Who Recommended Your Suppliers?

We know here at Mrs2Be just what a minefield it can be when choosing suppliers for your very special day. Often when a couple visit their wedding venue, their venue will provide them with recommended suppliers, but are your venue always best placed to recommend a supplier to you?

There are certainly advantages to working with suppliers who know your wedding venue and how the work, but many suppliers are used to working with different venues.

Our concern is that there are occasions when a Wedding Venue has a vested interest for you to use their recommended suppliers as it has come to our attention here in the Mrs2Be office, that some unscrupulous members of staff are taking - hmmm - let's say "a monetary gift" from certain suppliers in order to ensure they are the supplier that is recommended.

We are not happy about this at all and we are pretty sure our lovely couples would not be either! Let's face it, this is them recommending the best person for them - not the best person for YOU! This is YOUR day, and you deserve the best YOUR money can buy!

So here are our top tips:

1. By all means, listen to what your venue has to say with regard to suppliers.
2. Speak to friends and relatives who have got married recently, think about weddings you have been to where you particularly admired something such as flowers, table decorations etc.
3. Visit local bridal fayres and collect some information from them too.
4. Make a shortlist of say 3 x suppliers and make appointments to go and visit them.
5. Pick someone you can work with, someone who gets back to you in a timely fashion and does what they say they are going to do, and of course, someone whose work you have seen for yourself and you admire.

There are many wedding venues who will happily recommend suppliers and have absolutely no vested interest at all, but the safe bet would be for you to add them to your shortlist and follow the same tip tips above - just to be sure they are the right supplier for YOU and not for your venue!