This article is based on an expert interview with Minoti Mehta, conducted by wikiHow Staff Editors. Minoti Mehta is the Founder of Vermilion Weddings & Events, an event and wedding planning business based in San Francisco, California. Minoti grew up in the event and wedding planning space and has over five years of event planning experience. She has been invited to participate as a Delegate at five exclusive Event Planner Conferences including Destination Wedding Planners Congress and Planners Xtraordinaire and has become known as one of the Top Wedding and Event Planners in the San Francisco Bay Area. Minoti's work has been featured on NDTV India, Love Stories TV, Maharani Weddings, and WedWise India. Vermilion Weddings & Events was also awarded WeddingWire's Couple's Choice Award in 2018. Minoti has a BS in Hospitality Management and Accounting from the University of San Francisco.
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A wedding planner is such a great resource to help you coordinate your special day, but sometimes factoring them into your budget and navigating their different pricing structures can be a little confusing. Fortunately, in this video wedding planner Minoti Mehta breaks down how wedding planners charge for their services so you can choose a package that makes sense for your wedding and budget.
Key Takeaways
- Wedding planners offer different packages you can choose from. The more expensive packages typically include more services.
- Day-of packages are usually the cheapest option. A day-of planner just oversees the execution of your wedding day.
- Full planning packages are more expensive, but you’ll have an expert there to guide you through the whole planning process, from sourcing a venue to finding vendors to orchestrating your actual wedding day.
Video Transcript
Different planners offer different options and different packages. The way I would do it and the way I typically see the industry doing it is there's a day-of package option, which is your most economical option, in which a planner will come in and orchestrate your day-of based on a timeline that either he or she created or you guys created together. Then there's the full planning package, which is kind of a to z. They'll help you from your venue sourcing, your vendor sourcing, and then your day-of orchestration. That's the package I prefer the most because you really have a subject matter expert to guide you the entire way. You have someone that's going to be able to understand your vendors, understand your dynamic as a couple, as a family, and really be able to maybe predict some of the things that might be problematic on the day of or some things that could happen on the day of, and maybe even come up with solutions prior to them. A day-of coordinator, while it's great and while the orchestration might be great, they don't know your dynamic as well. They don't know the dynamic of your vendors as well. So it's really kind of going in and praying that it works versus a planner who's worked with you for nine to 12 months is going to know the ins and outs of your guys' relationship, your family's, and the dynamics of the vendor, and how everyone kind of plays well together.
