How Much Does a Seattle Wedding Cost in 2025?
How about we get real here? As a wedding planner, I request and review proposals constantly – which means I know how much experienced wedding pros are charging for their services. Using these real numbers, here’s how much a Seattle wedding costs.
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 Pro Tips for Attending a Wedding Expo
So, you just got engaged. You started trying to figure out how the fuck to plan a wedding and somewhere on the internet, you encountered your local wedding expo. Sounds great, right? A whole bunch of vendors all in one spot, free food & drinks, maybe even a fashion show or some prizes to help bring down the cost of your wedding! You could plan your whole wedding in a single day, it seems.
Hold up. Before you hit the convention center, here are five tips from a wedding planner to help you get the most out of a wedding expo!
2021 Year in Review
This year was another wild ride in the world of COVID weddings! I’m so grateful for all of our fabulous clients, who took the many changed plans of the pandemic in stride, and for the amazing wedding pros who exemplified teamwork and flexibility through all the ups and downs.
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.
Wedding Planning Memberships Are Finally Here!
I couldn’t be more thrilled to announce that after almost three years of design and development, the Alt+Ctrl+Wed™ planning membership is open for enrollment! WTF is a wedding planning membership? I’m so glad you asked because I wanna tell you all about it! The Alt+Ctrl+Wed™ planning membership is: A complete online wedding program with step-by-step […]
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, […]
6 Things To Do Before You Book A Wedding Venue
Did you know that 33% of all engagements happen between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day? Are you one of those newly-engaged couples, trying to figure out how to start this whole planning a wedding thing? Then you are in the right place! First: Pick a Wedding Venue? The first thing most couples do is look […]
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 […]
Two Rules for Planning Your Wedding the Right Way
Confused by all the wedding rules there seem to be? The shoulds, shouldn’ts, must-haves, and must-dos required for a ‘real’ wedding? Eff that noise. Let me tell you the only two rules you absolutely have to follow in order to plan your wedding the right way: 1. Pick the right person. This is the most […]
