Having a wedding planner for your wedding can reduce the
stress levels a lot. This is especially true when it comes to destination
weddings. The wedding planner will help you choose the best vendors for you,
the venue which will be perfect for you, and help you avoid all those
"rookie" mistakes all brides do.
Your wedding planner is a person who knows everything
about weddings and will help you and guide you to plan the best wedding you
could possibly have. No matter how anxious you might get about your wedding,
your wedding planner is there to help you and to reassure you that everything
is going to be just like you dreamed about. After all, you are human, and it’s natural
for you to worry about one of the most important days of your life.
Even thought wedding planners are quite tolerant people,
and most of us don't really mind being bombarded with questions about every
little detail of your wedding, still, there are some things that are better to
avoid doing to a wedding planner:
1. Hiding
information!
Your wedding planner should know everything about your
wedding, as this is the main guarantee that you will have a successful wedding.
Don't try to arrange different things with your venue or vendors, than what has
been already arranged with you planner, as this is a recipe for disaster.
Inform your planner about any changes you wish to make or made with your
vendors, to avoid misunderstandings on the wedding day.
2. Disregarding
your wedding planners expertise!
You want to have your wedding reception outdoors, but
your wedding planner is trying in any way possible to convince you to have your
reception indoors? Trust your planner's opinion, as he or she probably knows
that you will regret your decision for the outdoor dinner, when the time comes.
What your wedding planner suggests may not be your dream option, but he or she
probably does it to avoid a complete disaster on the wedding day!
3.Not informing
your mother or bridesmaids that you have a wedding planner!
It is only natural for your mother, mother-in-law, or
maid of honor to want to get involved in the wedding planning. If your wedding
planner does not know that though, it can get pretty messy! Inform you mother
and bridesmaids that you will be having a wedding planner, and that if they
want to have their input at the wedding, they should contact your planner. This
way, you wedding planner will make room for that special bridesmaid dance your
friends have planned for you, without ruining the whole schedule.
4. Forgetting
that your wedding planner is a human!
Yes, your pay good money to your wedding planner, and you
expect everything to be top-notch, from the communication between you, to the
very wedding day coordination. Still, your wedding planner is a human being,
which means that he or she will get tired, sick, go on vacations. Don't get mad
if your wedding planner takes longer than usual to reply to you, or some days
isn't as excited as most of the time. We all have our bad days, and since
wedding planning can get quite stressful, it is normal for your planner to
decide to take a day or two off work, to relax a little. Don't get mean when
that happens, especially if you want your planner to be in his best form on
your wedding day.
5. Not
respecting the schedule
Building a perfect schedule for your wedding can be
tricky at times. A wedding planner needs to organize the guests' arrivals, the
ceremony, the photographer, the entertainers, the food, everything! A planner's
job is to keep everyone happy, from the couple, to the guests, to the vendors,
and a perfect schedule is the key to that. Deciding to put something extra on
the schedule the very last minute, will create a mess, put unnecessary stress
on the wedding planner, and as a result end up in a wedding disaster.
6. No
surprises!
The only surprises a wedding planners like, are gifts (I personally love chocolate). Don't
surprise your wedding planner by adding a sudden 20 minute grandpa speech
before dinner, or having 7 surprise guests at the reception. This will mess up pretty
much everything, and might have really negative consequences on your wedding. Your
wedding planner should know everything concerning your wedding before
the wedding day, so keep the surprises for your guests.
7. Not paying
in time!
Weddings are costly, we all know that. Still, this is not
a reason, not to pay in time your vendors. You may ask how this affects your
wedding planner? Directly! Since it is your wedding planner who is making all
the arrangements for you, including the payments, it he who will be bothered
about the money if you have not made the required payment in time. A wedding
planner has enough to think about, to have to chase you with the payments as
well.
8. Don't treat
your wedding planner as an enemy!
Your wedding planner wants what is best for you. He or
she tries to get the best vendors for the best prices, just for you. All the
suggestions a wedding planner makes, is for you to have a memorable wedding.
Don't treat your wedding planner as an enemy, by not showing trust in his/her
suggestions, arguing over everything, and going behind your planner's back.
Believe it or not, most of the time your wedding planner knows what is best for
you, better than you!
9. Disrespecting
the rules!
Every venue, every vendor, everything has its do's and don’ts. It can be noise policies, food
policies, payment policies, children policies, anything! When your wedding
planner tells you, that you cannot bring your own food to the venue, don't try
to sneak the food in anyway! There is a reason for the policy, and by ignoring
it, you not only causing unnecessary trouble to your wedding planner, but might
end up ruining the whole wedding.
10. Panicking
over nothing.
It is true, almost every wedding will have a detail that
won't go as planned. Either the cake topper will break, a guest will run late,
a song will not play. It is fine!! This is why you have a wedding planner: to
take care of those things and make any mishaps magically disappear! By running
behind your planner all the time, and not letting him to do his job, you are
just making things worse. Don't panic unless you see your wedding planner
panic!. If you wedding planner is calm, it means everything is under control.
Relax, and enjoy your wedding day!
Remember, you wedding planner wants a perfect wedding as
much as you do, and the calmer the wedding planner is, the higher the chances
that nothing will go wrong on your wedding day. Keep calm and trust in your
wedding planner!
Thank you very much for reading and I hope I was helpful!
I wish you a lovely day!
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