8 REASONS WHY A NIGERIAN WEDDING VENDOR MAY DISAPPOINT YOU ON YOUR WEDDING DAY

1. Social Media Deception
There is no doubt that social media has helped a lot of vendors when it comes to letting people know what they do.

Social media can be a blessing to business owners, especially when it comes to visibility for vendors and helping clients with sourcing for the right vendors for their event.

While Instagram can be an easy platform to source for your Nigerian wedding vendors... you also need to remember that social media is also a make believe platform, where people basically post only what they want other people to perceive of them or their businesses.

What this means is that, a picture you see online, may not be what it truly is in real life. Same goes for some wedding vendors. They post beautiful professionally edited pictures for the gram, but it may not be what it is in real life. This may lead you to having a false impression of what their services truly is.

Like this isn't bad enough, some vendors go the extra mile to post images and videos of services that are not theirs to create a false representation of what they can actually do.

When a client falls victim of these vendors, they get disappointed and dissatisfied with their services, because what they were expecting wasn't what was delivered by the vendor.

2. Over- booked
Sometimes wedding vendors get multiple bookings for a particular date and may not have the necessary team to handle the multiple events booked for. So one event may suffer lapses. You can only pray and hope that it is not your event at the bottom of the line.

The best thing to do, is to continuously ask your vendor if they will be handling other jobs apart from yours for your said date.

If the answer is yes, ensure that they are convinced that they can handle the multiple jobs. You may even get them to sign a contract to this effect. If they do not sound convincing enough for you, then you may want to change that vendor.

3. Not experienced in the field
For instance, to become a planner in Nigeria, one does not necessarily need to train to become one. The impression is that once you have a client and can source for vendors online and bring them together, then you are good to go and we all know that planning an event is way more than just bringing vendors together...

Imagine a planner who just landed her first event... as a first timer with no training or experience whatsoever, she is bound to make some mistakes. These mistakes are not as a result of her wanting to disappoint her client, but from the fact that she has no experience whatsoever about what she is doing.


4. Not professional
Some Nigerian Wedding Vendors are just not professional and that is just what it is. They don't have any reputable work ethics and disappointment is in their blood. Some are just plain rude, while some may just have a lackadaisical attitude towards their business and just don't take their jobs seriously.


5. Too professional
These set of vendors act like they know more than the client. So instead of listening and accepting what the client wants, they do what they think is best for the client.

I once worked with a decorator who felt that what he was proposing was better than what the client wanted. Unknown to me (the planner), he had decided not to work with the moodboard that was created and given to him and worked with one that he had created in his head.

He did something completely different from what the client had wanted and different from the moodboard that was sent to him.

Needless to say, that it was a disaster, the decor looked beautiful but the fact remained that it wasn't what the client had wanted. Plus it disrupted all other things, like the colours altered with the caterers table settings etc...


6. Client's budget vs Client's expectations
Some clients tend to forget that negotiating with a vendor is not the same as pricing tomato in the grocery store. You don't price to the barest minimum. You ask for the lowest they are willing to go and beat it down a little more. Or just tell the vendor the budget you are working with and see if they are willing to work with the budget. The good thing is that there are lots of other vendors who offer the same services.

Some vendors may accept low prices from clients, just because they want to add another job to their portfolio. So they sometimes end up accepting whatever offer thrown at them and end up disappointing the client, because the amount paid cannot deliver on the client's expectations.


7. You don't listen to your wedding planner. Trust me, nobody wants a successful event more than your wedding planner. Some clients hire wedding planners to act as figure heads. They don't communicate necessary details with their planners, they book for vendors without communicating with their planner or they simply don't listen when their planners are trying to warn them about a particular vendor. They see these warnings as a personal attack on their choice of vendors.


8. Murphy's law
Murpy's law states that whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Which means that some things are just bound to happen and will happen anyway, despite the all the preparations. It may be that the traffic was particularly terrible on your big day or some other form of disappointment from the vendor's staff or even a car breakdown.

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