Hire a True Professional
By admin on May 1, 2008 in Tip of the Day
Many wedding suppliers say that they offer “coordination” for your wedding day. Think your caterer or DJ can act as your Coordinator? Think again. While these professionals may offer some elements of coordination, you may be in for way more problems than you’d ever thought. Make sure this doesn’t happen to you. Hire an experienced, professional and dedicated coordinator whose exclusive job it is to look out after you and your event. Want to know if your DJ or Caterer can carry out “coordination” for you? Send us a list of what they plan to do for you and we will review it - on this blog - as a complimentary service to you.
So, my Caterer said they will coordinate. They said I just need a coordinator for my ceremony and they will handle the rest. What’s the difference? It looks like I can save a lot of money by just hiring a coordinator to do ceremony only and going with my caterer. Help!
Nancy | May 21, 2008 | Reply
Hi Nancy,
Please provide me with a list of what they said they will do and I’m happy to provide you with side by side comparison of what how much a coordinator does compared with them and point out items you are potentially jeopardizing by having someone other than a professional and experienced dedicated coordinator do “coordination”. Happy to help!
-Kerry Lee
Owner
Kerry Lee | May 23, 2008 | Reply
Basically, they said that they will help me create a timeline, review vendor contracts and oversee the timeline and running of the event the day of the wedding. They said it was a “$1400 value”.
Nancy | Jun 11, 2008 | Reply
Hi Nancy,
Ok, some thoughts to think about:
a. To receive maximum benefits of what true coordination is, you need an objective professional who is not tied into any other service to oversee coordination duties.
b. To review vendor contracts in order to prepare a timeline is one thing; to even produce a generic timeline is an element of coordination; however, an objective professional coordinator also is an actual liaison to the vendors throughout the month of and the day of the wedding. Your caterer cannot also consider themselves in service to you, to your vendors (to help address any issues which arise pre and during the event) and still do a good job as a caterer. If they are, then I would question their ability as professional caterer as someone is not keeping their eye on the “shop” so to speak.
c. Finally, a professional coordinator is an objective and experienced entity. To have a vendor such as a caterer or DJ in “charge” of overseeing other vendors is bad for morale and has more potential for undermining the integrity of the event, since there can tend to be resentment of one vendor (i.e. caterer or DJ or whatever) telling other vendors what to do and how to do it.
d. The chances of your caterer or DJ having actual objective experience in seeing the macro- vision of your day is minimal - if even existent at all. Their focus, while well-meaning, to provide elements of coordination does not in any way, shape or form equal what an experienced and unbiased professional coordinator can provide . Just as an orchestra conductor has the musical masterpiece and is able to maintain and direct all key components which make up the masterpiece, the professional wedding coordinator’s job is to ensure perfect harmony between the various segments of the event in order to create a masterpiece - your wedding day!
Kerry Lee | Jun 11, 2008 | Reply