Best Bang for your $$

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Posted by Annmarie Ventura

I know i can make my own menus, programs and place cards..I design things like this for me all the time...A coordinator? What do they do?

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A full service coordinator will help you find a hall and help you pick vendors - the whole nine.

A day of coordinator (DOC) will start about two weeks before the wedding confirming vendors, going to the final hall meeting, coming to the rehearsal dinner to meet everyone, run around for you the day of the wedding making sure everything is set up as you requested, basically take care of any glitches that day so you do not have to delegate it to a BM or a guest. They range from $200 - $1K or more for DOC services.

I have heard of some really involved DOC's starting as early as when the hall is booked but actually only being paid for DOC services.

I wish I had asked about different nights of the week (instead of just Saturday night) and different times of the year (instead of just the summer). Knowing what I know now, it's really not that important to me to get married in the summer months, but when we looked at halls, I said I was only interested in Saturday nights in June or early July which are some of the most expensive months. This ruled out some places I love b/c they were either too expensive or booked for those months. If I could do it all over again, I would've asked for all the prices.

If you find a place you love, definitely try negotiating or finding out their least expensive months/times/days of the week.

I found out recently that we totally could've afforded a hall I absolutely loved if we'd only had our wedding in the winter...Sigh

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Posted by Boston&NY2006

I wish I had asked about different nights of the week (instead of just Saturday night) and different times of the year (instead of just the summer). Knowing what I know now, it's really not that important to me to get married in the summer months, but when we looked at halls, I said I was only interested in Saturday nights in June or early July which are some of the most expensive months. This ruled out some places I love b/c they were either too expensive or booked for those months. If I could do it all over again, I would've asked for all the prices.

If you find a place you love, definitely try negotiating or finding out their least expensive months/times/days of the week.

I found out recently that we totally could've afforded a hall I absolutely loved if we'd only had our wedding in the winter...Sigh

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True....you have to be open minded and take all things into account when looking for a place!

troo...i had to change my wedding day of 5/27/07 $165 to 5/6/07 $95!

btw i somehow budgeted $35k for my sunday nite wedding with 200 guests....lets just say its'll be more like 37ish...but shhhh.....dont tell my mom!! .....my mom keeps telling me that's i'm over spending on our wedding...thats i'm just wasting $$$ any otehr brides getting gripe from their parents....mind you they didnt offer to pay anything......is she right?....i dont think so...someone make me feel better!