I second this. You're likely to make mistakes. Wedding planners sometimes get relationship discounts on certain days things, the same way that tour agencies do, so they might not even be that expensive.
It was enough effort to learn that I tried to set up a wedding planning company after my wedding, only to find that everyone does that and it's not too profitable.
Come to think of it, it would make a good app. There's all kinds of baby shower and gift apps, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a good cheap wedding planner service.
Baby shower gifts can come to Des Moines from a warehouse in Secaucus.
To a first approximation all the major elements of a wedding have to be in Des Moines. Whatever exceptions there are the church is not among them.
Weddings are local. Apps don’t scale down to that granularity because busy wedding photographers, florists, and caterers don’t need to sign up for an app to get referrals.
Oh, I forgot that weddings are done very differently across cultures. In some cultures it might be fixed at a church, but for us, the wedding is often at the bride's home or in some hall in town. So that means the logistics of getting things to that area - catering, chairs, tents.
"Apps don’t scale down to that granularity because busy wedding photographers, florists, and caterers don’t need to sign up for an app to get referrals."
This argument can apply to everything else people sign up on apps for. Localized is fine for food delivery, and busy restaurants sign up for them.
Part of the appeal is finding the non-busy ones. During wedding season, caterers and photographers are often fully booked, and one needs to make a lot of phone calls just to find one that isn't. And of course the new service providers want some way to do marketing. There is a successful app out here for finding wedding photographers but I'm not aware of one here to plan a whole wedding.
It was enough effort to learn that I tried to set up a wedding planning company after my wedding, only to find that everyone does that and it's not too profitable.
Come to think of it, it would make a good app. There's all kinds of baby shower and gift apps, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a good cheap wedding planner service.