MERCHANDISE VENDOR
Application Form Rules AND Regulations
Saturday December 2nd, 2023 - $75.00
PAYMENTS** – Payments due in full 7 business days before the event. Returned checks are a $35 fee.
Mail to: Tiffany Padilla, Gonzales Main Street, P. O. Box 547, Gonzales, Texas 78629
Phone: (830) 672-2815 OR E-mail: tpadilla@gonzales.texas.gov
If you require electrical services for your booth, a request must be made in advance in writing to the GMS office. A request does not guarantee additional electrical services. Each request will be considered individually.
- Gonzales Main Street has the right to refuse any vendor and/or the right to refuse any particular item the vendor desires to sell if the item is not deemed appropriate for the event.
- Vendors will be provided a 12’ x 12’ area. Vendors must contain their display within the dimensions of the space rented. (One tent per space). Vendors are responsible for their own canopies, tables, chairs, lights, etc. If you or your items do not fit in the designated area we provide, you will be required to rent an additional space.
- Vendors will be permitted to enter the festival closure area and set up on Saturday, December 2nd at 7:00am. All vehicles MUST BE removed from the area THIRTY MINUTES PRIOR to the event's start time. Vendors will not be allowed to return until THIRTY MINUTES AFTER the event ends. ABSOLUTELY NO EXCEPTIONS. This is for the safety of our crews, vendors, and participants.
- Parking will not be available on or around Independence Square. You may park in Texas Hero Square, the church Parking Lot on St. Paul Street, or behind the Courthouse.DO NOT PARK in the 400 block of Saint Lawrence Street. The Fire Department needs to have easy access to exit in case of a fire. Do not park on the streets of the parade route. All vehicles parked on the parade route will be asked to move by 6:00pm.
- No staking of tents or canopies will be permitted, either in the asphalt or in landscaped areas.
- If electricity is requested and available, vendors must provide their own heavy-duty outdoor extension cords. Only 120V (15 amp) outlets will be available. If you use more power than requested, your circuits will not be functional.
- Vendor application will not be processed until payment is received in full. Returned checks are subject to a $35 NSF Fee.
- Vendors are responsible for collecting/paying Texas State Sales Tax as applicable to their product(s).
- Submission of application does not guarantee acceptance due to limited space.
- THERE WILL BE NO RAIN DATES and refunds are not given.
- The selection of booth space on the maps DOES NOT GUARANTEE that specific space. We will make every effort possible to keep vendors in their selected spaces. But it may be necessary to reaccumulate vendors based on weather, electricity options, etc. Confirmed booth locations will be provided at vendor check-in at 7:00am on December 2, 2023. Check in location details will be provided in your confirmation letter prior to the event.
- Gonzales Main Street retains the right to prevent future participation of any vendor for conduct deemed, in GMS sole discretion, unacceptable and/or detrimental to the mission and reputation of GMS and the event. The vendor releases the Gonzales Main Street and the City of Gonzales from any liability due to breakage, theft, injury, or bodily harm while at Gonzales Main Street sponsored event. The vendor also agrees to the rules and regulations of Gonzales Main Street. If any of these rules and regulations are violated, the vendor and all equipment will be escorted from the property immediately, not permitted to sell or set up, and NO refunds will be given.
- If any of these rules and regulations are violated, the vendor and all equipment will be escorted from the property immediately, not permitted to sell or set up, and NO refunds will be given.
I have read and understood all the above rules and regulations set forth by Gonzales Main Street and agree to comply. If I do not comply, I understand that I will be escorted from the event, not permitted to sell, or set up and no refund will be given.
