{"id":3168,"date":"2017-04-20T13:13:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:53:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:53:29","slug":"greedy-wedding-vendors-bug-the-hell-out-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/greedy-wedding-vendors-bug-the-hell-out-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Greedy Wedding Vendors Bug The Hell Out of Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Troy Childers, a minister who cares about his couples.<\/p><\/div>\n

Full disclosure: I’m a capitalist, I’m a conservative, I voted for Trump, and I see nothing wrong with being greedy. \u00a0 Yeah, yeah, I know what you’re saying, “Steven, greed is bad. \u00a0What in the world are you talking about!”<\/p>\n

And I have to admit, you’re right. \u00a0Greed is bad. \u00a0But like almost everything in life, it’s a double-edged sword. \u00a0 Greed, on one hand, is great because it pushes us to do better. \u00a0You want that bigger house, an ideal mate, a better job, that all has elements of greed to it. \u00a0 But just how much is too much? \u00a0That is the true question.<\/p>\n

Do CEO’s get paid too much? \u00a0Do class-action lawyers take too much of the pie? \u00a0 Well, that’s another discussion.<\/p>\n

What I’m talking about today are fricken greedy wedding vendors.<\/p>\n

Yes. \u00a0 You heard me. \u00a0And this type of greed is not the type you want your momma to know about. \u00a0This is full on, robbery.<\/p>\n

The other day, I got an inquiry from a minister who wanted to do weddings for my company. \u00a0His rate was unbelievable. \u00a0 It was the same rate at which my wedding singers work for one hour, the same rate at which I charge my couples for one hour of photography – $250. \u00a0 Minister’s only work for fifteen minutes, so his charges worked out to $200 to $250 for fifteen minutes without travel fees. \u00a0I asked him how he could justify charging the couples so much? \u00a0He said,\u00a0“Because it would take him two hours of drive time.” \u00a0 \u00a0Seriously? \u00a0 So this minister wanted to get paid to drive to the wedding service, work fifteen minutes, and drive back to the bank? \u00a0And he wanted to get paid for driving to the ceremony? \u00a0 Greedy son of a ______ . \u00a0 And he’s a minister?<\/p>\n

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Elias Parker, another great minister who is not greedy<\/p><\/div>\n

I charge $175 for ministry services, of which my minister’s keep the majority of the meat. \u00a0 And I’ll be blunt here. \u00a0 Out of all my vendors, they make the most money if we would pro-rate their fees. \u00a0 But my minister’s are far from greedy, even though they are probably the best on the island. \u00a0 Their motivation remains to marry people and to do a great job. \u00a0They could jack up their prices on me, which would force me to charge more, but they know they are compensated very well for their time as it is. \u00a0And they want to be fair to the couple.<\/p>\n

The greed doesn’t just stop there. \u00a0You have wedding photographers, who upsell couples. \u00a0 Bakers who charge more for wedding cakes, just because it’s a wedding cake. \u00a0 You even have reputable hotels who give free rooms, free tastings, in order to get couples to sign up for the open bar at their reception. \u00a0You know that that means right? \u00a0Another $5000 to $10000 for the hotel if that couple agrees.<\/p>\n

Now don’t get me wrong. \u00a0 These businesses have all the right to charge whatever they want. \u00a0The last thing I want is the federal government to come in to start regulating profit. \u00a0 All I’m saying is that; you, as a buyer, need to be careful, like how I am. \u00a0Make sure you pay for quality. \u00a0Quality will cost you more. \u00a0Pay for excellent service. \u00a0Make sure the are no hidden strings attached to the contracts that you sign. \u00a0 If you feel like you’re getting played, you probably are. \u00a0If they can’t truly justify why they are charging so much, then they are probably charging too much.<\/p>\n

Last word here.<\/p>\n

You can count on me that I won’t do you wrong. \u00a0I’m pretty much a compulsive do-gooder. \u00a0Ya know, the whistleblower that nobody likes. \u00a0The Blacksheep in the wedding industry who really gives the middle finger to other companies (that’s why I don’t belong to any wedding association).<\/p>\n

So as they say in Modern Warfare (the video game), “Stay Frosty…” \u00a0which means stay alert.<\/p>\n

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Full disclosure: I’m a capitalist, I’m a conservative, I voted for Trump, and I see nothing wrong with being greedy. \u00a0 Yeah, yeah, I know what you’re saying, “Steven, greed is bad. \u00a0What in the world are you talking about!” And I have to admit, you’re right. \u00a0Greed is bad. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}