Final Vendor Payments: Day of or Earlier?

Mine are all due before the wedding, so I will be paying them on the vendor specified due date. If I were you, I probably would pay the day before so I don't have to worry about it the day of my wedding.

Date twins! We paid everyone already, I don't want to deal with money the day of.

Most of our contracts have either a payment plan that specifies when all payments are due, or emphasize payment is due the week before the wedding. Personally, I would go ahead and get all the payment out of the way so you can have a stress-free day!

After paying the deposits, we've paid towards our balances every few weeks. The only vendor that has a schedule is our photographer.

As of today we have $150 left on our cake, $250 on out flowers, $200 on our rentals, and $250 on our photographer. That way when the wedding day comes we're paying smaller amounts and not thousands at once.

I am paying most everything before the wedding, so that the only thing our DOC has to get out the day of are tip envelopes.

So our venue charges us a fee for using a charge card. So the venue will have to be all by check. Most of our vendors are due the week of the wedding. We plan to put the ones of our choosing onto charge cards who don't charge a fee, but that will more than likely be done before the week of, simply because everything else bought for the wedding will be done. We'll pay them off immediately after the wedding then.

Our videographer and venue required the final payment 30 days before the wedding while our DJ and photographer were 2 weeks before. It was really nice to not have to worry about making payments on the day of!