Wedding vendors Hey everyone, I'm hoping you guys can recommend some vendors for a wedding coming up in November in the downtown area. Specifically, we are looking for: - decoration rentals (ie center pieces, chair covers/sashes) - florist - photographer - dj - tux rental Any suggestions, please let me know. Looking for good value and quality! Thanks :) |
Use social media, listen to your future wife, say yes to most things. |
look for moores for tux rental. sometimes they have a promo of rent x get 1 free rental. |
I just got married so used a few... for flowers hit up Kathleen at prolinetrading.com she is a wholesaler to all the stores in Vancouver you would normally go to for quotes... just deal directly with her for a huge discount over those places. She's pretty abrupt at times but totally a pro and been doing this for a long time. For photo booth if you're getting one I used pixelbooth.ca they had a crapload of costumes and masks, super easy to work with! Please note I have no affiliation with either of these businesses... but I did use them for my wedding a month ago and would recommend both. |
i used proline trading for my dads funeral, and my wedding 2 months ago as well. I will continue to use them as long as they are in business. my best advice? get a wedding planner. ours hooked us up with massive deals with her vendors. saved us the hassle of looking them up ourselves (some were cheaper than my own vendors I would've sworn were cheaper) if you want to pm me I can let you know who I used. |
^^ Agreed. I recently got married in January and had 2 months to plan (shotgun wedding). It was on a small scale so we tried doing it ourselves. After hours and hours of research on the internet, calling various places for quotes etc etc we were suddenly only a few weeks away with nothing more than a venue booked. Seeing my wife working hard away I then realized my co-worker does wedding planning as a side gig. I asked her for assistance and within 3 hours she was firing off emails to me with pictures of things she found, quotes etc. She accomplished in 3 hours more than what my wife and I did in 5 weeks. She has the experience, already knew the companies so it was a piece of cake for her. She saved us and it made things so much easier. Consider it, a wedding planner doesn't have to be expensive. The benefits can be amazing. I'm not sure if it's you Op that's getting married or a friend. If it's you, congrats! |
whatever you do, don't click into the following thread :ilied: http://www.revscene.net/forums/69286...-planning.html |
I got married last month Chairs with Flair Chairs with Flair | Transforming Vancouver wedding venues with chair covers, since 1994 Petroula is very nice and helpful, and she has good prices, and her quality is great Flowers: PM me, I have a family friend who did our wedding and it was INCREDIBLE. Everyone loved the flowers. She does centrepieces as well Photobooth: We went with Flipbook Vancouver Flipbook TOTAL HIT, everyone LOVED IT Tuxedo: OMG GO HERE: Location :: Action (Bridal & Formal) Liquidators I lived 2 blocks away from here for 25 freaking years of my life, and never went inside. They have used tuxedos and suits for sale for like $150, it's INSANE. The owner buys out entire wedding shops that go out of business, I'm not kidding they have THOUSANDS of dresses and suits. My wife got a brand new dress that retailed $800 for only $400. I got my 2nd tuxedo (formal one, with tails) for $150 out the door. If you take one piece of advice from me, go there. Also, I got my first tuxedo from EXPRESS online, it was 40% off. Got a killer deal Express | Shop Men's and Women's Clothing DJ: Mixed my own music GET A WEDDING PLANNER |
Friend used Mathias Fast for his wedding. Great shots and he was awesome to be around and chat with. I think he was with them from 10am until close to midnight. https://www.facebook.com/mathiasfastphotography |
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I got married last week and used Smallfry Media Photobooths | Vancouver Photobooth Rentals Flowers - Just whatever was in my garden and Queen Elizabeth Park. DJ - I hired an indie rock band. |
all this talk about wedding planners has me curious i have my wedding planned for 2016 (long ways off so not too much planned out just an overview/rough draft of what we want). I know that putting things together is a pain in the ass but we've always been intimidated by the potential price of hiring a wedding planner. Roughly how much are wedding planners? I'm not going with a big wedding, budget is $15K give or take $2k. Would it be worth it to get a wedding planner if its for a smaller wedding? |
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My wedding planner were church friends of ours, so yea, no help there If you get friends to be your wedding planner, make sure they're extremely organized and patient and good with followups |
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You have lots of time. Did mine with my wife in 8.5 months. Also, keep extra cash available. Depending on where and how you want to do it, it might cost more than what you think. That liquidators on Renfrew is cheap but quality is a little off. Some of the men's clothes are very worn out. Dresses? They have lots of choices but you really have to dig deep for it. If your fiancee is the type that doesn't mind, go for it. (props to her being frugal!) If not, you have lots of choices at wedding gown places in New West that sells for $600-$1500. So for Tux, i went to the tux store. $200 per person, 5th was free. Comes with everything except underwear. PM me if you have more questions. A little advice after going to so many weddings. Photographers are usually a must but they are always the first to get hired. A videographer is very important. Just having the videos footage of your big day to look back on to is worth every penny. I've seen some friends who didn't bother and we would talk about how great of a wedding it was but then we only had photos and no videos to watch. |
Try out this place: Natural Image Weddings - Home One of my friends got the owner to help him with wedding planning and decorations. |
Yup, she's frugal (+1 for me!) and doesn't mind too much about dress price and all that so long as its decent. that tux deal would be great since i'm plannin on having 4 groomsmen will definitely pm if any specific questions pop up. videographer never really crossed my mind, for some reason I thought that'd be packaged with the photography. I do want video footage of the big day. What kinda of $ figures am I looking at with regards to a photographer/videographer? |
You know, Go-Pros are really affordable these days, and with whatever a videographer costs, I'd take the money and get a bunch of GPs, and strap them to the wedding party or strap it to guests in exchange for open bar :). |
got mananetwork aka tomasz to photograph my wedding cant say enough good things about his work and service for us :) |
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I also had 2 other friends who got married and they both speant around 8K on it. I never had any idea how balling it was until I heard these numbers. Spoke to a friend who's a photographer and yup, thousands. Of course it doesn't mean they all cost close to 10K but just giving you an idea that it wouldn't be abnormal if someone quoted you like 7 or 8K |
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rarely do photographers and videographers be packaged. photographers from my experience including engagement shoots and all. - $3000-$10k. (remember to ask them what time do they leave. I personally hate it when I see the dinner barely half way done and they go oh my time is up. WTF?!?) videographers - $3000-5k Quote:
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If you're going frugal, I would suggest cutting out unnecessary stuff Think about it a year later - will people actually remember the chair covers and centerpieces? Probably not! Then cut them out of the budget I also rented a slushie machine for my wedding, price was pretty reasonable Vancouver Casino & Event Rentals - Houle Games & Entertainment Rentals About $170 for a day, but doesn't include the flavor mixes. |
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