Congratulations on your engagement! This is sure to be one of the most exciting times of your life. Celebration parties, heart felt well wishes, fabulous gifts, and of course spending the rest of your life with the one you love who has told the world he loves you back. No time to waste, with so much to do, so many details to tend to, and so many decisions to make. However will you get it all done? Knowing what to do from the moment the ring is on your finger until the day you say "I do", can mean the difference between realizing your dream and experiencing unnecessary drama.
The cold hard fact is that planning a wedding can take its toll on you both financially and emotionally. Weddings can be overwhelming to plan and less than enjoyable to experience when everyone is looking to you for answers and direction. It is a costly mistake to underestimate the amount of time, money, effort and thought that goes into planning every single detail and being equipped to handle those unforeseen mishaps that will undoubtedly happen.
It is our belief that hiring a planner is not a luxury available only to the rich and famous, but an absolute necessity for any bride who wants to have a beautiful wedding, and enjoy her day rather than manage it. A very crucial first step in planning your wedding is to hire a wedding planner so that you can enjoy being a bride and savor the process of becoming a Mrs.
The average cost of a wedding is $28,000, and involves over 700 hours of planning time. With this type of investment of time and money, why would you trust the most intricate details of your wedding to Aunt Susie who thinks it would be "fun" to "try" her hand at planning it? Here are just a few reasons why hiring a wedding planner would be the best decision you will make during the whole planning process.
A Planner Knows Exactly Where To Start
Planning a wedding or any event is a process. The anxiety of not knowing what to do next can be stressful and costly. Because a planner has done many events, she knows exactly where to start and at what pace to proceed. She knows the exact questions to ask a vendor, what loopholes to look for in a contract, and how to direct all those involved in the wedding. She can negotiate prices and services so that you get more bang for your buck, and in some cases pay less buck for the bang! She knows how to communicate with vendors to ensure quality service. Communication is the name of the game in planning any type of event. It is imperative that everyone is on the same page. Asking questions is a must, and knowing the right kinds of questions to ask comes with experience and the skill of knowing how to get and give clarity to all who are involved in your big day.
A Planner Knows How To Cut Costs But Not Quality
She sees the big picture and can protect your day from being a disaster because she knows that if you stay in a hotel located clear across town, you could run the risk of delaying the start of your wedding by an hour and a half. This is an exaggerated example of course, but being on time is critical for many reasons: food quality, ability of vendors to deliver contracted services, elimination of over time charges, etc.
A Planner Serves As A Referee
She acts as a go between when it comes to handling those sticky situations between you and your family. She protects you on the big day from having to deal with problems that will inevitably pop up.
She Provides An Objective Shoulder To Cry On
No one else in this industry can boast this claim. Your wedding planner is with you longer than any other hired professional. She literally becomes your best friend and your mother rolled up into one. She listens to you vent about the ugly table linen your mother-in-law to be insists that you order for the reception. She smoothes things over when you and your fiancé have a spat about where to seat his favorite cousin who has a tendency to have uncontrollable outburst, she is the first one you call when you can't make up your mind to serve garden or Caesar salad at the reception…and through it all, she smiles, calms your spirit, and guarantees that everything will be alright…and of course at the end of the day…she is absolutely right!
She Is Seen As, and Respected In the Industry as The Go To Person, The One Who Will Pull All Of The Pieces Together
She will see to it that all those you hired to provide a service will do so to your specifications and bring your dream to fruition.
She is skilled in keeping things on track so that the celebration you have planned is not ruined because of a schedule that has been delayed or altered. She'll work it out and you'll never realize that she push back the time to cut the cake so your photographer could have 30 more minutes to get the must have photos of your family and friends.
The bottom line is that you can't afford not to hire a Wedding Planner because it's her job and her absolute pleasure to work on your behalf to pull all of the intricate details together to produce Affairs To Remember....
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