Full Service “Side by Side”
This plan is for the couple that desires predominantly Full-Service Wedding Planning and wishes to enjoy meeting with some of the vendors independently.
This plan includes:
- Complimentary consultation interview
- Budget review, development and calculation (financial plan provided)
- Venue touring and site selection guidance (if needed)
- Venue contracting and proposal presentation (brief on policies, procedures, set-up and breakdown)
- Provide and oversee all catering and venue schematics, diagrams & floor plans
- Unlimited professional guidance and consultation
- Development of design concept, look & style and creation of color pallet combinations
- Guidance with selection of floral designer
- Referral and guidance with gown, bridesmaids dresses and groom’s attire
- Provide recommendations for makeup artists and hair stylists
- Attendance of meetings (included in this plan)
- Assist all vendors with their event needs and requirements to work venue
- Schedule meetings and oversee management of catering and banquet services
- Review catering proposal and contract (food, bar, rentals, linens, chairs, dance floor, tables and settings)
- Coordinate and order all specialty rental and decor items
- Coordination with selecting & obtaining guests gifts and welcome carry-totes
- Review of all contracts and proposals
- Hotel accommodation and reservation assistance
- Meetings with coordinator includes:
Three personal coordination meetings for planning:
1. First planning meeting (with custom start package)
- Create and develop minute-to-minute timeline (including all formalities)
- Present Schedule for Coordination (targets where you are in the planning of your event)
- Present Month by Month Wedding Planner (check list for each month prior to event)
- Determine & develop style, look, theme, concept design and color
- Schedule vendor meetings that will be attended with coordinator
- Review first trimester of planning
- Schedule invitation send-out & respond dates
- Determine hours of coverage’s needed with vendors
- Discuss transportation needs
- Create first personal check list
- Review entire planning schedule (complete wedding planning process)
2. Mid-Meeting (update development consultation)
- Update timeline
- Review and update of all vendors and their event responsibilities
- Review completion of first personal check list
- Create second mid-way-through personal check list
3. Final Meeting ~ finalize details (approximately 1-2 months prior to Event)
- Finalize timeline (final draft sent for approval week prior to event)
- Assist in reviewing catering Banquet Event Order (final draft of BEO sent for approval week prior to event)
- Assist with ceremony walking order and first-row seating (final diagram sent for approval week prior to event)
- Final review of all vendors and their responsibilities
- Finalize transportation needs and inventory all wedding items (final confirmation week prior to event)
- Finalize family and wedding party needs
- Create last and ‘final’ personal check list
- Assist in seating chart preparation (final floor plan provided week prior to event)
- Touch base to pack and organize all wedding items to be brought to rehearsal (week of wedding)
Four Personal Vendor Meetings for planning:
- Catering manager or wedding director (walk through at Venue)
- Attend catering tasting
- Floral Designer
- Final detail meetings with caterer or floral designer (your choice)
Additional planning includes:
- Unlimited referral for all vendors needed (entire planning process)
- Unlimited advise and guidance consultation (entire planning process)
- Unlimited calls, texts and e-mailing (entire planning process)
- Professional advice on etiquette (entire planning process)
- Guidance with hotel room-blocks
- Guidance with marriage license attainment and information
- Color pallet cards developed and created (for design concept, style and look)
- Invitation, save-the-date, and all stationery selection and production guidance
- Assistance with planning rehearsal dinner and post wedding brunch
- Menu tasting with caterer or venue and menu selection guidance
- Final information package sent to all vendors (e-mailed 7 days prior to event)
- Final contact to all vendors (to review & confirm all details pertaining to their service)
- Rehearsal conduction and instruction
- Inventorying of all wedding accessory items (collection at rehearsal)
- Assistants are $250 each (quoted in initial contracting)
- Includes complete wedding day services (see list below)
Complete Wedding Day Services
(The following day-of services are included in every plan offered)
- Coordinator ‘on site’ by your side… arriving at your bridal suite
- Guidance through your entire day to remain on schedule and enjoy
- ‘At your service’ attention for you, your family and wedding party members
- Receive photographer and ensure that photography runs on time
- Receive all personal flowers, organize and disperse
- Directing and supervising all vendors during set-up
- Ensuring all vendors are fulfilling their contract obligations
- Oversee implementation and installation of design & decor
- Setting and placement of all wedding accessory items, such as:
sign-in book, programs, seating cards, cake servers, toast glasses etc… - Issue last minute payments for vendors and gratuities at the event conclusion
- Greet your guests and direct them to the ceremony
- Gather and line-up all family and members of the wedding party for ceremony
- Prompt you for your special moment down the aisle
- Cue all musicians for the timing of a prompt ceremony
- Ensure the guests are properly routed to the cocktail reception
- Ensure photography resumes timely and smoothly
- Ensure that servers greet you with hors d’oeuvres and cocktails after ceremony
- Ensure that all florals and decor are transferred to reception
- Ensure all gifts are transferred to the proper suite, or vehicle for security
- Assist your Maid of Honor in bustling your gown
- Ensure the reception room is ready for your entrance (all candles lit)
- Ring chimes to route guests to the reception
- Attend the seating card table and guide guests into the reception
- Organize the line-up for the grand entrance and cue the MC
- Make certain you and your family have everything you need at the reception
- Oversee and ensure all formalities at the reception run seamlessly
- Inventory and pack all wedding accessory items and route to designated place
- Embellish suite romantically on your wedding night (if in close proximity)
- Final check at conclusion of celebration
- Cheers to you and congratulations!
$4500-$5500