Its official, you are ENGAGED! Now all you have to do is PLAN the wedding. If you are on the fence about hiring a professional wedding planner, please read the rest of this article before you make your final decision!
10 reasons you absolutely, positively need a
professional wedding planner:
1) PROFESSIONAL CONTACTS: A professional wedding planner has contacts within the industry with vendors and venues and anything you may need so it will save you time and money when hiring all of the wedding professionals needed to pull off an AMAZING wedding. Not to mention, they will know which vendors can and can’t be trusted, and which ones are the best fit for you, your budget, and your vision of your wedding day.
2) TIMELINE OF EVENTS: A professional wedding planner will make a DETAILED timeline for you and all of your vendors so on the day-of everyone is on the same schedule. The DJ will know exactly what song he is playing right after the garter toss, the florist will know when and where she will be able to set the centerpieces, the photographer will know at exactly what moment he needs to be in the center of the dance floor to catch the grand entrance and the first dance. This keeps everyone organized and makes everything run as smoothly as possible.
3) EXPERIENCE: Most likely you have never planned a wedding from start to finish…A professional wedding planner has done this many, many times and knows how to handle things if they go wrong. The whole point of a wedding planner is to intercept any issues or problems and fix them accordingly so the bride doesn’t even know there was ever any issues at all.
4) PROBLEM SOLVING PRO: The fact of the matter is, no wedding is ever completed without having some sort of problem along the way. Maybe the cake came and is the wrong color, the zipper on the back of your dress breaks, the florist forgets the Maid of Honors bouquet! This is where a wedding planner shows what they are made of and finds a solution to whatever the problem may be. They are your own personal super hero on the day-of your wedding.
5) BUDGET, BUDGET, BUDGET: This is always the hard part, setting a budget and sticking to it. A wedding planner is here to help with this and also be creative with new and unique ideas that will keep you within your budget, but also give you the wedding of your dreams.
6) KNOWLEDGABLE: Just because a venue states that they will provide you with a wedding planner, doesn’t really mean you will have your own personal wedding planner, so do NOT be fooled by this! Most venues offer a “Wedding Coordinator” in their packages, but BEWARE of this and make sure to ask what exactly that “Wedding Coordinator” will be helping you with and what they will be in charge of. Usually, these “Wedding Coordinators” are really just catering managers and are there to make sure the whole Food and Beverage situation is taken care of. Don’t get me wrong, they are very helpful and very good at what they are there to do, but they are NOT there to help you with all of the details needed, such as setting out your favors and your guest book, making sure all of your other vendors show up on time with the right products that you paid them for, and many many other things. THIS is why you need a professional wedding planner!
7) MULTI-TASKING: A wedding planner is born to multi-task and is a master at it. On the day-of they are the main point of contact for EVERY SINGLE vendor and are being asked a million questions from EVERY SINGLE vendor.
They know how to handle this and since they have been with you every step of the way they can answer these questions knowing what you would specifically want and need. This way you are not being bothered or stressed out, you don’t even have to think about all of this multi-tasking going on, because it is taken care of by your own personal assistant, your wedding planner!
DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS: The main thing that makes a wedding unique and all about you and your fiance are the DETAILS. Some may be BIG details and some my be small details, but they all matter in the wedding industry. A wedding planner can help you come up with amazing details that will be unique to your day, and also be there to make sure all of the details are executed correctly and as you envisioned, so when you walk into that room, you will say to yourself…”WOW, it is even better than I ever imagined!”
9) CONFIRMATIONS: A professional wedding planner will contact all of your vendors before the actual day of for final confirmations and to make sure they will be delivering what was promised in your contracts with them. This saves you the time and the stress of doing anything extra a few days before your wedding day.
10) MOST IMPORTANTLY…..
A professional wedding planner will be there taking all of the STRESS off of you and your family, and you will be able to actually ENJOY YOUR WEDDING DAY! Throughout the wedding planning process, brides forget that this is supposed to be all about YOU and your FIANCE, and lose sight of what it represents due to all of the stress that comes with planning a wedding. A wedding planner helps alleviate that stress and leaves you both with time to actually take in what is really happening while enjoying every second of it with each other and all of the most important people in your life.
I hope this helps in your decision on hiring a professional wedding planner, I PROMISE you will not regret it when it is over!
THANK YOU FOR READING AND HAPPY PLANNING!
