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10 Tips to Hiring a Wedding Planner
By Faith Walker If you are in the market to hire a wedding consultant, here are ten helpful tips that can guide you through the process of obtaining a profesisonal wedding consultant.
- Find out exactly what a wedding planner does do your homework.
- Find the names of the reputable wedding planners in your area.
- Make a list of things you would like the wedding planner to do. If you want to plan the entire wedding, but you want the planner to direct the ceremony and reception, then you should utilize the service of a wedding planner for Day of services only.
- Make sure your budget is relative to the type of service you would like. Most wedding planners are willing to work with you for an allotted amount of time if you are unable to purchase a package. Check with him/her to find out if they charge and hourly rate.
- Find out if your church requires you use their wedding coordinator. Many churches now require that for the protection of the churches property, that brides must use their wedding coordinator. This doesnt mean that coordinator will work at your reception; it means you may have to hire another consultant to do your reception.
- Check with several bridal associations and see what their members must do to become certified. Find out what classes if any your wedding consultants have taken to become certified or how many years of experience they have had in doing weddings. If they arent that experienced, will they provide you with a discounted rate in exchange for a testimonial.
- Ask for and check references. It is so important that the wedding planner live up to the expectations of the bride. A good testimonial from a bride is crucial to the consultants business. Check references and find out how the wedding consultant was able to handle stressful situations and how well the wedding guests were treated during the event.
- Skinny down your list and invite at least three wedding planners for face-to-face interviews. Almost all wedding planners offer free initial consultations so take advantage of this meeting and get to know your potential wedding planner.
- Ask for a face-to-face interview, dont just price shop. Some wedding planners dont like to give quotes over the phone. You are shopping not only for a service, but a personality. It is crucial to give your business to someone who understands what you are looking for in your vision.
- Check to see if the wedding planner youve selected is affiliated with any Bridal Planning Association. Not only do you want your planner to be well connected, but you also want her to be in good standing and have a great rapport with any professional associations. Some wedding planners have won awards, and it is nice to be able to see this on a professional website as a sample of their work.
10 Tips to Hiring a Wedding Planner
By Faith Walker If you are in the market to hire a wedding consultant, here are ten helpful tips that can guide you through the process of obtaining a profesisonal wedding consultant.
- Find out exactly what a wedding planner does do your homework.
- Find the names of the reputable wedding planners in your area.
- Make a list of things you would like the wedding planner to do. If you want to plan the entire wedding, but you want the planner to direct the ceremony and reception, then you should utilize the service of a wedding planner for Day of services only.
- Make sure your budget is relative to the type of service you would like. Most wedding planners are willing to work with you for an allotted amount of time if you are unable to purchase a package. Check with him/her to find out if they charge and hourly rate.
- Find out if your church requires you use their wedding coordinator. Many churches now require that for the protection of the churches property, that brides must use their wedding coordinator. This doesnt mean that coordinator will work at your reception; it means you may have to hire another consultant to do your reception.
- Check with several bridal associations and see what their members must do to become certified. Find out what classes if any your wedding consultants have taken to become certified or how many years of experience they have had in doing weddings. If they arent that experienced, will they provide you with a discounted rate in exchange for a testimonial.
- Ask for and check references. It is so important that the wedding planner live up to the expectations of the bride. A good testimonial from a bride is crucial to the consultants business. Check references and find out how the wedding consultant was able to handle stressful situations and how well the wedding guests were treated during the event.
- Skinny down your list and invite at least three wedding planners for face-to-face interviews. Almost all wedding planners offer free initial consultations so take advantage of this meeting and get to know your potential wedding planner.
- Ask for a face-to-face interview, dont just price shop. Some wedding planners dont like to give quotes over the phone. You are shopping not only for a service, but a personality. It is crucial to give your business to someone who understands what you are looking for in your vision.
- Check to see if the wedding planner youve selected is affiliated with any Bridal Planning Association. Not only do you want your planner to be well connected, but you also want her to be in good standing and have a great rapport with any professional associations. Some wedding planners have won awards, and it is nice to be able to see this on a professional website as a sample of their work.
10 Tips to Hiring a Wedding Planner
By Faith Walker If you are in the market to hire a wedding consultant, here are ten helpful tips that can guide you through the process of obtaining a profesisonal wedding consultant.
- Find out exactly what a wedding planner does do your homework.
- Find the names of the reputable wedding planners in your area.
- Make a list of things you would like the wedding planner to do. If you want to plan the entire wedding, but you want the planner to direct the ceremony and reception, then you should utilize the service of a wedding planner for Day of services only.
- Make sure your budget is relative to the type of service you would like. Most wedding planners are willing to work with you for an allotted amount of time if you are unable to purchase a package. Check with him/her to find out if they charge and hourly rate.
- Find out if your church requires you use their wedding coordinator. Many churches now require that for the protection of the churches property, that brides must use their wedding coordinator. This doesnt mean that coordinator will work at your reception; it means you may have to hire another consultant to do your reception.
- Check with several bridal associations and see what their members must do to become certified. Find out what classes if any your wedding consultants have taken to become certified or how many years of experience they have had in doing weddings. If they arent that experienced, will they provide you with a discounted rate in exchange for a testimonial.
- Ask for and check references. It is so important that the wedding planner live up to the expectations of the bride. A good testimonial from a bride is crucial to the consultants business. Check references and find out how the wedding consultant was able to handle stressful situations and how well the wedding guests were treated during the event.
- Skinny down your list and invite at least three wedding planners for face-to-face interviews. Almost all wedding planners offer free initial consultations so take advantage of this meeting and get to know your potential wedding planner.
- Ask for a face-to-face interview, dont just price shop. Some wedding planners dont like to give quotes over the phone. You are shopping not only for a service, but a personality. It is crucial to give your business to someone who understands what you are looking for in your vision.
- Check to see if the wedding planner youve selected is affiliated with any Bridal Planning Association. Not only do you want your planner to be well connected, but you also want her to be in good standing and have a great rapport with any professional associations. Some wedding planners have won awards, and it is nice to be able to see this on a professional website as a sample of their work.
Taming the Runaway Wedding Planner
SAYING “I do” to a wedding planner can be the second most important vow a newly engaged couple makes.
With people marrying later, more women working and weddings growing ever splashier, many couples are hiring planners to help sort through the dizzying choices concerning the location, invitations, flowers, photographers, color schemes, D.J.’s, bands, lighting, place cards, centerpieces, cakes and fog machines, to name a dozen.
But as the wedding planning field expands, some couples are finding that planners, like a broken engagement, can cause heartache.
David Mandel of Los Angeles, an executive producer of the HBO program “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” and his bride, Dr. Rebecca Whitney, hired and dismissed two consultants because they were “planzillas.”
“It was like we had this mutual enemy — our wedding planner,” Mr. Mandel recalled. “We were not sleeping well. It was beyond miserable.”
The first, who Mr. Mandel said was “very well known in Los Angeles,” dropped out of sight for a month after the first meeting with the couple. The second tried to steer them to a hotel in Palm Springs with which she frequently did business.
The proposed wedding approached $1 million, “hundreds of thousands of dollars more than we originally thought,” Mr. Mandel said. “She was getting 20 percent of whatever our wedding was going to cost, so she was negotiating in her best interest, not ours.”
Finally, Mr. Mandel and his bride, a pediatrician, found a third planner they liked. They were happily wed last New Year’s Eve in New York, at Cipriani 42nd Street.
The couple’s experience was not all that rare, as even some wedding planners acknowledge.
“I’ve been doing this my whole life, long enough to know that some of us in this business are a little full of ourselves,” said Marcy Blum, a New York planner who got in on the ground floor of the field in 1986, when the number of planners nationwide was fewer than a thousand.
“In fact,” she said, “a lot of wedding planners are entering the field with no training, so buyer beware.”
The average cost of a wedding is now $27,852, Condé Nast Bridal Media says. Typically, the planner — there are about 10,000 in the United States, according to Gerard J. Monaghan, a founder of the Association of Bridal Consultants — receives about 20 percent of the total. Others charge a flat fee, from several hundred dollars to as much as $100,000.
Selecting a planner, or as they often prefer to be called, a wedding coordinator, can be tricky, especially if just what she or he can bring to the banquet table is not spelled out.
“A couple should sit down with a planner before hiring that person and ask a lot of questions,” said Leslie Price, an owner of In Any Event in New York. “Both sides need to fully understand each other’s expectations.”
Many couples use planners because they want to avoid the headache of directing an event that can quickly metamorphose into something along the lines of a major awards show.
Jacqueline C. Gordon, a homemaker in Derwood, Md., grew tired of the “checking and re-checking” of “every little thing” when her first daughter married. So, for her second daughter’s wedding, she hired a planner, and, as a result, she said, “I basically showed up.”
But the experience of Jennifer Rudin and Glen Pearson was far different. “We just didn’t connect with our planner on any level,” said the bride, the director of casting and talent development at Disney Theatrical Productions in New York.
The couple, who were married in September 2005 at the Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel and Spa in Pasadena, Calif., said the hotel required a planner, and recommended one. The couple say they sat with her in a bar at the hotel and flicked through photos of other people’s weddings, while she pitched themes (Hawaiian? Italian?), colored margaritas and her brother, the fantastic wedding photographer.
“It was always about her,” Ms. Rudin Pearson said, “never about us.” In the end they dropped that planner and chose one of their own.
Jill Hilts, the director of catering sales at the Ritz, said that she “is not aware of anybody who has ever had a complaint” about a planner on its recommended list. She said that the Ritz is vast, with 23 acres of gardens where weddings take place, and therefore, she said: “It is not possible for one individual to properly service a wedding here. It takes a team of professionals to assist one of our coordinators.”
Wedding experts say that planners are playing an increasingly large role in the marital-industrial complex.
“The idea of wedding planning has really existed for over 100 years,” said Maria McBride, the wedding style director for Brides magazine. “Affluent families always hired a social director to plan all of their affairs.
“We saw the wedding planner trend emerge again in the 1980s when the stock market and economy were soaring. By 1992, the wedding planner had exploded into its own niche business.”
Wedding planners say that their clients are vulnerable. They are often starry-eyed, eager to impress, young and clueless about the business.
That is why, industry experts say, couples need to enlist the help of planners who work for a flat fee and excel in negotiating contracts with event spaces of the couple’s own choosing. Antonia van der Meer, the editor in chief of Modern Bride magazine, said, “Good planners should pay for themselves.”
Laura Chavis, a planner in New York, said she deals with the managers of 50 wedding sites across the metropolitan area, including castles, lofts, bars and country clubs.
She passes all discounts to her clients, she said, and never accepts a finder’s fee. But not all planners work like that. Mr. Monaghan of the consultants association, a trade group with 3,800 members (up from one in 1981) based in New Milford, Conn., said his organization ejected a woman a few years ago for taking kickbacks from a limousine driver. “That’s a no-no,” he said.
One wedding trend is enlisting the help of a “day-of”’ planner, www.WedNDay.com which costs much less than a full-scale coordinator, usually a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. The couple makes all the arrangements and then deputizes the planner to run everything on the actual wedding day, like checking traffic reports, alphabetizing escort cards and making sure the band doesn’t play “Louie, Louie,” or at least not too loudly.
BUSINESSES like Wedding One are another option. It is a one-stop wedding shop that opened in Flushing, Queens, 12 years ago, mostly serving Korean-American couples. Wedding One has a dress shop, beauty salon, floral studio, photo studio and consultants who can book D.J.’s, videographers and just about anything else. Branches now operate in SoHo, Fort Lee, N.J., and Los Angeles.
“My needs were pretty simple and everything was in one place,” said Dina Lim, a child psychiatrist in San Diego who married with the help of Wedding One in June 2005 in Central Park. “I didn’t want to complicate things with a planner.” Neither did David Mandel. “Weddings are a stressful enough time,” he said. “So my advice to people getting married is to find a planner who wants to put together your wedding, not theirs.”
Taming the Runaway Wedding Planner
SAYING “I do” to a wedding planner can be the second most important vow a newly engaged couple makes.
With people marrying later, more women working and weddings growing ever splashier, many couples are hiring planners to help sort through the dizzying choices concerning the location, invitations, flowers, photographers, color schemes, D.J.’s, bands, lighting, place cards, centerpieces, cakes and fog machines, to name a dozen.
But as the wedding planning field expands, some couples are finding that planners, like a broken engagement, can cause heartache.
David Mandel of Los Angeles, an executive producer of the HBO program “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” and his bride, Dr. Rebecca Whitney, hired and dismissed two consultants because they were “planzillas.”
“It was like we had this mutual enemy — our wedding planner,” Mr. Mandel recalled. “We were not sleeping well. It was beyond miserable.”
The first, who Mr. Mandel said was “very well known in Los Angeles,” dropped out of sight for a month after the first meeting with the couple. The second tried to steer them to a hotel in Palm Springs with which she frequently did business.
The proposed wedding approached $1 million, “hundreds of thousands of dollars more than we originally thought,” Mr. Mandel said. “She was getting 20 percent of whatever our wedding was going to cost, so she was negotiating in her best interest, not ours.”
Finally, Mr. Mandel and his bride, a pediatrician, found a third planner they liked. They were happily wed last New Year’s Eve in New York, at Cipriani 42nd Street.
The couple’s experience was not all that rare, as even some wedding planners acknowledge.
“I’ve been doing this my whole life, long enough to know that some of us in this business are a little full of ourselves,” said Marcy Blum, a New York planner who got in on the ground floor of the field in 1986, when the number of planners nationwide was fewer than a thousand.
“In fact,” she said, “a lot of wedding planners are entering the field with no training, so buyer beware.”
The average cost of a wedding is now $27,852, Condé Nast Bridal Media says. Typically, the planner — there are about 10,000 in the United States, according to Gerard J. Monaghan, a founder of the Association of Bridal Consultants — receives about 20 percent of the total. Others charge a flat fee, from several hundred dollars to as much as $100,000.
Selecting a planner, or as they often prefer to be called, a wedding coordinator, can be tricky, especially if just what she or he can bring to the banquet table is not spelled out.
“A couple should sit down with a planner before hiring that person and ask a lot of questions,” said Leslie Price, an owner of In Any Event in New York. “Both sides need to fully understand each other’s expectations.”
Many couples use planners because they want to avoid the headache of directing an event that can quickly metamorphose into something along the lines of a major awards show.
Jacqueline C. Gordon, a homemaker in Derwood, Md., grew tired of the “checking and re-checking” of “every little thing” when her first daughter married. So, for her second daughter’s wedding, she hired a planner, and, as a result, she said, “I basically showed up.”
But the experience of Jennifer Rudin and Glen Pearson was far different. “We just didn’t connect with our planner on any level,” said the bride, the director of casting and talent development at Disney Theatrical Productions in New York.
The couple, who were married in September 2005 at the Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel and Spa in Pasadena, Calif., said the hotel required a planner, and recommended one. The couple say they sat with her in a bar at the hotel and flicked through photos of other people’s weddings, while she pitched themes (Hawaiian? Italian?), colored margaritas and her brother, the fantastic wedding photographer.
“It was always about her,” Ms. Rudin Pearson said, “never about us.” In the end they dropped that planner and chose one of their own.
Jill Hilts, the director of catering sales at the Ritz, said that she “is not aware of anybody who has ever had a complaint” about a planner on its recommended list. She said that the Ritz is vast, with 23 acres of gardens where weddings take place, and therefore, she said: “It is not possible for one individual to properly service a wedding here. It takes a team of professionals to assist one of our coordinators.”
Wedding experts say that planners are playing an increasingly large role in the marital-industrial complex.
“The idea of wedding planning has really existed for over 100 years,” said Maria McBride, the wedding style director for Brides magazine. “Affluent families always hired a social director to plan all of their affairs.
“We saw the wedding planner trend emerge again in the 1980s when the stock market and economy were soaring. By 1992, the wedding planner had exploded into its own niche business.”
Wedding planners say that their clients are vulnerable. They are often starry-eyed, eager to impress, young and clueless about the business.
That is why, industry experts say, couples need to enlist the help of planners who work for a flat fee and excel in negotiating contracts with event spaces of the couple’s own choosing. Antonia van der Meer, the editor in chief of Modern Bride magazine, said, “Good planners should pay for themselves.”
Laura Chavis, a planner in New York, said she deals with the managers of 50 wedding sites across the metropolitan area, including castles, lofts, bars and country clubs.
She passes all discounts to her clients, she said, and never accepts a finder’s fee. But not all planners work like that. Mr. Monaghan of the consultants association, a trade group with 3,800 members (up from one in 1981) based in New Milford, Conn., said his organization ejected a woman a few years ago for taking kickbacks from a limousine driver. “That’s a no-no,” he said.
One wedding trend is enlisting the help of a “day-of”’ planner, www.WedNDay.com which costs much less than a full-scale coordinator, usually a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. The couple makes all the arrangements and then deputizes the planner to run everything on the actual wedding day, like checking traffic reports, alphabetizing escort cards and making sure the band doesn’t play “Louie, Louie,” or at least not too loudly.
BUSINESSES like Wedding One are another option. It is a one-stop wedding shop that opened in Flushing, Queens, 12 years ago, mostly serving Korean-American couples. Wedding One has a dress shop, beauty salon, floral studio, photo studio and consultants who can book D.J.’s, videographers and just about anything else. Branches now operate in SoHo, Fort Lee, N.J., and Los Angeles.
“My needs were pretty simple and everything was in one place,” said Dina Lim, a child psychiatrist in San Diego who married with the help of Wedding One in June 2005 in Central Park. “I didn’t want to complicate things with a planner.” Neither did David Mandel. “Weddings are a stressful enough time,” he said. “So my advice to people getting married is to find a planner who wants to put together your wedding, not theirs.”
Taming the Runaway Wedding Planner
SAYING “I do” to a wedding planner can be the second most important vow a newly engaged couple makes.
With people marrying later, more women working and weddings growing ever splashier, many couples are hiring planners to help sort through the dizzying choices concerning the location, invitations, flowers, photographers, color schemes, D.J.’s, bands, lighting, place cards, centerpieces, cakes and fog machines, to name a dozen.
But as the wedding planning field expands, some couples are finding that planners, like a broken engagement, can cause heartache.
David Mandel of Los Angeles, an executive producer of the HBO program “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” and his bride, Dr. Rebecca Whitney, hired and dismissed two consultants because they were “planzillas.”
“It was like we had this mutual enemy — our wedding planner,” Mr. Mandel recalled. “We were not sleeping well. It was beyond miserable.”
The first, who Mr. Mandel said was “very well known in Los Angeles,” dropped out of sight for a month after the first meeting with the couple. The second tried to steer them to a hotel in Palm Springs with which she frequently did business.
The proposed wedding approached $1 million, “hundreds of thousands of dollars more than we originally thought,” Mr. Mandel said. “She was getting 20 percent of whatever our wedding was going to cost, so she was negotiating in her best interest, not ours.”
Finally, Mr. Mandel and his bride, a pediatrician, found a third planner they liked. They were happily wed last New Year’s Eve in New York, at Cipriani 42nd Street.
The couple’s experience was not all that rare, as even some wedding planners acknowledge.
“I’ve been doing this my whole life, long enough to know that some of us in this business are a little full of ourselves,” said Marcy Blum, a New York planner who got in on the ground floor of the field in 1986, when the number of planners nationwide was fewer than a thousand.
“In fact,” she said, “a lot of wedding planners are entering the field with no training, so buyer beware.”
The average cost of a wedding is now $27,852, Condé Nast Bridal Media says. Typically, the planner — there are about 10,000 in the United States, according to Gerard J. Monaghan, a founder of the Association of Bridal Consultants — receives about 20 percent of the total. Others charge a flat fee, from several hundred dollars to as much as $100,000.
Selecting a planner, or as they often prefer to be called, a wedding coordinator, can be tricky, especially if just what she or he can bring to the banquet table is not spelled out.
“A couple should sit down with a planner before hiring that person and ask a lot of questions,” said Leslie Price, an owner of In Any Event in New York. “Both sides need to fully understand each other’s expectations.”
Many couples use planners because they want to avoid the headache of directing an event that can quickly metamorphose into something along the lines of a major awards show.
Jacqueline C. Gordon, a homemaker in Derwood, Md., grew tired of the “checking and re-checking” of “every little thing” when her first daughter married. So, for her second daughter’s wedding, she hired a planner, and, as a result, she said, “I basically showed up.”
But the experience of Jennifer Rudin and Glen Pearson was far different. “We just didn’t connect with our planner on any level,” said the bride, the director of casting and talent development at Disney Theatrical Productions in New York.
The couple, who were married in September 2005 at the Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel and Spa in Pasadena, Calif., said the hotel required a planner, and recommended one. The couple say they sat with her in a bar at the hotel and flicked through photos of other people’s weddings, while she pitched themes (Hawaiian? Italian?), colored margaritas and her brother, the fantastic wedding photographer.
“It was always about her,” Ms. Rudin Pearson said, “never about us.” In the end they dropped that planner and chose one of their own.
Jill Hilts, the director of catering sales at the Ritz, said that she “is not aware of anybody who has ever had a complaint” about a planner on its recommended list. She said that the Ritz is vast, with 23 acres of gardens where weddings take place, and therefore, she said: “It is not possible for one individual to properly service a wedding here. It takes a team of professionals to assist one of our coordinators.”
Wedding experts say that planners are playing an increasingly large role in the marital-industrial complex.
“The idea of wedding planning has really existed for over 100 years,” said Maria McBride, the wedding style director for Brides magazine. “Affluent families always hired a social director to plan all of their affairs.
“We saw the wedding planner trend emerge again in the 1980s when the stock market and economy were soaring. By 1992, the wedding planner had exploded into its own niche business.”
Wedding planners say that their clients are vulnerable. They are often starry-eyed, eager to impress, young and clueless about the business.
That is why, industry experts say, couples need to enlist the help of planners who work for a flat fee and excel in negotiating contracts with event spaces of the couple’s own choosing. Antonia van der Meer, the editor in chief of Modern Bride magazine, said, “Good planners should pay for themselves.”
Laura Chavis, a planner in New York, said she deals with the managers of 50 wedding sites across the metropolitan area, including castles, lofts, bars and country clubs.
She passes all discounts to her clients, she said, and never accepts a finder’s fee. But not all planners work like that. Mr. Monaghan of the consultants association, a trade group with 3,800 members (up from one in 1981) based in New Milford, Conn., said his organization ejected a woman a few years ago for taking kickbacks from a limousine driver. “That’s a no-no,” he said.
One wedding trend is enlisting the help of a “day-of”’ planner, www.WedNDay.com which costs much less than a full-scale coordinator, usually a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. The couple makes all the arrangements and then deputizes the planner to run everything on the actual wedding day, like checking traffic reports, alphabetizing escort cards and making sure the band doesn’t play “Louie, Louie,” or at least not too loudly.
BUSINESSES like Wedding One are another option. It is a one-stop wedding shop that opened in Flushing, Queens, 12 years ago, mostly serving Korean-American couples. Wedding One has a dress shop, beauty salon, floral studio, photo studio and consultants who can book D.J.’s, videographers and just about anything else. Branches now operate in SoHo, Fort Lee, N.J., and Los Angeles.
“My needs were pretty simple and everything was in one place,” said Dina Lim, a child psychiatrist in San Diego who married with the help of Wedding One in June 2005 in Central Park. “I didn’t want to complicate things with a planner.” Neither did David Mandel. “Weddings are a stressful enough time,” he said. “So my advice to people getting married is to find a planner who wants to put together your wedding, not theirs.”
Monday, July 16, 2007
How early should I book my photographer? by www.windauphotography.com
Top Questions from Brides....
How early should I book my photographer?
Of all the items on your to-do list, selecting a photographer should be right at the top. Ideally you should start your search as soon as you have set your wedding date. Many of my clients consider the photographer selection, along with the choice of the wedding location, the most important decisions during the process of planning their wedding. Besides of course the choice of who you should marry ;o).
Once you have decided on a photographer, you should hire them as soon as possible. More than once I have had to disappoint a potential client after they waited too long to get back to me after our meeting. I often get several inquiries for special days (such as 08/08/08), and while I do give priority to the couple I meet with first, they're not necessarily the couple who makes the fastest decision!
Having said that, the reality of the time frame between getting hired for a wedding and actually photographing it varies dramatically. I have been hired as early as two years (and as late as one day!) before the wedding. Usually most clients hire me 10-14 months before their wedding date.
Something else to keep in mind: The cost of operating a successful photography business is increasing every year. If your photographer is successful and his business is growing like mine, it is likely that pricing will increase during the time you are planning your wedding.
So one other good reason to hire your photographer early is to save money. If you have locked the fee by signing a contract early enough, you will not be affected by any increases to the price list.
All the best, Jörg Windau
Windau Photography
Email:jorg@windauphotography.com
Phone: 212-781-8178
Web: www.windauphotography.com
How early should I book my photographer?
Of all the items on your to-do list, selecting a photographer should be right at the top. Ideally you should start your search as soon as you have set your wedding date. Many of my clients consider the photographer selection, along with the choice of the wedding location, the most important decisions during the process of planning their wedding. Besides of course the choice of who you should marry ;o).
Once you have decided on a photographer, you should hire them as soon as possible. More than once I have had to disappoint a potential client after they waited too long to get back to me after our meeting. I often get several inquiries for special days (such as 08/08/08), and while I do give priority to the couple I meet with first, they're not necessarily the couple who makes the fastest decision!
Having said that, the reality of the time frame between getting hired for a wedding and actually photographing it varies dramatically. I have been hired as early as two years (and as late as one day!) before the wedding. Usually most clients hire me 10-14 months before their wedding date.
Something else to keep in mind: The cost of operating a successful photography business is increasing every year. If your photographer is successful and his business is growing like mine, it is likely that pricing will increase during the time you are planning your wedding.
So one other good reason to hire your photographer early is to save money. If you have locked the fee by signing a contract early enough, you will not be affected by any increases to the price list.
All the best, Jörg Windau
Windau Photography
Email:jorg@windauphotography.com
Phone: 212-781-8178
Web: www.windauphotography.com
How early should I book my photographer? by www.windauphotography.com
Top Questions from Brides....
How early should I book my photographer?
Of all the items on your to-do list, selecting a photographer should be right at the top. Ideally you should start your search as soon as you have set your wedding date. Many of my clients consider the photographer selection, along with the choice of the wedding location, the most important decisions during the process of planning their wedding. Besides of course the choice of who you should marry ;o).
Once you have decided on a photographer, you should hire them as soon as possible. More than once I have had to disappoint a potential client after they waited too long to get back to me after our meeting. I often get several inquiries for special days (such as 08/08/08), and while I do give priority to the couple I meet with first, they're not necessarily the couple who makes the fastest decision!
Having said that, the reality of the time frame between getting hired for a wedding and actually photographing it varies dramatically. I have been hired as early as two years (and as late as one day!) before the wedding. Usually most clients hire me 10-14 months before their wedding date.
Something else to keep in mind: The cost of operating a successful photography business is increasing every year. If your photographer is successful and his business is growing like mine, it is likely that pricing will increase during the time you are planning your wedding.
So one other good reason to hire your photographer early is to save money. If you have locked the fee by signing a contract early enough, you will not be affected by any increases to the price list.
All the best, Jörg Windau
Windau Photography
Email:jorg@windauphotography.com
Phone: 212-781-8178
Web: www.windauphotography.com
How early should I book my photographer?
Of all the items on your to-do list, selecting a photographer should be right at the top. Ideally you should start your search as soon as you have set your wedding date. Many of my clients consider the photographer selection, along with the choice of the wedding location, the most important decisions during the process of planning their wedding. Besides of course the choice of who you should marry ;o).
Once you have decided on a photographer, you should hire them as soon as possible. More than once I have had to disappoint a potential client after they waited too long to get back to me after our meeting. I often get several inquiries for special days (such as 08/08/08), and while I do give priority to the couple I meet with first, they're not necessarily the couple who makes the fastest decision!
Having said that, the reality of the time frame between getting hired for a wedding and actually photographing it varies dramatically. I have been hired as early as two years (and as late as one day!) before the wedding. Usually most clients hire me 10-14 months before their wedding date.
Something else to keep in mind: The cost of operating a successful photography business is increasing every year. If your photographer is successful and his business is growing like mine, it is likely that pricing will increase during the time you are planning your wedding.
So one other good reason to hire your photographer early is to save money. If you have locked the fee by signing a contract early enough, you will not be affected by any increases to the price list.
All the best, Jörg Windau
Windau Photography
Email:jorg@windauphotography.com
Phone: 212-781-8178
Web: www.windauphotography.com
How early should I book my photographer? by www.windauphotography.com
Top Questions from Brides....
How early should I book my photographer?
Of all the items on your to-do list, selecting a photographer should be right at the top. Ideally you should start your search as soon as you have set your wedding date. Many of my clients consider the photographer selection, along with the choice of the wedding location, the most important decisions during the process of planning their wedding. Besides of course the choice of who you should marry ;o).
Once you have decided on a photographer, you should hire them as soon as possible. More than once I have had to disappoint a potential client after they waited too long to get back to me after our meeting. I often get several inquiries for special days (such as 08/08/08), and while I do give priority to the couple I meet with first, they're not necessarily the couple who makes the fastest decision!
Having said that, the reality of the time frame between getting hired for a wedding and actually photographing it varies dramatically. I have been hired as early as two years (and as late as one day!) before the wedding. Usually most clients hire me 10-14 months before their wedding date.
Something else to keep in mind: The cost of operating a successful photography business is increasing every year. If your photographer is successful and his business is growing like mine, it is likely that pricing will increase during the time you are planning your wedding.
So one other good reason to hire your photographer early is to save money. If you have locked the fee by signing a contract early enough, you will not be affected by any increases to the price list.
All the best, Jörg Windau
Windau Photography
Email:jorg@windauphotography.com
Phone: 212-781-8178
Web: www.windauphotography.com
How early should I book my photographer?
Of all the items on your to-do list, selecting a photographer should be right at the top. Ideally you should start your search as soon as you have set your wedding date. Many of my clients consider the photographer selection, along with the choice of the wedding location, the most important decisions during the process of planning their wedding. Besides of course the choice of who you should marry ;o).
Once you have decided on a photographer, you should hire them as soon as possible. More than once I have had to disappoint a potential client after they waited too long to get back to me after our meeting. I often get several inquiries for special days (such as 08/08/08), and while I do give priority to the couple I meet with first, they're not necessarily the couple who makes the fastest decision!
Having said that, the reality of the time frame between getting hired for a wedding and actually photographing it varies dramatically. I have been hired as early as two years (and as late as one day!) before the wedding. Usually most clients hire me 10-14 months before their wedding date.
Something else to keep in mind: The cost of operating a successful photography business is increasing every year. If your photographer is successful and his business is growing like mine, it is likely that pricing will increase during the time you are planning your wedding.
So one other good reason to hire your photographer early is to save money. If you have locked the fee by signing a contract early enough, you will not be affected by any increases to the price list.
All the best, Jörg Windau
Windau Photography
Email:jorg@windauphotography.com
Phone: 212-781-8178
Web: www.windauphotography.com
Thursday, July 12, 2007
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We can offer bridal shops in New Zealand a fantastic range of Bridal Accessories and wholesale Wedding Favours. Listed below are just a sample. We have hundreds of designs of Wedding Veils, Sexy Bridal Lingerie, Bridal Jewelry, Bridal Gloves and much more. If it is not on the list or on our other sites don't despair we can source for you. Just email thailandbridal@gmail.com with your requirements or visit our main site Thailand Bridal Wear
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Above The Elbow Wedding Gloves, Alencon Lace Veil, Ankle Bracelet, Silver Bracelet, Asian Handbag Keepsakes, Asian Wedding Favors, Asian Wedding Supplies, Baby Favors, Baby Shower Party Favors, Bag Of Charms, Bag Of Hearts, Basic Bridal Gloves, Bath & Soap Favors, Bath And Soap Favors, Silk Mule With Swarovski Detail, Silk Satin Clogs, Silk Satin D'orsay Pumps, Silk Satin Flat Shoes With Rhinestones, Silk Satin Silhouette, Silk Slingback With Swarovski Detail, Silk Wedding Gloves, Silk Wedding Shoes, Silver Chantilly Lace Elbow Length Glove, Silver Coffee Scoops, Silver Cuff Bracelet, Silver Gift Box Candles, Silver Glitter Heart Votive Set Favors, Silver Heart Bookmarks, Silver Heart Paperweights, Silver Scalloped Edge And Rhinestone Veil, Silver Star Glitter Votive Set Favors, Silver Vine Bracelet With Cubic Zirconia Crystals, Silver Wedding Bands, Palm Tree Candle, Palm Tree Placecard Holder, Palm Trees Soaps, Pansy Flower Tea Light Candle Favors, Paper Hand Fans, Paper Rose Candle Wedding Favor, Pastel Confetti Daisies, Pastel Favor Vases, Pastel Vase Favors, Pear Candle Favor, Pearl & Crystal 2 Tier Veil, Pearl Accented 2-Tier Veil With Seed Beading, Pearl Accented Elbow Length Glove, Pearl Colored Chopsticks, Pearl Edge Wedding Veils, Pearl Rope Elbow Length Wedding Glove, Pearl Rope Wrist Length Wedding Glove, Pearl Trimmed Wrist Length Matte Cotton Glove, Pearl Veils, Pencil Edge VeilsWe can offer bridal shops in New Zealand a fantastic range of Bridal Accessories and wholesale Wedding Favours. Listed below are just a sample. We have hundreds of designs of Wedding Veils, Sexy Bridal Lingerie, Bridal Jewelry, Bridal Gloves and much more. If it is not on the list or on our other sites don't despair we can source for you. Just email thailandbridal@gmail.com with your requirements or visit our main site Thailand Bridal Wear
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Above The Elbow Wedding Gloves, Alencon Lace Veil, Ankle Bracelet, Silver Bracelet, Asian Handbag Keepsakes, Asian Wedding Favors, Asian Wedding Supplies, Baby Favors, Baby Shower Party Favors, Bag Of Charms, Bag Of Hearts, Basic Bridal Gloves, Bath & Soap Favors, Bath And Soap Favors, Silk Mule With Swarovski Detail, Silk Satin Clogs, Silk Satin D'orsay Pumps, Silk Satin Flat Shoes With Rhinestones, Silk Satin Silhouette, Silk Slingback With Swarovski Detail, Silk Wedding Gloves, Silk Wedding Shoes, Silver Chantilly Lace Elbow Length Glove, Silver Coffee Scoops, Silver Cuff Bracelet, Silver Gift Box Candles, Silver Glitter Heart Votive Set Favors, Silver Heart Bookmarks, Silver Heart Paperweights, Silver Scalloped Edge And Rhinestone Veil, Silver Star Glitter Votive Set Favors, Silver Vine Bracelet With Cubic Zirconia Crystals, Silver Wedding Bands, Palm Tree Candle, Palm Tree Placecard Holder, Palm Trees Soaps, Pansy Flower Tea Light Candle Favors, Paper Hand Fans, Paper Rose Candle Wedding Favor, Pastel Confetti Daisies, Pastel Favor Vases, Pastel Vase Favors, Pear Candle Favor, Pearl & Crystal 2 Tier Veil, Pearl Accented 2-Tier Veil With Seed Beading, Pearl Accented Elbow Length Glove, Pearl Colored Chopsticks, Pearl Edge Wedding Veils, Pearl Rope Elbow Length Wedding Glove, Pearl Rope Wrist Length Wedding Glove, Pearl Trimmed Wrist Length Matte Cotton Glove, Pearl Veils, Pencil Edge Veils
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