Finding the right wedding vendor
A wedding is truly a multi-faceted event!!! What other event in your life involves two entire families (maybe including some relevatives you haven't seen for years!), potentially hundreds of friends and a carefully orchestrated plan bringing together the services and products from many different wedding vendors - all on one day? Oh, and a ton of money to be spent (averaging around $26,000 these days). At the end of the day, if the wedding day passes even roughly to plan then there's more to celebrate than the joyous union itself!
If you think dealing with family and friends as the wedding day approaches is a bit of a minefield, consider that you will get involved with more vendors for your wedding planning than for any other single event in your life. These include such challenges as choosing the location of the wedding (even a church has to pay the bills and will expect some payment), transportation, the reception venue, musical entertainment, catering, gifts, invitations, the dress, photographer, videographer - the list is long.
For some of the vendors you'll find certain well established industry "practices". Most are there to help you but best be prepared. To that end, WedNet has a series of articles that arm you with the right set of questions. Check out "Choosing Your Wedding Photographer" and "Don't Forget These Photos" when thinking about your photographer. Likewise, "Your Wedding Vidoeographer" and "What To Ask The Videographer" help you find the right company to record those everlasting video memories. As usual, take a look at our WedTopic Pages for more ideas.
So, once you know the right questions, how do you start the hunt for your wedding vendors? Simple. At WedNet we've structured our database (which is comprised of thousands of wedding vendors) into categories and locations. So, let's say you are looking for a videographer in California. Just navigate to our California wedding vendors page, select Videography and you'll find our California Videographers page (where applicable you'll find the city name after the vendor). Now THAT'S easy!
Browse around WedNet - you'll find it a great resources for preparing the right questions to ask a wedding vendor as well as finding that vendor through our database.