The Benefits of Hiring A Wedding Planner

When planning a wedding, there are a multitude of factors you must consider carefully. One of those factors is whether or not you should simply hire a wedding planner to look at all the other factors for you. This is probably the thing you will want to look at first. Given the sheer amount of pressure and stress that comes with planning a wedding and coordinating everything carefully, it is almost surprising that the wedding actually ends up happening when the dust clears.

It may be a good idea to invest the time to meet with potential wedding planners as many as two or three times, and note the dynamics between your two personalities. You should also call them a few times to see how easy it is to reach them, and how they react to you when you are calling without an appointment to do so. Manufacture a reason to call if necessary.

Before you actually select a wedding planner, who will ultimately make a number of important decisions for you, you will want to interview a number of different planners, so that you can be sure that you find a good personality match. Specifically, you will want to find one who has no problem controlling the third party vendors, but who is also reasonable enough to let you make your own decisions. Afterall, this is your wedding, not hers. No prima donnas need apply!

Rather than hiring a planner to make every decision for you, you will want to hire a planner to help facilitate your making choices instead. You will also want to clearly communicate that you want to reserve the right to change things, as long as doing so is within reason (i.e. as long as the planner has not already made arrangements, spent the money, etc.). In many cases, this means you will need the planner to create a master list for you of various options available for each function of the wedding.

You also want to make sure that your wedding planner is readily accessible to you. This does not just mean they have a cell phone, which can have answering services, but they should have a pager, as well; maybe even a couple of different ways for you to reach them, during normal business hours, at a moment's notice (this can be critical in the last few days before the wedding).

All of these issues should be agreed to in writing, before you sign any contracts with your wedding planner. As well, you want to be sure your wedding planner understands that you require that all agreements made on your behalf be legally binding. Documentation should allow clauses that include what legal recourse you would have if either the wedding planner, or any of the 3rd parties that they contract with on your behalf, do not perform to agreed specifications.