4 Reasons Why You Should Attend Wedding Shows

Are you recently engaged? Congrats! Now it’s time to start planning your dream day! It can be hard to know where to begin, but here are some reasons why attending a wedding show is your best bet.

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You get an opportunity to connect with vendors in person.

In our modern world, we’re all used to doing extensive online research before making any major decisions. Wedding planning is no exception and online research is a great place to start. However, your day is highly personal, and you should choose vendors that you trust, that are aligned with your values about sustainability or LGBTQIA+ inclusivity, and that you generally just click with! Attending wedding shows and meeting vendors IRL is the best opportunity to have meaningful face-to-face conversations with the people that will potentially help make your day come to life.

It’s a great way to do a lot of vendor research at once.

Wedding planning can be so much fun, but it’s no secret that it also requires a lot of time, energy, and money. Rather than trying to fit time into your busy schedule to send individual inquiries to all of the vendors you’re interested in, attending a wedding show is the most efficient way to do a lot of vendor research in one day. You can easily walk around and ask each vendor about their process and pricing, and then compare them to each other when deciding what’s best for you.

They’re a great source of inspiration for your day.

If you’re recently engaged and have no idea what you want your wedding to look like, attending a wedding show early on in your planning process is the best way to quickly realize what you do and don’t want. You’ll be able to taste food and drinks from caterers, touch the linens and rentals on styled tablescapes, and see photos from real weddings that vendors bring to show off what they’re capable of.

Committed

If you’re local to Chicago and sustainability is one of your values as discussed above, make sure to stop by the Green Wedding Alliance’s wedding show, Committed on Sunday, March 26th, 2023 from 12-3pm at Loft on Lake. It will feature a collection of Chicago’s most eco-minded wedding vendors–from caterers to planners to florists to stationery, and more–all members of the Green Wedding Alliance. That means you won’t even have to think about choosing eco-conscious vendors for your event, every vendor in the room is as Committed to the environment as you are.

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