Full time wedding planner

This sounds to be a red flag sign of nothing being done besides some bookings and lists sent to you without saying if she has an urgent matter to take care about and when she would be back. The full time planners are to take care of all your bookings, contacts and layouts for what you want done if they are offering their services. Clearly they left things in a bad way for you and need to resume or refund your money for not continuing if they are not working with you.

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Sorry I should have clarified - the first part of my message was about you saying it seems like she's just doing the job of a month of coordinator and so you were confused about what exactly she should be doing for you. I was essentially going off on a tangent about month of coordinators vs planners.

I totally understand why would want a planner in your situation and she absolutely should be helping you book the rest of your vendors unless she's made it very clear to you that she isn't.

If she's not returning any of your emails/messages that's a bit worrying. Do you have alternate contact info?

View quoted message Referring back to my original post, I stated we valued the extra help as we both work full time and it’s all out of provinces so some insider input/help was needed.


I have contacted her and no reply. Looking for input if my exception are skewed and this is what full time planning is.For the venue she created a price/pros/cons spread sheet and I was under the impression she would help with each vendor not just two.

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Yeah I mean I guess it's a moot point now, but if you're willing to put the legwork into finding, booking, and communicating with all of your vendors I personally don't see a lot of value in a planner when you could just get a coordinator instead. But I know people that just don't have the time or don't want to deal with all of that so I totally get why some people hire them. I've also heard of planners sometimes paying for themselves because they can find you vendors in your price range you may not have otherwise found or they have relationships with vendors and can get you a discount. Just getting prices from vendors can be a lot of work so I can see how a planner would make things easier there. And they obviously save you time which for some people is a huge factor.

Definitely contact her and get her input on next steps. I'm sure she has a plan but it just hasn't been communicated to you yet. It would probably also give you some peace of mind to set up meetings in advance so you know the next time you'll hear from her and if there are any decisions that need to be made before each meeting. It can even just be a quick check in to make sure everything is going according to plan and to get updates.

View quoted message Hey! Thanks for your reply,
I only have 2 vendors booked (venue and photography) 🥵 that’s where the confusion was lying for me, I understand that most of the work won’t happen until right before the wedding but how is that any different than month of coordination 🤪

We didn't hire a planner, but from my understanding they will help you find and book vendors and then have periodic meetings with you to discuss decor, food, timelines, etc. They will also help coordinate your vendors on your wedding date and deal with any issues that arise.

As someone who didn't have a planner I can say that once you have your vendors not a lot actually happens until much closer to the wedding unless you're doing a bunch of DIYs or something. You can't really finalize anything until you have your guest count and that won't happen until maybe a month out from the wedding. But if there's anything you want to discuss with your planner definitely send her an email and set up a meeting.