Dreamy Outdoor Seattle Weddings with a Backup Plan
Planning an outdoor wedding in Seattle? Discover the best venues that deliver PNW vibes — and smart backup plans for uncooperative weather.
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!
COVID & Weddings & Contracts & Rescheduling
I wrote a long comment in response to a bride who was struggling to understand why her venue was only offering weekdays, Fridays, and Sundays for postponing her upcoming wedding due to COVID. And then it was literally too long for Facebook’s comment rules, so I thought I’d share it here to help anyone who is wondering the same thing. Here’s what I said to her:
Q. Coronavirus forced us to postpone or cancel our wedding. Why are our vendors charging us fees and refusing to give refunds?
Q. Coronavirus forced us to postpone or cancel our wedding. Why are our vendors charging us fees and refusing to give refunds?
A. Oof, y’all. I know. The universe is completely fucking unfair right now. Not only are you stuck at home, all day every day with your partner, trying to work in an uncomfortable chair at your dining room table, but now you have to reschedule the wedding you’ve been planning for a year.
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 – but the reason you’re stressed the fuck out? Is probably because you’ve never planned a wedding before, you don’t know how, and you’re spending all your free time digging through […]
How Much Does a Wedding Really Cost?
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
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?
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.
