Free advices
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Having a free consultation is a great way to meet various wedding planners, check their personalities, philosophy, ask the tricky questions. The most important is to choose the wedding planner that would suit you the best in personality, but also a budget and transparency is a big issue. It is also the perfect way to tell to the wedding planner your wishes and expectations, to share what you are not sure about and listen to the wedding planner approach. Prepare your questions and get down to numbers fast, have an idea of the cost and how the wedding planner of your choice will work with you.
In order to make your wedding consultation efficient, please, find below our recommendations to get ready before your wedding consultation.
Top 5 wedding homework before meeting a wedding planner:
- Define the ceremony type you are looking for (civil & religious & legal or symbolic )
- Have an idea of your ideal reception dinner (with garden, with bar,dancing after midnight etc)
- Define the most important services ( flowers, music, photo & video, entertainment etc )
- Budget - try to define a minimum and a maximum amount that can be invested in your wedding. To get an idea of wedding budgets, please, go to our section "Budgets"
- Ask yourself the good question,"Am I capable of doing everything by myself? Do I need the help of a profesionnal?"
Top 5 questions to ask to a wedding planner:
- Prices- What are you fees for the wedding planning? Coordination on-site? How many hours of wedding planning is inluded in your offer? How do we communicate?
- Freedom of the choice - Can we choose our own suppliers, or do we have to take yours? Do you have deals with suppliers?
- Transparency- Will you be transparent by giving us final bills and receipts? Will you recommend us vendors that will treat us fairly?
- Experience- How many weddings have you organized in total? Do you have strong experience with the wedding venues? Can you share with us your previous experiences in the wedding business?
- On-site coordinator on your wedding - Will you personally be present on our wedding day? What are the conditions of having an on-site coordinator? How many hours do you recommend for the on-site coordination?
