Why Wedding Services are SO EXPENSIVE

One reason wedding service providers charge so much is that they do not have the incentive to keep their prices low. They aren’t worried about getting your repeat business since you will probably not get married again and if you do it will probably be a long time from now. So, they get as much money as they can out of you and then move onto their next source of income – or should we say victim?

Whether the bride and groom realizes it or not, they have a wedding pie representing all the money they will dish out for their wedding and every wedding vendor wants as large a slice of that pie handed over to them as possible.

Many brides and grooms have huge piles of money just handed over to them by their parents. Any wedding vendor who knows a lick about business is going to see that their market has cash to spare forcing wedding goods and services to carry inflated price tags. These clientelle are not all that worried about budgets and bills – they just want nice weddings and will pay whatever it takes to get their nice wedding.

Just the other day, we invited a MySpacer to check out our book on planning a wedding on a budget and she wrote back that she “doesn’t have a budget” so our book was irrelevant to her. What can we say except “it must be nice.”

What this young lady doesn’t realize yet is that although she doesn’t have a budget right now she probably will when she has four kids, mortgage payments, cars breaking down, and a kid in the hospital with a broken leg. The point is that even if you have plenty of money right now why give it away to the wedding professionals than necessary?

Plan a wedding the smart way so that you get your dream wedding and still have your money. Put that money in savings because you will need it – perhaps sooner than you realize.

Are you inclined to throw as much money at your wedding service providers as possible because that is the only way you will see your parents’ money? Well, make a deal with them. Ask them to guarantee a set amount towards your wedding right up front and have them agree that if you spend less than that then you get the balance as a bonus for being a smart planner. Most parents will agree to this because they want to encourage smart spending habits in their children.