The Essentials
Limited Planning of your Ceremony + Reception
- Email assistance + a Private Slack Channel dedicated to your wedding day with wedding etiquette advice, planning, vendor ideas, and all your questions
- A Soirée Wedding Planning planner, managing your wedding day.
- Up to 5 hours of in-person, phone, or video chat meetings, scheduled in advance based upon mutual availability. Additional meetings may be scheduled at an additional hourly fee
- A comprehensive timeline for the wedding day
- A plan for event set up and tear down coordinated with other wedding vendors and venue
- Confirmation with vendors for arrival times and fulfillment of contract & expectations
- Attendance and direction (with officiant) at ceremony rehearsal (60 min max)
- Assistance with pick up and delivery of any last minute wedding items (based upon availability)
Day-of Assistance
- A wedding emergency kit with stocked with things you might need during the weekend
- Soirée arrival at venue prior to relevant vendors – greet them and make sure they have everything they need
- Check in with the wedding couple and the wedding party, to make sure they are comfortable and have everything they need to begin getting ready for the day
- Set up programs, escort cards, place cards, photos, menu cards, guest book, cake cutting utensils, champagne flutes, and any other simple décor for the ceremony & reception
- Assist with distribution of wedding flowers, helping to pin on boutonnieres and hand out corsages & bouquets
- Lighting of any candles at your ceremony and reception in a timely fashion
- Help to make sure family & wedding party are in place to help the photographer capture the memories you want
- Assist Photographer(s)/Videographers with staging the “First Look” if the couple is seeing each other before the ceremony begins
- Instruction for your host, hostess, ushers, and other attendants when necessary
- Manage wedding party and facilitate their march down the aisle ensuring flowers are held correctly, timing is impeccable, and that all attire is in proper order
- Assistance with transportation of items that need to be taken to the reception site (restrictions apply)
- Offer the chance for wedding couples to view the reception venue before guests come in
- Assistance with wedding dress bustle, so your friends and family don’t have to be crawling on the ground trying to adjust your dress!
- Arrange grand entrance into the reception coordinated with DJ or emcee
- Assist and cue the wedding couple, wedding party, and both families through the reception activities coordinated with catering team and entertainment (cake cutting, toasts, dances, etc.)
- Ensure the wedding couple is able to sit and enjoy their meal. We also do our best to ensure they are fed & hydrated throughout the entire day as well
- Coordinate the collection of gifts and keepsakes received at wedding to be delivered to a pre-arranged location
- Ensure all vendors receive your final payments as needed
- Pack up items like guest book, photos, cake cutting utensils, champagne flutes, and other personal items are taken to a pre-arranged location
- Work with the venue to ensure clean up plans are in place and ensure vendors have everything they need for take-down
Events beyond 50 miles from the assigned associates’ residence will incur a travel charge appropriate with their travel needs.