Why Hire A Wedding Planner?
Planning a wedding is complex, especially if you have never organised something like this. Did you know that weddings can take, on average, over 250 hours to plan? With longer working hours and hectic social lives, it’s not surprising that couples struggle to find these additional hours.
As an Essex and Suffolk wedding photographer, I know the importance of getting everything right for your wedding day.
So, what is the answer? A question you may have is, should I hire a wedding planner?
For this blog, I am handing it over to Mary Briscoe of Weddings by Mary. Mary is a highly experienced and professional Wedding Planner based in Essex.

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So why hire an expert and professional Wedding Planner?
Great question: why should couples consider hiring a Wedding Planner? We employ all sorts of experts throughout our everyday lives, so why not for one of the most important days of our life?
Many couples often rely upon family and friends to help, especially on the big day. This sounds great in principle, but the reality is frequently very different. Jobs are often forgotten as guests have, quite understandably, got caught up in the excitement of the wedding day. Secondly, and rightly, they want to be your wedding guest and enjoy the celebrations with you.
Making Your Wedding Planning Experience Fun and Enjoyable
An experienced and professional Wedding Planner can make your wedding planning experience fun. They alleviate the stresses and strains of organising your special day. This will save you from trying to find those additional hours in a hectic life.
A Wedding Planner will already come armed with a little black book of contacts. They will almost instinctively know the best wedding suppliers to suit your wedding plans and style. A Wedding Planner will expertly handle all the administration that comes with planning a wedding, and there is much of it. It’s not all cake-tasting and dress-shopping! A Wedding Planner will also expertly handle your guest list management and RSVPs.
As with anything, there will be hiccups and issues along the way. A Wedding Planner will professionally handle these, some of which you will not even know until a solution is found! You can enjoy the time leading up to your big day and continue with your already hectic work schedule and busy social and family lives.
What is the difference between a Wedding Planner and a Wedding Venue Coordinator?
Mary of Weddings By Mary has a significant advantage here. It has been a Wedding Venue Manager for over ten years at one of Essex’s top wedding venues. It, therefore, has the experience and understanding to see things from both perspectives.
The most crucial factor for both roles is ensuring that every couple’s wedding is executed perfectly to accomplish a beautiful, bespoke, stress-free wedding day.
Predominately, though, the Wedding Planner will have often been with you from the beginning of your wedding planning journey. They will have got to know you as a couple, knowing your likes and dislikes and the feel and look you want to create for your wedding.
A Wedding Venue Coordinator’s role, first and foremost, is to ensure that everything specific to the venue is dealt with. They offer valuable guidance and advice throughout the planning process about what you can and can’t do at the venue. Suppose you are holding your civil wedding ceremony at the venue. In that case, it is also their legal duty to ensure that the venue is licensed correctly and that everything the registrar requires from the venue’s perspective is in place.
Leading Up To Your Wedding Day
In the final few weeks leading up to your wedding, you will have far more critical things on your mind than liaising with suppliers, checking arrangements and all those little but important finishing touches. There will no doubt be the final wedding dress and suit fittings, stag & hen weekends to enjoy, and make-up and hair trials to attend, to name but a few.
With the wealth of experience that a professional Wedding Planner has built, they can transform your ideas and visions into reality and ensure that your wedding exceeds all expectations, from the initial planning stage through to the last dance of the evening.
With such a momentous occasion, you don’t want to look back and wish you’d done things differently, do you?
For details on other wedding day professionals, please read this blog by Carol Cranfield, Wedding Celebrant.
Mary
Would you like to hire Mary as your wedding planner? Please check out the Weddings By Mary website for further information about Mary’s services. Alternatively, You can contact Mary at 07760 437 932 or by email at Mary@weddingsbymaryco.uk.
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