Which vendor was first?

Venue first.

Venue. You don't have a date until you have a venue, and you don't want to book any other vendor until you know the date for sure.

I booked my venue first! It essentially determines your official date of the wedding.

Venue, officiant, photographer, videographer, HMUA, florist, and then day of coordinator I s what we did

We technically booked our photographer first, though our venue was also holding our date for us until we were able to pay the deposit and sign the contract. It was around a month in between when we signed the contract with our photographer and when we signed the contract with our venue.

Venue for sure

I'd say it's a toss up between venue and photographer. If you want your engagement pics taken early, I would go with photographer and let them know the few dates you have in mind for your wedding. Most of the time, they'll take those engagement photos, and by the time they deliver them to you, your date and venue are locked in!

Definitely the venue. You can't send save the dates til you have one booked w them. Then we did photographer n DJ at the same time.

We booked our venue first.

I did venue followed by photographer

We got the venue first also

Officiant. It was super important to us that our rabbi could officiate our wedding, so we consulted with her first to see which weekends she was available during the month of June. We then booked our venue the next day.

We contacted my pastor first, but officially We booked our honeymoon first!! Checking out a church this weekend that has our date available!

I bought my dress first thing. There was a pop up sample sale, 3 of my friends said it sounded like a fun Tuesday... and, uh, surprise, I found my dress!

...I'd been engaged a week.

Venue was first!

Venue. Without a venue, you don’t have a wedding date.

Venue. Without the venue, you don't actually have a date. It was followed immediately by our photographers and caterer (required caterer at our venue, so not much of a choice in that regard).

I booked the venue first!

We booked our venue first.

Venue absolutely. and right after, our DJ.