Flowers, Dress, Hairstyle, Rings, Cake … You Need all this and more for a Wedding.
But how do you find the right wedding service providers? When should you book them? And how do I recognize the really good ones? With these tips, you’ll find the perfect service providers for your wedding.
Dear brides, for a successful wedding you have to think about quite a lot of things. This includes a number of service providers who will make your wedding perfect with their skills. But before you think about any service provider, the following questions need to be clarified:
- What budget do we have available?
- Who do I invite?
- What kind of wedding do we want to have?
- Where should the wedding take place?
- When will the wedding take place?
In my Hochzeitskurs you’ll learn more about the first steps in wedding planning. Once these points are clearly defined, you can start looking for the right service providers. Rule of thumb: the earlier, the better.
These are the Service Providers You Need
Many things can be done yourself for a wedding, e.g. the guest favors or the backdrop for the photo booth. But for many things, you need a professional if you want it to be really beautiful and stress-free for you. These are the service providers I wouldn’t do without at any wedding: venue, photographer, makeup artist, florist, graphic designer, cake designer, DJ/band, bridal outfitter, jeweler.
How to Find your Wedding Service Providers
It’s best to look for service providers nearby or in the region of your wedding venue. This not only saves expensive travel costs, but the service providers are also familiar with the local conditions. Take your time to look at their websites, Facebook or Instagram feeds. Ideally, you should look for 2 to 3 alternatives. Then you don’t have to start from scratch with your search if your preferred service provider is booked out.
How to Distinguish Semi-Professionals from Full Professionals
Lately, everyone who has a digital SLR camera is a photographer, and all those who have taken a course in working with sugar fondant are cake designers. Even though there are many talented people among them, they are just semi-professionals.
For a wedding, it’s okay to aim for perfection, and a real professional brings not only talent but also experience. If someone can bake you a wedding cake for €150, they’re certainly not a professional.
What Happens when You Don’t Listen to the Wedding Planner.
Sometimes even real professionals fail when they’re in the wrong place. I organized a wedding in the mountains and unfortunately, the bride didn’t listen to me.
She really wanted to hire her best friend’s photographer from Hamburg. He came with considerable extra costs for flight and additional accommodation. As I had suspected, the photographer couldn’t handle the special lighting conditions in the mountains. The photos were miserable, the bride and groom unhappy. Well, and in the end, the friendship between the bride and her best friend was strained, and that’s something we definitely want to avoid.
You can learn how to make the right choice of service providers in my Hochzeitkurs.
All the best, your Katha