How did you find your wedding vendors?

susiekangmusic

Where/how did you find your florist, cake designer, venue, DJ, wedding planner, etc?

janeash

Wedding Planner!!

susiekangmusic

<div>How did you find your wedding planner?</div><div>
</div>In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_june-2012-weddings_how-did-you-find-your-wedding-vendors?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:3ae4d68d-f10a-4dec-8810-da13c14a7b86Discussion:2eaab002-1830-4e30-9a98-c21989688873Post:d7c0acd1-3e01-4a82-9381-e29d3c15dbe6">Re: How did you find your wedding vendors?</a>:
[QUOTE]Wedding Planner!!
Posted by janeash[/QUOTE]

daria24

Wedding planner: Google Dj venue: through the wedding planner Cake florist: recommendations on TK Judging by your SN and low post count, I hope you aren't a vendor. We run those out of town. With pitch forks.

susiekangmusic

<div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;" class="Apple-style-span">I'm not a vendor. I recently got married and have gained an interest in starting my own wedding planning services. So I just wanted to hear your opinions on things just to gain my personal knowledge! But I am not an established business and I am not advertising my business anywhere on this site. Hope this is not a problem!</span></div><div>
</div>In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_june-2012-weddings_how-did-you-find-your-wedding-vendors?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:3ae4d68d-f10a-4dec-8810-da13c14a7b86Discussion:2eaab002-1830-4e30-9a98-c21989688873Post:14f57040-bc1c-4f49-9149-e632001e9060">Re:How did you find your wedding vendors?</a>:
[QUOTE]Wedding planner: Google Dj venue: through the wedding planner Cake florist: recommendations on TK Judging by your SN and low post count, I hope you aren't a vendor. We run those out of town. With pitch forks.
Posted by daria24[/QUOTE]

melntaitt

I got alot from other vendors, believe it or not. The venue manager gave us good recommedations for the florist and DJ; the DJ gave us good recommendations for a place to have the engagement party and rehearsal dinner and that venue hooked us up with the cake baker. The florist hooked us up with a framer who gave us a great discount on a display for the reception. Everything else was reviewed by family.

My cousin is a professional photographer and he's paying for his team to fly into the US to do my wedding and his reviews were awesome so no worries there. FMIL's best friend's husband is a certified celebrant ordained in NY.

I think vendors were the best reviewers since they want your business and they know the people they work with on a regular basis.

kiki1978

I actually asked the event coordinator at our venue. She had a whole list of people she recommended and we actually used the ones she did recommend.

Jean6912

I work in the industry as a wedding photographer so some vendors are professional contacts. Photographer- is my partner I photograph with Videographer- is a guy we work with a lot Dj- is a preferred vendor of the hall Florist- is a florist we go to all the time Cake- my sister is a pastry chef Limo- recommended by our dj

abunger

Found the venue and photographer through Google (at the same time... saw pics of venue on photographers blog.  loved both).

Baker and Limo through the venue.

DOC through The Knot listings.

DJ through a friend.

Florist via Google (my mom found her)

littleluckypenny

Reception venue:  recommended by a co-worker
Chapel: at the college FI works for
Officiant:  recommended by the lady responsible for chapel bookings (officiant works at the college too)
Photographer: friends of FI's parents
Seamstress:  recommended by another co-worker

My DJ, cake baker and flower supplier were all found through lots and lots of lengthy research and online recommendations.  It kinda helped that there weren't many choices because of where we live.

cmg317

My venue I drive by every day on my way to work. My caterer is not only a family friend, but owns our favorite cajun resturant in the area. My FI is a musician so the band is his buddies. The florist works with the lady who runs the venue. Cake will be from a local bakery that I go to occasionally.

cabates1

my venue coordinator gave a small list of recommendations.  Then I checked for feedback on them on the Knot and other sites.

[Deleted User]

They're all my friends and family.

Carebear62584

We are using the photgrapher my cousin used.  They gave us recs for a florist along with girls on my local board.  I also found out about my DJ through my local board.  My JOP was also the same guy my cousin used (my uncle works with him).

peachykeen26

I googled everyone. I just searched what I wanted to find and my city.

MoonlightSilver

I google searched to find my venue.

My DJ, florist and photographer I found through my local board here on theknot.com.

My JOP and videographer I found on weddingwire.com

My cake vendor I met at a bridal show.

No wedding planner. I'm not going to pay someone else to plan the biggest party I'll ever throw.  

michellep1

Photographer: Cousin's friend from HS, she referred her to me
Dj: Bridal show
Cake: Came with the venue
Venue: We knew we wanted a hotel & went to different ones in the area, compared them.
Florist:  I contacted a florist from a bridal show that was booked on my date and she recommended our florist.

brittneyh4

My photographer is a girl I grew up with. The florist and cake are both local. I live in a small town where everyone knows each other, so I wanted to make sure I went through all people I knew. DJ was from a wedding I've been too previously, he was really good. The venue itself we stumbled over doing a tour (it's at a farm).

Whtara10

My dj is my best friend's cousin. So she booked him as a gift. My photographer is my cousin. My baker is my best friend. My florist is a local florist I've always used whenever I needed flowers. I just happen to know a lot of talented people. But I did look around a lot for other things. I either used theknot or google. I found my caterer using the knot.