Vend with us

Thank you for being interested in vending at Good Day Market. Part of our mission of cultivating a stronger economy and community around well-made handcrafted goods is creating curated shopping experiences. We work hard to create thoughtful opportunities to showcase the brands we love and give shoppers meaningful ways to engage with their goods.

Please read all sections thoroughly and completely before applying. We want our event to be creative, fun and successful for you and for us – so take the time now to make sure you understand the details of how we work together.

Details

The event will be held on Saturday, December 11 from 11-6 & Sunday, December 12 from 10-4, 2021.
Location is Garver Feed Mill on the near east side of Madison, WI.
Booth sizes are 8’ w x 6’ d. Vendors can apply for a double booth if you need a larger size.

covid policies & what it means for you

We will be ticketing the event for attendees this year in order to better control traffic. We will share specifics closer to the event so you can promote to your network.
Unvaccinated people are highly encouraged to wear masks, but we are not planning to enforce mask wearing for our vendors or attendees. It is your personal preference to wear a mask or set up a protective barrier for your booth. You assume full risk with your participation.
We will provide hand sanitizer throughout the event and you are welcome to provide additional sanitizer at your booth.
We will do our best to make more space between booths and walkways but understand there will be crowds of people at this event. Our updated ticketing policy should allow us to have better control of crowd size at any given time.
We are dedicated to making this event comfortable for our participating makers as well as our attendees and will always do our best to follow CDC health and safety guidelines.

Requirements

In order to qualify for Good Day Market, you must:

Be running a handmade business where your hands are involved in the design and/or production of your goods. We are not accepting applications for boutiques or representatives of other makers at this time.
Have an ecommerce site or website
Have high quality images
Participate in both days, for the entirety of the event. Should you sell out, we suggest keeping one of each item at your booth to serve as samples and hold pre-orders.

Selection process

This is a highly curated show with limited space in each genre so applications are very competitive. Please put your best application forward.

We are accepting between 60-75 vendors. Vendors are curated based on professional presence, strong brand and ingenuity. We’re careful about selecting a vendor group that offers a diversity of aesthetics, perspectives and wares. We work hard to keep our event distinct and differentiated, so we will also take into consideration the number of other markets you show at in our area.

Brands will not be considered or pre-screened via email, phone or stopping at Good Day Shop.

TIMELINE

All applicants are considered together and will be notified whether accepted, not accepted or waitlisted by August 31. Please hang tight and wait for us to contact you. Should we have a cancellation, we will notify members on our waitlist.

July 19: public application opens

August 8: application closes (at 11:59pm)

August 31: all applicants will be notified of their participation status

September 1 + beyond: applications are accepted by invite only

Payment

The cost of a single booth is $215 which includes a $20 non-refundable application fee.

Should you not be accepted to participate, you will be reimbursed the booth fee MINUS the application fee ($195 total) within 7 days of being notified of your status.

Cancellations, Refunds + COVID

With this event, we’re sharing the risk together. We’re all living in a time where there is still uncertainty about how the pandemic will affect our lives. We feel optimistic Good Day Market will be able to run in some capacity this December, however, as we’ve all learned, nothing can be for certain and there are many things beyond our control.

Our work for this event starts months before the application is released and hard expenses are incurred leading up to the days of the event. For this reason, your vendor fee will not be refunded if the event should not run or you cancel your participation for any reason.

Please be ready to assume this risk with us. If you don’t feel comfortable, we encourage you to hold off applying this year.