07/05/2024
10 reasons why you should hire a wedding planner/coordinator
1. You need someone to create and direct your timeline. In case you’re wondering, “What timeline?” I’m talking about every moving part that makes a successful wedding. Everything from vendor load-in and load-out, photography timeline, wedding party arrival timeline and what they need to bring, caterer timeline, rentals, linens, and so much more!
2. Professional planners can help with choosing vendors and signing contracts. Often times they have relationships with vendors that give special discounts to their clients. They also are familiar with what vendors would work with an individual bride’s style and budget.
3. Planners can be the go-between for you and your vendors. Instead of the bride or her family having to worry about the back and forth communication, a full-service planner can help facilitate those details.
4. They help make your event less stressful. You don’t have to stress—that’s the job of a planner. The great thing about professional planners is that they can take on your stress, but they do it with grace and poise. If you hire a good one, you and your family won’t know if something went wrong! Planners are in the business of fixing it and making it right.
5. You and your family get to be guests at your wedding and not work it! Enough said. You won’t be the one having to put out centerpieces, light candles, tell the cake person where to put the cake or the DJ where to set up. You won’t have to load up gifts at the end of the night, or make sure the flower girl makes it down the aisle. These details are what the planner is there to handle!
6. Planners can help guide you in decision-making. Because they have experienced dozens, if not hundreds of weddings, professional planners know what decisions need to be made, and they can help guide you to make the best ones.
7. They know where you can save and where you can splurge. This specific answer might vary based on each client, the bride and groom’s wedding vision and budget, and the time of year. Planners have all kinds of tricks up their sleeves, and they know where you should spend your wedding budget.
8. They know how to navigate family dynamics. Weddings can be stressful, especially when so many people have an opinion. Your grandmother might feel strongly about you doing a First Look, and your mom may feel like you really should have your cousin as your maid of honor instead of your best friend. A professional planner is experienced at dealing with family dynamics, and can be the one who helps you navigate this.
9. They help organize details AFTER the wedding and reception are over. Details such as who gets the gifts at the end of the night? What car do they go in? Who gets the top layer of the cake? Who gets the leftover food? Where do the rentals go? Who makes sure the Bride and Groom’s Suites are emptied of personal belongings? Who makes sure the bride and groom leave with their luggage and marriage license for the honeymoon? At the end of a very long day, it’s stressful on the Mother of the Bride or Mother of the Groom to handle all of this. Having a professional oversee this part of the evening is super important.
10. They are full of ideas and inspiration. Professional planners have access to resources, and they know what the latest trends are in weddings. Yes, we know that you as a bride have probably been “pinning” for months, but weddings are a planner’s full-time job. They can help you create the wedding of your dreams, and will provide ideas and inspiration along the way.
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