Find Your Wedding Planning Dream Team
Create a day you will never forget by assembling your wedding planning dream team. Central Florida is packed with amazing wedding experts and it is important for you to find the vendors that fit you and your vision. Vendor choices play a pivotal role in this process. However, with so many details to consider and so many vendors to choose from where do you begin. Start with asking the right questions. This is the first installment in our build your wedding planning dream team blog series.
Asking The Right Questions
Asking the right questions can ensure you are aligning with professionals who meet and exceed your expectations. You want to confidently select vendors who will make your wedding day unforgettable. You should absolutely ask the following questions of all your vendors prior to booking their services:
- Do you take credit cards and is there a fee?
- Do you have insurance?
- What is the contract and deposit process like?
- What is your favorite part about weddings?
- Are you available on my wedding date?
Questions To Ask Wedding Venues
The wedding venue should be your first vendor booked for various reasons. For starters, you do not officially have a date, until you have the venue booked. Before you begin the search, you need to decide what is most important… the date of your wedding, or the actual venue. This will ultimately determine your final choice. Because if your date must be 4/24/24, and your first choice venue is not available, then you will need to choose a different venue. However, if you absolutely must be married at Bella Collina , then you will need to be flexible with your date if they are not available on 4/24/24.
To assist you in the search for your wedding venue, review this list of The Top 10 Best Wedding Venues in Orlando. Once you pick the venues you want to speak with, first ask how many people can you accommodate for the ceremony and reception?
Ask Planners This
If planning hundreds of celebrations has taught us one thing, it’s that the perfect event isn’t the result of correctly centered napkins or a flawlessly executed day-of timeline. A truly perfect event is the result of…
- The culmination of crucial micro-decisions along the way
- Magical moments that make your heart skip a beat
- The little details that are unmistakably you
- Being surrounded by the ones who are most important to you
- Having free time to truly savor every moment
At Socialite Event Planning in Orlando, FL we want you to have the wedding you always dreamed of and we believe hiring a wedding planner will allow this to come to fruition for you. As you are interviewing planners for your wedding planning dream team, consider this question: Have you worked at my venue before? (keep in mind that if someone is an experienced planner, they can work anywhere).
Catering As Part of Your Wedding Planning Dream Team
Without a doubt food plays a big part in our lives and it should in your reception as well. As you decide on the feel of your big day, think about the food. How do you want it presented – buffet, plated, food trucks? Do you want a fusion of cultures or one specific style? Tacos or 7 courses? With so many choices be sure to prepare a basic idea prior to contacting potential catering companies. Once you choose the companies you want to contact, ask these questions first, What is your food serving style (i.e. buffet, family style, plated)?
What To Ask Photographers
Photos become your visual memories, the single thing that will make you smile no matter what. Just like with catering, you need to choose a photography style. Do you prefer perfectly posed, or natural? Inside or outside? Silly or serious? Which wedding photographers fit in your wedding planning dream team? As you view photography galleries, observe their style to determine if it aligns with your idea for your wedding photos. Next ask these questions of your photographer:
- How many images are included in your packages? Can we purchase extra photos?
- Are all the images in our gallery edited? Is there a fee to add more edited images?
- What do you do if your gear stops working on the day of our wedding?
Read our full blog on this topic – Helpful Questions To Ask Before Hiring Your Wedding Photographer.
Your Wedding Planning Dream Team
Your wedding vendors are more than service providers, they are the architects of one of the most important days of your life. Plus some of your wedding vendors will be with you in your most intimate moments. By seeking clarity on some really important details, you’re creating partnerships that ensure your wedding day goes off without a hitch. Ask questions, pick professionals that provide the services you want, in the style that fits your wedding. Then communicate openly and often.
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