Not sure you need a wedding planner? These 10 reasons may convince you

Getting married tops the most life-changing and momentous choices you'll ever make - one minute, it's me, in the next, it's we.

Your wedding day is supposed to be one of the best days of your life - a special day filled with beautiful moments for future memories. But through the years as a wedding photographer, I have seen brides get flustered over the need to make everything perfect and take care of every single detail.

Weddings can make people go crazy! If you do not want to end up like the stressed-out brides in Brides Wars, then you need a wedding planner.

A wedding planner is a professional that helps the couple with the design, planning, organization, and management of their wedding. Think of a wedding planner as someone who has the ability to make your big day come together rightly - all you need do is relax and have the time of your life!

Here are ten reasons why you might want to consider hiring a wedding planner, like…today:

1: Relieves Stress:

Who doesn’t wan’’t a stress-free wedding? Planning a wedding can be much fun and exciting, but there are lots of heavy lifting and sweat that goes into it. From selecting color palettes to booking vendors, picking the right arrangement of flowers, sorting out the table plan or ensuring that your best man has the right speech, the process can wear you out. Your planner's job is to take care of every single detail and ensure all things run smoothly.

When you're chilled and not stressed out, you'll be able to bask in the lovely moments of your wedding and enable the photographer to capture images of you in your most joyous mood. Let your planner handle the work for you!

2: Develop Design Elements:

A wedding planner is not just a wedding coordinator or one in charge of logistics. One of the unique roles of a wedding planner is their ability to transform your wedding into an event you'll forever remember. Starting from the perfect wedding invitation to the wedding backdrop, the bar counter, and the photo booth for guests (with ideas from the photographer of course!), you'll have a wedding theme that depicts your style and showcases your creativity.

3: Manage Wedding Finances:

Should you pay for a mind-blowing wedding dress or spend the money on your dream destination wedding? A wedding planner will help you prioritize the most important aspects of your wedding and suggest the ones worth splurging on. They can also help you keep track of payments throughout the wedding process so you wouldn't miss a deadline. If you don't have a budget, a wedding planner can also develop one.

4: Scouts and Vets Vendors:

Wedding planners have access to a pool of professional vendors they trust enough to bring your wedding to life. Doing interviews, negotiations, follow-up meetings can be a long and exhausting process. You'll surely want your wedding planner to handle that. Your wedding planner will not only schedule and attend all vendor meetings and create a QUALITY vendor crew.

5: Assist in Styling Wedding Photos:

The expertise of a wedding planner is not limited to the couple; I have had a lot of help with styling from wedding planners. They create a timeline that ensures all your photo sessions including preparation, individual portraits, first look, wedding party, immediate family, ceremony detail and venue are all captured and also within the allotted timeframe.

6: Serves as a Mediator Between Families:

It's not unusual to find couples disagreeing with their parents on the choice of their wedding. Most times, parents want to influence their opinions on your big day. This gives room for little squabbles here and there, and sometimes a conflict that needs to be resolved. A wedding planner knows how and when to step in between both parties, and ensures that the tough and sensitive conversations are tabled.

7: Handle Unruly Guests:

Wedding guests can be unpredictable -I have seen people go from being a good guest to a bad one after two glasses of champagne. Even the kids are not left out, not with all that sugar that gets them active and pumped up. You can trust your wedding planner to prevent an unpleasant scene, and handle unruly guests directly as they are more experienced.

8: Track Your RSVPs:

There's nothing as disappointing as having more guests than you invited or guests not responding to your invitations. One of the roles of the wedding planner is to call or email all of your guests who haven’t RSVP’d, create room for additional guests, and even help you deal with wedding crashers.

9: Coordinate your Wedding Exit and Grand Send-off:

Your wedding planner stays with you even to the very end of your ceremony to ensure your wedding exit is just as memorable as the entrance. They know when to set out the confetti, give guests sprinkles to toss or even plan a car getaway. They will also make sure your belongings get to your hotel safely.

10: Wedding Planning is just not your Thing:

You've got a lot on your plate already, why add a ton of work to it? You barely have the time to hop from one store to the other looking for the perfect bouquet that'll match your wedding theme. Besides, your job probably affords you little time to juggle wedding details, and you want to have ample time to rest all through the wedding process. So why not get someone to handle your special day?

Nothing should stand between you and your big day. There are wedding planners out there who will make your wedding magical and beautiful. Go get 'em!

Have any more reasons why you should consider hiring a planner? Comment your thoughts below! We’d love to hear.

10 Reasons why you should hire a Wedding Planner