Brides and grooms: thinking of hiring a wedding planner?

If you haven’t hired a planner to help coordinate your wedding details, I encourage you to consider doing so.

Why?

Planning an event as complicated – and  important – as a wedding is a huge task. Countless hours will be spent looking for vendors, evaluating your options, reading contracts, calculating your budget and making sure all the pieces fit together. And that’s just the beginning! Then there all the phone calls, e-mails, and meetings that you have to keep track of, making sure everyone is on schedule to do what you’ve asked them to do. The wedding planning becomes a full-time job, and unfortunately, most employers don’t have a provision for wedding planning leave.

A wedding planner will help you manage all of your details and ensure that everything is taken care of. A skilled planner will not make your decisions for you, but will discuss your style and ideas with you and then see that your vision is carried out. She (or he) will be your point of contact with all of your vendors so that you are not burdened with having to communicate and coordinate with everyone involved in your wedding.

Sometimes not everything goes as expected on a wedding day. The guests’ shuttle doesn’t show up, and instead of guests being driven to the reception as you promised, they’re left standing in their hotel lobby. The florist gets lost on the way to the ceremony. If you’ve hired a wedding planner, these wayward vendors will have a point of contact other than you – so that you can relax and enjoy your day, and not have to be bothered with these details.

Brides and grooms getting married in Pittsburgh are lucky to have the opportunity to hire Sumer Schmitt of Simply Perfect Weddings. Sumer is the owner and principal wedding planner, and offers several different options for wedding planning services. You can opt for full-service planning, with management and support throughout the entire planning process. Day-of coordination is also available, and Sumer is also now offering hourly consulting services.

Why hire Sumer? When she talks about the brides she works with, her eyes light up. She has so much energy, motivation and love for her work, and such warmth for the relationships she builds with her brides. I first met Sumer at a wedding. She was focused on making sure everything went according to plan (and it certainly did!). She was calm and confident, but also fun and upbeat and happy. I am sure that her reassuring presence was a large part of why the whole wedding party was able to relax and enjoy their celebration, knowing that she was taking care of all of the details.