I'm Engaged! What Vendors Do I Hire First?

Now that you’re engaged, where do you start?

Now that you have the basic parameters of your wedding figured out, you want to start putting together your team.  But first, you need to figure out what type of couple you are. 

In our experience, there are mostly two types of couples, the busy couples who want to save time and rely on a professional to guide them through the planning process and the hands on couples who are eager and excited to handle a large part of the planning process themselves. 

If you’re the busy couple relying on more professional guidance, you’ll want to hire your planner first, then secure the rest of your VIP vendors.  VIP Vendors who can’t serve two events in the same day.  Those would include your venue, photographer, videographer, dj, officiants, and some florists and makeup artists. 

If you’re more of the hands on couple, often we find them booking their venue first, then planner/photographer and the rest of their vendors after that.  

Once you have your vendors booked, you can easily move into the design phase of event planning. What we consider the fun part!