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5 Steps to Hiring a Wedding Planner
5 Steps to Hiring a Wedding Planner | Learn how to evaluate and choose your wedding planner plus what happens after you decide who to hire.
5 Steps to Hiring a Wedding Planner | Learn how to evaluate and choose your wedding planner plus what happens after you decide who to hire.
Q. How Can I Find an Affordable Wedding Planner? A. Since “affordable” means something different to everyone, you will first need to decide what you can budget for wedding planning.
I’m sure I’m not the only one feeling reflective as the decade comes to a close. It’s been 10 years of learning, art, failure, success, and love. Here are some of the highlights and favorite weddings.
Update: I wrote a part two that talks more about the cost of full-service planning and design. Read it here. You should also know that
Lately, I’ve seen a trend of venues and other vendors who are not wedding planners offering “day-of-coordination” as an inexpensive add-on to their packages or even including it at no charge. This seems like a big bonus to engaged couples, but is it really all it’s cracked up to be?
Here are five reasons why you should think twice before working with a coordinator from any wedding vendor other than a wedding planner.
Weddings Are No Exception to the Gendered Division of Emotional and Meta Labor
It should come as no surprise that emotional labor is part of every wedding. Weddings are centered around living up to social expectations, managing people’s feelings, and making people comfortable. I’m sure you’ve already reached the not-at-all-shocking conclusion that women are doing the majority of the emotional labor for weddings, just as in everyday work and home life.
Sick of spending all your free time scouring internet forums for the wedding planning advice you need?
Stressing about wedding day logistics and who will handle them when you can’t do it yourself?
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After you’ve experienced the preview of your dream day, you’ll sign your vendor contracts, then Aisle Less Traveled will get to work bringing together all the details of your day!
This includes our full service planning and design package:
