How to find the best wedding suppliers

Find­ing wed­ding sup­pli­ers should be easy. With the inter­net at your fin­ger­tips you can browse online and look at invi­ta­tion web­sites, pho­tog­ra­phers and favours, and then get in touch with the one you like best, right?

That’s only how it should be. In real­ity there are hun­dreds of wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phers in your area, and thou­sands of wed­ding sta­tion­ers to choose from around the UK. Have you ever found your­self look­ing at them all, and still unable to decide? Wel­come to our world!!

If you’re sick of search­ing, or just want to get it over with quickly and find what you love, ratio­nalise the way you search for wed­ding sup­pli­ers with this guide. I hope it will help.

Two groups of wed­ding suppliers

Men­tally sort your wed­ding sup­pli­ers into two groups:

Wed­ding sup­plier group 1

Peo­ple who’ll be at your wed­ding, who you’ll spend a bit of time in meet­ings with, who are local (dress shop, hair­dresser, make up artist, pho­tog­ra­pher, plan­ner, toast­mas­ter, cater­ers) — the guys you’ll need to like.

Wed­ding sup­plier group 2

Peo­ple who pro­vide a ser­vice before your wed­ding day, where the prod­uct or ser­vice is the impor­tant thing, not the provider, and you don’t nec­es­sar­ily need to buy locally (sta­tioner, florist, jew­eller) — where you just want to buy some­thing gor­geous, quickly and easily.

You’ll need to approach each group in a dif­fer­ent way, do your research in dif­fer­ent places and be on the look out for dif­fer­ent qual­i­ties. Com­ing up on Mon­day I’ll share a few tips on find­ing wed­ding sup­pli­ers in group 1, then we’ll look at group 2.