Q&A: How much should I Tip?
July 13, 2009 by Christine Gooding
Filed under Wedding Etiquette
So it’s not as if you don’t have enough stuff to spend on, you also have to think of the wedding suppliers you should tip. I received a question from one of Our One Heart readers as to the etiquette on tipping:
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Question: Who and how much should we tip at our wedding?
At our own wedding, we didn’t tip everyone as I was already paying for their services and they were charging a hefty fee for their services. Also, services like restaurants and hotels have built-in fees for their services so I didn’t bother tipping them. We tipped the assistant photographers as they were just moonlighting and shooting weddings were not their full-time jobs unlike our main photographer.
If you’re not keen on tipping then you can also feed your suppliers like photographers, videographers, make-up artists and the like at your wedding or giving them a bottle of reasonably-priced wine for their services.
What about the others? What did you do and what you do you think about tipping wedding suppliers?
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That’s a very good and important question. So happy to see someone if covering that!