Choosing your suppliers can sometimes feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. You can often find yourself with so many names and you don’t know where to start.
We are here to help you find your ideal wedding suppliers.
Firstly, have we given you Chaucer Barn’s list of carefully chosen wedding suppliers?
If you have booked your wedding with us we should have shared our list of recommended suppliers and if we haven’t please do get in touch with us and we will do so. This is a list created based on our previous couples experience of suppliers. These are suppliers that know the venue well and have provided an excellent service to our couples in the past. There are various different styles and types of suppliers on there so do give it a look.
Work out how much of your budget you have for each supplier category.
Every couple is different and every couple wants to focus on different aspects of their wedding and spend more on each. What is best to do is take your budget and work out how much you want to spend on each element. This will help you with working out which suppliers to contact and which not to, if they give their prices online. If their pricing isn’t given online then you will have to reach out to them for a quote.
Where are the suppliers based.
Another thing to consider when short listing your suppliers is, how far away are they from your venue. For example, will the supplier you are looking at travel the distance from London to Chaucer Barn in the North of Norfolk and if they are willing to travel will this increase the cost (i.e. will you need to cover travel costs and overnight costs) or are they local and their travel is included in the price? Going local also means that they are more likely to have worked at your venue before (we love our local Norfolk suppliers) and are better able to advise you if your plans will work or not.
Are they able to provide you with what you are looking for?
Not every supplier is able to provide you with the specific service you are looking for. As an example some florists are specialists in dry flower arrangements and are therefore not equipped to do fresh flower arrangements and visa versa. This is not always the case however and some suppliers are very versatile. These are some of the things you might need to ask the suppliers you are looking at. Or it might be mentioned on their website.
Image Credits:
Photographer: Hannah Brodie Photography
Catering: Country Box Catering