Should
You Hiring a Wedding Consultant?
Deciding
to hire a wedding consultant can be good or bad depending
on what you want. For the bride-to-be
who is just too busy, forgetful, or bored with small details
in every little thing, this might be a really good option for
you. Also if you are planning something fairly large you might
not want to have the added stress of dealing with 7 bridesmaids
and groomsmen, out of town guests on top of where to get all
the things you need and how to get done in the right time frame.
A wedding consultant can do great things for you. They can
take over all those details and people things you don’t want
to be bothered with and all under your personal direction.
Here are the pros to having a wedding coordinator.
- If
you are too busy, they will do most of the work for you.
You will be the one that tells them what color, what style,
who need what and where, you are the director. Your consultant
will be there to make your wish their command as much as
possible. They are going to do all the shopping, organizing
and fine
details with the budget and information you gave them.
- They
speak up to vendors when you might not feel comfortable doing
that. These consultants know their vendors well and have
a good reputation with them. No vender in his or her right
mind is going to try to mess with a consultant, imagine how
many potential clients the vendor would lose. Because of this
consultant/vendor relationship you can get some great deals
and possible some free stuff too.
- They
can answer any questions you have about anything to do with
weddings, it is their specialty. They can tell you
where to get the best dresses, food, invitations, cake, bridesmaids
and groomsmen gifts, flowers, place setting and a whole lot
more. They know all best places to have a wedding and wedding
reception and how much they all cost at specific times per
year and where to get the best discounts. They can tell you
what is most important to have and what is not absolutely necessary
if you are on a strict budget.
- They
walk you step by step through the whole wedding process from
the planning to the honeymoon. This person is going to
do all the tedious work such as mail all the invites, make
all clothing appointments, orders the flowers, cake, and food,
reserve the venue and reception location, make your honeymoons
reservations at your request, and any other arrangement you
want them to.
So there are many great benefits for hiring someone else to
do this for you. There are also many reasons to not bother.
You may like details and want to do all of this type of stuff
yourself. You want to have your hands in the dirt and deal
with all of it. You may be having a very small wedding and
using a free space and don’t need someone coordinating places
for you. You may not like a traditional wedding style or anything
near it so your needs won’t be easy to please and so doing
it yourself is simply better. Here are some cons to having
a wedding coordinator.
- You
might not have a say in everything they do and not want to
be left out of the finer details. Maybe you want to look
at every flower, send your own invites, or just be the most
active person doing the legwork. Maybe you are picky and want
to know exactly who, what, when, and where and not knowing
will make you more nervous and stressed out. It would be a
waist of money to pay another person 10-15% of you wedding
expenditure if they didn’t do anything.
- They
may make judgments about things that you might not agree
with about how and what you want done. Maybe you want
to make all your invites, have your best friend’s mom make
your wedding cake, or have everyone in casual dress at the
ceremony. This might not be something that a wedding coordinator
would like to hear because they make their money based on what
you spend. So if you are having a pretty much do-it-yourself
free or low cost wedding, it will not be worth it for either
of you. Having someone tell you that you need 150 dozen flowers
or an 8-tiered cake is going to stress you out and waste your
time.
- They
can be very expensive the more you have them do or spend.
If you are having an expensive wedding, you will be
paying an additional 10-15% of your total expense as the coordinator’s
fee. In some cases that could be your second honeymoon if your
wedding not cheap. If you have a $7000 dress that your coordinator
located for you, you will be paying him or her $700 alone just
for the dress. That doesn’t include venue, food, invites, and
other item. You could be talking about thousands of possible
dollars in some cases.
So think long and hard about what best suits you and what
you are budgeted for. You find that what worked for your co-worker
just doesn’t work for you.
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