Planning Your Perfect Wedding - Wedding Planners Are Your Mom Away From Home at Your Perfect Wedding

Planning and executing a wedding is a big job! Traditionally mothers of the bride and groom have taken responsibilities for many of the small details. But today, many of those moms don't live where you live or have incredibly busy lives or are just bad at this stuff, which limits how much they can participate. Maybe you don't have a mom or maybe you've chosen to do this yourself. If any of these are true for you, Wedding Planners can be a great addition to your wedding planning process!

Here are some ways that they can help everyone feel as if they're participating toward making this the wedding of your dreams.


When Moms (and Dads) live far away, most WP are very skilled at involving Moms in the planning process - to the extent that you and they want them to be involved. The internet is a huge help in this as people can get a good picture of what they're involved with. This is a great way for people to stay current, when they're feeling sad about not being there to do more. And who knows, if there are issues between you and one or more of the moms, they may be able to help you use your wedding so ease the strain.
Your wedding planner can direct the planning process and get you organized and right on task. This is a process where it's very easy to get obsessed about your cocktail napkins and forget about your wedding celebrant, wedding ceremony and wedding vows. Your friendly WP has a tickler file and will bug you about the next important decision you have to make. This is a godsend.
Some WPs will take on some of the step-by-step work to implement your decisions.
Wedding planners can stand in for Mom and Dad and remind you of wedding etiquette.
While wedding planners, have plenty of good suggestions, they have no vested interest in which favor exactly you choose, because they'll do another wedding and someone will choose that favor. They're neutral.
Wedding planners are also neutral between their brides and grooms. They work for both of you. They want both of you involved in your wedding and thrilled with the outcome. The more you're involved in making decisions and doing the work to make the wedding work, the greater the investment you are putting into your marriage. That's why you're doing this... a great wedding is gravy: the great marriage is the protein!

Finding the right wedding consultant to work with you might take some research and some interviewing. You want them to be a good match. But once you've got the right one in your corner, you're ready to go! Now go work on your wedding vows and the wedding ceremony, because they're the most important marriage planning you will do.