I can't tell you how many times I've spoken with wedding vendors at networking events! One topic comes up a lot in our conversations. A vendor will say, almost as if apologizing to me because I happen to be a Wedding Planner, "I try to tell my brides to hire a Wedding Planner!" They go on to say, that their jobs are so much easier on the day of the wedding if there is a professional Wedding Planner. Here are some reasons why this is the case. Some venues are insisting that brides hire a professional Wedding Planner and some have mentioned offering a discount if their brides uses a professional Wedding Planner. That doesn't mean a sister, friend, cousin or mother. It's someone who is actively in the business of planning weddings.
♥There's is a place prepared for them. A Wedding Planner more than likely has visited the venue with them if that is what they wish. They have also been given a diagram of the complete set up for the event.
♥Just as for a bride and groom, a Wedding Planner is their liaison to the other vendors and the venue as well as the bride and groom and guests.
♥If vendors have a concern or question, they don't have to bother the bride, groom or family member. They only need to contact the Wedding Planner.
♥They don't have to leave their stations or whatever task they are performing. A Wedding Planner will be checking on the bride and groom as well as with the vendors throughout the event to make sure that they have what they need.
♥They aren't asked a lot of questions by other vendors and guests about what everyone else is doing or what is going on. A Wedding Planner has given them advanced notice of the whole "game plan" including a timeline broken down to 5-15 minute intervals.
♥They don't end up helping with the setup of the wedding rather than what they were hired to do.
Contributed by Puget Sound Wedding Professional Janis of Greatest of Days Wedding & Event Planning.
