Wine Country Wedding Packages
Napa & Sonoma
Every year the team at The Knot ask their readers “What is the best decision you made when planning your wedding?” By far, the most popular answer is always “hiring a wedding planner”.
With a significant financial investment, and between 200-400 hours of planning for the average destination wedding, it is no wonder that most couples are grateful to have a skilled wedding planner at the helm, helping them navigate the waters and all the numerous details of their wedding. A professional wedding planner will offer you sound budget advice, vendor recommendations, contract negotiations, timeline creation, along with flawless execution on your wedding day. The right wedding planner will actually save you a substantial amount of money, as well as save you time, and afford you peace of mind before and during your big day.
Here is a breakdown of the different types of packages Rue 29 Napa Valley can customize for your wedding:
Full Service or Partial Wedding Planning
This package is customized to the amount of hours required, based on each individual client and venue:
- Provides vendor referrals and assists you with negotiating vendor contracts
- Schedules and attends vendor meetings with you, or in your absence
- Creates and distributes a detailed timeline for wedding day
- Assistance creating and tracking your wedding budget
- Attends site visits and menu tastings
- Manages the wedding rehearsal run-through at the venue
- Oversees everything on wedding day; making sure everyone adheres to the timeline, handles snafus, manages all the vendors, and executes your vision on wedding day
Questions to Ask Yourself
- You have no idea where to start when it comes to planning your wedding and your organizational skills aren’t the greatest
- Your life is very busy or you have a very short time-frame for planning your wedding
- You are trying to plan a destination wedding from afar, involving multiple events, and you are not familiar with Napa Valley
- Your venue is a unique space, not at a hotel or restaurant, and their staff does not offer any assistance planning or designing my wedding
Wedding Day Management
This package will include at least 40 hours of wedding coordination and management:
- Meets with you before the wedding to get a handle on what you’ve planned thus far
- Checks in with your vendors to review the signed contracts and confirm logistics
- Creates and distributes a detailed timeline for wedding day
- Completes a final walk-through of the ceremony and reception sites
- Addresses any overlooked details
- Manages the wedding rehearsal run-through at the venue
- Oversees the wedding day; making sure everyone adheres to the timeline, handles snafus, manages all the vendors, and executes your vision on wedding day
Questions to Ask Yourself
- Do you want to play an active role in planning your wedding?
- Would you like to be confident that a professional wedding planner is taking care of all the last-minute details on wedding day, making certain you haven’t missed anything and allowing you to relax?
- Are you an extremely organized and detail-oriented person, with the time to devote to planning your wedding?
- Or are you able to find room in the wedding budget for a full-service wedding planning package?