Minnesota Wedding Planners, Coordinators, & Consultants Q&A

Ethnic wedding favor ideas

My fiance and I are looking for unique favors. We would like to incorporate our cultures or the 2 different states we are from.

I am Native American and from New Mexico and he is Swedish from Minnesota. We both met in the airline industry. As of now, I work for the airlines and he is an air.... [Read more]

Appropriate tip for wedding planner with fixed sum contract

I am marrying abroad and having a relatively elegant event, possibly equivalent to a mid-sized wedding in Manhattan. The wedding coordinator was hired on a fixed sum contract. The wedding is taking place in a European country where tipping a fixed percentage of a bill such as 15% is not customary.... [Read more]

Mom and SIL wedding planners

My mother and SIL are both arriving from out of state over a week early (!) to help with our informal family wedding and reception. The SIL owns an event planning business, and she's liable (unintentionally or otherwise) to take over, over-do, and leave my mother uninvolved. I'll be working until.... [Read more]

How much to pay a wedding planner?

Hello - I'm newly engaged and just beginning the wedding planning process. Since my schedule is extremely busy, I am contemplating hiring a wedding planner. My budget is not enormous. Is there a minimum budget that wedding planners expect to work with (apart from their fee, i mean). I don't want to.... [Read more]

2 friends 2 wedding planner

I fear my sanity slipping away. I have two very dear friends and each is a fine wedding planner in her own right. I have been getting ideas from each for free as one told the other however I feel caught in between them. I have not hired either one but have been getting controlling and demanding.... [Read more]