Overseas Wedding

I am about to shoot my first oversea wedding (Portugal).

What are the best options for clients making payments (Euros to Pounds) - avoiding lots of charges?

Cheers

have the customer pay you in your currency so all the fees are on their end?

I would love to do a destination wedding in another country, but isnt there a chance that customs will deny your entry into the other country, especially if its just for business?

I know living near the us border growing up in Canada it wasnt unusual for customs to deny you entry. I heard of one person that wanted to come into canada for lunch and they just said no.

GerryDavid wrote in post #15465749
I heard of one person that wanted to come into canada for lunch and they just said no.

Bizarre!

GerryDavid wrote in post #15465749
I would love to do a destination wedding in another country, but isnt there a chance that customs will deny your entry into the other country, especially if its just for business?

The OP is in the UK. Both the UK and Portugal are part of the EU and as such there are no restrictions on movement and working.

I'm from the UK. Many years ago (pre 911) I flew to Canada to visit my G/F. She had planned for us to drive from Vancouver down to Washington to spend a night in a romantic hotel on Whidbey Island, for Christmas eve. What I didn't realise was that the US visa waver program was only valid if you flew into the US (and had a return air ticket). We arrived at the border, the US immigration asked for my visa and I didn't have one

My girlfriend said "we are going for a dirty weekend on Whidbey Island" and the immigration officer smiled and let me in. I'm thinking that wouldn't happen these days.

GerryDavid wrote in post #15465749
have the customer pay you in your currency so all the fees are on their end?

I would love to do a destination wedding in another country, but isnt there a chance that customs will deny your entry into the other country, especially if its just for business?

I know living near the us border growing up in Canada it wasnt unusual for customs to deny you entry. I heard of one person that wanted to come into canada for lunch and they just said no.

Also grew up near the border and NEVER had any problems getting into Canada. Almost had a hell of a time getting back into the US one night tho.

Fernando wrote in post #15470010
Also grew up near the border and NEVER had any problems getting into Canada. Almost had a hell of a time getting back into the US one night tho.

going back 20 or so years ago, a few of us drove down to Windsor (Ontario) to visit some friends attending university there... at some point in the middle of the night we all decided that we should hop over the bridge and get something to eat... there were enough of us that we needed 2 cars, and somehow 1 person in each car had ended up with the other's wallet (they were brothers, and not really sober)
when we tried to cross, and were asked for ID, the border guards quickly noticed someone handed ID that didn't look like them... so pulled over and detained we all were... I was one of the drivers, so I was scared sh!tless! All kinds of car seizure talks, people smuggling charges, etc... We spent close to 6 hours being questioned, searched, etc... before we were released and sent back...
I always was worried from that point on that I would have issues crossing... I've crossed so many times since and never been pulled aside or really questioned, so I guess that didn't leave as much of a mark as I thought...

I was driving back from a night at the casino in Windsor (Ontario, Canada) and heading for the tunnel back to Detroit with a carload of drunk friends when my best buddy decided to start telling us how much he was going to tell the border patrol (back in 1997). We get to the check point where the agent is standing and I look at my buddy (who owns the car I am driving) and tell him to keep his mouth shut since these guys can stop us from reentering the United States, well, this sets him off like a stick of dynamite.

The guards instruct me to pull the car over to the side of the area, and while they are questioning each of us (thoroughly), the other agents are literally disassembling the our car, remove the doors, tires, fenders, hood, lights.... everything. After they have questioned us for a good hour they say we can go on our way, and that we should call a truck to come get the "parts".

Yep, 4 in the morning, calling AAA for a flatbed to come get a tons of car parts, all because some dingleberry had to get mouthy when he should have been silent.



As for the original question of method of payment, require the method that is most favorable to you (less hassle).

plumgoo wrote in post #15470394
The guards instruct me to pull the car over to the side of the area, and while they are questioning each of us (thoroughly), the other agents are literally disassembling the our car, remove the doors, tires, fenders, hood, lights.... everything. After they have questioned us for a good hour they say we can go on our way, and that we should call a truck to come get the "parts".

Yep, 4 in the morning, calling AAA for a flatbed to come get a tons of car parts, all because some dingleberry had to get mouthy when he should have been silent.

It was the late 80s for me. We were going through the usual questions on the way home from a night of drinking in Windsor. The officers asked the usual questions about, "Do you have any etc., etc., etc.," When he got to firearms I answer no but my drunk buddy in the back asks, "Doesn't your shotgun count as a firearm?"

Took the car apart and left it there in the parking spaces to the right of the booths.

Iy was daylight before we finally got back to Ann Arbor.

Definitely have them pay you in your currency. If you have an online payment source, like PayPal, that you trust that will probably be easiest then trying to deal with checks.

Fernando wrote in post #15470010
Also grew up near the border and NEVER had any problems getting into Canada. Almost had a hell of a time getting back into the US one night tho.

You're lucky. I also grew up near the border and twice after 9/11 had issues getting into Canada. We were even formally deported once because they thought we were going up there to work and we got stopped after already entering the country. In reality we were going up there to go camping and all we had with us was a tent, two sleeping bags, and a backpack with a change of clothes and toothpaste. They determined that since both of us had such high credit limits that we could just purchase everything we needed when we got up there. So, apparently Canada only likes you if you have bad credit and cubicle job now.