Celebrant problem

Hi Hollie,

How lovely of your friend's mum!

I'm sure if you explained the situation to the celebrant she'll definitely understand.

Kay

Just explain as soon as possible - until you've paid the deposit, she'll be aware you could back out anyway, and the sooner you let her know, the better.

I'm in a different industry, but I've had similar situations - I never mind if someone gets back to me straight away, but I really hate it if they keep stalling me for days or just ignore me completely. So if I were you, I'd ring her today and explain.

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Thank you,

I'm literally just hanging on until I have full confirmation from the lady who's approached us, and once that's 100% confirmed to avoid and further messing about I'll be in touch with her immediately ?

Personally as she’s held the date with the expectation she’s performing your day I’d pay the deposit either way (how would you feel if she didn’t hold your day because you haven’t paid your deposit and you didn’t have another option).


We are all aware of how much pressure the wedding industry is under so pulling out (thus taking away her expected income and potentially making her miss out on another couple) post verbal agreement is far from ideal. The deposit payment is a nice goodwill gesture given you (potentially) no longer need to pay for a celebrant.
Just a thought.

Yes let her know as soon as possible, she will understand and also appreciate so she can then book someone else in.

Its really frustrating when people ask to be "pencilled in" and then never get back to you, leaves you thinking "do they actually think they have a booking" as its not booked until you sign the contract and pay the deposit.

So after 2 or 3 weeks I try and contact and get no reply and then it seems like I am pestering them.

I would much prefer to be told "we are really interested but still doing some research" rather than asked to be pencilled in.

How I respond to being asked to pencil in is to say I will mark you down as interested and if anyone else wants the date I will give you first refusal. But usually if its pencilled in and I don't hear back within a week then they don't go on to book.

So from my experience pencilled in doesn't mean a lot really.