Delivery and Pickup Fees on Your Wedding Day - What Does It Mean?

Let’s talk delivery, pickup, setup and teardown. If you pick a venue that is not a hotel or does not include tables, chairs, linens or china you are going to be learning a lot about these terms.

Delivery:

Delivery is pretty standard. Your florist will have a delivery charge for delivering your flowers, you baker will have a delivery charge for delivering your cake, your rental company for your rentals and so on. A lot of brides think they can save money by picking items up themselves. No, and I mean NO this is not something you want to do. You can not pick up a three tier cake and put it in the back of your car or truck and drive it to your site. Same goes for 200 chairs or 20 floral arrangements. Pay the fee, it’s worth it.

Pickup:

Pickup fees are just what they say; a fee to pick up items after your wedding is over. Again, most times this is something you want to pay. It is pretty obvious that you don’t want to pack up and return 200 chairs after your wedding but it may seem that picking up linens yourself and returning them after the wedding would be a good way to save some money, but think again. If you’re taking linens back you will have to pull them off of tables at the end of the night, meaning you or someone has to be there after tables have been cleaned off, and florals removed so you can gather up the linens. Now, these linens are dirty, food has spilled on them, cake is squashed into them and drinks have been spilled on them, probably not what you want to put in the back of your car. Same goes for rented floral vases. If you decide not to pay a pickup fee, then you are going to be removing flowers, carrying the vases to a sink somewhere and pouring out the water, drying them, loading them in a car and praying they don’t break. Forget it, just pay the fee and let the experts pick them up. I promise you will be glad you did.



Next we will talk about setup and teardown.