This month's featured tip:
Ask for Referrals!

Our tip for this month is a real timesaver -- as well as a way to identify the wedding professionals in your area with the best reputations among their peers.

Once you've identified one or two key vendors for your wedding reception -- say your site, photographer, or your DJ -- ask them for recommendations for other vendors. It's important that your reception "team" work well together -- and your key vendors will be able to suggest other professionals that they trust, and with whom they've worked before.

What's more, considering that every wedding business depends on referrals from happy brides, your vendors are unlikely to recommend anyone they haven't personally worked with and had a positive experience with -- quality vendors only want to be associated with similar peers. If you get the same names from several different vendors, the odds are very good that these vendors are well-respected by their fellow professionals.

One caveat: in some markets, paid referrals are prevalent. To be sure that your vendor's recommendations are "from the heart," ask them if they ever accept compensation for their referrals.

This tip was provided by Christopher Kight Photographers of Sacramento, CA.

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