How often are you in contact with your vendors?

I speak with my vendors when I make a payment. As in, I send a check, and they email me to say, "Hey I got your check!"

We are 5 months out, and I don't expect to speak to them too much until we get to about the 2 month mark. Hope this helps!

I haven't met our ceremony musicians or DJ in person at all and except for when we hired them, we don't really talk to our florist, baker, caterer/venue, photographer, or officiant unless we actually need something. Same with my wedding planner. I let them know if they have payments on the way and if I have questions, which is rare, I'll email them and that's it. I'm 2 and a half months away from my wedding and don't expect to have any real conversations with any of the vendors until next month (except photographer because I'm seeing them Tuesday, but it's not wedding related). The only one I talk to at least once a month is our planner.

It's good to hear that this is normal. I was thinking of sending a few Merry Christmas e-mails in December, just to touch base.

It's normal. They will be there. I was this way mostly about our caterer. We tasted, booked them, and then it was months before I had any other contact with them. My photographer emailed me all the way through. Every time I had some stupid milestone during the process, I would email her, and she was prompt to email me back. She didn't have to. If you feel there's something special that you would like to share, then by all means, do it.

We haven't talked with our vendors much either. I have asked each of them when they expect to be in touch. Most have said about a month or two before the wedding. Others a little sooner. We just booked out florist and she is going to meet with me in January to show me some sample centerpieces.

Same, I haven't been in contact with any of my vendors since booking them. I don't expect we'll make much contact with them until a month or two out, except for payments.

I think all of that sounds normal. I speak pretty often to my photographer but we have become kinda friends since we started the wedding planning process. Everyone else I emailed every few months. The only issue was with the band that we thought we booked but that never got back to us regardless of contacts sent out. We ended up booking someone else (last week eek).

Great topic, following. I was worried about this too.

I met with our officiant before booking. She sent me one thing she said she would since we signed the contract but other than that we've had no reason to get in touch.

DJ- haven't met in person yet, but he sent me all his online stuff (to pick music, etc.) when we signed the contract. Haven't needed to talk to since.

Ceremony music - havent met in person, same thing with the online stuff, haven't talked to since.

Photographer- she's the one I've been most in touch with. After she got our contract, we emailed back and forth to set up a good date/time for our engagement pics. Met her when we took our pics, and had coffee after to chat about our wedding plans so she could get to know us better. She emailed with sneak peek, to let me know she posted the blog about our shoot, and to send us our PASS gallery. Haven't needed to talk to her since then though.

Venue- we've emailed them twice - once to ask some questions we had, once to get a preferred vendor list.

I'm also getting married in July so I would say we are normal!

I typically ask my couples to get my questionnaires back two months ahead of time, then they get a script 2-3 weeks before. But I always tell them to email me ideas and readings along the way and call me any time they have a question about the process.

After my initial meeting/booking/deposit of my vendors I went about 5 months without talking to them. About a month ago I emailed all my vendors to give them updates, ask questions or set up final meetings. I was a little worried to before that they might forget about me but I had no problems when I was ready to finalize things, and other then a few bumps (my baker didn't show up to our final meeting) everything is pretty much done.

My vendors and I all sort of said...I'll be talking to you closer to the wedding date which is next October. The coordinator at my venue said to call or come by anytime and I said I would be doing that more after the first of the year. My baker is friends with me on FB and I talked to her yesterday when she wished me a happy birthday. Same with my photographer-sent her an message on FB messenger today. I don't really plan to be taking to vendor more often until like August, probably.

I'm in the same boat of me mailing a check, them emailing me "Hey we got it"

When we first booked them they sent a welcome email and a starter email: DJ: Here's an outline to help you figure out your music timeline and how to prepare. Photographer: Here's photo's I think would work, take it and tweek it. Etc.

After initial contact though... nothing.