Photo by Sylvie Gil Photography | Styling by Greenwood Events, LBB

Communication with Vendors

If you hire a full service planning team, they’ll likely be able to handle the communication between you and your vendors. You’ll be CC’d on all the emails to stay in the loop, but you won’t have to lift a finger to put those messages together.

Mediator

Though wedding planners don’t need counseling credentials to precede them, these experts do an exceptional job of keeping the peace—especially when you’ve all but lost your energy to end disagreements, explain proper etiquette, and/or compromise with your soon-to-be spouse. While your wedding day should be the most joyous of days, if you’ve lost your sanity somewhere along the way, you’ll find it hard to enjoy it to the fullest extent. So, whether you’re arguing with parents, constantly playing referee for bridesmaids, or feel like you and your partner have fallen out of sync, your planner is usually waiting in the wings, ready and willing to jump in to help.

Handle Details on the Day-Of

By the end of the planning process, it’s understandable to think that everything is done and ready to go—the final checks have been written and head counts have been shared—but the day-of can be extremely overwhelming. A planner will take care of all the day’s details for you, managing vendor arrivals, ensuring bridal party members show up on time, answering last-minute guest questions, keeping the schedule on track, and busting out a plan B...just in case.

A wedding planner truly becomes a couple’s best line of defense against best-day-ever dilemmas. Consider hiring a planner+team like spending money to hire your best friend, but in this case you know they will deliver without fail, because it’s their passion and profession. All their effort and time goes into creating a wonderful and memorable experience for you and your partner—and at the end of the day, you’ll be so grateful you hired one!

“As one of our former brides-turned-friends always says, why would I spend so much of my time learning how to do a complicated task (planning the wedding) when I am only going to do it once? I would rather hire a pro who does this full-time to help me throughout the process!”

- Valarie Falvey, Kirkbrides Wedding Planning & Design