Wedding Question!
untamedcurlz
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Did you use a Wedding Planner/Consultant? If so, how much did they charge (if you don't mind me asking). Also, were they any use at all? Is it worth getting one?
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My friend who just got married on Aug. 28 (same day as Bounce!) used a wedding planner. She decided to use one because she (the bride) basically had no idea how to go about planning something that big. She also didn't have any ideas for colors or flowers or the cake or the reception or her dress or her bridesmaid's dress or anything. And I mean...NO IDEAS at all. So she got a wedding planner who did the whole thing.
It was through her parents' church so she only paid a couple hundred bucks for the wedding planner. I'm sure in real life it's a heckuva lot more than that!
That particular bride would tell you it was totally worth it. I personally enjoyed planning my first wedding (the "big one") but then I get along great with my mom so I knew there wouldn't be any conflicts. And my 2nd wedding was small, so it was a non-issue.
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I haven't been reading all of the threads about weddings, so forgive me if I missed this, but do you have a wedding party - Maid/Matron of Honor? What kinds of details are you concerned about?
I haven't been reading all of the threads about weddings, so forgive me if I missed this, but do you have a wedding party - Maid/Matron of Honor? What kinds of details are you concerned about?
I didn't use a wedding planner. My dad knows one, and once we found out how much it was, it was like, FORGET IT! I planned mostly everything myself, with the help of my mom and mother-in-law. It wasn't too bad, and on the day itself my Matron of Honor was there to help. The wedding was at a winery that my step-father-in-law owns, so he and my mother-in-law were pretty much in charge of stuff there...they have done weddings there before, and they knew where to set everything up...hubby was also there helping.
All I did that day was eat breakfast and get ready.
I haven't really been discussing my wedding plans in detail so no worries Mom, you didn't miss it
Details I'm concerned with- making sure the decorations are where they need to be and set up how they need to be, making sure the vendors have arrived and have their questions answered and that they get paid, putting out any fires that may pop up, running errands (or sending someone to run errands) as necessary, making sure everyone knows how the ceremony is going to go and what the timeline of the day is etc. I'd rather have someone impartial to the situation taking care of these things.
Well, if I had to go back and plan it again, I wouldn't have a large bridal party. We had four bridesmaids, four groomsmen, two flower girls, and one ring bearer. I would have just had ONE bridesmaid/Matron of Honor, although we would have had two groomsmen (my bro and his bro).
I can see how you'd like someone impartial to do the coordinating. At times I do wish that I'd had someone, and not my mother in law. She was more concerned about it being "perfect" and the food and stuff like that. I KNEW that in the end, we were going to be married...regardless of what people ate for dinner.
I also wish that we would have just gone to Vegas or something...and celebrated when we got back.
However, if you can afford one, I say do it. From what I've read on theknot.com, every bride that's hired one, were so glad that they did!
Yeah, really I want someone impartial because I want to have control over whatever it is. I don't want a family member just taking over and making decisions and changes based on what they want. I am sure a coordinator could be the same way, but at least I can be mad at them and not have to see them again and also I am paying them, so they should really be doing what I've asked. Man, I sound like a bridezilla, LOL :shock: .
Yeah. Vegas wouldn't have been our first choice, either. We are only an hor away from South Lake Tahoe, so we prolly would have gone there.
You SO do NOT sound like a bridezilla! I had/have the same attitude about stuff like that...I am paying them to do that stuff! LOL.
The night of the wedding, someone squashed the cake. So the wedding planner arranged for the pre-dinner cocktail hour to be extended 1/2 hour while they scraped the icing off a cake intended to be used the following day and re-decorated it for the correct wedding. There was time to bake a new cake for the other wedding. My friend didn't know about any of this until after the wedding, and said it was worth every cent just so she didn't have to freak out about the cake-she had enough stress dealing with the people around her who thought her wedding was about them specifically, not about her marriage or any of her other friends.
-Speckla
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