My inspiration for my FIRST blog comes from a conversation Mike and Myself had after watching BBC 2 Rhod Gilbert Work Experience. I know your thinking what does Rhod Gilbert the comedian and weddings have in common? A man who publicly declared hates weddings, well whether he likes them or not in this episode he was a Wedding Planner, and as funny as it was, it made us ask do you need one? We are getting married in 14 months time and due to the expense we began planning and paying the beginning of this year.
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I became my own Wedding Planner! Who could plan our wedding better than me? Right? The best part I have done it for free, with simple tips as in, attend a free Bridal Fayre you get a free Bridal Magazine (usually £3.99) which had budget information in it and there is loads of websites that offer this for free, especially www.confetti.co.uk! Add the power of the internet, a phone and Excel Spreadsheet you can handle your own budget and keep an eye on it, even alter it if you need to! For the majority of the wedding we looked at online before visiting. For example nearly all receptions have online brochures in pdf files to look at. Also depending where you book you get a Wedding Planner for the day! So do you need to pay for 2?
But something Rhod said really got me thinking; "Blokes don't dream of their weddings from five years old. Blokes don't give a t***." My Fiancee is quite involved in our wedding but the bigger picture is me and my mum, especially with the little details.
Now i'm not declaring war on Wedding Planners, but are they a wedding staple for everyone? But for us our budget is everything! With the average wedding costing £15,000 were lucky we have £12,000, but a Wedding Planner is extra cost! Can you afford the extra cost? Are you organised enough with plenty of time to do it yourself?
Smaller companies generally charge between 11-15% with bigger companies hitting 20%. Putting it in context, if we did have one we would loose £1,800 (15%) or £2,400 (20%) out of our budget. The company Rhod used 'Oh So Perfect Weddings' charge from £1,200, but offer a variety of services at different cost.
I guess if I was someone like Angelina Jolie, a Wedding Planner would be a must, but wedding companies would be offering her their services for advertisements and royalties.and I guess budget wouldn't be a topic" But I am a mere girl from Stoke who is finding reasonable costs!
As for Rhod: "I definitely 100% do not think I had a knack for Wedding Planning, so I don't know about the future if Give A S*** Weddings." But my question is how much did he and the BBC get for free?
But what do you think? To have a Wedding Planner or not?
