TIPS...???

So I was wondering how the tip situation works...

Who do you tip the day of your wedding?

Limo, DJ, Maitre'd,

Photographer? Florist?

Here's what we did:

Maitre D: between $3-5 per guest you have. I believe we gave $350 for 115 guests
Bridal Attendant: $125
Photographers: $300 (we had two and they really went above and beyond ... you could give $100 each)
Photog Assitant: $50
MC: $100
DJ: $75
Percussionist / Steel Drummer for CH: $75
Officiant: $50
Dove Release Guy: $20
Videographer: $100
Hair: $10 per person whose hair she did
Makeup: $10 per person whose hair she did

we didn't have limos but you'd need those too

I think that's it

ETA: we didn't tip the flower delivery person ... to be honest, we never even saw him / her .... they got there (and left) before us

ETA again because i forgot hair & makeup

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Posted by Jennifer2011

I'm actually having a hard time figuring that out myself. I spoke to my catering hall and they told me to average $5 each person at the wedding. I'm having 325 people so i'm sorry but I'm not giving the hall over $1,500. All of my vendors have been great telling me to do what I feel I would like to do. Don't know what to do either.

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$5 is the very high average! It's usually $3-$5. If you gave the maitre'd $1k, that's more than enough. We tipped them about that but we made Jose work for it. lol! He was excellent.

Otherwise...

-Hair- We gave $50, she did 3 girls.
-Make-up- $30- she did my make-up and my sister's.
-Altar Servers (if applicable) or Officiant- We tipped the altar server $20. The priest doesn't get a tip.
-Limo- We tipped $40 to the limo and $20 to the car that picked us up at the end of the night.
-DJ/MC- $50 each
-Photographer- $100 each
-Florist- $10- We gave a small tip when they delivered the flowers.

ETA: Bridal attendants- $50 each.

Florist Delivery Person (who also decorated the outside of my parents house) - $0 (he was the owner & wouldn't take the tip)

Hair - $0 (she is a family friend & we went to her house that morning, but she recently had a baby so we made up a gift bag of some cute clothes)

Makeup - $30 (she is also a family friend, she came to my parents house that morning & did an outstanding job)

Limo Drivers - $0 (it was included) the company threw in an extra car for after the reception at no charge but we had to tip the driver $50.

2 Altar Servers - $10 each

Photographer/Videographer - $25 each (we had 4 people in total) & we also served them dinner (they also owned their own company)

Band - $37.50 each. (initally we put $25 each in the envelope but DH was so happy that he gave them extra)

RH Staff - (coat check, wait staff, valet parking, bridal attendant, etc.) - we had a 20% service chagre on our contract which wass taxed. when we went for our food tasting we asked the owner of the hall & she said that is the tip for everyone at the hall.

Matri D - our RH contract included tip

THANK YOU LADIES!!! This helps ALOT!!



I guess depending on how good the maitre 'd is, will depend on 3-5 dollars pp. 5 dollars seems like a lot though lol.
I have to double check my contract to make sure they did not include it, but i am pretty sure that is seperate. The Gratuity that is included is for eveyone else I think...

Thank you Again!!!

Danielle

I tipped the MC, DJ, Photographer, Bridal attendant (and her assistant), Officiant and Florist

ETA - also tipped my hair/make up person

I was wondering the same thing

Thinking about this makes my head spin

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Posted by IrishAli

Thinking about this makes my head spin

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OMG me too. I think we're going to start putting aside like 20 bucks each into a jar once/week until the day of so it's a little less painful. We've been saving change for a year lol! That's not gonna cover half of what we need but every little bit helps!

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Posted by wiggleit28

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Posted by IrishAli

Thinking about this makes my head spin

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OMG me too. I think we're going to start putting aside like 20 bucks each into a jar once/week until the day of so it's a little less painful. We've been saving change for a year lol! That's not gonna cover half of what we need but every little bit helps!

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GREAT IDEA!

We just put all of our envelopes together and the grand total is 1200.