What did you book first?

sarahybride · January 2010

Out of these:

Ceremony site

Reception site

Photographer

heatherwu1998 · January 2010

I booked the ceremony and reception site first (I'm having both at the same location). Until you have a place to have the ceremony and reception, you don't have an actual date to tell other vendors. I met with photographers before booking the ceremony and reception site, but I didn't actually book a photographer until I had a site (and therefore, a wedding date

ChelsiLynn · January 2010

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[QUOTE]I booked the ceremony and reception site first (I'm having both at the same location). Until you have a place to have the ceremony and reception, you don't have an actual date to tell other vendors. I met with photographers before booking the ceremony and reception site, but I didn't actually book a photographer until I had a site (and therefore, a wedding date :)
Posted by heatherwu1998[/QUOTE]

This is exactly what I did too. Until you have the venue locked in you can't really do much else. I booked the ceremony/reception site, photographer, then DJ then videographer. I booked them in order of what was most important to me.

beka0404 · January 2010

My order:

1. Reception site
2. Ceremony site
3. Photographer
4. Band

These were our priority vendors, and like PP said, without a date, we couldn't book the rest. I knew my church was relatively open, date-wise, so we booked the reception first.

may2010wedding · January 2010

Here is how we booked

1.Ceremony
2.Photographer
3. Reception site (had to decide between two)

Steph0871 · January 2010

We booked Ceremony and Reception first (same location). We're working other stuff now.... we have friends that are professional photographers and a friend that does cakes so those are out of the way too!

drdifabio · January 2010

Yep I agree with the PPs. Think about booking the venders that can only do one wedding a day first - like the reception, ceremony, photographer, band/dj (prolly in that order....Then book the ones that may be able to do more than one wedding a day like cake and florist. HTHs!

dc*prep · January 2010

We weren't able to book our ceremony site until 16 months prior to our wedding. (It's a stupid rule that the Chapel has.) They have a lottery for a wedding date, because the Chapel has more requests than dates available. We knew which date we wanted, so based on that, we asked our photographer and reception site to pencil us in, knowing that we wouldn't be able to officially sign and put down our deposit until the ceremony date was confirmed. Everything worked out perfectly, and as soon as the drawing was held on April 1, and we got the date we wanted, we officially booked and confirmed the photog and reception!

kristigiles · January 2010

I did...

-ceremony and reception site (same day)

-DJ

-Photographer

Like everyone else said, the ceremony and reception locations are by far the most important thing to do first because without them 100% set, you don't officially have a wedding date!

Kniblet · January 2010

We booked our ceremony and reception site first (same place)

cswaldon · January 2010

We booked the ceremony site first, because it was the most important element for FI (it was his childhood church). Then, we booked the photographer because we wanted to make sure we got her! Finally, after MUCH searching, we booked the reception site.

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