Why Are Wedding Planners So F*cking Expensive? (Part 2)
In short: because we are highly skilled at our jobs and both our labor and our expertise are valuable.
Hiring a wedding means planner means saving yourself 500+ hours or about 25% of your work hours in a year.
Plus, an experienced wedding planner can get it done twice as well in less than half the time.
5 Reasons You Should Skip the Affordable “Wedding Coordinator” Your Venue Offers
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.
Mary & Pam’s Chicago Elopement After 17 Years Together
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.
Hanna & Alex’s Super Feminist, Non-Traditional, Pizza Delivery, Puppy Playroom, Ice Cream Sundae Bar Wedding!
Meet Hanna and Alex. These two are a shining example of a couple really staying true to themselves throughout the wedding planning process! We dissected just about every tradition to figure out what felt right to keep and toss. (We tossed A LOT.) From the get-go, we knew we’d be planning a very egalitarian wedding […]
What Does a Wedding Planner Actually Do? And Do We Really Need One?
Wikipedia defines wedding planner as “a professional who assists with the design, planning and management of a client’s wedding.” If you believe Hollywood stereotypes, wedding planners mostly run around in really sexy business suits, dictating to the couple how things should and should not be done, ordering them to spend more money, berating their choices, […]
How To Plan a Wedding When Civilization is Doomed
7 ways to mitigate the frivolity of planning a big-ass party when neo-Nazis are marching, the planet is melting, and POTUS is leading the Confederate States of America with “alternative facts.” 1. Get Clear on Why You are Even Getting Married There is a fuck ton of pressure on all young-ish people who are in […]
