Hi , Everyone…
I’m mostly just venting here, but I’ve started researching and speaking with a few day-of wedding coordinators recently trying to see if I could find one that is a good fit.
Ugh! So far it’s been a drag! I spoke with one on Sunday that seemed promising (she was extremely thorough and I thought it was a slam dunk), but once she sent over her proposal/agreement, we found a lot of things we didn’t like. For example, her $1,700 retainer was non-refundable - this always puts me on edge because while I highly doubt we will postpone or cancel our wedding, it’s still nice to have a refundable option in case something drastic happens. The next thing was, she wanted us to foot the bill for herself and her assistant (our wedding won’t even need an assistant, we’re only having 50-60 guests!) to stay at our venue! I could understand if she was traveling from a long ways away but she’s only about a 40-45 minute drive away from our venue… the last thing, she had a blurb in there stating that they require access to all professional photos & videos from our wedding to be used on her website in order to help promote her services, etc. but if that’s something we don’t wish to do, we then would have to sign a $3,000 non-disclosure agreement. Needless to say, we were completely turned off by these requirements and of course, none of this was mentioned during our zoom call meeting!
I did speak with another potential coordinator yesterday who’s local to Santa Cruz (a major plus), but she didn’t really give me a good vibe and I found her phone call with me to be extremely informal and unprofessional (she had to pause the call a couple of times in order to scold her 3 year old who was hanging out in the background). We just didn’t get a good feel from her even though her pricing is considerably cheaper than the one I mentioned above.
I have ONE more phone call scheduled for tomorrow with another potential coordinator who has worked at our venue before, so I’m keeping everything crossed that this one goes much better than the last two. Has anyone else had a hard time with wedding coordinators?? I had no clue it was going to be this much trial & error especially as we don’t need someone to help us plan from the start.
Anyways, here’s hoping tomorrow’s call goes well!
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