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July 2012 Weddings
BeachLover2885
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Venue Minimums
If your venue had a minimum for your wedding, did you meet it? If not, were you able to negotiate with the venue?
Our minimum is 125 but we only have 108 guests (including FI and I). We invited over 180 people but a lot declined (many were OOT, going on vacation, etc.) We are going today to the venue to make our final payment so I'm hoping we can talk to them about the numbers a little bit. Even if we add our vendors, we still wouldn't meet 125.
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Re: Venue Minimums
[QUOTE]The original minimum was 125 but we negotiated it down to 110 before we even booked. We made the 110 minimum.
Posted by k8888[/QUOTE]
<div>We should have done that! I honestly thought we were going to be way over 125 b/c we kept adding people to our guest list. FI is good at negotiating so we'll see what happens! </div>
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We also had to meet a 2,500 minimum.
We will make both.
[QUOTE]We will prob. be under our minimum. We have a 150 guest min. but are looking at around 140. I haven't even thought about negotiating--just figured we'd pay the difference. But now hearing what everyone else did we'll def. try to work something out with them.
Posted by Amanda1443994[/QUOTE]
<div>You should definitely be able to negotiate! We met with our venue this afternoon and they are throwing in an ice sculpture/luge during the cocktail hour and plates of Italian cookies and pastries on the tables during the dessert course. We also don't have to pay for the vendor meals now, and the venue said we could add guests if needed up until the day of the wedding. </div>
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