So you’ve finally decided to quit your job and start a business if your own. If you love working with people, interacting and connecting with them, enjoy festivities and parties and are good at negotiating and networking, then you must consider becoming a wedding planner (also known as a wedding consultant or bridal consultant). Wedding is a special occasion in any man’s life. Most people want to make their wedding as special as possible and they are willing to pay good sums of money to wedding planners. Also, during the wedding, the bride and the groom and their respective families are so awfully busy with work, they probably don't have time to spend planning a wedding. That's where a wedding consultant comes in.
What Does a Wedding Planner Do?
The services of a wedding consultant can include:
§ Interacting well with the couple and the parents to identify their needs.
§ Budget preparation
§ Planning detailed checklist and a to-do list
§ Attendee list preparation
§ Identification of event venues (hotels, wedding manor etc.) in accordance with the choice of the couple
§ Identifying and hiring of wedding professionals and service providers (caterers, photographers, videographers, beautician, florists, bakers etc.), and preparation and execution of contracts.
§ Coordination of deliveries/services on the wedding day.
§ Have a back-up plan in the event of a disaster. This is a MUST.
What Skills Should a Wedding Planner Have?
The foremost skill expected in a planner is that s/he should be able to remain calm in the face of adversities. Planning and executing weddings is not an easy business and the planner is quite likely to encounter glitches and hiccups. Of course, he or she must be personable and, as mentioned earlier, a good negotiator.He should be able to intercept wedding hits. The planner is the mouthpiece for the bride and groom when it comes to ordering flowers, hiring a band and photographer, finding a caterer, etc. and it is expected for his to get the best possible services at the lowest prices. The wedding planner must always remember and understand that he is handling someone else’s money and so he can’t afford to play around with and therefore he should be very good with finances.
What Does a Wedding Planner Do?
The services of a wedding consultant can include:
§ Interacting well with the couple and the parents to identify their needs.
§ Budget preparation
§ Planning detailed checklist and a to-do list
§ Attendee list preparation
§ Identification of event venues (hotels, wedding manor etc.) in accordance with the choice of the couple
§ Identifying and hiring of wedding professionals and service providers (caterers, photographers, videographers, beautician, florists, bakers etc.), and preparation and execution of contracts.
§ Coordination of deliveries/services on the wedding day.
§ Have a back-up plan in the event of a disaster. This is a MUST.
What Skills Should a Wedding Planner Have?
The foremost skill expected in a planner is that s/he should be able to remain calm in the face of adversities. Planning and executing weddings is not an easy business and the planner is quite likely to encounter glitches and hiccups. Of course, he or she must be personable and, as mentioned earlier, a good negotiator.He should be able to intercept wedding hits. The planner is the mouthpiece for the bride and groom when it comes to ordering flowers, hiring a band and photographer, finding a caterer, etc. and it is expected for his to get the best possible services at the lowest prices. The wedding planner must always remember and understand that he is handling someone else’s money and so he can’t afford to play around with and therefore he should be very good with finances.