Let’s now look at the services you may expect from a wedding planner. It is very important that you contact more than one wedding planner before making your choice and ask each one of them what services they offer, because a wedding planner might charge 3000$ and assist you better than a wedding planner who charges 6000$.

As the definition suggests, a wedding planner organizes weddings, according to people’s desires and needs. In the first place, a wedding planner can not be considered a professional if he doesn’t know the "right people". That means that a proper wedding planner should have contacts, so that he will be able to satisfy any requests, no matter how weird. Would you like the church to be decorated with hybrid flowers that nobody has ever seen before? Your wedding planner should know or be able to contact a flower breeder who can provide you with unique flowers. Would you like your wedding dress to be imported from Portugal? Your wedding planner should get in touch with the best Portuguese fashion designers and eventually fly to Lisbon with you to select a wedding dress.

So a wedding planner’s strength derives from his contacts.

A wedding planner’s duties include budget preparation, staff selection, assistance with legal documentation and eventual translations, in case of destination weddings.

Therefore, a wedding planner should have a deep knowledge of HR management, law and event management. Now you may rightfully ask: does it get three degrees to plan a wedding?

Of course not, but a wedding planner should know what documents are required to get married and what type of staff is needed to organize a reception party.

A wedding planner should also listen to your needs and wishes before going down to business. A wedding planner should elaborate a back-up plan should there be any problem.

A wedding planner should identify potential event venues and help you choose the best ones.

Last, but not least, a wedding planner should definitely help the couple prepare the attendee list.

A wedding planner can not afford to make mistakes, which is why you will have to make sure that your wedding planner is scrupulous enough to organize your special day. You don’t really need to be a detective to find out some information about a wedding planner since the one you are interested in is probably linked to a wedding planning agency. All you have to do is find the wedding planning agency’s telephone number and give them a ring asking whether they have a wedding planner who can assist you with your wedding.

They will probably ask you whether you have any special needs, since several wedding planning agencies collaborate with several professionals, each of which is specialized in a certain field. They might have a wedding planner for destination weddings, a wedding planner for domestic weddings, a wedding planner for luxury weddings, a wedding planner for middle-budget weddings, a wedding planner for religious weddings (muslim, hindu, jewish ceremonies, for example) and so forth…