Do I Need a Wedding Planner?

Wedding planners take on many different forms like books, internet articles, websites, and people. Of course, you’re planning your wedding on a budget and hiring a person to plan your wedding is not the most affordable option, but it could be the most practical. Learn why you might need a wedding planner to help you plan your wedding.

What Does a Wedding Planner Do?

Our job entails several different aspects, but mainly we do everything in our power to make sure our clients are 100% happy with everything. To sum up, we bring your dream wedding to reality! Bella Rose wedding professionals will help you with every detail of your wedding from scheduling meetings for you to searching for the most unique vendor to cramming everything you want into your budget to being there for you throughout your entire wedding day. We are your managers, your assistants, your designers, your advisers, and most of all, your piece of mind. Wedding planners guarantee that everything will be in place for your wedding day so that you and your groom can enjoy your special day without worrying about any of the details.

How Does a Wedding Planner Manage Everything?

Bella Rose wedding planners are pretty much your own personal assistants. We have done things like pick-up wedding gowns from the dry cleaners, escorted uninvited guests out of wedding receptions, suggested songs for cake cuttings and bouquet tosses, helped the best man with his wedding speech, and the list goes on and on. We manage all your paperwork including the wedding itinerary, venue layouts, all the vendor contracts, placecards, and even wedding programs! We help give you advice to create and stick to your budget by saving you money on vendors, venues, and details of your wedding that you might be able to DIY or cut back on. Best of all, we have electronic and hard copies of everything we’ve done for you. We save all e-mail conversations between vendors and you and take notes during every phone conversation, we have a separate file for every client to ensure that all your information in confidential, accurate, and organized.

Can I Have the Venue’s Catering Manager Plan my Wedding?

When venues (particularly hotels and larger venues) have a catering and events manager that you’re talking to from the beginning and create a relationship with, you may feel compelled to rely on then rather than hire another person. The reason this is not recommended is that although they are wonderful at their job and know the facility inside and out like the back of their hand, their job is to have the venue’s best interest in mind. When you hire a wedding planner, we have YOUR best interest in mind because you hired us and we work for you. We have different contacts than the venue to offer you a variety of things that can meet your needs rather than just meeting the venue’s needs. Your wedding planner still keeps in close contact with the catering and events manager, but works with them to sort things out. Since we have different responsibilities than the venue employees, we work very well beside them to iron out every detail.

I Want my Wedding my Way, Will the Wedding Planner Take Over?

Although wedding planners keep tabs on the latest trends, love trying new things and ideas, and have the ability to creatively mold any event, we understand that it’s not our wedding. Additionally, we’re happy that’s it’s YOUR wedding. Bella Rose wedding planners can do as much or as little as you want. Sometimes we are hired just to help with specific traditions or aspects of the wedding, while other times we do complete A to Z planning. We can advise on costs, negotiate certain contracts, and find you the best deal for what you want, but we don’t push you to have anything you don’t want or take away things that are important to you. We can advise you as far as you’d like, but will never push you into something you don’t want.

How Do I Know if I’m Choosing the Right Wedding Planner?

Get recommendations! Ask for testimonials, search Wedding Wire, Google, or anything for the company’s name and see what’s out there! You can feel free to ask us for previous clients’ names, pictures, and contact information. If we have permission from past clients, we will let you know that you can contact them and personally ask them anything you’d like.

What Do I Ask My Wedding Planner?

You have to meet your wedding planner before deciding to hire them. It is very important that you click with their personality because you will be working with them every step of the way and talking to them more than any other vendor. When you meet with them, take your time to get to know them and ask as many questions as you can think of. Here are some examples to get you started:

• What are the different services you offer?
• Do you have experience in my culture or religion’s weddings?
• How and when do we have to pay you?
• What was your favorite wedding to plan?
• How long have you been doing this for?
• How long will you be there for on my wedding day?
• What’s your favorite aspect of wedding planning?
• Are you a certified wedding planner?

Contact us today for your free consultation and personalized quote.