Are you feeding your suppliers?

Hello - I think its lovely to do that!

I, like you think it should be the way and actually some suppliers have that in their terms and conditions that you have to feed and water them.

We are having a hog roast so are just catering for them via the hog roast....they wont neccesarily have anywhere to sit in terms of the wedding party but we have a marquee with extra space so they can eat in there...

We have 2 videographers, 2 photographers, a caricaturist, and a toastmaster that will attend the whole day or atleast up until 7-8pm so we will be feeding them all.

We are also inviting the choir, bell ringers, organist and vicar back for drinks and canapes ... its a village wedding and I think its a little more like that when its a village to get people involved. ?

You got more suppliers than guests !!!!!!!!!!

Here are a few links to past posts on the subject

I think we are going to feed the suppliers that will be with us all day. So the photographer & videographer. Thats it tho! The singer is only going to be there for a couple of hours. Not going to feed them the 3 course wedding breakfast tho, our venue does a mini meal for suppliers x

We're feeding everyone who'll be around when food is served. One of our big priorities for the wedding is making sure everyone is well fed and watered. I'm definitely a bit of a feeder so there's no way I could not extend this to our suppliers as well. ?

We'll be feeding out photographer and our band. No one leaves our parties hungry, that's how both our families are

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We're not having a sit down meal so will just be inviting our supplies to have something when the hog roast opens. I imagine the photographer, videographers and celebrant will eat.

We're having afternoon tea and going to make sure theres some for the photographers. However they are travelling far for us and have been really understanding as i've had some issues recently which i haven't been able to give them their deposit straight away x

We are feeding our TOG & VOG, for our VOG it was in their contract we had to feed them

Our 2 togs are having food- but they are both friends. Every other wedding I've been to the TOG has been provided with a meal but not choice and away from guests. We are feeding the band at the evening buffet, which they expected (it was in their T&Cs but we would have done it anyway).

Our tog is a family friend (professional) so he has a seat with his family for the wedding breakfast and our VOG had it in his T&C's that he wanted feeding and tea supplied which is fine because he's doing us a fab deal.

As a photographer it's fantastic when we get fed - thank you! it's lovely when we get invited to join a table of guests, but honestly I'd rather be in a corner away from everyone so I can check through my memory cards, switch batteries, phone the wife and mentally recharge.

we're working hard for you all day, and probably havent sat down or put our bags down for more than about 2 minutes since 10am.. you're going to get much better photos of the evening event if we can have 30 minutes with some decent food and a coffee! the sandwiches we bought from the garage on the way to the wedding that've been sitting in the car for 8 hours just arent quite the same...

(balls, this hasnt come from my photographers account.. I'll try and fix it!)

I was struggling with this, I will feed mine as they are there all day but without being mean I do not really have a table where they could fit on to, rough table plan all tables are basically full and obviously wouldn't want to split them up, do you think they would be offended if I paid for a meal of their choice at the hotel restaurant or something like that, I do not want to seem rude its not that I do not want them sitting with the guests, just not sure if they are going to fit! Anyone do this sort of thing?

I would have thought they would like this- it gives them a proper break.

We're not giving them the full wedding breakfast as both our TOGS and VOGS have said they will be taking images/filming and editing during our meal at various points, however we have offered to pay for any meal they order from the bar menu instead and they're both really happy with this offer.

Hi,

The last vintage style wedding we played at had an amazing Thai meal for all guests. We were factored in with the guests however we ate our food away from the guests (our preferred option).

If you have a band/dj arrive after your wedding breakfast an invite to your buffet/evening food goes a long way.

James

The Spectrum