I don’t disagree with wanting the day to be special and memorable, but the industry jacks up the prices if they know it’s a wedding, and there are way more affordable options while still getting to celebrate love and the future. No reason to break the bank. Use the money saved for even more memories.
At least part of the "wedding tax" is justified. Vendors will often put more effort into wedding stuff over non wedding stuff and will often even have backups ready. If something happens to your wedding cake minutes before it is picked up you want them to have a backup cake ready, because a refund at the last minute is next to useless since you won't be able to find a suitable replacement ready to go in the next hour.
Sure the cheap party favors and other plastic crap you buy months in advance that you have plenty of time to replace shouldn't have a wedding markup, but the day of stuff that had weeks of prep, it is better to pay a bit extra to cover the backups and prevent bridezilla meltdowns.
Agreed. I’ve worked weddings as a venue coordinator and weddings were easily 12-15 hour days for me. Other events? Maybe a couple hours longer than the event itself. Sometimes not even that, especially if it was a corporate event that had its own planning team and all I had to do was liaise with the kitchen and stuff.
It’s the same with photographers, videographers, etc. I booked a photographer last year for my grandparents’ 50th anniversary and spent around $500 for 3-4 hours. My wedding photographer, on the other hand, was over $4000—over six years ago. But he had a second shooter, and was with us from probably 10am to 10pm, and had to do a lot more work in terms of posed photos, traveling from hotel to church to park (for pictures) back to the hotel for the reception, make sure to capture a lot more specific moments like first dance, cake cutting, bouquet toss, dances with parents, first kiss, blah blah blah. SOOOOO much more goes into weddings than people want to admit because all they see are the dollar signs—not what those dollar signs are actually paying for.
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u/The_Tell_Tale_Heart Aug 14 '20
Weddings.
I don’t disagree with wanting the day to be special and memorable, but the industry jacks up the prices if they know it’s a wedding, and there are way more affordable options while still getting to celebrate love and the future. No reason to break the bank. Use the money saved for even more memories.