Questions to ask your wedding planner before your hire them

I don’t have any social media accounts. This is intentional and it was a decision that I really struggled with for years. As an aspiring minimalists - my husband and I have cleared the clutter out of our house, our car, our garage. After years of minimizing we ventured to look to our digital lives and how we might bring more joy into our screen time, it was easy to prune my usage and streamline my posting.

But then George Floyd was murdered and my understanding of how media affects my self perception, my mental health and my time was exposed. Combine that with the desire to be present for my daughter (as a mostly stay at home mom, minus a handful of wedding days), and you can no longer find me on any social media platform.

Huffington Post has a great answer to this question.

You know why this question is bogus? Because it doesn't matter at all. There are hundreds of thousands of venues from banquet halls to barns and everything in between. Plenty of planners, myself included, will only take on a certain number of clients a year to make sure the right amount of time and attention can be devoted to those weddings. If a planner only takes a dozen events a year and has been in business for 10 years, that's quite possibly 120 venues out of a significant amount of venues in existence...

Never rule out working with a planner because they haven't worked at your venue before. What is really important to consider is the style of your venue and how much work your planner really will have to do. If you're dreaming of a palace dripping in chandeliers with wall to wall marble floors, it's best to look for a planner that has similar pictures in their portfolio. Likewise, if your dream is to get married at the top of a hill and have a reception inside of a barn, you want the planner that has the experience in that environment and knows how to handle all of the rentals that you will need.

You’ll notice that a Sixpence wedding can take place in a barn, at a country club, or in your backyard but the common thread is LOVE. You are a Sixpence client if you really and truly believe that you’re getting married to your best friend and your soul mate. The person that you can sit with in comfortable silence, share winter socks with, and the person who you put first, before yourself.

*You can always include a final venue walkthrough, just ask me to add it on to your package!

Sustainability is a stable foundation in my personal life and has always found its way into my business practices. From planting trees and supporting environmental education programs; to making suggestions, plans, and implementing designs that are consciously competent and make a lower impact on the Earth. Weddings are wasteful, but they don’t need to be a mindless mess of pointless papers, plastic cups, or floral foam that breaks down into microplastics. The ultimate in non-traditional, I’ll even encourage you to skip animal products in your wedding menu. I’m your go to resource if you want to feel good about your wedding choices and their impact now and forever.

Sixpence couples tend to be organized and adept at planning, however they want a well-run wedding, they don’t want to work at their wedding (the day of or while planning). They want to hire professionals because they want a good wedding, they want to do it right, and they understand, there are limits to what they can know about the wedding industry, their venue, the flow of an event with 100 guests etc. I’m happy to step into that role and be their guide.

I love a non-traditional wedding, one that fits your (plural) personalities. If you don’t want a wedding party/first dance/to wear white then don’t! I support you and I will help you plan an event that still feels like a wedding, even though there’s no ceremony/groom/formal dinner/cake.