You’re engaged! Oh, you’ve waited your whole life to plan the wedding of your dreams and now is your chance. Since you were a girl, you dreamed of being a bride, the details did not worry you. All you knew was that you had a chance to be a princess and you couldn’t wait.
Reality has landed and just making a list of everything you need to do overwhelms you and raises your blood pressure. Before you even start, you contemplate eloping just to make things easier. Before you do anything drastic, consider hiring a wedding planner to take the pressure off you.
But doesn’t that make the event less personal for you? Absolutely not! You are very much an integral part of the planning; you just don’t have to do all the hard work.
Here are the finer points of what a wedding planner can do for you and your big day!
* Eliminate unnecessary stress – Just the thought of getting married, while exciting, is also stressful and anxiety-provoking. Complete these feelings with all the wanderings and decisions that need to be made and you’ll feel drained when the big day arrives.
Giving the kidneys to a wedding planner eliminates this added stress. She boils everything down and gives you just a few options so you don’t feel overwhelmed.
* Get deals and discounts on services: Wedding planners bring a lot of business to service providers if the planner is satisfied with the service. This can lead to discounts and special offers simply because they are dealing with a planner they know well. Therefore, the offers you can get can offset your salary.
* Free up your time for more important things: choose food, music, photographers, etc. It is a job that requires a lot of time. Driving a lot and deliberating prevents her from spending time with her fiancé and her family. Plus, it’s not like you can take off work or school for months just to plan your nuptials. Life goes on and it is to your benefit to allow someone else to take some of the load off of you.
* Take care of special circumstances – Do you want a destination wedding? Trying to plan something in another city, state, or even country can be really tricky. Some wedding planners specialize in destination weddings, so find one that reaps all the benefits. She has contacts with airlines, resorts, hotels, transportation and other matters that come up
Ask for recommendations and check references from your potential wedding planner. Always ask what their experience is and how long they have been working in your area. It is in your best interest to hire someone who is well rooted in your region because of the contacts the planner has been able to develop.
You don’t have to do it all by yourself. Hire a wedding planner to handle as much as you want. Be clear about your ideas and then go with the flow. It is very important that you let her do her job; otherwise you are wasting your money.
The wedding will still be yours and will express your personality as a couple because the wedding planner knows you and what you like. Then run with this information to organize and put together that dream wedding you’ve always wanted.