Jamie Wolfer answers wedding planning questions: use a pre-made DIY checklist and set spending limits to avoid overload, check weddingpriorities.com for budget help, and hire Box Vox or DJ Griff for San Diego DJs around $800-$1,000. She also suggests backup adult walkers for unpredictable young ring bearers and flower girls.
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Well, hello lovely humans and welcome to Engage, a wedding planning podcast for the modern day couple. I'm your host, Jamie Wolfer, and I truly believe that wedding planning does not need to be complicated or time consuming. I kind of picture these episodes like jumping on a quick phone call with your wedding planner. You get your answers and you go on your merry way. Because sometimes not all of us have an hour to dedicate to listening to super long podcasts or super long intros. So without further ado, let's just jump right on into it. Today's episode is going to admittedly be a little bit all over the place. You see, every single month I sit down with the people over in the master plan course and answer your questions in lifetime. So if you find yourself struggling and really need to sit down and speak with a real life wedding planner, I would love to be a part of your wedding planning journey. Join us over in the Master plan today to get your questions answered. Until then, take a listen. How do you stop yourself from going overboard with additional decor, floral signs, etc while making sure that you're not forgetting something important? Okay, you are the only person that can stop you from going overboard. So at a certain point you just have to tell yourself to stop. You also need to be referring to a solid list. So go look at the DIY checklist. If it's not there, don't do it. Go watch the sign video that I just made. If it's not on that list or if I say it's not necessary or it's not expected, then you don't need to do it. So how to make sure you stop yourself from going overboard? Give yourself limitations, financial limitations, space limitations. Like if I fill up this closet I'm not making anymore, while you're not forgetting something important. That's why you need to go off of a list that someone else created. That's what that DIY checklist is for. So hopefully that will help to kind of make sure you're covering all of your bases. But not going overboard sitting here listening to a podcast is all fine and dandy, right? But sometimes you need an actual person to be asking some of these questions to and you may be sitting there going, you know what, Jamie? Actually yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I would love to be able to ask you these questions. Guess what? You need to join the master plan. You've heard me talk about it, but do you know why I love it so much? You get over 10 lessons that walk you through planning your wedding with videos and spreadsheets. And other detailed resources along the way. Join me and my virtual clients over in the master plan and get all your wedding planning questions answered. Literally thousands of couples have gone on this journey with me and I'd love for you to be next. Check it out@wolferenco.com tmp that's wolferenco.com tmp Listen, wedding budgets suck. They're just like the actual worst. And the hardest part for me is that weddings are not cookie cutter. They're not one size fits all. And I think it's important to make sure that you're budgeting according to your priorities. Build a budget that works with your vision and you'll be on the path to planning a wedding that you really want. So if you want my recommendations for making your perfect budget for you and your partner, head on over to wedding priorities.com I found out that my DJ, my potential DJ retired. Oh no. What would be the best place to find a DJ in San Diego? My budget is 800 to 1000. We have for years worked with Box Vox DJs and they are honestly all throughout the states. But I think that last I saw they have a package that's right around that number and they tend to actually, yeah, I don't think we've ever had a negative experience with their DJs. Maybe one. But he didn't, he didn't stay with the company. So that would be a great place to start. If not because you're in San Diego. I would actually recommend reaching out to. And by I think you mean San Diego. When you say sd, you could say South Dakota. And at that point I got nothing for you. You could also reach out to DJ Griff, who's our favorite. He probably doesn't have a package of that rate, but he might know somebody who does. And I would trust literally anyone he sends your way. Anyone. So maybe, maybe Griff is your first option for that one. And then secondary to that would be Vox. Vox has a bunch of different DJs at these different levels. So you're guaranteed to get somebody and guaranteed to get them at the same rate. Any recommendations on tricks to get ring bearers and flower girls? Both of mine are just, just over one. They are both walking. But I am nervous. I plan to have one parent in the front row, but not sure if that will work. You won't know until you try. And even if you practice with them at the rehearsal, it's completely different when there's people in there. So just expect that you cannot control it. And honestly, I would be Prepared either for a parent to walk them down should things go awry. I don't know if they're related or not, or if there's one singular adult that can walk with them, or for them to just not do it at all. Because, I mean, they're sometimes they're fine, they're cute and they've like, can't walk in a straight line. I mean, I have a baby that's just over one and she like could not walk in a straight line to save her life. Unless there's cheese. That girl beelines it for queso every time. So, I mean, yeah, you have every right to be nervous. And I would just have a backup plan. Either they don't go at all or someone walks down with them, which can still be cute, right? At least they're there. At least they're present. But the expectation for someone that or two someone's that young to walk down is pretty hard. So I'd have that parent stand at the top of the aisle and be like, come on, come here, come here. Like, try to encourage them, but have another parent or another adult figure at the back that knows them that could potentially just pick them up and walk them down. If you are struggling with wedding planning and you have questions and you just need someone to listen and to chat with, come join us in the master plan community over@themasterplanwed.com I would love to have you in there. Thanks so much for listening if you haven't done so already. Thanks. Watching for subscribe. Jump on over to wherever you're listening to this podcast and leave a five star review so we can let the podcast people know that Jamie knows what she's talking about sometimes. And until next time, bye guys.
