1. I want your wedding to be just that: yours. It shouldn’t be your mom’s wedding, your Aunt Sally’s wedding, or—heaven forbid—your mom’s best friend’s daughter-who-got-married-last-year’s wedding.
2. I am happy to offer suggestions of what works and doesn’t work for your wedding, but I will ultimately do whatever it takes to make your day special, even if that means putting one of my staff on “drunk guest alert” and running after the guest when he or she runs from the cab I called to take him or her home.
3. I will encourage you to not stress over the seating chart for your reception. No one has to live at that table. They just have to eat their meal there.
4. I will look through all of the pictures you have saved from TheKnot.com, Etsy, and Pinterest and help you put together a design that reflects your personality. I will also suggest that when you include your fiancé in some of these decisions, you give him a couple things to choose from that you could live with. If he has a whole catalog of things to pick from, he will almost always pick something that you might not want, and you will look at him and say, “You’re kidding, right?”
5. At the end of the day, I will hug you and tell you it has been my pleasure to walk beside you through this journey we call wedding planning—because will have been.
Event-ually yours,
Nancy Bennett
Event Designer and Owner, Limelight Events
