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WEDDING COORDINATION
STARTS AT $1250
This package includes:
Wedding Update
First, we will meet to discuss the details of your big day as you’ve planned them. We will go through our 7-page questionnaire where we’ll gather all of the contact information for your vendors and when they are scheduled to arrive, the ceremony details, and the overall design and set-up plan.
Timeline Creation
We will create a timeline that you and your wedding party can use to keep everyone on track. We will share that timeline with all of your vendors so we can work as a team on your wedding day!
Rehearsal Management
Practice makes perfect, so we’ll help organize your family and bridal party and run a smooth rehearsal that lasts no more than 45 minutes, leaving you plenty of time to have fun at your rehearsal dinner.
Wedding Day Coordination
On the big day we will:
- Serve as point of contact for vendors and guests
- Manage final payments an tips to vendors
- Set up all decoration pieces
- Assist any vendor team member who needs an extra set of hands
- Run ceremony
- Work with DJ to orchestrate reception pieces like a grand entrance, dances, and any other special moments
- Assist photographer in directing family & wedding party
- Load gifts and marriage license safely into a predetermined location
**This package can only be booked 6 months before your wedding day.
The Delacastros
THE PROCESS
01
LET'S CHAT
First, we will meet to discuss the details of your big day as you’ve planned them. We will go through our 7-page questionnaire where we’ll gather all of the contact information for your vendors and when they are scheduled to arrive, the ceremony details, and the overall design and set-up plan.
02
TIMELINE
We will create a timeline that you and your wedding party can use to keep everyone on track. We will share that timeline with all of your vendors so we can work as a team on your wedding day!
03
COORDINATION
From managing your rehearsal to coordinating the big day, we’ll be the point of contact for all your vendors and guests.
FAQS
Where do we start? Hiring a wedding planner, at least for day-of wedding coordination, gives you the ability to actually enjoy your wedding day. You can relax, spend time with your loved ones, focus on your significant other and not have to worry about any details.
A professional wedding planner is an expert at dealing with all things wedding and can handle any surprises that pop up.
Imagine your wedding is the set of a big movie: hiring a wedding planner allows you and your significant other to be the stars of the show, while your wedding team and planner are the set decorators, the scorers, the film crew, and the director.
The sooner the better. If you are looking for a full service planning package (where you work with your planner for the entire process) start looking for a planner shortly after you get engaged.
If you are looking for a ‘day-of’ wedding planner, it’s important to lock in your planning team after you book your venue. Sometimes you might get lucky and book your dream planner last minute, but booking early ensures you get who you want.
Our wedding planning team is based in Grand Junction, Colorado. However, we are in the perfect location to travel to all of the best places in Colorado and beyond! We frequently travel to Rifle, Glenwood Springs, Carbondale, Aspen, Avon, Vail, Montrose, Ridgeway, Crested Butte, Telluride and even to Moab, Utah!
Inquiring with us is easy! Just click here and fill out our inquiry form (we are dying to get to know about you both more). After we get your basic wedding information we will respond to you within 24 hours (unless it is a wedding weekend, in which case it could be up to 48 hours) with our availability and a little more information about us.
It might seem like the cost of a wedding planner is high, but there are a few things to consider.
First, if you are booking a full service planning package with us or any other planner, you will spend more time with them than any other vendor on your wedding team. Your planner will probably spend more than 100 hours on getting you to (and through) your wedding day!
Next, time is money! Your planner will save you HOURS and HOURS of searching, emailing, and meeting scheduling.
Your sanity is money too. Having a wedding planner eases your stress and allows you to sleep easy at night.
Planners are experts at planning weddings.
Finally, planners have many pieces that they need to get through your wedding day. There are employees or day-of assistants, client management software, credit card processing fees, travel, their magic wedding day box (it’s kind of like Mary Poppins’ bag), and many other expenses they have to help them make your day seamless.
So this is a slightly different question than ‘why hire a wedding planner.’ Why should you hire us and trust us with one of the most important days of your lives???
First, we love weddings. Everyone knows that if you’re passionate about your work, you do a better job. We are obsessed with weddings, just saying.
Next, we have experience working in all kinds of Colorado spaces. We’ve worked outside in open fields, in the mountains and inside ballrooms. We know to expect the unexpected and how to deal when things come up.
We’re nice and sort of fun to hang out with. We swear.
We want to help you create the wedding of YOUR dreams. We aren’t pushy or controlling. We want to learn as much as we can about you both so we can create a wedding that is unique and one-of-a-kind. There is no other couple like the two of you, so there should be no other wedding like yours! We will help you make it happen.
We offer a variety of packages that fit couples with different needs. We can help you every step of the way with our full service wedding planning, or we can step in at the end with our wedding coordination package.
I’m going to let you in on a little secret…
There is no such thing as a “day-of” wedding planner.
In order to do their job effectively, a wedding planner or coordinator’s job starts long before the “day-of” the wedding.
At April Marie Events, we start our “day-of” wedding coordination package almost a month before your big day. It takes us time to learn about you and your significant other, your wedding plans, and get an idea of what you want your wedding to be like.
The benefit of this extended time together is that it makes your wedding day that much smoother. If anything arises, we don’t have to ask you your opinion or thoughts because we already know you and your wedding day well enough to make the same decision you would, but without ever bothering you at all.
If you planner came in ONLY on your big day, they wouldn’t be nearly as helpful or efficient.
A venue coordinator works specifically for the venue, organizing details and helping you through the process. However, it’s important to note, that a venue coordinator is working for the venue, not directly for you.
A wedding planner or coordinator is someone hired to work directly for you. They are there for you specifically, and can help navigate working with all of your vendors, including your venue.
No! We love to meet (or at least chat with) all of our potential clients before booking. It’s important to make sure that we connect before we dive in.
Working with a wedding planner, especially if you’re considering full wedding planning, it a long and close relationship. It’s important that you get to know us a little before you make the commitment to trust us with one of the most important days of your life.
Because choosing your wedding planner is so important, we NEVER charge for consultations.
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