{"id":1473,"date":"2015-07-24T19:39:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2015-07-24T19:51:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T19:51:36","slug":"why-we-didnt-hire-a-wedding-planner-but-wish-we-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/why-we-didnt-hire-a-wedding-planner-but-wish-we-had\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Didn&#8217;t Hire a Wedding Planner&#8230; But Wish We Had"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"fb_share\"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/why-we-didnt-hire-a-wedding-planner-but-wish-we-had\/\" layout=\"button_count\"><\/fb:like><\/span><div style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"therealebd\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/why-we-didnt-hire-a-wedding-planner-but-wish-we-had\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lindsey-Brad-0507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1475\" src=\"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lindsey-Brad-0507.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsey-Brad-0507\" width=\"5504\" height=\"3669\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lindsey-Brad-0507.jpg 5504w, http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lindsey-Brad-0507-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lindsey-Brad-0507-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5504px) 100vw, 5504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>I found this great article\u00a0written from a bride&#8217;s perspective. It&#8217;s sad how many brides realize AFTER the wedding, just how important a wedding planner is. I hope that bride&#8217;s\u00a0continue to share their experiences so that others will not make the same mistake. Planning a wedding without a wedding\u00a0planner for one of the biggest events of your life, is like producing a movie without a Director. Can you imagine!? I hope this\u00a0article will\u00a0help at least a few brides understand the importance of hiring a Director for their big day!<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Jessica Gillon &#8211; Events by Design<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Until you really get into the preparations for your big day, it is impossible to fathom how much work is involved and how many details need to be taken care of.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/reflective-bride\/why-we-didnt-hire-a-wedding-planner_b_5724608.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Why We Didn&#8217;t Hire a Wedding Planner&#8230; But Wish We Had<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<fb:like href='http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/why-we-didnt-hire-a-wedding-planner-but-wish-we-had\/' send='false' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet I found this great article\u00a0written from a bride&#8217;s perspective. It&#8217;s sad how many brides realize AFTER the wedding, just how important a wedding planner is. I hope that bride&#8217;s\u00a0continue to share their experiences so that others will not make &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/why-we-didnt-hire-a-wedding-planner-but-wish-we-had\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-by-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eventsbydesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}