Two of the most important hires a couple makes are also the two the wedding industry can\u2019t keep straight. A plain-English guide to who does what and how to avoid paying for the wrong one.<\/p>\n
No exam stands between a person and the title \u201cwedding planner.\u201d No license, no board, no governing authority decides who may use it \u2014 or the nearly identical title \u201cwedding coordinator.\u201d In an industry where couples routinely spend a year\u2019s salary on a single day, the two most consequential hires they can make are also among the least clearly defined.<\/p>\n
That ambiguity is not harmless. The two roles overlap in name and almost nowhere else: one builds a wedding over the better part of a year, the other arrives in the final weeks to run the wedding someone else built. Couples who blur the line tend to make one of two costly mistakes: paying full-planning rates for help they didn\u2019t need, or hiring a coordinator and quietly expecting the work of a planner. What follows is how the two jobs actually differ, and why the confusion is so stubborn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two of the most important hires a couple makes are also the two the wedding industry can\u2019t keep straight. A plain-English guide to who does what and how to avoid paying for the wrong one. No exam stands between a person and the title \u201cwedding planner.\u201d No license, no board, no governing authority decides who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":10849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-weddings-engagements"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n