I am from the UK too so we couldn't write a cheque either. I paid Rev Miller in advance, I mailed some travellers cheques to him. I paid Beaute Speciale about a week in advance via cc. I paid Randy half his fee by cc when I booked him and actually didn't pay the balance until the day we met him (about two weeks after the VR) at the GF to collect our album and discs! And even then, I had to remind him that we still owed him money, he thought we'd already paid the balance lol!