Cash Discounts- anyone tried it?

Yup - I've asked a lot of my vendors if I pay cash would there be any additional off - can't hurt to ask.

One of my décor companies gave me a discount for paying cash.

Actually one of my vendors does decrease the price by something like $300 if you don't pay with a credit card since that is what they pay in credit card processing fees.

All of our vendors offer a cash discount. They were able to give us a written receipt as long as an email verifying that we paid x amount on such and such day so we have some sort of paper trail.

Dang, Janeen, that's awesome! Ok cool, thanks ladies. I'm going to give it a try when we go for the cake testing and see what they say!

A check is as good as cash and gives you a paper trail. A handwritten receipt? Not so much.

Well I'd obviously have a contract as well as record of the payment in cash.

My photog automatically offered a cash discount

We paid some things with a credit card (that was being paid off) and some things with check. Almost all the things that got paid with a credit card included a 3 percent fee for using the card.

Yep-we got a cash discount for out DJ and Photographer.

Some have offered to take between 8-10% off for Cash.

As long as they give you a contract, I think it's great! I got a cash discount on my Dress (got $100 off plus 25% off my veil), cash discount on our Officiant (like $200), and a 5% cash discount with our Limo, even though we were already getting a 20% discount because we were referred from our DJ. We would have paid up front with our other larger things and asked for a discount, but sometimes you don't want to give someone thousands of dollars up front. All of these were under $1,500 so we had no problem paying up front. Maybe I'll ask our Photographer if we can get something extra in our package if we pay her in full now? We're already getting a crap ton of extras from our DJ because he was in a good mood that day and emailed me all these promises (yay my persistence on getting things in writing!). We already signed our contract with her but maybe we can ask if we can get a small album or some prints since we still have a $2k balance...

But yes, always ask for discounts! Preferred vendors, booking so early, paying up front, etc.

I paid cash for video, limo , photo. I saved a little and did not get charged tax.

Our photographer gave us a nice discount for paying all in cash. It helps for a lot of people.