Wedding Tipping, Via Check Acceptable?

You can't tip via check, that way the vendor has to claim that as income on their taxes. The point of tipping is to give the vendor extra pay that they don't have to pay taxes on. If you just add their tip onto their fee and write them a check, that defeats the purpose because then they have to pay taxes on their income plus the tip. At my venue, we had a locked room where the wedding party got ready and stored all our purses etc and that's where the vendors checks and tip money was kept. It was a remote location so we weren't worried about thieves or crashers but there was no chance of them getting to that money anyway. At the end of the night, my dad paid and tipped everyone for me.