When someone proposes to you and you accept, or you are the one that popped the question and got a yes in return, then you hopefully have a bright future of love and laughter together looming ahead in the years that are coming. However, to make the transition from engaged couple to wed partners, you have to have the wedding itself. Someone has to be the wedding coordinator, and you then face the choice of letting a friend or family member handle the arrangements, or hiring a professional to manage things for you.
There are advantages to choosing someone who you know from family or friendship. They know you and what you like and don’t, and their affection for you will translate into them working hard to make your dream day a reality. It also means that you’ll save money from hiring a professional, as someone you know willing to be a wedding coordinator will probably do the job without expecting anything in return, except of course a day of bliss and happiness for all who attend.
However, choosing someone you know can have potential downsides. Your personal expectations of what they should do for you might be far apart from the level that they’re willing to commit as a volunteer. They also might get so bogged down in the work that they don’t get a chance to participate in the ceremony itself as a bridesmaid or groomsman, or even the time to relax and enjoy the dinner and after-party. It’s also not uncommon for the wedding coordinator to get so bogged down in the stress of everything that their relationships with guests and even the wedding couple get strained, which is an unfortunate consequence. If anything goes wrong with the ceremony, you or your pending spouse might blame the friend or relative you chose to coordinate the entire affair.
On the other hand, hiring a professional can skip all this. It brings in a neutral third party, which means everyone you know and love can be invited to attend the big day, and they are all free to participate and enjoy the proceedings. Choosing a professional is also a decision a couple can make together, meaning that preference is not given to one person’s friends or family over the others. In fact, it can be one of the first decisions a couple makes together as they get ready to spend the rest of their lives together, making shared choices. Your Aloha Wedding – Maui Wedding Planner has a great trackrecord and quite impressive reviews handling various situation that arises from planning and coordinating the big day.
Of course hiring a professional wedding coordinator does cost money so that it can add to the expense of a wedding. If a wedding is the first for both and is likely to be a big affair, then this can make a lot of sense. If on the other hand, either participant is older and getting remarried after a previous divorce or seeing a spouse pass away, then a wedding is likely to be a low-key affair or more casual, which might be the level of event that a personal acquaintance can handle with ease.