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Frequently Asked Questions
Why hire a professional wedding planner?
Here are a few questions to help you determine why you should
consider hiring a professional wedding planner:
- Do you have unlimited time to work on the wedding of your dreams?
- Do you know the resources available to you to help you with your plans?
- Do you have personal knowledge of the reputations of the service
providers you are contracting?
- Are you comfortable with negotiating services and prices?
- Do you know what to look for in a contract between yourself
and a service provider?
- Do you know how to plan a wedding budget?
- Can you make quick decisions when in stressful situations?
Ask anyone who has been involved in planning a wedding
and they'll quickly tell you that the process can be like a full
time job. So much to do, so much to learn, so little time in which
to get it all done and as a result, so much room for oversights
to occur and for things to go wrong. Few brides-to-be are
experienced in orchestrating an event as large and significant
as their wedding. The reality is that few couples have the
level of time in their schedules required to successfully
plan, manage, and execute such an event effectively.
Unfortunately, however, many couples don't realize or
acknowledge this until it is too late - when parts of
their wedding dream have already disintegrated into disappointment.
The role of the professional wedding planner is to make
your planning process and wedding day go smoothly and to offer the
expertise which will result in a wedding day that will be spectacular
and unforgettable. Wedding consultants have vast knowledge of the
products, services, and vendors available in your area and can
recommend those which are a perfect match for your vision and
style, saving you endless research time and opening up a world
of possibilities. Often they can suggest unique or hard to find
services or products which are perfect for your
wedding but which you would have been very unlikely to find
on your own.
How much will a professional wedding consultant charge?
Wedding coordinators can charge 3 different ways and you will
have to ask yours how they work out their prices:
- by a percentage of the total cost of your wedding
- by the hour or
- a flat ”package” fee
At the WOW! Factor Weddings and Social Events, we provide
custom weddings with a fee structure that offers the most economical
option for the client. We never accept referral
fees or commissions from wedding vendors and, if any are offered,
they are passed on to the client as a discount. In most cases a
professional wedding consultant will save you money because of
their connections within the industry.
If my wedding and reception sites have coordinators on
staff do I really need another coordinator?
There are many wedding and reception site staff members who have
the title of wedding coordinator at their venue. Their role,
however, is to coordinate only the limited food and beverage
function of the specific venue you have selected for your wedding.
Unlike a site coordinator, your independent professional bridal
consultant is contracted to help you with each and every detail
from gowns, etiquette, ordering invitations, budgeting, and matching
the formality of the attire to the time of day the wedding will
take place, to calling your vendors to make sure they are at the
right place at the right time along with making sure the vendors
you have hired are right on track. Your consultant will coordinate
all aspects of your wedding day from the rehearsal to the timeline
to the vendors.
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