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Add to FavoritesAbsolutely, a wedding planner should receive a tip if you're classifying them as a valuable service. When someone provides unique services such as planning weddings, they bring certain acquired skills that many people do not have, and when they spend the time to do the job right to make a wedding as perfect as it can be, there's no doubt that a tip shows your gratitude for their hard work and effort.
Many would question that a wedding planner is already getting paid a good sum of money to do a required job, and I agree with them to a point. However, professional wedding planners have years of experience and do their job very well. Anyone that ever had a wedding whether it be in their home town, or at a foreign destination, fully understand there's a ton of details involved, and with someone taking care of them for you, a tip is well deserved when the ceremony goes smooth without any issues.
Tipping the wedding planner is also a way to express your thanks for quality work done, and depending on the size of tip, it sends a clear message to the planner on your overall thoughts of their job. It's almost like when you're dining in a restaurant, there is a standard percentage in tipping across the board, and most in the restaurant industry know this percentage. With that industry knowledge, you have the flexibility to give less or more depending on the quality of service.
The same concept applies to the entire service industry, including wedding planners. They know that if they receive a certain amount that falls well below the standard given, they will fully understand they did not meet the requirements of their client. If they receive a tip that is higher than the average, the wedding planners feel extremely good that they met the clients full expectations, or have gone above and beyond their expectations.
When offering a tip, you're not only providing the wedding planner extra money for their work, but it's also an excellent way of express a message of you truly felt about the overall services offered. With that in mind, people in the services industry learn by how much or little they get tipped, and when a professional is accustomed to receiving generous tips, it motivates them to do more than their required. That's a fact of life. People in general enjoy getting rewarded and the good o pat on the back for a job well done, and with tipping that gives the message loud and clear.
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SHOULD YOU TIP A WEDDING PLANNER?
Wedding planners are professionals, just like doctors, lawyers, cooks, landscapers, carpenters, etc.. They get paid very well, and in some cases extremely well. They are paid to do their jobs in the best way they know how.
In order for them to do a good job, they need to be able to get close to the bride and the groom. They have to be able to understand how they think and how each decision will affect the entire family. In order to get close enough to be able to come up with ideas for the wedding, they have to spend a significant amount of time and effort in understanding the bride and the groom. Because of this, many people become attached to their wedding planners, and become emotional about giving their wedding planner a significantly large tip.
In all honestly, most of us need a wedding planner because there is just so much going on all at once and there is no one available to actually coordinate everything without getting emotional about many decisions. A wedding planner is the objective body who helps to make decisions and who coordinates the wedding without having any real emotional attachment.
If the goal of tipping is to motivate the wedding planner to do a better job, then what about the other professional services we use? Why do we not tip say, our doctors who may help in saving our lives? Doctors give us invaluable tools to help us to live in the healthiest way possible. However, we do not even think twice about giving a tip to our doctors. In fact, we sometimes cringe at having to pay a twenty-dollar co-pay at a doctor's office. This may be less than a tip that one pays at a fancy restaurant, and undeniably it is far less than the amount you would tip a wedding planner. Not to mention that a wedding by itself is exquisitely expensive. Just the venue could run $30,000 on average, without counting the expense of the dresses, flowers, limosine, tuxedos, and vendors like photography, videography,etc.
Just because a person, i.e. a wedding planner works so closely with us, we feel so obligated to tip him/her. Why should we have this desire to tip someone that is working closely with us? Why should we feel so guilty if we do not tip our wedding planners? The chefs in the Restaurants work hard as well, in a hot, sultry environment, filled with grease and they do a tedious job concocting each meal. Yet, we do not seek out the chefs in the restaurants and give them a tip. Why have we as a people designed our world in such a way that only certain professions get to have tips, and others do not?
Why is it okay to tip a waitress or or a waiter and even a wedding planner, but it is unheard of to tip a doctor or a chef? Some even believe that the larger the tip, the more the planner was appreciated. What people fail to understand is that there are other ways of expressing gratitude. Tipping is only one way. A very simple and less expensive way is to continue to refer people in the future to the wedding planner. It will not only keep the planner busy, but will build up their reputation in the community and in the town.
It is tough to comprehend why some people should get a tip for doing what they are supposed to be doing at work. Remember that it is the job of a wedding planner to get close to the bride and the groom in order to do a good job. They need to tap into the tastes of the bride and groom as well as their own experiences as wedding planners, in order to find something spectacular and original for the wedding. It is their job to think of things that the bride and groom would not think of, mainly because they are just too stressed with the enormity of the biggest day in their lives. Tipping a planner is just not necessary, especially considering all the money that is going into the wedding to begin with.
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