Wedding Planner PET PEEVES | Avoid These Common Missteps!

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As a teacher, everything you are saying resonates so much!

Yes yes yes!! You hit the nail on the head. I can relate so much. I get lengthy emails all the time with over a dozen different questions that require me to do a million things to answer… and they want answers FAST. they want to know measurements of things, food allergy info, pictures sent to them, costing estimates, logistic information. SO MUCH at once. It’s overwhelming. Also- when you mentioned that we are humans too! I feel like that isn’t talked about enough. I try so hard to not get upset and frustrated when I’m dealing with personal issues (like this past week, dumping thousands of dollars into car repairs and having to scramble for rides to work.. i was flustered, stressed and my mind was partially elsewhere) and meanwhile I’m receiving unnecessarily rude voice messages and emails because I haven’t responded to their question about candles from yesterday. Like come on!!!

Listen to me! 👏🏻👏🏻 I’m the dessert whisperer! I promise I know what I’m doing!

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Poor performing vendors – usually friend of the couple.

This is SO spot on. Although as a Day of Coord. I have definitely been inappropriately treated by groomsmen. Any advice on how to firmly but kindly say “no”, “not okay”?

I love Jamie! I´m also an Event Planner, and even tho I work In the European Market (that is completely different from the US) I love her advice and the way she teaches future event hosts! I even started to give some of her tips to my customers and use some for myself as well!
Good Job Jamie!
You make us look good! ;P

My god mother tried to pull me back into the dressing room while her daughter (the bride) was getting ready, and I swear her bridal party was about to rip me limb from limb. Like I'm literally just following the instructions of the only other person I know here, chill the fuck out PLEASE. So also, please God don't be that kind of "guard person", just be civil and remember that literally everyone is excited.

"It's okay, I'm friends with the bride" had me in stitches. Duh! Haha

Looove it. There is no just!! Valid for every workplace, every friendship as well

sometimes I feel like you don’t necessarily understand that you are the one that should be in control of if your couples put things in one big messy box. This is where good communication should come in to play between you and your couples.

Small wedding/elopement advice?

I know you’ve said this in videos before…to take a minute and just look at everyone and enjoy the day. Can I get some more tips on that 😅 My wedding is in September 2022, and I have almost every vendor booked and paid for bc I can’t handle last minute planning. & last minute to me is within a year of big events lol. I have horrible anxiety and I feel like my wedding day will be ruined because of it. I’m not social. I don’t want to walk down the isle, talk in front of people or dance. I mean I want to, but I don’t….I’m just nervous.

Our wedding was destroyed by the venue. I wish we would of have had you in our corner.

Hey Jamie I just have a quick question so I am engaged to a a sweet guy and he has a kid who’s about to be 10 are wedding isn’t until October next year after he get back from over seas but I want to make sure we make jaden (his son) feel included an not like I’m trying to replace his mom do you have any ideas I thought with you having a blended family might help thanks

Hi Jamie (and all you other lovly people)

First, thank you so much for all your advice.

Me and my boyfriend are getting married in February. We live in Denmark and therefore we do weddings a little (a lot) different then in the US. We are doing our wedding even more different than the “normal” Danish wedding. Instead of gifts we wish for our guests to bring food.

We will be about 50-60 people and when we tell our family and friends about our wish for the food, they LOVE it. It makes the whole thing more down to earth and more us.

How are we gonna pull this off you ask? We tell all our guests in the invite our plan for the food and when we know who is coming, we will send out what we would like for each household to bring and for how many. For an example: potato salad for 20 people, roast for 15, smoked salmon and bread for 15 (maybe a recipe or two if we want to be specific)

We are doing buffet style and a lot of the diches are cold. Our vendor has a kitchen for us to use if something has to be reheated.

In the Nordic countries we are in general very responsible people, so we are not afraid that someone won’t bring what we asked.

We are of cause giving “the important diches” to the people closest to us (our parents and close friends)

My best friend actually insisted on making our wedding cake when we told her about our food idea. She worked in pastry and baking business for many years and she really loves the job of making edible art.

Both our families love food and cooking, and we pour a lot of love into our food so this way we can have a lot of love in the room in the form of good food.

This may be such a crazy thing to do at a wedding (we have never been to wedding that did this before) but we think it’s manageable and its gonna make the day even more special.

We just wanted to tell you about a different way of doing the food for a wedding that we haven’t heard you talk about on your channel.

All the best

Vibeke and Andrias

Ps. I apologize for any spelling or grammar errors. English is my second language out of four, so sometimes they get mixed up.