How to collaborate with a Wedding Planner – Guide to Suppliers

I think I could speak for all the Wedding Planners in Romania that I know, but since I didn’t ask them to speak on their behalf, I will summarize land of the ego. Below you will find a list of solid and inspired things you can do for a good collaboration and repeated with me.

It’s an article that definitely won’t bring me too many «friends». But I think it’s useful and important to read if you landed here random. If we don’t know each other personally and if we haven’t worked so far. And if you were getting ready send me a collaboration message. And it’s full of romgles, so now you can close the page if you have phobias like that.

I don’t know how to say it more clearly and how not to hurt sensitivity and pride. If we did business together, everything is fine, okay? We still love each other and will continue to tag and give heart to our cross-Insta stories

I wrote this little personalized guide for people Us, who I don’t know personally, who don’t know where they have my phone number or who pretend to give them some of my business just because we breathe the same air as Bucharest. So… You are a vendor/service provider, creative, small business owner, artist and Do you want to collaborate for the weddings I organize? Here are a number of things that can bring you closer to your «dream». Or that I can convince you that we will never be a good team and then we won’t waste each other in the first place. How beautiful is this!?

1. Get my name right

My name is written all over the walls of this page (pun intended), on all social networks and in all articles signed by other parts of the great www. It is indecent to contact someone without knowing how to write their name correctly. Please do it right, basic common sense!

2. Use your email address with confidence

My email address is simple, you can find it on the contact page and it is the only acceptable way (for me) to contact me.

If you have my phone number for a customer (mine, yours?) or another supplier, it’s polite to tell me where. It would be nice to be sure and that the person who enters it He tells me in advancewhy a «warm» recommendation might be more effective- network 101. In general, a list of twenty or one hundred phone numbers won’t help you if people don’t know who you are and why you’re contacting them.

And if the email address doesn’t seem to be working, it means you most likely skipped step 1. Pff…

3. Don’t assume that I am or want to become your sales agent!!

I never woke up thinking «What would be the point of receiving some commission offers, which chef do I have today to make sales for (else) someone”!

Fun fact. Most Wedding Planners I know are afraid of selling their services, they work hard to find their authentic tone, to free them from a sales presentation which sounds worse than teleshopping type commercials. Maybe it’s a female business problem or maybe we just don’t feel comfortable saying «Buy now, mega deal!».

I didn’t build my business by putting commission on commission and I’m not going to start doing that with you. I am not the service intermediary and I offer transparency to my clients. I know, in the wedding industry there are a rarity. But you know what? I am truly a rarity and the service I provide is extraordinary for my clients. What are you proud of?

Furthermore, the volume of work I could offer is small. Very small. Maybe two weddings a year? The fee is negligible and certainly not a place we can start a constructive discussion.

4. My customers are better than yours

Ok, here it may seem that we are starting to beat the plain. But listen (read) to the end. If you want, of course, to understand why We will not collaborate too soon.

Whether I’m a rarity or not, we can discuss. But my clients really are unique. They are the best customers you could ever ask for. Because they are educated. I don’t go to school at the Sorbonne (although I have had some eminent minds among the brides I’ve worked with), but educated for marriage. My job is to consult, inform and help clients make the right decisions for them. My clients find out, before working with X, what X can do and why precious X and trust that they will know how to make a decision to embrace wholeheartedly.

Your customers are usually suspicious, fearful and quickly doubt their decisions. Because they don’t have a Wedding Planner to guide them through the amalgam of unknown strangers organize the wedding. It may seem to you that they are never satisfied. Or non-recognizers. Or just people like all people. Another couple.

Clients who choose to collaborate with a Wedding Planner are at the opposite pole. I know how to delegate and trust the people they work with. He actively listens and relies heavily on the paid man’s advice (Hello, Me Again!).

This is why my clients deserve all the best. Surely the 10% commission could rather be transformed into care of my client’s material, timely delivery and, you know, impeccable service?! You better be ready to bring your A game. Win-win.

5. Don’t assume that all Wedding Planners are the same

Ok, I get it, you’ve talked to 5 Wedding Planners in your life. Well done, how’s the work going so far?

In our little occult community, we take a little pride in our slightly different approaches. We accept differences and are happy to advise our customers that we have not served them so well but perhaps with someone else we would perfect match. We don’t have much pride (ok, if we do, we keep them locked up tight). But we certainly like to help ourselves with suggestions and productive ideas.

We offer quite different services and cater to some and various clients. What is perfectly normal for me, for another guild colleague it could be us. My way of recommending a service to clients can be completely different from that of another Wedding Planner. It’s best to ask and be prepared to receive a different answer.

6. Don’t assume you could be in my place

Actually yes Done So many weddings you could do weddings. Just don’t do it and you’ve never done it, so… for Pete’s sakeit doesn’t assume that my job can be done by anyone in their sleep. Or for free. Or on any paltry amount.

If you have organized super parties, you could be very good as a Wedding Planner. But until you’ve spent a single month in slippers, please don’t get the impression that you could do what I do, only that»you had something better to do”.

And I could have done many other things in life, I am truly a developed multilateral man! But I chose to be an entrepreneur in the wedding industry and committed to growing a service that helps customers have more beautiful weddings.

7. Try to make my job easier

If you really want to get to my heart, try to make my job a little easier.

Send me the presentation booklet with complete information. Be honest with the prices and costs of your services: for your sake, but also for mine. Try to deliver on time (yes, I’m talking to you. You know who you are!). It’s not a given that I go hunting for a discount or that you have to make an offer, only to then regret the low cost and be left with the impression that my client has been scratched.

Clarify your value and find the words to communicate with All right.

Be flexible and open, you might like marriage That don’t be like all the other weddings you’ve seen. It’s not a given that you know them all if you know nothing about the wedding, the clients, or me.

And don’t go on a trip with the thought that I will advise you if you don’t have it something to get my attention. A good portfolio, personal charisma, a leading offer, a service that arouses emotion. Something to get you out of the sea of ​​anonymous people serving the same type of weddings, all of them. I love different and I might just love your different!

8. THE OBVIOUS ONE

Conclude with a few things you hope to consider obvious. But if you like my jokes, look at these «normal» ones.

I would like to know people passionate about their work And work with as many of them as possible. To always have super-prepared teams, super hard at work and with the best intentions for their clients and mine.

Common sense It’s mutual that I always assist. I trust that we speak the same language and want the same thing: good or very good customer service. I will always consider that we are on the same page, if you don’t make an effort to prove me otherwise.

Ask yourself, before contacting me, what problem solve for me or for my clients – marketing 101. If you have dedicated enough time to your business, you have certainly identified what suits you, i.e. the right customer for you. It is important to meet at least partially in this diagram.

In over ten years of activity in the wedding sector, I have been lucky enough to work with many extraordinary people. Yes, I like superlatives and I’m not afraid to use them. Those who know me already know what I am like and what I offer in this partnership. And I know I appreciate them for their tireless work to make the wedding industry a little better, every day and every wedding season. I am grateful to them and they are often the incentive to do more and better in my turn.

Finally, things are limited to respect. Believe me, it never is too!

*** The featured image photo was captured with amazing skill and a lot of patience by Still Light.