Protect Your Wedding from Bridal Vendor Disaster

When your big wedding day arrives, do you believe that everything will go off without a hitch? Unfortunately, many people do not see the disasters coming until it is too late and there is little that can be done about it except panic. Too little food, wrong flowers, or the DJ forgets the date. All these things can and do happen on a regular basis.

This is where wedding insurance comes into play. Whenever you are speaking to a vendor about their services for the big day, it is always an appropriate time to ask if they offer insurance in the event of unforeseen circumstances. Many vendors are now required by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) to maintain an insurance service to the customers they are attempting to gain employment from. This will show good faith and indicates to you, the customer, that the business is professional and will hold up to their end of the agreement in terms of what was agreed on. By signing this document, the company will be held liable in the event of a mix up or major mistake and means of fixing it immediately will fall in their hands, not yours.

If there is a problem and it is not addressed by the company to which is responsible, a report can and should be filed with the BBB. If, for whatever reason, there is a major issue that completely destroys the function or causes in any way bodily harm to a customer or someone they have at the function, this is easily ground for a lawsuit. As every good vendor knows, word of mouth goes a long way in this industry. Not holding up their end of a written agreement could easily spread around town and they would surely loose a large amount of future business. If you have hired a wedding planner or consultant, they can make a vendor’s life extremely miserable very quickly. If the consultant finds the service to be sub-par or, even poor, they in turn will make it a point to not recommend them to future clients of their own. Again this is very bad for business indeed.

To give an example, say hypothetically, you have locked in a catering company to do your work. The menus are set and the wait staff ordered, only to find the food is not what you have ordered and you are short 5 wait personnel. With not enough food to go around and no one to serve, this is a serious dilemma. A situation like this is one that could surely ruin an otherwise fine evening. The company is bound by the contract you have signed for what you selected. They must now make immediate corrections in any way accessible to remedy the problem. This can even include ordering from another reputable caterer or calling in wait staff for overtime or finding a suitable replacement. All of this could be costly for sure. Not for you, though, as it is their responsibility to ensure dedicated and professional service in exactly the fashion you ordered. This is what the wedding insurance is for. By not holding up to the signed agreement and then refusing to make timely correction or approved substitution, will no doubt ably result in their name being scratched off of the consultants most advisable list. Not to mention the guests will have a noticeable impact on the work that will be thrown the company’s way in future. It is a make or break situation all the way round the table. The first thing guests have a gripe about is a poor reception and you can trust it is never forgotten.

By having wedding insurance and reading fine print prior to signing, what this has done is protect you from a major catastrophe and also protects the vendors as well. This agreement helps prove what you ordered and keep slander out of their company. In the end you will be happy and will make the company you hired happy as well. It keeps their names in the good books. This will serve as a reminder to them to always give the best of service at all times to keep the business coming in. Planning your wedding will be easier if you get your contracts by all vendors and companies in writing well in advance.

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by KissMeGoodnight.com : 2006

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