An Honest Explanation of Wedding Planner Prices

An Honest Explanation of Wedding Planner Prices

Every planner has their own pricing structure for various reasons. I can only speak for my own business, but I thought it might be helpful for couples to understand some of the reasons why planners charge the prices that they do. If you are not in the wedding business, it can feel like pricing is all over the place. Why does this Planner X charge $1000 less than Planner Y? Or why does Planner Y charge a percentage and Planner Z charge a flat fee? I am hoping this post will answer some of those questions!

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A French Approach to Wedding Planning

A French Approach to Wedding Planning

Are you ever walking through life and start thinking about some random philosophy or topic of discussion and then all of sudden everywhere you turn all these weird scenarios start popping up reinforcing your thoughts?  I feel like that has been happening a lot this week!  Therefore, I am going to share what has been on my mind and how I am approaching wedding planning (and life) differently now than I did five years ago.

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Surprise Second Line Band

Surprise Second Line Band

Elyse’s bridesmaids started contacting me a couple months before the big day asking me to assist them with a special gift they were planning and to keep it very hush, hush. They were arranging a surprise second line band, a true New Orleans past time, to appear during the reception.

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