Wedding Forum - Last minute bargaining yes or no?...

i have got the final payment for the main wedding venue. although i dont have actual numbers quite yet they gave me a rough estimate of £1200 i have £1500 and 3 further guests to original plan however im not happy about being charged £5 for a jug of juice i want around 4 jugs for the children attending plus any non drinkers , im thinking as i have the money in cash before the required date now would be a good time to go in cash ready and stipulate what i want for the cash. do you think this is a good idea? or am i being cheeky? we got a good deal on the place to be fair as we are having ceremony ,som flowers and 3 course wedding breakfast for 45 included in this price but im really hung up on £5 for juice! its £4.50 per glass of wine too and i know they are not paying anywhere near that! i appreciate they need to profit but they most certainly already are guests staying over are paying £145 a night on top of the £1200 would you bargain for cash?
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we are getting free jugs of juice for the children a bottle of juice doesn't even cost £5 so they are why over charging you on that one. I would at least ask for juice to be included in the price for the day time x
do they have a drinks package ours is £14.95 which includes buck fizz on arrive, a bottle of red white and rose on the tables plus still and sparkling water and sparkling wine for the toast.

I think you should try to bargain either way it doesn't matter if its cash or card

£5 for juice is a stupid price that twice what s full bottel if squash costs which you would get atleast 5/10 jugs from

Barter barter barter... or just say you want water on the tables... tell them its extorionate and unreasonable.. they can't charge you for tap water either.

At a hotel they would have to put a function like that through the books hun - I work as a business advisor specialising in taxation matters, and they would risk too much by not doing so - particularly as the till rolls are likely to show increased takings from drinks etc and increased expenditure from food.

By offering cash for a discount, effectively you are telling them that you think they are defrauding hmrc - and to be honest, if they were happy to do that to save money, I'd be worried what other corners were being cut...also, I doubt the wedding coordinator has any say whatsoever what gets declared on the tax returns - that will be down to the accountants who are legally bound to report such goings on under SOCA.

If it was a builder who does his own tax return, then yep, most will give you a discount for cash.

A lot of business that do offer a discount for cash are normally ones who usually operate on a credit basis - for example, at my firm the terms of our invoice our payment within fifty days - however they get a discount if they pay within seven days. This kind of treatment is often referred to as a discount for cash regardless.

But I Deffo agree you shouldn't be paying that much for juice! I'd ask why it's so much, and as Valentina said just ask for water and add your own juice...our hotel charges £7 for fresh orange jugs - its only £3 more expensive for a bottle of wine!

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It's prob a large jug I've paid 3 quid for a glass of orange juice before x

cant hurt to ask, don't ask don't get, but I would not be surprised if you don't get anything , I would barter in general not on the fact your paying cash, as when / if they say it makes no difference to them if you pay by cash you have no other bartering tools left - your costs seem nice and reasonable but wouldn't let that stop you asking :) good luck ! x

You could try bargaining but I don't think it will make any difference whether you have cash or not as most functions will only accept possible bargaining when you first sign the contract :S

The venue we had to cancel wanted £3.50 per GLASS of juice.. £5 for a jug which probably supplies 5-6 glasses isn't bad zi don't think xxx