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Lauren Kay

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309 total appearances

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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

However, you know, a lot of these vendors who are bringing your day together aren't really large companies. They're smaller companies. There might be an owner and a two or three person team. Additionally, sometimes the service will really exceed your expectations.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

Maybe not the Costco cake, but maybe your photographer is going to be juggling four cameras all night and just capturing all those details you have been planning for the last year. And you'll want to Really honor their work by showing some gratuity. Also, a good thing to keep in mind, Colleen, is to check your contract.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

Maybe not the Costco cake, but maybe your photographer is going to be juggling four cameras all night and just capturing all those details you have been planning for the last year. And you'll want to Really honor their work by showing some gratuity. Also, a good thing to keep in mind, Colleen, is to check your contract.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

Maybe not the Costco cake, but maybe your photographer is going to be juggling four cameras all night and just capturing all those details you have been planning for the last year. And you'll want to Really honor their work by showing some gratuity. Also, a good thing to keep in mind, Colleen, is to check your contract.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

Sometimes vendors include tips as part of the contract, kind of like when you go to a restaurant and they say gratuity is included for parties of eight or more. Sometimes a caterer, for example, will have a tip in their contract. So you just want to make sure you read that closely. Another great way to show your appreciation if you don't want to tip monetarily is to write a thank you note.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

Sometimes vendors include tips as part of the contract, kind of like when you go to a restaurant and they say gratuity is included for parties of eight or more. Sometimes a caterer, for example, will have a tip in their contract. So you just want to make sure you read that closely. Another great way to show your appreciation if you don't want to tip monetarily is to write a thank you note.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

Sometimes vendors include tips as part of the contract, kind of like when you go to a restaurant and they say gratuity is included for parties of eight or more. Sometimes a caterer, for example, will have a tip in their contract. So you just want to make sure you read that closely. Another great way to show your appreciation if you don't want to tip monetarily is to write a thank you note.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

I think that we are in such a unique age of technology and text messages and whatnot, nothing like a handwritten note just to really show your gratitude. And furthermore, So many of these pros really rely on you as their best advertising.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

I think that we are in such a unique age of technology and text messages and whatnot, nothing like a handwritten note just to really show your gratitude. And furthermore, So many of these pros really rely on you as their best advertising.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

I think that we are in such a unique age of technology and text messages and whatnot, nothing like a handwritten note just to really show your gratitude. And furthermore, So many of these pros really rely on you as their best advertising.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

So going on to a website like that and going into the marketplace to write a review of your wedding pro is just a great way to honor the service they gave you and to help promote their business. We have an entire vendor tip sheet on our website. So you can get the breakdown of like, what's the typical percentage for a hairstylist? How much should you tip a photographer?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

So going on to a website like that and going into the marketplace to write a review of your wedding pro is just a great way to honor the service they gave you and to help promote their business. We have an entire vendor tip sheet on our website. So you can get the breakdown of like, what's the typical percentage for a hairstylist? How much should you tip a photographer?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

So going on to a website like that and going into the marketplace to write a review of your wedding pro is just a great way to honor the service they gave you and to help promote their business. We have an entire vendor tip sheet on our website. So you can get the breakdown of like, what's the typical percentage for a hairstylist? How much should you tip a photographer?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

What is the going rate for a musician or a delivery person? So that will help you break down. But again, it's really about what you and your partner feel comfortable with and about the service you receive and how you want to show that gratuity. The other thing I would say is, you know, think about people who might get a little overlooked, like maybe your bartenders.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

What is the going rate for a musician or a delivery person? So that will help you break down. But again, it's really about what you and your partner feel comfortable with and about the service you receive and how you want to show that gratuity. The other thing I would say is, you know, think about people who might get a little overlooked, like maybe your bartenders.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

What is the going rate for a musician or a delivery person? So that will help you break down. But again, it's really about what you and your partner feel comfortable with and about the service you receive and how you want to show that gratuity. The other thing I would say is, you know, think about people who might get a little overlooked, like maybe your bartenders.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

And again, I would just double check that venue contract because it does include catering. There might be a gratuity already built in for the servers and people like that. Also musicians. I don't know if you have anybody there, if any parking attendants or I always like to think about the people who might get overlooked because they often are working the hardest.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

And again, I would just double check that venue contract because it does include catering. There might be a gratuity already built in for the servers and people like that. Also musicians. I don't know if you have anybody there, if any parking attendants or I always like to think about the people who might get overlooked because they often are working the hardest.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

And again, I would just double check that venue contract because it does include catering. There might be a gratuity already built in for the servers and people like that. Also musicians. I don't know if you have anybody there, if any parking attendants or I always like to think about the people who might get overlooked because they often are working the hardest.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Spend Smarter This Wedding Season: Travel, Tipping, and More, (featuring The Knot)

And that's a really nice way just to show your gratitude to them as well. That is a great point. Yeah.