Why work with a Wedding Consultant?

Posted on: May 1, 2007 by: Deshvidesh

Congratulations on your engagement! You are excited about finding that someone special as your lifetime partner to share the rest of your life together. You are looking forward to planning that very special day – your wedding. Where to start – planning your wedding can be very exciting but at the same time can be very overwhelming and stressful. A Bridal Consultant can help you make the whole process stress-free so that you can enjoy the whole process of planning and executing your very special day.

Who is a Bridal Consultant? Why should I hire a Bridal Consultant, since I have family and friends that are helping with the wedding? A Bridal Consultant will be added cost and can I afford it? A Bridal Consultant (Wedding Planner) is a trained professional who assists in transforming your dream wedding into reality. He/She achieves that through a wealth of creative ideas and recommendations of the best services, products, and vendors available. Couples today can be overwhelmed with all the tasks involved in creating their fantasy wedding. They are busy with careers, education, and just everyday living that there is no time in their schedules to get to all the details needed in successfully planning, managing, and executing a memorable event. This is where a wedding planner can be a life saver. A wedding planner can play the role of a coordinator, advisor, supervisor, financial planner, and mediator. He/She holds your hand and works with you on making decisions on vendors by doing all the research, negotiations, and going over contracts so that the couple can make a more informed decision. He/She is the shoulder to cry on when you get stressed out and feel as if you are loosing control over details because important decisions are made for you by loved ones inadvertently. It is nice to have a third party mediator just to smooth over uncompromisable issues.

A Bridal Consultant is there on the day of to make sure that all of your plans are executed to your expectation. He/She has everything organized and is there to troubleshoot if any crisis may occur. He/She has back up plans in case contracted services are not delivered.

Bridal Consultant fees are budgeted in your overall budget therefore the fees are not an added cost. A Bridal consultant will at the end of day save you time, money and stress.

What to expect from a Bridal Consultant? When you contact a Bridal Consultant you should expect to have a lengthy interview so that the bridal consultant gets a feel of what you envision your wedding day to be, understands the couple’s desires, personal tastes and the budget of the entire wedding. A referral list will be built on the basis of the initial meeting; meetings are scheduled, attends the meetings along with the couples and asks questions that the couple might have not thought of. A Bridal Consultant will build a timeline and stay in touch with the vendors and with you throughout the planning stages.

Overall a Bridal Consultant is your liaison to make your very special day run smoothly and stress-free. It is worth while to work with a consultant at the end of the day as she/he will save you time, stress, and money.

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