Do you love events, especially weddings? You may have found a good side job – a wedding planner! Your passion for party, decorations, planning and events may just help earn extra money. Can your passion be a side job? Let’s find out.
Wedding Planner
Your passion for events and parties may help you earn extra money. You may try to work as a wedding planner on the side. Wedding planning is a field that is currently in demand for engages couples or partners who wants to have a hassle-free wedding. Wedding planning involves managing, organizing, designing and planning the whole wedding from the decorations, themes, venue up to the program during and after the wedding.
Wedding planners are professional individuals who have garnered connections throughout the years. Previous experience is a plus since it makes them more knowledgeable about different themes or receptions that some people may have no idea of. Aside from making the wedding stress-free for the couple, wedding planners are also good in sticking to the budget given by the engaged couple. They have the ability of making a budget wedding without compromising the overall feel and details of the wedding. Some wedding planners also offers designing for an additional fee.
Services Provided by Wedding Planners
Wedding planning is not all about the planning of the wedding. Here are the specific services provided by wedding planners to ensure a smooth and stress-free wedding:
- Discuss with the clients regarding the planning of the wedding, the ideal date and the reception in mind. Also, talks about the budget if there is a need to increase or decrease it depending on the requests of the clients.
- Look for a reliable florist and coordinate the ideal floral arrangement of the couple.
- Look for suppliers for the wedding such as invitations, caterers, lighting and sounds.
- Assist the bride in looking and choosing for the bridal gown and also dresses for the bridesmaids, groom’s wear and other needed wedding attires.
- Assist in the picking wedding favors and look for suppliers.
- Meet and negotiate with the suppliers and vendors in order to meet the client’s budget.
- Schedules and initiates the wedding rehearsal
- Manage the design of the reception area and ensure that all needed equipment is present.
- Ensure that the wedding program flow will finish smoothly and deals with unexpected circumstances.
- Making sure that the venue is clean, rental borrowed items are returned and the deposits are given back by the vendors.
Wedding Planning as a Side Job
Seeing that you have landed on this article means that you are interested in the wedding industry. There are many reasons as to why people are interested in wedding planning. It takes much research and guts to change careers completely. If you are one who is unsure and just testing the waters, then you may try wedding planning as a side job first. Who knows? This might be the career path for you.
People think that events such as weddings are continuous and has clients all-year-round. This is untrue, as the wedding and event industries have a seasonal component to it too. If you are lucky enough to be living in a tropical country or somewhere where it is hot all-year-long, then you might find yourself working all year. But if not, winter may be your enemy as it tends to discourage weddings or any types of events. Of course, it does not entirely mean that there will be no winter wedding anymore as we’ve seen some gorgeous winter weddings on magazine. Winter somehow discourages a lot of people to plan events resulting to a slow down during these snowy months.
If you are interested in making it as a side job, then the seasonal component of it may become an awesome opportunity for you. It gives you an advantage to work during the busy season without worrying about the slow months because of you still have your full-time job.
Like any other side jobs, there are things that you should consider before starting a new job:
- Schedule – knowing your schedule will allow you to determine your free days where you can accept events.
- Workload – if your work demand is heavy, then you may not have enough time to do wedding planning. You will have a difficulty multitasking and might lessen the quality of your work.
- Company Management – is your management flexible enough? Do they allow you to go home once you finish your tasks at work? Do they allow their employees to have another job? Depending on the management, they may not allow you to work a side job according to the company rules.
- Time Management – are you a good manager of your time? Wedding planning involves a lot of meeting and visits that may require you to take some days off at work. Are you confident that you can finish your task?
If you are confident of yourself and your planning skills, then you may earn more money by doing your passion – wedding planning. Let us know if you were able to start your side job and what have you learned during the process?