Tired of Caterers and Event Planners Budgeting Tips?

Caterers and event planners that offer you budget tips and how-to's should be urged to focus on value. When you're a party consumer who isn't prioritizing spending money on parties, you have to be (or are) growing increasingly tired of being told to "do it yourself".

Knowing isn’t enough.

Isn't it frustrating to be told "The 5 Simple Steps to Planning Your Wedding" or "How to Save Money" on anything when caterers and event planners could simply give you a better deal themselves? If you think about it, you knew this going in. You’ve been having parties, off and on, for years and reading this now, you could be thinking - I thought this to myself a year ago (when I started planning my wedding or whatever) - and now that you're reading this, I know that you're probably thinking: this is nothing new.

What might not be new to you is painfully experiencing the gap between knowing and doing. You can have advice thrown at you all day long, but like a musician who has studied but never performed, it takes a lot of hands on "get-up-and-do-it" experience to believe that you should get a deal and then get up and get one. The intricacies (of being accustomed to asking for a deal) and exceptions (or being accustomed to not getting a deal) probably explain why you've been inactive about doing it. That's probably something for caterers and event planners shrinks to decide. I think most caterers and event planners would more often say, “You probably won’t get me to give you a deal because you're unwilling to ask because you're not moved enough to do it and you're afraid of what I’ll say.” Expertise takes time, and asking with pithiness comes with a cost.

Plenty of useful advice conflicts for this reason: Asking Your Caterer or Event Planner vs. Doing It Yourself, not asking to get something that you just might get if you ask vs. trying to do it yourself on the same scale as a party professional. The better advice between the two is it depends. But, advice isn’t like code that’s easily executed, but like map coordinates that require skill and context. My hope is that this experience brings you a little closer to that.

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