Should You Hire A Wedding Planner For Your Wedding?

By Author: Sarah McDermott
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Every bride risks turning into Bridezilla by the time the wedding date draws close. The stress of choosing the right dress, creating and mailing invites, choosing the menu and favors and gifts for bridesmaids, designing the bridesmaid dresses, keeping an inventory of gifts received, deciding on flower arrangements and table settings, choosing a location or reception hall and supervising the interior layout of the hall - there's a million things to do. No wonder grooms use the bad luck to see the bride before the wedding ruse to stay far away from their fiancée before the wedding!

If you're planning your wedding and haven't considered the possibility of hiring a professional wedding planner, give it some serious thought. Even if you're planning a medium sized wedding with family members, close friends and colleagues, you'll still have myriad things to take care of. You might get your friends and relatives to pitch in with help, but most of them will have other things to do, and might not be able to give a lot of attention to your wedding preparations.

A wedding planner won't just help with the basics of the wedding ...
... - deciding on a location, choosing a caterer - she will also be quite adept at staying within budget. Most brides fall apart under the strain of planning a beautiful wedding, while making sure they can keep their financial matters in close rein. A wedding planner is likely to have contacts in the wedding industry, and can get you good rates for services, products and decorations etc. With a wedding planner taking care of everything, you can focus on enjoying the preparations for the wedding - something many brides might find themselves unable to do under the strain of the wedding. Those much dreaded bridal jitters will be well and truly under control, when you have a wedding planner taking care of the event.

A wedding planner will also be well versed in bridal and wedding etiquette. She's seen many brides through dozens of such weddings and knows the importance of perfect timing, and the correct wedding protocol. A wedding planner can also help with the little things that you might not have considered like the accommodations for the out of town guests, who will arrive at your wedding.

If the cost of hiring a planner makes you balk at the idea, many planners offer their services for particular features of the planning, like taking care of catering or designing invites. You'll be able to take some of the strain off of you, and still stay within your budget.