Iryna Petrenko spent two decades doing wedding florals from her flower shop in suburban Chicago, which meant she also spent two decades watching photographers, planners, caterers, DJs, and venue coordinators do their jobs alongside her. The shop did roughly forty weddings a year. By the time she sold it in 2018, she had opinions about which kinds of vendors made a wedding day work and which kinds made it harder.
Wedding Vendors is the place where she puts those opinions to use. The site is a curated guide to choosing vendors: what to ask, what to expect, and where the money actually goes. She covers from the inside of the industry, but writes for the couple sitting at the kitchen table figuring out who to call first.