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A time to love

When you first get engaged, the excitement is in the air. A lot of dreams you have had start flying through your head. You and your fiance rush to the computer and start searching for a place to get married, will it be where you live, or will it be 'back home.' Then you start looking for other complements to your wedding day; wedding dress, caterers, videography, DJ, photography etc.

You find yourself checking out wedding listing sights, putting your information in, and all the sudden your email box is flooded with offers from what seems like 100 companies offering you this and that. But after looking through the list, you think to yourself, 'self, your wedding date is sooooo far off, you have time.'

Or do you?

Here is what we have leared from our clients, and going through the wedding process ourselves. When you decide on a place to get married, the earlier you book your vendors the better. What order should you book your vendors? Well that depends on what is important to you. Many vendors, including us, usually allow you to book at least a year in advance. Now here is a word of caution, booking a year in advance means you are depending on your vendors to be there and not cancel on you. So when your wedding coordinator and/or you sit down with your vendors, ask them if they have ever had to cancel a wedding, have they ever not shown up, have they ever failed to fully deliver their product. Also, ask them if they do things under contract. If they use a contract, read it carefully, it should protect you and them.

So the question remains, how early should you book your wedding vendors. We think of wedding video as art, and weddings themselves are like art, you have elements that go together to produce something beautiful. So the more time you have to work on details, the better your art will be. So give yourself time, book early, don't spend your weeks and months just before your wedding rushing around trying to find vendors who are available. After all, your engagement is a time to love.

Written by Steven Davis
Drop to Design Video Productions
July 19th, 2008

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