Wedding Planning Advice :: Reasons why you might need to hire a wedding planner

Happy Wednesday lovelies!  How are you all doing this week? As well as providing visual inspiration for your wedding, it is also important for me to provide my readers with practical information. This week’s wedding planning advice provides some reasons as to why you might need to hire a wedding planner.

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If hiring a wedding planner has crossed your mind but you are unsure if you need one, I have listed below some of the many reasons to hire one. And remember you don’t need a huge budget to hire a wedding planner as we offer an array of services to suit most budgets.

You are planning a wedding far from where you and your fiancé live.
Perhaps you are getting married in your home town but you no longer live there yourselves. Planning a wedding can be time consuming in itself but when you live 100 miles away from your wedding venue, it’s even more time consuming. To avoid doing a 200 mile round trip every weekend, hire a wedding planner to do the research for you. They will tie everything into as few meetings as possible giving you and your fiancé more time to enjoy your engagement.

This couple planned their Isle of Skye wedding from Australia.
Photography – Marianne Taylor via Style Me Pretty

You and your fiancé both work demanding full time jobs.
If you and your fiancé both work full time in demanding jobs, it’s likely that the last thing you will want to do is to come home from a long day and spend your evenings researching suppliers or discussing budgets. A wedding planner already has the knowledge and supplier connections to connect you with trusted, talented suppliers and to take care of the admin for you.

You’ve decided on a wedding date and booked a venue but you are not sure what to do next.
Wedding planners are available at any time throughout the wedding planning. If you have booked your wedding venue but are not sure what to do next then a wedding planner will sit down with you to discuss your ideas and advise on all areas of your wedding.

Photography – Especially Amy via Rock My Wedding

You are having the wedding reception at your family home.
It’s more and more common these days for couples to host the reception at their family home. This means you and your family and friends will be doing A LOT of the work yourselves. When you hire a wedding venue, you will more often than not have the furniture, a staffed bar, waiting staff and sometimes catering included in the cost. When you decide to host the wedding reception at home, you will need to hire everything in. This involves a great deal of coordination and I’m sure you will want your family and friends to enjoy your wedding day without worrying about when the wedding cake needs to be brought out or when to sit down for your wedding breakfast. This is where hiring a wedding day coordinator can help.

A tipi wedding at the Grooms family home.
Photography – Shell de Mar / Wedding Day Coordination – Bow Occasions

You are having a marquee wedding.
Hiring a marquee? In the middle of a field? Setting up a marquee requires on-site supervision a few days before the wedding and entrusting this with a wedding planner will be a great weight off your mind leaving you to enjoy your last few days with your fiancé preparing the final touches before the big day.

There are many more reasons to hire a wedding planner. Ultimately, you DESERVE to not be stressed about your wedding. You DESERVE to enjoy your wedding day, and the days leading up to it! Let a planner handle all of your stresses – you DESERVE to have fun planning your wedding!

Have you decided that you might need a wedding planner? If so, get in touch today for an initial consultation.

Louise
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