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The one I hired has started doing weddings in Toronto!!! We just did Month -of wedding coordination, so I'm not sure what her full planning package costs, but I don't think it'll be 10K. Thats bonkers!

Alexandra Lillian Weddings & Events (I found her through WW and she had a discount on this site at the time).

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What wedding planner did you hire? I'm having trouble finding a full service wedding planner that isn't $10k in Toronto.

FH and I were never interested in a wedding planner as we planned to do most of it ourselves, however we are hiring a friend to be day of cordinator. She's really good at organizing people and attention to detail. The idea actually came to me to hire her when she was helping me with decoration ideas. This way my guests, mom, MOH ect can enjoy the party and dont have to worry about small details for me.

Yes. We hired ours in January, right after our wedding social. I found our wedding social incredibly overwhelming. My fiance and I were running around all night, and we were exhausted. After that, I had to warm him up to the idea of hiring a day of coordinator. It was so important to me that we could enjoy our day, and that our friends and family could also enjoy without worrying about the details.

We're having a tent wedding, so there's lots of vendor juggling. I'm very happy to have our wedding coordinator. It was $1,200 we didn't budget for, but she's already been invaluable to us, just as a person to bounce ideas off of, keep us on top of things, and give advise.

Inquire with companies to compare quotes and packages to see if your budget fits that amount. It all depends if you want to go ahead and have them take care of you or do it on your own and allocate the money in other sections.

I didn't choose to have one as I do keep everything organized and together so that all communications are clear with the vendors personally.

We decided to hire our planning almost right away. We live in Toronto and are getting married Kitchener so we wanted someone local to help us coordinate with vendors, especially finding a venue. Plus my brother had one for his wedding and they said it was the best money they spent. Our wedding isn't until next year but so far she's been awesome. She's helped a lot so far in terms of suggesting vendors, coordinating meetings with them and keeping us on track for the things we should be booking.

Ultimately, I think it depends on your situation/budget and how much time you want to spend on planning. Though I've heard from multiple people that at least hiring a day of/month of coordinator is worth the money. It makes it easier for you and your FH to enjoy your day.

We are not getting a planner or coordinator, I am "using" a couple friends that have recently gotten married. Both ladies are helping with all my questions, and they have both suggested to just ask a family member or friend that is not in the wedding party to act as my go to person the day of.

I think if you can afford it, then go for one. My FH and I got an event planner coz I live in SK and he lives in ON and the wedding is in ON! Safer to get one I guess

I didn't bother, I like doing things myself and my mom plans events as her job so I lucked out!

We didn’t. Our venue offers a coordinator to help us, and all of our linens, variety of decorations, catering and music is also available through them. I’ve been able to manage planning everything else we’ve been doing so for us it didn’t make sense. However, if I didn’t have all that provided through the venue I would’ve 100% hired one.

Hey babe!

We chose not to hire a wedding planner as there is so much information out there nowadays... you have all the information you need if you’re willing to put the time (or if you have the time).

I find it so much fun and could not imagine putting that in the hands of someone else!

In terms of wedding coordinator, I think that is very important to have in order to have a worry free day! The coordinator will make sure everything goes smoothly on your big day! We were lucky enough to find a venue that offered a coordinator, so we won’t have to pay extra for it!

We hired a planner quite quickly - mostly because we live in Winnipeg and are getting married in Canmore. I have no idea what we would have done without one... trying to arrange the details from a distance would have led to some pretty bad meltdowns, I think!

I did - my wedding coordinator is a Month of/ Day of. We booked her the same time we booked the venue because she is the owner of the venue. So basically we booked her as our MO/DOC 1 year and 7 months before the wedding.

Worth it for us. Our venue has no cell reception which makes getting into contact with vendors to be difficult. Plus she will already be there and know the venue so that's a bonus. She helps with the seating plan, day of schedule, making sure people are where they need to be, and we don't have to put any of it on our wedding party.

If you can afford it, do it!

I think if it’s in your budget - definitely worth it because they take care of everything! There’s also different packages you can get - full planning, month of and day of.

It wasnt in my budget so I don’t have a planner.