I have had my wedding planner booked for the past month (or maybe more, time is flying!), but I have been a little slack on blogging. Hopefully I can get more on track, Honduras really threw me off!
Now, onto my planner…
We booked Carla Eustache, from Style Perfect Events, in Charlotte. She has been so great. She customized a package for me, because I wanted to do a lot of it DIY & I guess I am a little bit of a control freak. I have the majority of my ideas already in my mind, & I just am not the kind of person who can hand my wedding over to someone else completely & have them run with it. I love being in the middle of all the planning & getting to vocalize my ideas to her. She comes back with all of these amazing suggestions & ideas, and is making my ideas become reality. I’ve only had 1 meeting with her too, so I am so excited to see how amazing this is going to be. She has full planning packages to handle every details, DIY packages like mine, Partial Planning Package, & Day-Of Coordinating Packages. If you are getting married RUN over to her site, she is phenomenal!
She also offers Free School of Charm classes for brides at Hobby Lobby in Charlotte! If you are getting married you do not want to miss out on these, so SIGN UP!
So why a wedding planner? First off Stacy Reeves has an AMAZING article on this. But some “wisdom” from me…
I know none of my brides usually have one, so is it a waste of your budget? NO!! It is by far one of the MOST important parts. Even if you don’t get a planner to actually plan the wedding for you, it is absolutely necessary to get a GOOD wedding coordinator. By good, I mean you shouldn’t trust that the venue saying they have a coordinator, actually means they are good, usually (almost, always!) they are more worried about the venue than the bride! Most brides don’t realize it, but if they don’t have a coordinator or planner, they usually turn to whatever wedding professional (like the DJ or Photographer) is near to coordinate the wedding, unfortunately as much as we want to help coordinate it, we just can’t & do our job too.
A wedding coordinator just makes the day go smoother, so that the bride, groom, & family are enjoying the wedding. I know with my wedding, I don’t want my mom worrying about setting up the decorations the day of, or my dad worrying about when to go down the aisle, and I definitely don’t want to be stressing about anything other than not tripping going down the aisle (that’s a hard enough task!). The day just goes so much smoother, if you get a good coordinator (GET CARLA!!) the decorations will be up for you, they will make sure your vendors have set up their chairs, tables, tents perfectly, they will make sure you are sticking to your timeline, that everyone is in the right place at the right time, and the day is going off without a hitch. Doesn’t that sound nice? A perfect or at least almost perfect wedding? YES! That is why coordinators & planners are so important, so if you haven’t gotten one there is no excuse! If you are worried about your budget, get a full planning package & the planner can help out with that too.
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