Get ready, wedding season is coming for you 2020!
It’s just the beginning of wedding planning season, and you’ll be in for a huge surprise for 2020 weddings! You get engaged to the love of your life, and should begin the planning process. What are your first thoughts about searching for a local southern California wedding venue? Do you worry about inviting 200 of your closest friends, family and co-workers? Do I go to the courthouse and save the cash for a down payment on our condo? Do you elope and take a a select few closest to our tribe and dash off to Italy? Can I make Aunt Sally’s backyard work?
Selecting a wedding planner SHOULD definitely be the first on your list of vendors to hire. Our team of wedding planners don’t wave a magic wand, click their heels and hope for a team of qualified professionals for our couples. It takes a solid amount of work, understanding and pre-qualification to cut the BS, and hire the vendor team that will make your wedding polished. Polished. Our team of Southern California wedding planners take into consideration a myriad of factors when putting together your dream team. Our team takes an exorbitant amount of time vetting vendors for each of the couples we are lucky enough to work with. Stop flirting around with Pinterest, and stay focused! Hire your planner and watch the magic unfold before your eyes. Did you really think vetting vendors and reading contracts is your expertise? It’s not, as much as you think you can handle it, trust me, it’s a science. If I had a nickel for every wedding that went bad, I’d been rich today. Our planners keep you laser-focused on the upcoming tasks over the months, and put together a schedule of each milestone you have to be conscious of. 35% of wedding venues in Southern California require you hire a planner, so be prepared to put that into your budget. Some venues will require a day of coordinator, {which does not exist, BTW} and some will demand a planner to step in no less than 90 days out. Keep in mind, all planners price differently, and structure their packages according to their own business plans. Sugar Branch Events will customize each proposal, tailored to your wedding, and no minimums.
Set a realistic investment, we walk you through ACTUAL numbers and not national averages. The team of wedding professionals that partner with Sugar Branch Events works like a well oiled machine. TEAMWORK does make the dream work. Let’s chat about hiring your Aunt, or friend of a friend that doesn’t know what a BEO is {Banquet Event Order}. Don’t think for a second that hiring a “friend of a friend” will work out just to save a dime. It can be catastrophic to say the least, I’ve been in the middle of this unfortunate feud, and it never ends well. It’s a requirement to have a liability policy, to work with our team, no exceptions. This protects all parties involved and strongly suggest you take out your own personal wedding insurance.
Talk to your family and get an idea of the funds you are about to drop, and get that investment locked down, that has wiggle room. It’s almost impossible to keep on target, however, Sugar Branch Event planners keep you in line as you grow your team. The sooner you choose your wedding planner, the more time you have to enjoy the process with us. Pop over to our contact page and send us an inquiry so we can get started building your plan. We take the no-nonsense approach seriously, because after all, you can’t afford not to be prepared.
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