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Top 8 Reasons to Hire a Wedding Planner

Organising a wedding can be thrilling and intimidating all at once. It can be an enormous task to select the ideal location, arrange with suppliers, and make sure every last aspect fits your concept. A skilled wedding planner can help with that.
Here are ten reasons why one of the best choices you can make for your special day may be to work with a professional wedding planner:

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Hire Vendors You Can Trust

Think about it this way: It probably took you years to find your perfect match in your future spouse, and now you need to find your perfect match in your wedding vendors, and quickly! A professional wedding planner is similar to a matchmaker, except that her job is to help couples identify wedding vendors who fit their vision, personalities, and budgets rather than finding them their ideal match.

Most likely, you’ve never planned a wedding before. Planners are professionals with years of experience in the field who understand procedures, manners, and all the requirements to execute a large-scale event.

They are an enormous and easily available educational resource. Planners have been in the business long enough to know who the key players are, which vendors are reliable, and which companies follow the finest business procedures, in addition to their abundance of expertise. When you have to put so much trust in people you’ve never heard of before, a recommendation from someone with experience in the field is invaluable.

Offers Great Space to Express All Your Wedding Energy, Thoughts & Ideas

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The majority of brides experience extreme pressure to dazzle guests with their unique flair, inventiveness, and uniqueness. They also experienced pressure (mainly self-imposed) to hide their views about getting married so that their acquaintances wouldn’t perceive them as a [I wouldn’t say I like this term] Bridezilla.

In other words, they are under constant pressure to impress everyone while not burdening anyone. What a surefire way to trigger a meltdown!

I work with a lot of brides who experience similar pressures, especially when it comes to feeling insecure about how much of the wedding they should tell their loved ones. Being able to provide my brides with an enthusiastic and judgement-free release is one of the biggest pleasures of my work. Planners for weddings are a great source of inspiration. They pay attention to your ideas and dreams for your wedding and use their imagination to make those dreams a reality. Brides need a trustworthy place to chat about their nuptials because organising a wedding can be both thrilling and draining. A professional wedding planner is just that.

Wedding Planner: Another Friends and Family (Might be a long!)

The friends and relatives of a couple are invaluable and have a huge influence on both the wedding planning and the actual day. But in all honesty, I think a couple will save a ton of time, effort, money, and worry if they let their friends and/or family join them on their wedding day and allow a professional planner handle the wedding planning duties. Even the most well-meaning buddy assisting out on your wedding day may find themselves catching up with you or enjoying a few beverages instead of attending to their official duties. It’s usually better to keep the distinction between a friend and a coworker clear.
The process of organising a wedding is frequently demanding and time-sensitive. Friends and family might not have the time or energy to dedicate to your wedding because they have their own careers and personal obligations to attend to. Because weddings are inherently intimate, disagreements over expectations around time management can easily occur amongst friends and family. Since it’s her job, a wedding planner can dedicate a lot of hours to your event.

Even when a friend or relative is highly imaginative and/or trustworthy, it doesn’t guarantee they possess the abilities and know-how that come with event management expertise. While your friend may only have her own wedding experience (or the weddings she has attended as a guest) to draw from, a professional wedding planner brings with her expertise on everything from table settings to ceremony music to timetables.

To Keep the Budget Staying on the Track

I have never in my life gone scuba diving. However, what if I wanted to learn how to scuba dive? When I went to a diving store, I was asked right away how much money I had to spend on scuba gear. Since I’m not sure what equipment I would need or how much it would cost, I wouldn’t know where to begin.
Budgets for weddings are precisely that. Why would most couples expect themselves to know how to budget for a wedding when they have never planned a celebration similar to a wedding? A professional wedding planner can assist you in determining the appropriate budget for each vendor and all the details once you’ve established your budget or a comfortable range.

Maybe You Don’t Have a Time to Plan

Wedding preparation is an uphill task. According to some experts, a couple should budget between 15 and 20 hours a week to plan their wedding during their engagement. That equates to doing a part-time job! A couple’s time and energy for that after work, hobbies, and social lives may be limited. If you want them to, a professional wedding planner may relieve you of most of the planning burden.
On a similar note, there is typically a lot of wedding preparation that has to take place during working hours (Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm), as many providers and venues keep regular business hours. Again, many working couples can’t take the time off of work required to get some of that preparation done. To ensure that your wedding is everything you had imagined, a professional wedding planner can take care of the day-to-day tasks.

Help Focusing On Venue

These days, a “wedding planner” is often on staff at many wedding locations, and she serves as the couple’s primary point of contact. While these location coordinators are valuable (and I honestly mean that), they make my job simpler, for sure), don’t expect them to take care of all your wedding demands. In the end, they work to represent the venue’s interests, not the couple’s.

The role of the venue organiser is to:

• Verify that the venue personnel is carrying out their assigned duties;

• Verify that the venue is not damaged

• Verify that the venue is promptly set up (tables, chairs, linens, tableware, etc.).

• Verify that the kitchen is operating on time.

Help to Navigate Your Family Dynamics

A wedding is the perfect occasion to bring out the richness of family dynamics. Couples frequently have to manage the expectations of both their families and themselves on a single day. It should come as no surprise that family disputes often surface when wedding preparations are underway. In difficult family circumstances, a professional wedding planner can be a very helpful, unbiased resource.
Therefore, a professional wedding planner can help you navigate tricky family territory whether the couple’s parents insist on being informed and involved in the decision-making process, a family divorce has left bad blood between ex-spouses who need to be kept apart at the event, or a cousin on the guest list has a reputation for acting erratically at social gatherings. She will be there to calm down difficult circumstances on the wedding day without involving the couple, as well as to respond to your mother’s queries about manners and ensure that guests who don’t get along are placed apart.

You Should be Present 200% On Your Wedding Day

Your wedding day only comes around once and cannot be duplicated. Why not make an investment in someone who can relieve you of all your responsibilities save from binge drinking all day long? You’ve presumably invested a significant amount of time, energy and resources in your wedding, so you should get to enjoy it.
There is a noticeable difference in the stress levels of brides with and without professional planners. The most crucial thing is that you are able to unwind and enjoy yourself on your wedding day. The bride is you. You don’t want to become the go-to guy for all of the inevitable problems and inquiries. By hiring a planner, you and your loved ones may spend more time enjoying the present on your wedding day.
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