The wedding planning service will need to know your budget for planning. It is critical to know how much you can spend on the wedding and work with the planning service to keep the wedding under the budget requirement.

Wedding planning services often have preferred providers that they work for as outside contractors. This means they can offer discounts that may not be available through booking yourself.

If you are working with a wedding planning service you have to be willing to meet with the planner either in person or by phone multiple times prior to the big event. With internet technology and the use of digital images often a wedding planner can work in a different city or even country to plan a wedding that is exactly what you wanted.