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In the modern world of weddings it is sometimes easy to get misled into spending additional money and get talked into hiring inexperienced and sometimes incompetent vendors. Please be weary when booking your wedding venue for catering facilities that also carry in house photo and video persons. Wedding venues make additional money by having you use their in house service vendors. They will do anything to have you book these services through them. You need to be careful when booking these services. Follow these simple rules:

1. If a venue says ” they will charge you a fee to bring in outside vendors” , you should immediately walk away. Venues sometimes add fees to wedding parties for outside vendors, this is to discourage you from finding lower priced vendors. Sometimes this could be as much as $500.00 per outside vendor. They may also tell you there are insurance costs they accumulate or they are forced to charge you. Do not buy these lines!! Simple state that if you cannot bring your own vendors you will not be using their facilities. They will make the accommodations for you otherwise they may risk loosing a big pay day. If they refuse, start to look for another venue as this is not the place you will want to get married at.

2. Many venues subcontract their vendor services to companies who then hire people for even less money. You may pay $1000.00 for video services, the venue will keep $200.00 and give the video company $800.00. The Video Company will then hire another video freelancer for $300.00 or less. Therefor, your $1000.00 is only getting you the services of a $300.00 video person. You would be better off booking through a video production company for a $500.00 package. This will ensure you have at least $500.00 worth of video services.

3. The companies who work as in house vendors at certain venues may have 3 or more venues at which they book services at. That means that if a company needs 4 or five different video freelancers, you may get someone who has not shot a lot of weddings or who is inexperienced. A company like http://www.mavevideo.com only books one wedding per day. If you book straight through them you are ensured a quality video at an affordable price.greenberg4. Don’t be forced into buying expensive packages. Again, the wedding venue is just the top booking agent. They want you to pick the most expensive packages, so they make more commission. Haggle with them, show them the affordable prices that other companies offer and make them come down in price.

5. Don’t be fooled by the line ” Our Video and Photo people are the best around!’, they will try to lure you into thinking they have the best staff when “best” simple means most expensive.

6. When in doubt call http://www.mavevideo.com at 201-779-0091 or email us at mavevideo@aol.com and receive the best priced quotes.