For the Newly Engaged: The first 3 steps to planning your wedding
Planning a wedding can be all-encompassing, especially if you don’t have a solid team of vendors with experience in the industry to guide you and your partner through the process. Here are the first three steps that I would recommend to ensure a seamless and stress free experience leading up to your wedding day.
Step 1: Hire a luxury wedding planner like Honey & Thyme Events
An experienced wedding planner, like the team at Honey & Thyme Events, is absolutely essential. This is your first step to ensuring your wedding vision comes to life and no detail is overlooked. With over a decade in the industry, Caitlin and her team are a wealth of knowledge and creativity, and can connect you with the best vendors in the business that meet your budget and ideal aesthetic.
Honey & Thyme are luxury wedding planners based in the Carolinas, but they plan events around the globe. View a stunning Italian elopement that they recently planned here.
Step 2: Book your date and venue
There is a lot to consider when booking your wedding venue and a luxury wedding planner will be able to walk you through the nuances and different policies of each unique venue.
Step 3: Choose your photographer
Now that you have your wedding planner, and a date at a venue booked, your planner will most likely present you with options of photographers to work with. When choosing a photographer, ask to view an entire gallery that they have delivered to a recent client. Any photographer can pull together a highlight reel from when the lighting was perfect — but what about the parts of the day when it wasn’t? The best photographers can maintain a consistent aesthetic regardless of the variables.
Each photographer also has a style that is unique to them — make sure it is a style that speaks to you! Do you like the color tones that you see in their imagery? Do they take a more candid documentary style approach, or do they appear to pose their subjects a bit more? The photographer you choose should be able to articulate their process to you, and their presence should put you at ease.
Hi, I’m Kelsey!
I’m a destination wedding photographer specializing in photojournalistic and editorial imagery. I wrote this blog to help guide newly engaged couples on the first steps to planning their wedding.