What is a Wedding Planner?
Essentially, a Wedding Planner is a
professional whose expertise and contacts can turn your wedding into a
day of absolute perfection. He or she is the lynch pin for your event;
the one who will locate the services and suppliers you require; who will
negotiate contracts; mediate and manage the various companies involved
in your day and ensure that everything runs like clock-work. Popular
alternative job titles may include Wedding Coordinator, Wedding
Consultant, Wedding Designer or even Wedding Specialist. I will use the
terms interchangeably throughout this paper.
The job of planning
weddings is great fun. However, as with any other job in this world it
is not all plain sailing. Planning a wedding with the expectation that
it will be a day to eclipse all others can take an unbelievable amount
of time and effort, to say nothing of the stress and worry! There are
ups and downs, periods of great joy and times of immense stress and
pressure. Weddings are events that are dreamt about: some brides have
imagined walking down the aisle in a pure white dress and a tiara for 30
years or more! It is certainly a challenge unlike any others you may
have come across before. And when you add both work and a hectic,
pre-wedding social life to the equation, often the feat seems
monumental. It is an honour not to be taken lightly.