Potential Vendors not responding

Are you emailing them directly or through WW?

I have emailed all of them from the "Contact" page of their websites. One had me go through WW, and that was one of the only ones that responded. Most of the caterers near my venue aren't on WW.

That's odd, when we were looking at venues, one of the venues emailed us back with a message saying if your not expecting to spend $50,000 on your wedding then we are not the place for you, you can call us at blah blah blah if you want to move forward. I thought that was a bit forward.

I would try calling them up

I too would expect some kind of reply .... I would move forward with those who responded, send one more email/call to those you are very interested in, and then forget about those who don't respond. Crazy.

Wow, I know it has been peak wedding season and all - but still, they should be responding. Maybe call them, and if you still get nowhere, I'd move on. The last thing you want is to book one of these people, and have their communication (or lack of) be like this as you get closer to your date and need to speak to them.

If they don't respond in a timely manner then they aren't the vendor for you. I did however have a DJ who wanted me to let him know that I got his emails because in the past emails he sent went into the spam folder of that persons email. Maybe call and make sure they got your email. That does seem like a lot of people not responding. Most vendors are more professional than that.

This to, has happened to me. I moved on immediately. I'm happy with the vendors, that I have now

You definitely should not have to pester anyone to take your hard earned money. If your heart is set on the venue try giving them a call. If that does no good look for another venue. I think a lack of a response, unless there is some valid reason, is a good sign of potential things to come.

Thumbtack gets a lot of flack around here, but this is the reason I wound up using it to find the rest of my vendors (after thoroughly researching vendors that responded and cross-referencing them on WW and the Knot).

Found my photographer on TT. Then saw the "hate" (ok, more like cautionary tales) on here for TT so I tried to find DJs and officiants on my own, but got so frustrated with the vendors not responding at all to emails and even calls. I agree, I shouldn't have to work so hard to get someone to take my money lol.

Thanks guys. My venue was one that responded, and in the past few months every time I have emailed them I get a response within an hour. Even just to say, "I'm away from my office, I'll let you know at 8AM when I get in tomrrow" and I usually recieve a reply at 7:30AM. That is the kind of customer service I like to recieve and expect to get when shelling out a butt ton of money.

Your date is in June. My guess is that most of the vendors are already booked for that date. A response would be nice, but they probably just see the date and delete the e-mail.

I had this issues when choosing my venue. I e-mailed/called 5 venues and out of the five 3 responded and we set up appts, 1 responded to say he was leaving on vacation and would get back to me in a few weeks and never did, and one just never responded. It made it easier to pick a venue I'll tell you that.

I had several venues not reply to inquiries until 2 weeks later. By then I had done 4 tours and picked one. With other vendors (photo video cake) I was certainly put off by slow responsiveness (a week or more). I am between 2 cake caterers right now and one of them takes a day or two to respond to me max and the other usually 5 days or more. It certainly makes an impact on my decision process.

It's not like I'm trying to drag my feet on getting a caterer. I emailed 5 or so in June (a year out, plenty of time), waited about 2 weeks, didn't hear back. Emailed 4 or 5 more, waited two weeks, emailed more, so on and so forth.

Calling is your best bet. June is a popular wedding month so many are probably booked.

I met with a few vendors that said they would email me their quote after our meeting and never sent anything. I waited for a while and then spoke to the person who had set up all these meetings and she emailed them to make sure they respond, and they still didn't. I moved on to other vendors.

To me if they aren't responsive while trying to gain your business I would worry about how it'll be if they do get it.

I called all of mine.

Call on Tues or Wednesday. If you don't hear in a week, move on.

Keep in mind that in addition to being a crazy time, it's also vacation time...

But I"m also waiting to hear from three venues about different things. It makes me insane....

This happened with a florist I was interested in. FH and my parents suggested I follow up, but if you can't respond to my email asking if I can use your services how can I trust you to be a part of my wedding? We also went to a local shop and spoke with someone about invitations. After not hearing from them for a month I found them online and ordered them on my own.

If you can't be bothered to give me the bare minimum, as far as information goes, you aren't getting my money.