Get Married on a Budget: How a Colorado Wedding Planner Helps You Save Money

As everyone who’s married knows, planning a wedding is a lot of work! A wedding planner can help you navigate the process on a budget while still throwing your dream wedding. While most wedding planners have package minimums (the amount you’ll pay for certain planning services), the expense might not be as high as you think. And hiring a wedding planner can help you create a realistic budget, get the most bang for your buck, and still have a fabulous wedding. Here’s how hiring a wedding planner can help you save:

Creating a Budget

Calculating the cost of all the different pieces of your wedding can feel daunting. Hiring a wedding planner can help you create a realistic budget for your big day. From the venue to wedding favors, a wedding planner can help you outline all the financial details and accommodate your wedding vision accordingly.

A couple planning their own wedding may have to rely on made up numbers and estimated costs, but a planner is able to create a realistic budget based on previous experience working with other couples and industry knowledge. A wedding planner can help when it comes to budgeting for everything big and small, and create a financial outline that reflects your budget. Hiring a professional will not only help keep you sane during your wedding planning process, but also save you time and (hopefully) money!

Working With Vendors

A wedding planner is the first vendor you should hire. By hiring a planner, you gain access to a network of potential vendors. This is particularly important for couples getting married in areas outside of where you live. If your dream wedding ceremony is in the mountains of Colorado, hiring a Colorado wedding planner gives you access to a network of vendors across the state. Use these connections to your advantage. Even if you decide on a vendor that your planner has never worked with, they may know someone who has worked with that vendor in the past who can vouch for their reliability. With a wide range of vendors and industry relationships, a wedding planner can help you find vendors who fit into your budget and your wedding day vision.

Having a wedding planner on your side also gives you an expert set of eyes when it comes to vendor contracts. Your wedding planner can review your contracts and can help you negotiate your wedding needs, options, and costs with your vendor. Most wedding planners have reviewed many vendor contracts, so they know what they know what to look out for, where to save money, where to splurge, and how to professionally work with vendors.

Another perk of hiring a wedding planner: leave the day-of vendor oversight to your planner so you can spend the day surrounded by love instead of ensuring each table setting is in place!

Budget-Friendly Brainstorming

The best place to find budget-friendly wedding ideas is Pinterest (check out our wedding boards), where you can create mood boards and turn your wedding pins into reality! While DIY projects and taking some wedding responsibility into your own hands can be a big task, it’s one of the easiest ways to save money and add personal touches to your wedding celebration.

A wedding planner has extensive wedding experience and is your partner in bringing your wedding dreams to life. Utilize your wedding planner’s experience to help you brainstorm budget-friendly alternatives to theme, decor, vendor, and venue options that are out of your budget. Whether you’re thinking creatively and using DIY projects to add to your decor or saving money by planning a backyard extravaganza, wedding planners have seen (and helped plan) it all.

Having a lower budget in mind for your wedding doesn't mean that you can't take advantage of a wedding planner's knowledge. Nor does it mean that you can’t have the wedding of your dreams. If you're getting married in Colorado and looking for your partner in planning, let us help you!

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