Meet The Wedding Planner!

If you remember this post, Eiffel and I were excited to have made probably the smartest decision about the wedding.  It took a lot of pressure off of us, our schedule and gave both of us sanity with regards to planning the wedding.

If that last statement wasn't enough of a hint, I'll put it out in the open:  We got a wedding planner!  To briefly explain things, Eiffel's co-worker is married to a wedding planner, so after hearing about this Eiffel and I decided that it wouldn't hurt to speak and learn more about what they do.  We met up with Tammy no too long after and we knew it was a match that was meant to be.

Since making the decision to work with Tammy, we have have gotten more sleep, less stress and the bags under my eyes have entirely disappeared!

Meeting with Tammy, she gave the impression of knowledge and wisdom with regards to planning events, and she was just a pleasure to meet and work with.  Having her act as an advocate and planner for us, she told us that from the beginning of the day to the end of the day we would need to do NOTHING but relax while she took care of all the details.

For guys in general, I would have to say that I'm an exception with regard to knowing how a wedding works since I'm a wedding photographer by trade, but being on the other side and planning out every detail of the big day was something that I didn't fully appreciate until I got to this side of the equation.  Knowing that Tammy will be there to work with us has been reassuring and will definitely allow us to focus on other things for the wedding day.  Something Eiffel and I are so incredibly thankful for.

Ok so that was the first revelation, here's the 2nd one.

Part of what Tammy asked of us was to gather entire wedding party together to meet with her, get to know her and for her to get to know them.  Let me tell you, setting up a meeting for 17+ people and trying to coordinate so many schedules is quite trying.  I was just happy to be able to have everyone meet for one hour.  I don't know how Tammy does it for a living!


Now here's something that I want to recommend for everyone if they need to coordinate a meeting with people that are not in town....

Use Google Plus Hangouts

Coordinating the meeting wasn't just about getting everyone within the area to meet at one location and one time.  We had to deal with people that were out of state as well.  My sister lives in California, one of Eiffel's cousins lives in Colorado, Another lives in California also, and two people lived over an hour away from the meeting location.

With hangouts from Google Plus we were able to set up a mass meeting online for everyone so that they could see and hear and interact with Tammy while she was giving the same presentation to us.  It worked seamlessly and some of the people from out of town were able to ask and have their questions answered from Tammy at the same time we were asking questions!


The meeting went incredibly well!  People that came to the meeting not knowing exactly what to do were able to walk out confident that anything that they had questions on or needed would be taken care of by Tammy.  I personally remember that I had little idea of what I was supposed to do when I was a best man for my best friend's wedding.  Tammy was reassuring, confident, and on top of everything during the meeting and it helped to calm everyone's nerves.

With the first major meeting of the year down and in the books, everyone felt relieved and Tammy will coordinate with eveyrone via email about what's to come in the next few months.

It's only 8 months away from our wedding.  I can hardly believe that!  And with time flying so quickly I look forward to standing in the aisle and seeing Eiffel walk down it this September 2nd.

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