On your wedding day you deserve presence, peace of mind, and plenty of time to enjoy your guests.
WILL YOU HELP SET UP AND CLEAN UP?
Yes! But we don’t do all of it by ourselves. Typically, we are there to both help and direct set up and clean up and direct vendors and guests, as well as resolve any issues that may arise. Doing the set up entirely on our own would prevent us from being able to handle all of the other important details of preparing for your wedding.
As there will typically only be a team of two Sage staff members covering your wedding, it’s physically impossible for us to set up a wedding for over 100 people on our own. We always encourage you to hire a full-service caterer or event staff. Not only do they help serve your guests and bus tables, but they help with both set up and tear down as well!
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EVENT COORDINATION AND EVENT DESIGN?
The way every event planning company approaches their projects is a little different. At Sage Event Co., we offer Event Coordination, Event Design + Coordination, and Full Planning Packages. To see a full breakdown of each service, click here to visit our services page.
For the design portion of our work, we help find and contact design-specific vendors, act as the point of contact for them, and help coordinate everything that it takes to bring your creative vision to life. This could include (but is certainly not limited to) your venue, florist, rentals, lighting, specialty vendors (such as an ice cream cart or drink wall). When you work with us for event design, you are only responsible for sourcing your catering, DJ, bar, and hair/makeup. But we will send you a personalized list of vendor suggestions for each of them!
With our coordination service, we take over the project about 3 months out from your wedding to help you pull together all of the final details. Then, we help you run your rehearsal and handle everything day-of to ensure that all goes smoothly.
HOW MANY PEOPLE FROM YOUR TEAM WILL BE THERE ON THE DAY OF THE WEDDING?
There will always be your dedicated planner and an assistant present from start to finish on the day of your wedding. Sometimes we will bring more staff to accommodate a larger setup, but we will discuss that before your wedding. There will never be any surprises in terms of our staff on the day of!
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A VENUE COORDINATOR AND A WEDDING COORDINATOR?
A venue coordinator is there to make sure that all of your venue needs are met. But it’s important to note that they are not responsible for making sure that your actual wedding goes smoothly. That’s where we come in! While the venue coordinator is doing things like making sure the bathrooms are clean and stocked, the tables and chairs are out, and the trash cans aren’t overflowing, we are laser-focused on you and your guests, and keeping everything on time and exactly how you want it.
WHAT SETS YOU APART FROM OTHER WEDDING PLANNERS IN THE INDUSTRY?
We really do take every wedding personally (one time our lead coordinator Megan even married one of our couples!) We pride ourselves on being your much-needed hype people, keeping things fun and easy on a day that is, stereotypically, very stressful. We build genuine relationships with our clients, and leave their wedding day feeling sad because we won’t get to talk to them every day anymore!
ARE YOU THERE FOR REHEARSALS?
Absolutely! We help run the entire thing, from start to finish, for you! All you have to do is focus on how to walk and what to say.
Pro-tip: at the rehearsal, make sure to introduce family members that may not have met yet so you can skip the small talk on the day of your wedding! And double check that everyone knows when and where to arrive on the wedding day.
HOW MANY WEDDINGS DO YOU DO PER WEEKEND?
Because we like to give our couples our full attention, we aim to only do one wedding per weekend. That said, we will sometimes schedule a Friday and Sunday wedding on the same weekend if they’re both small.
Our assistants are only assigned to one wedding per weekend to give them a chance to breathe in between events, and to make sure that we have all the coverage we need no matter what happens!