{"id":843,"date":"2009-07-17T10:06:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T09:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weddingdates.ie\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2009-07-17T10:06:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T09:06:50","slug":"the-real-cost-of-your-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/the-real-cost-of-your-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Cost of Your Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patricia over at Markree Castle<\/a> has written a great blog post on “Wedding Price Wars<\/strong>” looking at price cutting and haggling from a hotel’s point of view.\u00a0 Obviously, we are all out there looking for the best deal nowadays but you have to bear in mind that if you are squeezing the hotel massively, that they are a business and they will have to cut corners in places to keep their margin.<\/p>\n

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Here are some of Patricia’s tips for “Would-Be Hagglers<\/strong>“:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Sort out the prices before you sign the contract and\/or pay a deposit- the reasons for this are obvious.\u00a0 Firstly, you won\u2019t know if you\u2019ll be able to get the deal you want\/need until you ask and you may end up stuck with a venue that can\u2019t fulfill your needs.\u00a0 Secondly, it\u2019s only polite to let the hotel know if you are on a budget before things are set in stone.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Watch out for catches in \u2018package\u2019 prices.\u00a0 Lots of hotels offer, for example,\u00a0 1\/2 bottle of wine per person as part of their package- rarely, in fact nearly never, would your wedding guests drink even close to this amount and not many hotels are offering you the left-over wine to bring home with you!\u00a0 Often you\u2019ll get a better deal on a per consumption basis.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Remember that hotels are businesses-\u00a0 exceptionally low prices mean they will be cutting corners somewhere to protect their profits, whether it be on the quality of food or staffing levels on the day.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Beware of hotels that will only give you the best price if you pay for the whole lot 6 weeks before the wedding- we can\u2019t think of a single non-shifty reason for this.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Bear in mind that if you really want the best prices you will have to make some compromises. For instance, you will always get the best price if you choose an off-peak date for your wedding even if it means compromising your ideal of a sunny, summer Saturday.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get too caught up in the price.\u00a0 Ask yourself this-\u00a0 is the cost the most important thing about my wedding day?\u00a0 The answer is of course no-\u00a0 instead think about value for money.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 Don\u2019t always thing about value as being purely relating to something that you can physically hold on to.\u00a0 Think of all the other intangible elements that will make up your wedding day: atmosphere, company, backdrop\u2026.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 The number one issue of contention seems to be corkage.\u00a0 Seems to be a rip off since you aren\u2019t paying for a product.\u00a0 Instead think of it as a service and consider the other costs associated with serving wine, aside from the wine itself:\u00a0 storing, chilling, polishing glasses, laying glasses, opening, serving, washing the glasses.<\/p>\n

You can read Patricia’s full post here<\/a> and of course if you dream of a castle wedding or are looking for a Sligo Wedding Venue<\/a>, you can check availability for the ever-fabulous Markree Castle on weddingdates.ie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patricia over at Markree Castle has written a great blog post on “Wedding Price Wars” looking at price cutting and haggling from a hotel’s point of view.\u00a0 Obviously, we are all out there looking for the best deal nowadays but you have to bear in mind that if you are squeezing the hotel massively, that they are a business and they will have to cut corners in places to keep their margin. Here are some of Patricia’s tips for “Would-Be […]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[58,45],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wedding-venues","category-wedding-planning-tips","tag-castle-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weddingdates.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}