When it comes to planning a wedding, it is rather overwhelming to oversee everything! Right from selecting the venue to hiring the photographer, catering services, venue decoration, you really need someone to depend on to plan a grand wedding! Only a highly professional wedding planner can help you out to celebrate your wedding with your kind of ideas and your kind of budget! Just check out this list of what to look for in a Wedding Planner?
Is there a Free Consultation?
Planning a wedding should start with a face-to-face meeting before hiring a wedding planner. After checking out the planner’s work online or even having a good phone conversation, meeting personally and really getting to know them can confirm or challenge your expectations. Professional wedding planners offer a free consultation so that they can get to know you and your vision for your special day!
The Wedding Planner’s background or experience
Wedding planners are different in their working styles and concepts. They each have their own unique skill sets and there may be someone better suited for your type of wedding. The previous work of the wedding planner speaks volumes of his expertise. Choose someone whose past work aligns with your needs. If you’re more into the design, colors, and floral arrangements, you’ll need someone more inclined to visual impressions. Or if your priority is food, then a planner who knows the catering business in and out is more suited for your special day.
Are you comfortable with the Wedding Planner?
It’s highly essential that you find a wedding planner whose personality clicks with yours. He/she’ll be the very person with whom you’ll be communicating with and seeing much of throughout a wedding planning process fraught with stress. Find someone you’re very comfortable with and who accommodates your ideas and concepts in the planning process. He/she is going to be a part of your life in a very frequent way for a short amount of time and how they listen to you and speak to you is important. A good rapport and an element of trust should be there.
What Services are included in the wedding planning package?
Before meeting a wedding planner, it’s always better to list out what services you’ll need for your wedding. Do proper research online or get references or reviews from friends or relatives with whom the planner has worked before and then only zero in on a planner. Some Wedding planners offer all-inclusive packages with services like venue decoration, photography, catering, logistics all included whereas some people offer such services on request. Decide wisely whether you need someone to do smooth coordination only on that day or an expert wedding planner to help walk you through every step of the way.
You should discuss it together and be clear about your strengths and weaknesses. If you don’t have time to coordinate with all of the vendors due to your work commitments, then you should look for a wedding planner like Shaadi Wedding Management who can handle everything for you. Check out if there are any extra charges coming for services, so make sure you know what you’re getting into from the start.
How many people will be there on the wedding management team?
If it is a large wedding in your mind, you’ll need more people to manage everything on the day or even before that if other events like Mehndi or Haldi ceremonies are planned. Check out if the wedding planner has a suitable team to handle everything.
What is the Average Response Time?
Communication is the thing that drives a good relationship! Hence, it’s also important to know what kind of response time you can expect from your wedding planner. This will smooth out things and help reduce the stress of any issues happening. So, ensure to ask your wedding planners how the communication will be via phone calls, texts, or emails, and how long you should expect to wait for a response.
Simple Honesty
Your wedding planner shouldn’t be a person who always agrees with you! He should be someone who can give it to you straight when it comes to everything right from your over creative ideas to your budget. He should be someone who will keep your expectations realistic while ensuring your vision is fulfilled and not someone who will think only about his gains in the end.
Shaadi Wedding Management is one of the best wedding planners in Kochi. We have professionally managed the weddings of an elite clientele to meet their dreams within their budget.
