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Nelia
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Wedding Planner taking too long to respond?

Nelia, on January 3, 2020 at 2:58 PM Posted in Planning 0 6

Hello ladies ! I have a question about my wedding planner my fiance told me to contact him sometime in January of 2020 to see if we are still meeting in February of this year preferably late February. We hired him back in 2017 but because my fiance and me were struggling financially the last few years and our wedding planner went through personal issues last year he kept us on as clients I think because he sees us as good friends as well as clients because I was the one that met him at my university back in 2017 and a lot of the students at my campus use him for planning their weddings and gave me and my fiance a big discount because i was a student. We decided to move our wedding date to Sept 24, 2022 which we will be able to get married by then because this year my fiance is going to be changing jobs and will be in a better position to put money towards our wedding while i stay with my parents to finish college up in a few semesters. My question is my wedding planner based off even a acquaintance of mine had him plan her wedding last year and they are both pretty much the same when it comes to getting back to people. I messaged my wedding planner on Tuesday asking about when is the deadline my fiance would need 3 grand to let us start locking down vendors our budget is 10 grand) and if he was still willing to meet us in late February and so far he has not responded or seen my text messages or my messages on Facebook messenger which it seems that is the only way I can get ahold of him my fiance and me love him because hes a really great guy and hes going through health issues and was during the time the acquaintance i am friends with during her wedding.

When should I possibly contact him again? I was going to possibly contact him in a few weeks but my fiance says we got a whole month till even February starts. Am I just overreacting and worrying too much or should I contact him if he doesn't respond in a few weeks? thank you so much for your input and i will success on your wedding planning for your weddings Smiley smile

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Latest activity by Nelia, on January 3, 2020 at 5:17 PM
  • Kelly
    Champion October 2018
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    It’s a holiday week and a lot of people are out of the office or on vacation so I’d give him more time to catch up on emails. I would give him another week or two before following up again. Have you already paid him a deposit for his services? What is the 3 grand for? I had a wedding planner and I paid her 50% of her fee to start working for us about a year before the wedding. I paid all our vendors directly when we hired them. With your wedding being almost 3 years away it’s really too early to book any vendors except maybe a venue but even this it’s risky this early.
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  • Nelia
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    We paid already half of his deposit for the first part of his Services when we originally hired him a few years ago and he said that he wanted us to save up three grand for my fiance to be able to put it towards our vendors and then building on that to put more towards our budget.. He has the same protocol he was telling us that we can pay the first half which we did back in December of 2017 for the first part of his deposit in the other part like two or three months before the wedding so we've got time to pay him the other half but so far we had only a photographer that we had tried to book but she was way out of our price range and my fiance's trying to get a refund from that photographer and be able to put it towards our wedding budget for a more affordable photographer in our budget. I think what he is planning to do is that he was going to meet us throughout the rest of this year to see where our budget is to see how it's coming along it's a really good thing that my fiance is transferring jobs this year so that way it will be able to get a jump start on us putting more money towards our wedding and be able to get started building our savings for the wedding for the rest of this year.

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  • FutureMrsKC
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    Honestly? I wouldn't do anything, I'd only worry about saving money and putting it in my bank account for the wedding. Your wedding is pretty far away, you really don't need to meet him or discuss budget this far in advance. Anything can happen between now and 2022. You know you want to spend 10K, so I'd focus on saving up the 10K and let the rest chill for now. Vendors likely won't book this far out and your vision can change a lot. I'd really start focusing on everything this fall or early next year and book vendors then. You really don't need to meet the planner or talk about anything at this point.

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  • Kelly
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    Gotcha. At this point I don’t really see a need to meet with him and I would just focus on saving money. At the end of this year or beginning of next when you’re ready to start booking some vendors you can ask him if what an appropriate percentage to spend on each vendor is before you book. But I don’t think he needs to know how much you have saved as it’s too early to book things.
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  • Nelia
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    Thank you for the input I really appreciate it ! That makes sense !
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    Thank you ! For your input that helps me put my mind at ease and helps me feel better of trying to plan my wedding ! Smiley smile
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