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What is a Wedding Planner and What Do They Do?
Wedding planners (also known as bridal consultants, event planners, and wedding coordinators) provide professional advice, planning guidance, and wedding management for engaged couples. A wedding planner’s job is different for every wedding. Our goal is to always provide the best resources and planning experience for our clients and their families.
This includes correctly estimating expenditures based on the couple’s vision and financial resources. Learn all the details about working with wedding budgets in the Complete Wedding Budget Guide for Wedding Planners.
Wedding planners learn and recommend wedding venues, hotels, churches, country clubs, mansions, and historic sites that are available for weddings in their area. They often visit the venues with their clients during the decision making process.
Wedding planners typically attend vendor meetings with the couple, take detailed notes, coordinate details of the contract, and keep track of vendor payments. Wedding planners often communicate with the vendors on behalf of the client.
Many planners offer event design services which include creating an overall look, feel, and atmosphere for the wedding. Wedding planners work with the couple to collaborate on design ideas and share the vision through images, inspiration boards, material samples, written narratives, and mock-up designs.
Wedding and event planners create detailed time lines, coordinate setup and tear down logistics with vendors, manage timing of the wedding day, and help wedding vendor professionals do the best job possible. You can find templates for timelines along with checklists and many other forms in the Wedding Planner’s Toolbox.
Some small details wedding planners are responsible for on the wedding day include cueing the wedding party and musicians, assisting with setup of place cards, guest book, decor items and favors, communicating time line changes with vendors, and working with the wedding DJ or band to ensure a smooth flow of announcements and events. Wedding planners often work between 8-15 hours on the wedding day.
There are many different ways that wedding planners structure their business. Some wedding planners work as a solo entrepreneur while others have a team of event planners and assistants.
Many wedding planners are also designers and have their own rental decor for weddings. Wedding planners can offer a variety of services including full service planning, partial wedding planning, hourly consulting and wedding day management.
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I’m interested in becoming a wedding planner and I will be starting my first year in college soon. Yet, I was wondering could you give me some more advice and please answer some questions for me I’m in desperate need.
Courtavia, you will find a lot of answers in this short one hour course: https://plannerslounge.com/wedding-planner-course/. I also offer coaching sessions through email and phone so that you can get all of your questions answered: https://plannerslounge.com/event-planner-coaching-and-mentoring/
I am interested in becoming an wedding planner but am not sure where i can find a school. I live in Jamaica.
Thank you for your comment. I think you will need to look online to find options such as the Wedding and Event Institute: http://www.weddingandeventinstitute.com/courses/#a_aid=plannerslounge&a_bid=1d242a7d
I am very interested in becoming an event planner. Do you know any mentors/internship opportunities in the Wisconsin or Chicago area? I am willing to move! 🙂
Thank you for your comment. We do not typically have information like that but I recommend checking out listings on craigslist for that area as well as following the blogs and social media of the planners in that area to see if/when they are hiring.
Ive been on this site for the last couple of hours and it is a wealth of information. Thank you for sharing your expertise!
Thank you Sandra!
Lovely posts! I started my business almost two years ago and it just started picking up. I’d love to join your community if there are no restrictions based on country of resisdence. How do I go about it please?
Hi Tosin. Thank you for your comment. Simply by reading and commenting, you are part of our community. We will soon be launching a paid membership online community. If you subscribe to our email newsletter, you will be notified when we launch.
This is great. I am a certified wedding/event planner and this site has open my eyes. I like to take your course! Thank you for helping people like me who love planning parties.
Welcome to our community Minnie!
I love this site! It has been extremely helpful. I am currently looking into becoming a wedding/event planner and I want to put myself in the best position to succeed. What program of schooling would be the best to go through in the U.S?
Hi Taylor and thank you for commenting. There are so many options for schools and courses. You can start with our intro course on Planner’s Lounge which gives a solid intro on getting started, getting experience now and building your portfolio: https://plannerslounge.com/wedding-planner-course/
I am totally in love with this site! I am currently trying to start up my own event planning business and your articles have definitely helped point me in the right direction to hit the ground running.
Thank you!
Thank you Alex. I appreciate you being part of the community here and look forward to more comments from you!
I realy like this site! I am looking in to becoming a wedding planner, know any good schools in canada?
Hi Lauren and thank you for your comment! You could check out this association: http://wpic.ca.
This is definitely a post that anyone who wants to be a wedding planner should read before they start so that they’re aren’t surprised by what its really like! Love this post and can’t wait to read more great information!