10 Things The Wedding Industry Won’t Tell You…#4
Posted on Feb 16, 2009 under Wedding Etiquette |
4. “Believe it or not, I expect a tip.”
Gone are the days when a tip was an acknowledgment of superior service. More often than not, vendors involved in the wedding will be looking for some kind of handout.
According to The Knot, a wedding-planning Web site, anyone from the civil ceremony official to the chef to the wedding planner could be looking for a donation. “While tipping is for good service,” says Knot co-founder Carley Roney, “people also expect it unless service is extremely poor.” For a wedding of $25,000, Roney recommends setting aside $1,500 for gratuities to be put in envelopes on the wedding day.