drink taken at 2am. Happened us before where the best man who had the envelope could not be found before we started so we began anyway (against our better judgement), end of night, no best man. Neither bride or groom could care less. "must be up in bed asleep, sure get it tomorrow." Wont get caught with that again. :mad:

Band should stipulate this in dealings with them anyway and as mentioned above, a discreet envelope from the best man or money holder is fine.

in our case my friend is a dj and is doing our wedding! he knows where we live


but i always wondered about this? i would have thought common sense would be to give it to them before they start once everything is set up, at 2am sounds not only crazy but if the best man is (very likely) drunk at that stage, then also whats to stop a band from claiming they were never paid? or like you said a couple claiming they were when they werent?

i think before they start is best in that case,

as for drivers of cars/photographers/hotels...etc afterwards makes more sense.

when i worked in a hotel they used give couples a week after the wedding to pay up, (i think it was to allow them a chance to get organised financially as many people weren't comfortable carrying that kind of cash in their hotel room)

Sleepy

I know a friend of mine who got so drunk at the wedding he tried paying the band twice!

Luckily for him the band were honest and told them he'd already given them the cash. Actually should give credit where it's due, the band was Simon Casey's outfit.

wexford12

Most times as other replies the best man has a bundle of envelopes to hand out. I have a Wedding car company and we ask or a deposit to book and the balance to be paid on the day we don't ask for cash but so far everyone has paid on the day in cash unless they pay in full by credit card before hand.

lazygal

We negotiated with our suppliers as we were reluctant to pay upfront in advance in full. Our list was a bit like this:
Band-deposit paid and balance paid by cheque on the night.
Photographer-deposit paid, 50% of balance paid the week after the wedding by cheque and the balance when we got the album and prints.
Venue-deposit paid by credit card two months before the wedding, balance paid the next day by credit card.


The only exception was the videographer who we had to pay in full on the day of the wedding. I had forgotten about this but my husband had a cheque book with him for emergencies and wrote a cheque that evening.