It's understandable that modern brides feel they are saving by not hiring a wedding planner. This is only true if everything goes right and it almost never does. But what DIY Brides don't realize is that unexpected expenses and cost overruns are the price you pay for not hiring a wedding planner.  In other words, you'll end up spending more by trying to save on hiring a wedding planning. 

If you consider yourself a DIY Bride, ask yourself these four questions. Be honest with yourself and intended before taking on the sizable task of planning your own wedding. I think that once you've weighed the pros and cons of doing it yourself, you will see that hiring a wedding planner is money well spent.

1. What's more important to you: Your time or your money? It's difficult trying to plan your own wedding in between work, school, or family. For some couples, they juggle all of the above on top of trying to plan their own dream wedding. Most realize that what they save in money, they lose in time. Furthermore, they learn their wedding to-do-list takes more time and energy then they expected. But when you hire a wedding planner, not only will we save you time we also save you money in the long run.   
2. Do you have experience planning a gathering like this? You might have attended several weddings, been part of a bridal party, or even been married before. You might consider yourself the social coordinator of your circle of friends. However, they are many components to a wedding. You are more likely to run into problems due to lack of experience because you don't know, what you don't know. Wedding planners are experienced in coordinating weddings. In other words, this is what we do.   
3. Do you have the patience to plan every detail (big and small) and create a contingency plan? Every couple should begin with a budget for their wedding. These are parameters of how much they plan to spend on which items. But it's simply a guide for those DIY Brides that go over budget because of unanticipated expenses or the cost to fix unforeseen problems. Often times, engaged couples do not have a Plan B and they end of spending more if they can't get their first choice or if one the vendors they selected doesn't fulfill their obligation. This is when an experienced wedding planner comes in handy. Not only has your wedding planner sorted all the details of your special day for you, they have backup plans ready just in case. 
4. Do you have the tools and resources needed for your wedding readily available to you? Experienced wedding planners have an arsenal of industry professional they can contact for your wedding. However, a DIY Bride has to spend time researching vendors, calling around for quotes, and checking retailers to see who sales what they want. A wedding planner already knows. They can streamline your research by recommending venues, vendors, and retailers based on your preferences. This will, in the end, save you time and money.

InBliss Wedding and Events provides our DIY Brides with The Round Cut service. This service allows you select your own vendors and do most of you wedding planning yourself. We simply assist you with time management, day of coordination, and coordination of the wedding vendors you have selected. This is ideal if you have some time to plan your own wedding but you would like our professional experience coordinating the details. 

Planning your own wedding is stressful enough within itself, but San Diego brides have a especially challenging time planning their own weddings. Those brides that know, hire wedding planning experts to help alleviate the stress of planning the most important day of your life. There are brides however that don't understand what wedding planners do or why they should spend their wedding budget on a wedding planner. To those brides, I would like to use an analogy to better explain why having a wedding planner is beneficial.

Planning your own wedding is like traveling to a foreign country without map. There are travel website that you can search to find the best rate, best date, book a car, and hotel. But once you arrive at your destination, you are pretty much on your own. You can research your destination with travel magazines, blogs, web content, etc. but, there is nothing like getting advice and recommendations from someone who has traveled there extensively to really give you the scoop. If you hire a travel agent, you can truly enjoy and most importantly relax on your vacation. They have planned and organized your trip for you. Not only do they book your airfare, car, and lodging, they also plan activities for you based on the kind of vacation you want to have. Then they bundle it all up in one price so most of your vacation and activities are already paid for once you arrive. A travel agent can guide you better than any travel website because unlike the Travelocity gnome, they've actually been there.


The same is true for hiring a wedding planner. There are various wedding websites, research your own caterer, photographer, disk jockey, baker, etc. You can research your wedding vendors, check their online reviews, and you might feel as though you are making well informed choices. But once you've done that it's still like traveling to a foreign country without a map. Your family and friends are a great supporting cast but they should be in the moment with you while your wedding planner coordinates everything together. Some say the worse the wedding the better the marriage. However hiring a wedding planner allows you to have a perfect stress-free wedding and the happy marriage. You don't have to sacrifice one for the other; you deserve to have both. With our Emerald Cut service, we streamline your wedding planning experience by providing you with personalized calendars and our dedicated staff helps you step by step to the alter.  InBliss finds your venue and wedding vendors for you so, you can focus on what's really important to you (finding the perfect dress). We bundle it all up in one price for your convenience. Like the travel agent, wedding planners have insight into the wedding industry that a bride simply searching online or pounding the pavement does not. We've been through the process many times as skilled professionals so we are the best guide to plan you through.