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The Secret to Planning a Wedding Without Stressing Out
Hire a wedding planner. No, seriously, I know you think I’m just trying to get you to hire me – which you absolutely can –
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Hire a wedding planner. No, seriously, I know you think I’m just trying to get you to hire me – which you absolutely can –
A challenge that virtually every couple faces as they start planning a wedding is answering the question that almost every potential vendor asks: “What is your budget?”
It’s frustrating for engaged couples, who have never planned a wedding before and therefore don’t have any idea how much things should cost. It’s frustrating for wedding pros who get inquiries with numbers that are far too low for our products and services.
So I thought I’d give it to you straight.
5 Steps to Hiring a Wedding Planner | Learn how to evaluate and choose your wedding planner plus what happens after you decide who to hire.
Q. How Can I Find an Affordable Wedding Planner? A. Since “affordable” means something different to everyone, you will first need to decide what you can budget for wedding planning.
I’m sure I’m not the only one feeling reflective as the decade comes to a close. It’s been 10 years of learning, art, failure, success, and love. Here are some of the highlights and favorite weddings.
Update: I wrote a part two that talks more about the cost of full-service planning and design. Read it here. You should also know that
Lately, I’ve seen a trend of venues and other vendors who are not wedding planners offering “day-of-coordination” as an inexpensive add-on to their packages or even including it at no charge. This seems like a big bonus to engaged couples, but is it really all it’s cracked up to be?
Here are five reasons why you should think twice before working with a coordinator from any wedding vendor other than a wedding planner.
Weddings Are No Exception to the Gendered Division of Emotional and Meta Labor
It should come as no surprise that emotional labor is part of every wedding. Weddings are centered around living up to social expectations, managing people’s feelings, and making people comfortable. I’m sure you’ve already reached the not-at-all-shocking conclusion that women are doing the majority of the emotional labor for weddings, just as in everyday work and home life.
One afternoon last summer, I was scrolling emails on my phone when a new inquiry popped up. “I think you might understand our unique situation,” it said, “Can you help us come up with a cool wedding that we will love to remember? And save my sanity???”
You see, after 17 years together, with marriage equality becoming law nationwide, Mary and Pam could finally be legally married. And like many LGBTQ+ couples, they’d believed they would never be able to get married, so they hadn’t spent any time dreaming up the perfect wedding in their heads.
Have y’all seen this video yet? I watched the first thirty seconds and my blood pressure climbed, but I committed to hearing her out
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