Do you have an expertise and passion for serving couples on one of the biggest days of their lives? Do your customers rave about your services? At Ever After Farms, we share that same skill and enthusiasm for weddings and strive to provide the very best wedding venues in the industry while providing unparalleled service and value. With 9 locations across the sunshine state, we have become the most popular venue operator in Florida and because of the enormous amount of money we spend each month and expertise we have with advertising, we generate more than 50,000 visitors to our website each month. Our Preferred Vendor Program was designed to support and grow vendor businesses while helping our couples have the perfect wedding.
As soon as a couple is engaged, their first step is typically to decide on a venue. The venue comes first and then every other vendor is chosen after the venue is finalized. Furthermore, couples always ask the venue who they recommend for catering, hair, make up, DJ, officiant, etc. Therefore, being on a venue’s preferred vendor list is your key to more business. And that’s what this program is all about. This is your opportunity to be on our coveted Preferred Vendors list! And we not only provide our couples with our list of preferred vendors, we also strongly encourage our couples to chose our preferred vendors too. In fact, caterers that are not on our Preferred list must pay an caterer impact fee for their use of our facilities, utilities, trash service, etc. We know that when couples choose the best vendors, they experience the best events. Plus, as a Preferred Vendor, we also proudly display your information on our website so that our 50,000+ visitors can see that we recommend you too!
Our preferred vendors have booked an enormous amount of new business as a result of being in this program and their credibility in the industry has soared. Some started out part time in the wedding industry and thanks to being on our vendor list, were able to go full time and even then, were not able to keep up with all the business Ever After Farms alone created for them! With this program, you have the opportunity to generate enormous amounts of new business AND you’ll have the official seal and endorsement of one of the most trusted and respected wedding venue operators in Florida.
Our venues are first class and the customers we attract are first class too. Ever After Farms couples are the kind of customers you want to work with.
So if you want to grow your business with the best of the best customers, all while building your credibility, then the Ever After Farms Preferred Vendor Program is right for you.
We only select the very best from each vendor type to ensure that our brand and our commitment to excellence is delivered to our couples so we have an application you’ll need to fill out below.
If its a good fit for us both, their is a monthly flat rate, depending on how many regions you want to be on. There is a minimum 3 month commitment because it can take up to that amount of time for you to experience a full return on your marketing investment. Thereafter, you can stop at anytime.
We have two types of regions, those with one venue, and those with two:
- One Venue Regions: North Florida (Vineyard), Central Florida (Citrus), West Florida (Flower), Southwest Florida (Lemon Lime) & Miami Florida (Tropical Grove)
- Two Venue Regions: East Central Florida (Blueberry & Peach) and South Florida (Ranch & Stockyard)
Monthly participation fees in the Ever After Farms Preferred Vendor Program vary based on your region and the type of service you provide.
Monthly rates vary depending on the service category—such as catering, floral, entertainment, beauty, planning, officiant, dessert, and other specialty services. For our higher-volume barns (like Flower, Lemon Lime, Citrus, and Tropical Grove), rates may be a bit higher due to the increased exposure and booking opportunities these locations provide.
This structure ensures fairness and flexibility while reflecting the marketing exposure, referral potential, and number of couples you’ll be promoted to within your designated region.
For a personalized quote based on your service category and preferred coverage area, please complete the application form. Our Preferred Vendor Team will follow up with exact details within one week.
- NOTE 1! Our couples are required to use our Preferred Bartenders, for the safety of the guests and the community.
- NOTE 2! We provide in-house Day-of Coordinating, Photography & Videography so we do not offer those categories with this program.
- NOTE 3! While we have an open vendor policy, if couples choose a caterer that is not on our Preferred Vendor List, that caterer must pay an caterer impact fee for their use of our facilities, utilities, trash service, etc.
When you join this program, you will get a listing on our preferred list which includes your logo/picture, a paragraph to describe your services, the ability to add your contact information AND a “follow” backlink to your website to help with search engine optimization (see Ever After Farms Preferred Vendors as an example). Also, if you provide them to us, we can even insert your collateral materials (such as a brochure, business card or flyer), to our tour folders that we give our couples when they tour our venues. Plus, you will be able to proudly display your Ever After Farms Preferred Vendor seal alongside your other industry awards.
Preferred Vendor Program FAQs
We are among the best wedding venue operators in the State of Florida and our couples rely on our recommendations to ensure that they have an incredible event. The last thing we want is for a vendor that we recommended to drop the ball and ruin a couples’ big day. It makes us look bad and oftentimes the couple blames us for a bad vendor! Just because you are willing to pay us to join this program doesn’t mean you will get in. We do our due diligence to make sure you meet our criteria. We can only recommend the highest quality vendors.
Our pricing reflects the value for each vendor category and region. For example, the total cost of some catering services can be thousands and thousands of dollars whereas the cost of an officiant can be a few hundred dollars. Therefore, a caterer is willing to pay far more to be listed as a caterer than an officiant. Furthermore, some regions have more volume of weddings than others so the regions with the most volume are higher priced than the ones with less.
There is a 3 month minimum commitment because it can take up to that amount of time for you to experience a full return on your marketing investment. Thereafter, you can stop at anytime.
If your credit card information changes and/or your payment doesn’t go through, we’ll notify you. If the payment isn’t successfully processed within 7 days, we’ll remove your listing.
No. If you are listed as a caterer and also want to be listed in bartending, then you would only pay for the catering listing for that region. However, if a vendor is paying to be listed as a bartender only, the bartenders can’t also be listed as a caterer. To do so, the bartender would have to pay as a caterer to be listed in both categories.
In business, you get what you pay for. Whereas other venues may put vendors on their list for free, it doesn’t bring much (if any), new business to those vendors. Most wedding venues are unable to handle high volumes of bookings and are content with drastically limiting how many events they do each year. Meanwhile, each individual Ever After Farms venue generates as much or more inquiries than other venues in Florida. Plus, we have 9 locations so we provide you with far more exposure than if we had just one location. Our website generates more than 50,000 unique visitors per month, which makes us one of the leading wedding websites in Florida. As a leader in the industry, when you are one of our preferred vendors, you not only get the highest quality leads, but you also increase your credibility as well. The vendors already on our list have done the math and they know that being in this program is a very wise marketing investment for their business. But just like many wedding venues drastically limiting the number of events they do each year, many vendors are content with fewer customers too. So this program is not for every vendor. It’s specifically for the very best vendors that want to grow their business with the highest quality customers.
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