The venue accepted credit card for first payment only, and I'm sure most of the other vendors would have also. After that, most of them want cash or offical check/money order at least for the last payment. A lot of vendors offer no tax for cash payment also. We've been able to save almost a eight hundred dollars in tax so far by paying cash to the photographer, videographer and DJ. Some even offer a discount on top of no tax!
Our Venue accepted a CC payment for our first payment, the rest have to be cash/check. Same with our limo. Our photographer only takes cash/check. I believe the same applied to our flowers. I was hoping to use our credit card for our whole catering hall becasue then we would get points for free airfare, but no such luck. But can't hurt to ask!
We paid cash with everything because you pay no tax :) saved us a tonnnnn of money!!!!
Paying with cash and not paying tax sounds great! Thank you all for the advice!! :)
we used debit card for one vendor but mostly paid cash...most first payments can be credit card but I noticed on the contracts after that most want cash or check.we also saved on tax by paying cash.
We paid the first payment to the venue on a card, everything else had to be cash. We have paid the DJ and the photog in cash, though the photog would have taken a card, but gave us an '8.625% discount' by paying cash, knowwhatimsayin? I paid the entire balance to the florist on a card. And the videographer. We've earned A LOT of points, lol.
We also paid with cash. It was a lot easier!!!
I did credit card for all deposits and asked if I could leave more than they required - all of my vendors gave me a max credit card amount so I was able to get points on my CC.
Posted by Kris724
I asked pretty much all of my vendors if I could get a discount for cash, and all told me no, so I must be using the wrong vendors!
I used CC for at least the first payment wherever we could.
FH & I opened up a Capital One right after we got engaged, got 0% financing for 18 mos, and we are going to use the points to go towards our honeymoon flight. :)
We're trying to use our CC anywhere we can!
Posted by HRM2015
I did credit card for all deposits and asked if I could leave more than they required - all of my vendors gave me a max credit card amount so I was able to get points on my CC.
Posted by DianaJ821
Posted by HRM2015
I did credit card for all deposits and asked if I could leave more than they required - all of my vendors gave me a max credit card amount so I was able to get points on my CC.
When you paid the rest in cash did they knock off the tax or was it still included because you originally used the CC??
