Before you say "I don't need a wedding consultant, thank you very much", let me ask you a quick question or two.
When you don't feel good you seek a doctor's advice, right?Or when you have a legal dilemma, you probably will go see a lawyer,and if you want financial advice you seek out a financial planner, correct? Well,here's a news flash,those professionals are all basically consultants,wouldn't you agree?So lets just say to keep from having a wedding dilemma you merely consider hiring a professional wedding consultant,because weddings can be very stressful especially when you are trying to please a lot of people all at once and you want to stay within your budget.
Like aforementioned, weddings can be stressful and totally time consuming.
To determine if you should seek the services of a professional wedding consultant, sit down with all parties concerned and see if you have the means to hire competent vendors.
Also consider what the wedding will cost within a reasonable budget.
Will you be able to arrange a schedule so your vendors, wedding party, and parents know when and whereto do their assigned parts? Yes,wedding consultants have a fee, but sometimes they can actually save you some of your hard earned money.
A young lady who works with my wife recently got married and she of course handled all of her wedding arrangements.
She told my wife about all the money her and her fiance paid for the DJ.
They agreed to pay $400 for this guy to play music at their reception and he had over booked so he called her the week of the wedding and cancelled.
So there she was having to book another DJ at the last minute and not surprisingly had to pay $600 more plus all the stress.
Do you think a DJ would have done that to a professional wedding consultant?Probably not.
So with that one example you can see how easily it is to have unplanned expenditures.
After talking over the need for a professional wedding consultant, you will need to discuss whether or notyou can afford one.
Because this is aformal occasion, not to mention the most important day of your life, you have only shot to get it right.
So, do you want to spend all of your free time putting this whole thing together yourself with little or no opportunities to enjoy the experience or maybe hire someone to take on the responsibility for the details freeing you up to relish the event.
With that said, let's look at some tips on choosing a competent professional wedding consultant.
I don't throw out the term "professional" loosely because there are incompetentwedding consultants out there.
For instance, the woman who after planning her own wedding, where everything went perfectly, thinks she is now a pro and gets business cards and a sign and basically becomes an accident looking for place to happen.
To find out if the consultant is competent, ask where they received their training.
Then you can check out the agency or organization simply by asking for the phone number.
If the state of residence requires a license that can be verified by contacting the appropriate state agency.
For further assistance find vendors in your area and ask them who they have worked with in the past.
Their opinions are just that their opinions, but they can give you a good start.
This article was written to give you information on why you might want to consider hiring a professional wedding consultant,not to promote them.
Just be aware there are always people ready to take advantage of you.
Be diligent do your homeworkand remember, if it sounds to good to be true it probably is.
When you don't feel good you seek a doctor's advice, right?Or when you have a legal dilemma, you probably will go see a lawyer,and if you want financial advice you seek out a financial planner, correct? Well,here's a news flash,those professionals are all basically consultants,wouldn't you agree?So lets just say to keep from having a wedding dilemma you merely consider hiring a professional wedding consultant,because weddings can be very stressful especially when you are trying to please a lot of people all at once and you want to stay within your budget.
Like aforementioned, weddings can be stressful and totally time consuming.
To determine if you should seek the services of a professional wedding consultant, sit down with all parties concerned and see if you have the means to hire competent vendors.
Also consider what the wedding will cost within a reasonable budget.
Will you be able to arrange a schedule so your vendors, wedding party, and parents know when and whereto do their assigned parts? Yes,wedding consultants have a fee, but sometimes they can actually save you some of your hard earned money.
A young lady who works with my wife recently got married and she of course handled all of her wedding arrangements.
She told my wife about all the money her and her fiance paid for the DJ.
They agreed to pay $400 for this guy to play music at their reception and he had over booked so he called her the week of the wedding and cancelled.
So there she was having to book another DJ at the last minute and not surprisingly had to pay $600 more plus all the stress.
Do you think a DJ would have done that to a professional wedding consultant?Probably not.
So with that one example you can see how easily it is to have unplanned expenditures.
After talking over the need for a professional wedding consultant, you will need to discuss whether or notyou can afford one.
Because this is aformal occasion, not to mention the most important day of your life, you have only shot to get it right.
So, do you want to spend all of your free time putting this whole thing together yourself with little or no opportunities to enjoy the experience or maybe hire someone to take on the responsibility for the details freeing you up to relish the event.
With that said, let's look at some tips on choosing a competent professional wedding consultant.
I don't throw out the term "professional" loosely because there are incompetentwedding consultants out there.
For instance, the woman who after planning her own wedding, where everything went perfectly, thinks she is now a pro and gets business cards and a sign and basically becomes an accident looking for place to happen.
To find out if the consultant is competent, ask where they received their training.
Then you can check out the agency or organization simply by asking for the phone number.
If the state of residence requires a license that can be verified by contacting the appropriate state agency.
For further assistance find vendors in your area and ask them who they have worked with in the past.
Their opinions are just that their opinions, but they can give you a good start.
This article was written to give you information on why you might want to consider hiring a professional wedding consultant,not to promote them.
Just be aware there are always people ready to take advantage of you.
Be diligent do your homeworkand remember, if it sounds to good to be true it probably is.
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