You and Your Wedding Planner Work Together
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios

What is a wedding planner? What does a wedding planner do? These are some common questions that ”soon-to-be brides" ask when starting to design a wedding.

First and foremost, a wedding planner is not an employee or temporary worker. Instead, a wedding planner is an independent contractor who presents his or her services for a fee. A wedding planner assists you with planning the look and the activities of your wedding from start to end. Being experts in their fields, wedding planners are trained to appease the desires of both the marrying couple and their guests.

The wedding planner performs tasks such as:

design
evaluation
idea generation
implementation
planning
problem definition
reporting
research
selection
situation analysis

You should consider using a wedding planner when you need:

1. Special skills - experience and knowledge that are not available from you, your family, or friends.

2. Help - help for a specific time period or to assist with the work provided from others.

3. New ideas - wedding planners can contribute new ideas and are very resourceful when it comes to innovative thinking.

Understanding what a wedding planner is and what he or she does, you can now learn how to work 'with' one, rather than have one 'work for you'. To do so, bring the wedding planner into your wedding project early. The sooner you have committed to a wedding date - the better. A wedding planner can often improve your first ideas or decisions to even better ones. Don't be surprised if one of the questions that your wedding planner asks you is, "what is the problem?" A wedding planner is trained to find problems and then solve them. Be sure that you can provide a problem to your planner even if it is a simple, "I don't know what to do!" problem. If, on the other hand, you already have some ideas on hand, by all means give them to your assistant. He or she will use what you have to recreate your vision in his or her mind, and then build from that vision. The more tools that you can provide, the better.

All throughout the design process, your wedding planner will keep you informed as to what progress has been made and what else needs to be done until everything is complete according to what both of you agreed to and planned.

BIG Mike is a well known author, developer and Adsense expert as well as the owner of Niche Maniacs - a unique Adsense Marketing System designed to build long-term passive income streams from Adsense, YPN, Chitika and other PPC services.