Weddings can be the most exciting time of your life and the most stressful at the same time. It’s only one day but so much goes into it. If you really want your dream wedding there’s plenty of planning and preparation to do before hand in order to make it happen. Between wedding linen rentals and sending out invitations, picking flowers and dress fittings it really is a full time job. And it can be. Imagine what a luxury it would be to have somebody else worrying about the details of your wedding. Here are a few benefits of hiring a wedding planner for your big day.
Less stress for you
This is reason number one. You want to be able to enjoy your wedding day and not spend the entire time worried about all the things that didn’t get done or were done incorrectly. A wedding planner allows you to enjoy the time leading up to your wedding as well as the wedding day itself. This is not to say there will be zero stress but definitely less stress than if you were doing everything yourself.
An unbiased delegator
Family and friends always say that they want to help and they want to be involved but sometimes this involves too much opinion and not enough actual help. A wedding planner will have no regard for emotions and be able to delegate and mediate as necessary. They will always have your best interest in mind and unashamedly take your opinion over anyone else’s. This relieves any tension between you and your family if you don’t agree with their preference. Your mother in law could have strong opinions about the specialty linen rentals being trimmed with tassels but your sister has her heart set on the tablecloth rentals being tassel free. Your planner can go over the options privately with you and make a seemingly executive decision that the blame can fall on her rather than you.
Less details to worry about
A wedding planner can take care of everything from venue bookings to wedding linen rentals and from chair cover rentals to DJ choices. Typically what a wedding planner will do is get together a short list and allow you to make the final decisions. For example, if there are 50 choices of wedding linen rentals, your planner will take a look at your theme and vision for the wedding and narrow the list down to five or 10 and then show you it for a final decision. This makes all the choices for your wedding day a lot less overwhelming.
Saves you money
You may think that a wedding planner is going to be really expensive but it could actually balance out. Wedding planners work with so many different vendors and a good planner will have connections to be able to get you various discounts when it comes to wedding linen rentals, venues, flowers, DJs, even sometimes dresses. They frequent wedding outlets and different kinds of shows and things that will help you to save all kinds of money. So, it should equal out in your budget.
Automatic runner on the day
The best decision I made on my wedding day was to have a runner that could take care of the small forgotten details. The great thing about your planner being your runner is that he or she will already know all about the wedding and what is supposed to happen. Having a wedding planner will eliminate many of the things that usually get forgotten because the planner will be taking care of it and a good one won’t forget much but it’s still good to have a go to person on the day. For example, one girl had completely forgotten that she wanted to publicly thank her maid of honor with a bouquet of flowers until the middle of the ceremony. She sent a quick text to her planner who ran out of the ceremony and bought the flowers and they were ready to go when the time came at the reception.
These are just a few reasons that it might be a good idea to hire a planner for your big day. Surely, there are plenty more advantages, this is barely the tip of the iceberg.