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Ask for a discount.  Ask every single vendor.  You won’t always get a price cut, but sometimes you will – and it was as easy as saying “How can I get a discount?” (Remember to ask open-ended questions so as not to make it easy for the vendor to just say “No” and close the discussion.)

Get married on an off-peak day of the week.  Saturdays are the most expensive, period.  Getting married on Fridays or…

This question always warrants the ultimate “it depends” response.  I tell my clients that it takes a year to plan a wedding – on average.  There are mitigating factors that can vary this wildly. 

The very first consideration is the guest count.  There are only certain venues that can house very large weddings and they often book-up far in…

One of the things I find amusing about the wedding business in Central Florida is that the fairy-tale June wedding doesn’t exist here.  For most of Florida the biggest wedding months are from September to May, with October being really busy and then February through April being super hectic as well.  Here in the Orlando area it is just too darn hot to get married in the summer, not to mention the rain chance and the possibility of hurricanes.  Of course, I have…