{"id":1122,"date":"2011-06-02T08:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioweddenver.com\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2011-06-02T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:30:43","slug":"3-important-questions-to-ask-a-potential-wedding-planner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/denver\/3-important-questions-to-ask-a-potential-wedding-planner\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Important Questions to Ask a Potential Wedding Planner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtsey of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/savethedateevents.com\">Save The Dave Events<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you take commissions or kick-backs from vendors?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To really compare pricing, ask potential planners if they mark up vendor prices.\u00a0 You may be paying $3000 for a wedding planner but not realize\u00a0she marks up all your vendor proposals by 10-20%.\u00a0\u00a0 If it is important to you that your planner doesn\u2019t take commissions, make sure it is in your contract with the planner and ask to see the original proposals from your vendors.\u00a0 Also, keep in mind that you are paying for their design\u00a0talent and style.\u00a0 A planning company with a fantastic portfolio of well styled weddings is going to charge more than a planning company focused on logistics and time lines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do I have contact with any of my vendors during the planning process?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may want to be really involved in the planning and be able to contact your vendors directly if you have a question.\u00a0 Or, you may want your planner to always be the point of contact.\u00a0 Either way is just fine but you need to know what your wedding planner prefers so there aren\u2019t any surprises.\u00a0 You also want to know if your planner will attend all of your vendor consultations or if she just gives you recommendations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many weddings and events do you personally do per year?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is going to really clue you in on the level of service you are going to receive. If your planner personally does 40 weddings per year, you are not going to receive the level of commitment and service of someone who only takes 15-20 per year.\u00a0\u00a0 If your wedding planner is working every single weekend in the summer, how excited and dedicated is she going to be at those last few weddings of the summer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtsey of\u00a0 Save The Dave Events\u00a0 Do you take commissions or kick-backs from vendors? To really compare pricing, ask potential planners if they mark up vendor prices.\u00a0 You may be paying $3000 for a wedding planner but not realize\u00a0she marks up all your vendor proposals by 10-20%.\u00a0\u00a0 If it is important to you that your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[65,491,707,863,891,976,985],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiowed.net\/denver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}