YOU MUST HIRE CATERING.

Listen, not to call anyone out, but your wedding planner/coordinator is NOT a caterer. We’re not licensed to deal with food and it’s NOT why you hire a planner.

We totally understand the need to save money. But you’re going to have catering dropped off for nearly two hundred people, you must hire catering and serving staff. There are so many other things we need to be doing while expert caterers are doing their thing.

What does a serving staff need to take care of when you’re just having food dropped off?

-Throwing linens
-Setting cutlery, napkins, flatware, glasses
-Setting up the buffet, including plates and sterno
-Replenishing food, plates, etc.
-Bussing tables
-Cutting cake and serving it
-Setting up dessert and coffee
-Taking out all trash
-Sweeping and mopping per venue instructions

Absolutely none of that is what we do. Please think it through before you decide not to hire an event caterer. We know price tags can be shocking but in the end, you may spend just as much hiring outside staff. Okay? Okay. Thank you.

PLEASE be cringe on your wedding day.

What do you mean you don’t want to be open and earnest and deeply in love and goofy on your wedding day!?

Please please please shelve all feelings of “I must be cynical and over it and too good for it” all the time, but especially on your wedding day.

Smile big, laugh out loud, and most of all, be so in love everyone in the room can feel it.

What does a Day of Coordinator / Event Manager do?

We are here to take all the stress off your shoulders! Planning your wedding goes well beyond hiring your vendors.

Let us lead the team you’ve assembled leading up to and on the day of so the that experts you’ve hired can:

- focus on their important jobs
- stay on the same page
- eat!
- stay in the moment with you
- not worry about coordinating the whole event (photographers should be focusing on their art, not their watches!)

We also do about a million other things, but leading the vendor team is a big part of our job. And then you get to relax and enjoy your day, your people, and your love.

If they’re not on the invite, they’re not invited.

That’s it, that’s the post. A lot of etiquette things can fall by the wayside, but this is not one of them. Your children are not invited if they’re not on the envelope. Your partner is not invited if they’re not on the envelope. Sorry!

Don’t get married during your busy season!

When you’re deciding on a wedding date, make sure it’s not a super busy time for you!

Are you an accountant? Don’t get married during tax season!

An actor? Keep an eye on upcoming shows in your company’s season.

A doctor? I don’t honestly know what to tell you about that but thank you for your knowledge and help.

Just know when things are busier than usual for you and don’t get married around that time. All of the tiny decisions at the end of the planning process will make you crazy.

Trust us!