The Hidden Value of a Wedding Planner

Everyone knows that a wedding planner helps bring everything together for a wedding. But there are hidden values that may not be apparent right from the beginning.

The Questions We Ask

We recently finished a set of site visits to help one of our clients find their venue. Once they had a moment to sit down and think about their choices, they realized that we had asked a lot of questions that they never would have thought to ask. And they ended up thanking us for this.

Why do I bring this up?

First, we spend a lot of time researching the venues and vendors that we propose to our clients. During this research, we end up having questions as we seek to understand the implications of everything to do with that vendor and how it would affect the wedding vision. Clarity before the contract is signed is critical for success.

Second, what we think are pretty standard questions really aren’t to someone who does not work full time in the industry. Also our questions are informed by the professional development workshops and seminars that we attend so that we can bring a better experience to our clients.

Risk Management

We go over every single detail in your wedding plans and look for things that can go wrong. As we identify these things, we either fix the plans so that this doesn’t happen or we have a plan if it does happen. As a third-party and not emotionally invested in the wedding, we can put our pragmatic hats on and examine the details with a critical eye. We focus on this as we never want a wedding to end in tragedy – one of our biggest nightmares.

On-site Experiences

While we do try to predict everything that can go wrong and have a solution to those problems before they exist, we can still be surprised. Every time we go on-site we learn something. And that something will then be integrated into our processes so that it never happens again or that we can predict it happening and be ready for it.

A real life example of this is when we were stuck in a storm in a tent. Tents are not permanent structures and can be unsafe in these conditions. We had to call our rental team to discuss the safety, and then evacuate everyone to safety. Because of this, all of our tent weddings now have an evacuation plan so that this never happens again.

Industry Knowledge

Weddings are a component of the larger live events industry. Because of this, we end up exposing ourselves to ideas and learnings in that larger arena and bringing them to weddings. This means that we may be ahead of the game when it comes to trends, integrating new ideas and technologies, and crafting a better experience for you. Plus, as the production level of weddings increase, we will be able to grow into that with our base of knowledge existing in live events rather than just weddings.