Tips for Working with a Wedding Planner

by Danielle Andrews Sunkel

This article appeared in an issue of Today’s Bride, when I was working with TV personality, Liza Fromer, to plan her wedding.

Decide if you really want to work with a Wedding Coordinator

Can you handle someone else making your appointments, negotiating contracts for you, saving you time and money, making suggestions and helping to make all the major decisions in your wedding?  If this doesn’t sound like a dream, you probably do not want to work with a Coordinator.

Check them out!

Your Wedding Coordinator should be certified in Wedding Coordination, be part of an Association and/or have a great network to fall back upon.  If your Coordinator is not part of a network, who will be there for you if they get sick?

Hire a Wedding Coordinator that you get along with.

Planning a wedding should be exciting and fun!  They could be the best Coordinator in the world, but if your personalities do not mesh well, your Coordinator will not be excited about your wedding and your wedding will not be all that it could.

Help them help you

Let your Wedding Coordinator know about your common interests, how you met, how you got engaged, special things that have happened, your future hopes and dreams.  A good Wedding Coordinator will help to make your wedding a reflection of you, not them.

Trust your Coordinator

Once you have decided on a Wedding Coordinator, trust them to do their job.   You and your Wedding Coordinator have a common goal; to create the best wedding you can have.  Let them find the best vendors for you, after all, that is what you hired them for.

Sit back and relax

There is always some kind of problem on the wedding day.  With a Wedding Coordinator there, you won’t even have to think about, it will be taken care of almost before it happens.  Just enjoy your day!

Find a great, certified Wedding Planner at www.wpic.ca