Frequently Asked Questions

First, put it on IG or it’s not real, just kidding but make sure you tell your family. What’s next? Should you hire a planner or book your venue? You should hire a planner first, but not quite yet. You have some homework to do.

Step 1: Pick a 2-3 preferred dates because one may not be available so you need a backup..

Step 2: Discuss your priorities and your financial comfort zone.

Step 3: Now it’s time to find a planner! Not any planner but one that aligns with your personality, wedding dreams and financial comfort zone.

Whatever it takes. I know, that sounds snarky, but it's the truth. We do whatever is needed to make sure you have the #BestDayEver. This starts at the beginning of the planning process when we are understanding who you are as people through our Development and Research phase, because when something goes wrong (and something always goes wrong), it is our job to “apply pressure” and compel everything the room to bend to your will and make it work in a way that you never know anything went wrong. We can’t use out best professional judgment if we don’t understand you, your likes and dislikes, your thought process, your priorities and most of all your story.

Ultimately, every planner works differently and you'll need to find one whose process works for you. Click here to checkout our process.

Good question! To be honest, we can’t answer that. There are many elements that play into your event cost and our services. Location, date, guest count, scope of work, décor & so much more. Oh and let’s not forget inflation. It’s too challenging to put a price on all of those variables when no two events are the same.

Things look very different than they did 2 years ago when your friend or cousin got married, so don’t compare, just schedule a complimentary consultation and allow us to properly price the services for you.

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Oh, that’s a good question too. It’s 2023 and in a world where everything is custom and inflation is real, that’s just not something we can clearly answer.

What can be considered is minimums. For example, if your venue has a $17,000 food and beverage minimum plus 22% service charge and tax, that $17,000 becomes $22,015 and typically does not include gratuity.

So if you are someone who wants to spend $40k on a wedding, understand that food and beverage just took a little more than half and likely won’t stop there. Venue’s tend to have a few needed add-ons such as a cake cutting fee, cookie table fee, security, mandatory insurance, etc. The biggest part is that we’re talking the minimum, that doesn’t mean that is your final bill. When all said and done you could be easily be looking at a $30,000 bill. We see it too often.

For us a budget is just a list of priorities with numbers attached to it, so make a list of those priorities, set a financial comfort zone, hire a planner and allow us to do the rest.

Well, that’s a question you have to answer for yourself. However, if you’re looking to be convinced, allow us to lean in and ask you a question or two.

1) Would you drive a brand new car off the lot without some form of insurance or warranty like bumper-to-bumper coverage?

2) Would you try to build your dream house on empty land, by yourself with no expert contractors?

The answer is NO! Why, because you don’t know what you don’t know and it’s a large investment to “experiment” with and see if you can do it on your own. This is the thing, we can all afford many things, but it’s about what you feel comfortable spending.

Bottom line is, can you afford a planner? We believe, with unfamiliar territory and this large of an investment you can’t afford not to have one.

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The short answer is YES! A venue coordinator works specifically for the venue and only handles details pertaining to the venue itself, whereas your planner works specifically for YOU. Planners are responsible for managing ALL of the details of your entire wedding. We are advocates between you and all of your vendors, including the venue. God forbid you’re unhappy about something pertaining to the venue, who advocates for you? Not the venue coordinator (who by the way still works for the venue). You get the point.

We find this article to be extremely helpful in answering this question

No we don’t. On event day we oversee and manage your vendor team. For our Full-Service clients we plan and design the entire wedding start to finish. When doing so, we only partner you with other full-service vendors. For example: we will only partner you with florists that deliver, install, stay for flip (if needed) and return for teardown, cleanup and load out.

With Event Management clients, we prefer and ask that you only hire full-service vendors however if a family member or friend is making centerpieces, it would be your responsibility to ensure that person can setup, teardown and work within the venue’s guidelines.