Venues/vendors

Unless you've actually met with them, I don't think there's any reason to follow up. There's probably tons of people who ask for general info without actually booking.

I agree that a response isn’t necessarily needed but if you would like to say something a simple “Unfortunately you’re venue is out of our price range but we really appreciate your time and you getting back to us.” Or just saying “thank you so much, we appreciate your time. We will reach out if we have any further inquires”.

I agree with Caytlyn, if all you did was email them no need to respond back. If you emailed back and forth, you met with them, or they went above and beyond in their response in answering your questions then send them something. If it was just one email then no need to send any no thanks email back.

A response shouldn’t be needed, but if you are feeling like it, just simply say thank you and that it is out of your budget. They are used to getting tons of inquiries and understand.


But if there is a venue that is somewhat close to your budget and you love, I would tell them how much you are looking to spend per person. Maybe they can work with you and you negotiate the price a little bit.

I wouldn’t send anything back unless they ask you again.

Mostly I just didn't respond.

However, some clearly required follow up, so it was just a standard, "thanks but no thanks" kind of thing.

One venue we toured asked specifically why we were not interested, and in the interest of helping the new manager, I told her a nice version of the truth. (The venue had political affiliations, including larger-than-life portraits of various political figures/rooms named after them/etc and this was NOT made clear on the website. We were understandably a little uncomfortable having that be so prominent at our wedding.) But DH and I felt that telling the truth on this would help them market better, or perhaps reconsider decor, because it was probably seriously hurting their sales. Which is a shame, it's a gorgeous venue in the middle of Manhattan with serious views.

I am getting the same. Well.... that’s from the venues that aren’t being rude. I do not like that the questionnaire asks for a number of guests and I’m getting venues completely ignoring my request for information because my number of guests is too high (or too low) for the amount of people that fits their venue. I wrote in a random guess of guests because I haven’t done my list -BECAUSE I’m waiting to pick a venue and decide if I want children and plus ones or not. These venues on this app are SO RUDE!