Wedding Planning Tips

Wedding Planner and Owner of Events by Divine Creations, Valerie divecchio, was interviewed by Ann Dwyer on a June 2009 broadcast on Fox 13’s Good Day Tampa Bay. She shared lots of great tips on how to save money when planning your wedding from her monthly free wedding planning 101 seminar.

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not planning MII wedding, i meant the profession of being a wedding planner

I’m in the very early stages of planning our wedding but I have no idea where to even start. Does anyone know of a good reference, book, or website? Any thoughts?

Thanks!

You are excited, but at the same time, you are also worried as you go about wedding planning. You know that this is only a once in a lifetime event and you want this to be the best. Well yeah, there are many people who ended up getting divorced after some time and go through the same process again and again when they choose to remarry. This shouldn’t bother you at all if this is going to be your first time. You should be optimistic that you can work it out and your partner is the right person whom you can spend forever with.

At this phase, your main problem is that you can only allot a limited budget on the venture. Do not let this fact burst your bubble. This should inspire you even more to work harder so that you can have the best wedding and a very memorable one even if you can’t afford lavish expenditures. If you are after good memories, here are some tips that you can consider when you are planning on what to do at such event.

1. You have to be certain about just how much you can allot on your wedding day. This is going to be the foundation of everything else that you need to decide from this point on. After you have calculated the exact amount, you will divide this exactly into parts that are composed of the details and needs that you need to get for your special day. This way, you will have an idea about how many people can you invite. If you can only tell some of your friends and relatives, don’t feel guilty. You can make it up in the future when you have more money to spend. You can host a party for a get together of those whom you weren’t able to invite on your wedding day. They will surely understand you because this event can really be expensive if you are not going to be firm and set your foot on certain decisions that you need to make while it is still on the planning stage.

2. Create a Plan B for everything. For example, the gowns can actually be rented, so why would you spend so much just to have a new one that you will never be able to use again? It is actually impractical, especially if you have sacrificed so many other important things just to get a new bridal gown. There are certain providers which will allow you to pick a design. They will create that gown and you will be the first one who is going to use it. But this is still under the condition that you will only rent the gown and you will return it once the occasion is done. This may be more costly than when you will opt for the gowns that are already available and in display. But this is still a lot cheaper than when you will buy a new one that you can keep after you have been married.

There are other things that you can look at to make sure that you will cut down the expenses during the wedding planning. You should focus your attention on how to create lasting memories even after the event is done.

I’d especially be interested in something that has online access and/or that deals with destination wedding planning, but they’re not priorities.

I’m a recent graduate as a wedding planner none of the companies here will hire me because they say I’m to creative for them would a wedding planning business be a great home business?

I understand real life assisting a wedding planner is the #1 ideal way to get experience, but I do have event planning experience already. It’s not in the wedding field, but with nonprofits.

Anyway, aside from that, I was specifically wondering about possible online courses or a good program that’s nationwide? (Preferably in Oklahoma City, OK or in Texas).

I starting my own business wedding planning but im having trouble finding a good catchy name for the busines aswell as my domain. Anyone have any ideas?

I need to find out a lot of things regarding wedding planning/ preparation.