{"id":1240,"date":"2013-09-06T12:02:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:57:02","slug":"the-tell-signs-of-a-questionable-destination-wedding-planner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/the-tell-signs-of-a-questionable-destination-wedding-planner\/","title":{"rendered":"THE TELL SIGNS OF A \u201cQUESTIONABLE\u201d DESTINATION WEDDING PLANNER"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Choosing the right destination wedding planner is a lot like poker.\u00a0 Sitting at the table are the wedding planners who are fighting to win your business.\u00a0 And determining the planner who holds the winning hand can be rather tough. Obviously, you don\u2019t want to give your business to a planner who has bluffed his way to the winning circle, with a losing hand.\u00a0 You\u2019re looking for a planner with the royal flush (that\u2019s affordable to you), and the one who has been trust worthy from the beginning.<\/p>\n

The real question is that how do you determine the winners from the losers; especially when you only have a website, online reviews, and a cordial conversation to go on.<\/p>\n

Like a seasoned poker player, you read their \u201ctells.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are my top five \u201ctells\u201d of a \u201cquestionable\u201d Hawaii wedding planner:<\/p>\n

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  1. ACCESSIBILITY<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Wedding planners should be like doctors!\u00a0 Always on call, and easily accessible to their clients. \u00a0\u00a0When you call, they should answer the phone!\u00a0 When you email, they should return your emails promptly!\u00a0 If you constantly get an answering machine at all hours of the day, that\u2019s a problem.\u00a0 If your potential planner is difficult to get a hold of, this most likely means that planning is not their full time job and they can\u2019t answer their phone because they\u2019re at work!There was once a wedding company that had a great looking website, great wedding photos (that were stolen from other companies), and so-so content.\u00a0 They booked a handful of weddings, but they were very difficult to get a hold of.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 They were full time college students, and out of their league.<\/li>\n
  2. SLOW RESPONSE TIME<\/strong> – They promised you they would return your phone call in a few days or emails.\u00a0 You haven\u2019t heard from them from in two weeks, and the clock is still running. \u00a0\u00a0This is purely bad customer service and unacceptable.\u00a0 Slow response is a symptom of laziness and disrespect, and a precursor to other forms of bad customer service to follow.Do I have to really have to tell you to run?Unfortunately, slow service is quite common when dealing with hotel catering departments.\u00a0 Hotels are notorious for bad customer service when it comes to planning weddings.<\/li>\n
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  4. OVER PADDED WEDDING PACKAGES<\/strong> – Does it seem that the wedding package that your wedding planner is advertising is fluffed up a little too much, like Stay Puff Marshmallow?\u00a0 Their packages are similar to eating dinner at an overrated fancy restaurant that fills you up on appetizers, and gives you an entree fit for a starving child in Ethiopia. \u00a0A whole lotta fluff, little meat.An overly padded package means your coordinator is spending your precious money on themselves, and not on quality vendors that could actually make a difference.\u00a0 This is my pet peeve with my competition.\n

    I wrote an entire article on this subject that can be found by clicking here.<\/a><\/li>\n

  5. IF YOUR POTENTIAL OAHU WEDDING PLANNER<\/span>, TELLS YOU THAT WAIALAE BEACH PARK IS A\u00a0BEAUTIFUL\u00a0BEACH<\/strong> \u2013 Waialae Beach Park is the most popular beach park to get married at because it is the most convenient location for a wedding coordinator to plan multiple weddings per day.\u00a0\u00a0 Waialae Beach is not a beautiful beach.\u00a0 Unless you want to get married behind a condominium, on or near a sidewalk, Waialae Beach Park should be your last option.If your wedding planner feeds you the bold face lie that Waialae Beach Park is a beautiful beach park, hang up the phone, and find another.
    \n    Find out more about Waialae Beach Park by clicking here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So these are my five tells of spotting a questionable wedding planner.\u00a0 Of course I\u2019m being a little nice when I label them as questionable.\u00a0 I could just outright call them jerks, liars, sleaze bags.\u00a0 \u00a0Yeah, but in this day and age, I have to be \u201csensitive\u201d to even the butt-heads out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Choosing the right destination wedding planner is a lot like poker.\u00a0 Sitting at the table are the wedding planners who are fighting to win your business.\u00a0 And determining the planner who holds the winning hand can be rather tough. Obviously, you don\u2019t want to give your business to a planner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}