Wedding planner or no wedding planner that is the question?!

Day of coordinator is saving my life right now!!! so happy I got her! $1600. details made simple. pretty sure she does Nyc since I'm in jersey

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Details made simple is the company I am using. I am working with Jessica Raia. she's amazing! send them an email you won't regret it. that was my main concern. I am planning everything but I need someone to execute the day of since I can't be there. she is my point of contact everyone knows they call her for everything. she starts working 2 months out

I battled this in the beginning but decided to just do things myself. Our venue includes a day-of-coordinator and one of my friend's volunteered to be my assistant for about a month to make sure everything is done to my liking. I saved some money this way and like doing things on my own timeline versus someone else's.

I actually decided to not get a wedding planner because I had roughly a year & a half from when I got engaged to the wedding. I've booked everything except the Officiant and transportation & I still have about 9 months to do that. I think yes it can be a little stressful to do it on your own but if you have enough time its VERY DO-ABLE! I did however book a 30day coordinator to take over for the last month to finalize & verify everything & to obviously take care of my big day so that my family or myself don't have to worry about things.

Even though my coordinator was $1,800 its still cheaper than a Planner.

View Quoted Comment I did the same too! Our venue requires a coordinator and the wedding coordinator there will be our day of coordinator, it just makes it a lot easier. I’m currently looking into booking some of the vendors we need and our day of coordinator has been very helpful as well.

I would just hire a doc. Less money and more practical! My venue includes the doc so I'm doing everything myself beforehand.

View Quoted Comment I 100% agree with you. I feel as though I can handle most of the planning. We practically have 10 months still and have all many vendors booked except a few. I wanted to book the planner I spoke with for DOC and she was still $2400 that was starting 30 days before. I will have to continue looking. Thanks.

Yeah that's pretty ridiculous! In fact, most wedding planners and day of coordinators are ridiculous! Sometimes, I think it's the area in which you will have your wedding that drives the costs. I'd say keep searching for a day of coordinator....maybe outside of the immediate area in where you will have your wedding. You may find some luck. Albeit, my wedding isn't until next year, I found a day of coordinator that is more than reasonable. He has his usual rates, including a day of coordinator rate, but he also have a Covid-friendly rate that's for smaller wedding for parties of less than 50 ppl. You may want to see about that if you are having an intimate wedding.

I’m doing a “Day of the Event” planner, because I have covered 90% of my plans. Guest list is down to 50. I’ll see who RSVP’s from that amount. The other 150 are being virtually invited. Much less stress and I’ve spared expense.

Im on a budget so I would never consider having a wedding planner. If I was rich and could afford to do whatever I wanted then of course I'd have a wedding planner. My fiancé and me are doing everything ourselves.


I think a day of coordinator might be a much better option for you considering you have done a lot of the work you would be paying a wedding planner to do. So for that kind of money wouldn't you want every bang for your buck? There are wedding planners who have the option of day of coordinator.