Wedding Planner Cost

You finally decided to hire a wedding planner for your special day to turn out as beautiful as you will be, but you have no idea how much a wedding planner is going to cost. In fact, you are more preoccupied whether your wedding budget will be enough to spend a part of it on a wedding planner. To help you get rid of all the doubts that might be standing in your way, we thought of letting you know a wedding planner’s costs and services.



Don’t get a wrong aide that the budget for a wedding planner is nearly equal to the whole wedding budget because this is not true. But besides all the wedding planner costs and charges, you have to consider as well all the time and energy a wedding planner’s services might save you. Planning a wedding yourself it can be a very stressful and painful process, that is why a wedding planner might get the burden off in a few steps.

Therefore you will be more than happy to hire a wedding planner, no matter what he charges. Time and energy are more important than money, of course, when you have it. There are wedding planners who want to be paid per day, and other who charge the whole planning considering your wedding budget. Those who charge per day usually help you in almost everything you want to prepare for the wedding. If you are delighted with this variant, where you have no direct implications in planning the wedding, you have to be prepared to pay your wedding planner each day of work.

Depending on how much you are going to handle the wedding yourself, a wedding planner may ask to be paid with $1.000 or $1.500 for services that include organizing the timeline and every meeting with the vendors. For a higher price and more work, a wedding planner is usually paid with $3.000 - $3.500.

His activities contain organizing the wedding day, phone calls, meetings, contracts and maybe can advice the couple in certain aspects of the wedding. For $4.500 - $5.000 a wedding planner can offer you full-time services. He will handle each single detail of the wedding and he will take care that the wedding day goes conform to the initial plan.

If you want to hire a wedding planner with years of experience behind, form six to ten years of proven work, he might charge you double, for about $10.000 or even more, depending on what wonders can he do with your wedding. But the prices vary from country to country and from region to region. For instance, a northeast wedding consultant can cost you about $3.000 - $3.500, while a south wedding planning can cost you less, for about $2.500.