Wedding vendor Jamie Wolfer describes a couple who wanted her to split her 10-hour package across the day with a three-hour gap. She had to travel three hours and pay for a hotel, making the break impossible. Now she specifies "consecutive hours" in her packages to protect her time and prevent vendors from getting exploited.
I will never forget the first time I had a couple ask me to split up my hours for a wedding day. They wanted me to show up, or this was early in my career as most of my mistakes and/or teachable moments were, where I was pregnant with my son. I had already traveled. It was 3 hours away from home. I paid for a hotel out of pocket. They wanted me to split my hours. They wanted me to show up to their venue. This was when I had a 10-hour package to receive their rentals and set them up and then go back to my hotel, which by the way, I wouldn't be able to go back to cuz at that point, I would have had to check out, go back to my hotel, spend 2 hours, and then come back and spend my remaining 8 hours at their event. And I was like, no, that's, that's not, that's not going to work for me. And at that point, I put the term consecutive in front of the term hours. Everything, all this is going to be educational. It's going to be a conversational experience for your clients. And I do think that if you have an unlimited wedding day, it's going to be hard to point to something outside of yourself to be like, yeah, I'm not yours for the entire day. It's going to be really difficult to put up boundaries if you don't have some sort of structured to it.
