Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. What is your essential question?

• Why are wedding planners essential to a successful wedding?

2. What is your third answer to your essential question (write your third answer in a complete sentence)?

• Wedding planners are essential to a successful wedding because they are able to provide connections with other vendors such as florists, bakers, photographers, etc. to further enhance a wedding or lower down the costs.

3. What are three details to support or justify your third answer (details are examples or facts)?

• A wedding planner can lower down the cost of a wedding by hiring the right vendors they have connections with. Most of the time, a wedding planner can also persuade a vendor to pitch in an extra deal.
• An engaged couple can provide more trust within a wedding planner when they are offered connections of other vendors. They realize the other vendors may be more experienced this way.
• If something goes wrong, instead of putting the full blame on themselves, an engaged couple can turn towards the wedding planner to pitch in for warranty for providing them with that vendor. It's like another contract towards the wedding planner to provide more safety of the special day.

4. What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

• Puckett, Susan. "Wise Weddings: The Do-It-Yourself Reception No Catering Required: Enlist Talented Friends to Contribute Their Culinary Skills to Help Make Your Wedding Feast a One-of-a-kind Celebration of Food, Friendship and Memories: [Home Edition]." The Atlanta Journal the Atlanta Constitution [Atlanta] 22 Feb. 2001: n. pag. Proquest. Web. 7 Jan. 2013.

5. What do you plan to study next and why?

• I plan to look more at the connections of vendors and see into detail how that works. For example, do they need to have contracts with one another or do they just offer their partner to customers by word. I also plan to contact some vendors to see if they are willing to provide connections with my current mentor at Entertaining as Always. 

Average Number of Wedding Guests in 2011

With the link provided, I will use the average number of wedding guests in 2011 to help plan my "virtual" wedding for my independent component 2.
Average Number of Wedding Guests

Fourth Interview Questions

Content:

1. Why are wedding planners essential to a successful wedding?
2. How can a wedding planner help hostile family members adapt to the environment of the celebration?
3. How does a wedding planner think quick when a problem arises during a wedding celebration?
4. What are some ways a wedding planner keeps organized?
5. Are there any preferred degrees a wedding planner should have in order to sustain more clients?
6. What is the key to budgeting a successful wedding?
7. How does a wedding planner manage to successfully plan a wedding under a short amount of time?
8. How can a wedding planner voice their opinion about details of a wedding without seeming too judgmental?
9. What are some tips to successfully manage a wedding on a time budget?
10. In what way can a wedding planner offer professional help to a couple who have not yet decided on hiring said wedding planner?
11. How does having connections with other vendors help a wedding planner?
12. What are some characteristics a couple looks for when hiring a wedding planner?
13. Where does a wedding planner start when they are planning a wedding for a new client?
14. How does a timeline play a significant role in wedding planning?
15. Are there any tools that may help a wedding planner better keep on track while planning a wedding?
16. How does a wedding planner help create the vision of a dream wedding without breaking the budget?
17. How does a wedding planner create a trust bond with his/her client?
18. What happened when a client cannot afford the full services of a wedding planner? Will there be a possible discount?
19. How does a wedding planner establish a contract with his/her client?
20. What are some ways a wedding planner can gain more clients?

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

Content:
1. What is your essential question?

• Why are wedding planners essential to a successful wedding?

2. What is your second answer to your essential question (write your second answer in a complete sentence)?

• My second answer to my essential question is learning how to successfully manage time.  

3. What are three details to support or justify your second answer (details are examples or facts)?

• Well first off, if a couple does not successfully manage their time they might run into trouble such as a delay in the wedding celebration. For example, I attended a wedding where the bride was 30 minutes late because she didn't wake up on time and that held the ceremony and I could tell the guests were starting to get irritable. So basically, to avoid unnecessary problems on the day of the wedding, manage your time well. 
• Second, by not planning out components of the wedding during the time your suppose to, you might find yourself in a situation where your dream venue or vendor might not be available. Venues and Vendors really like to know in advance when your wedding date will be so they can alter their agenda for you. But if you decide to plan something last minute (lack of successful time managing) you might not get what you want. 
• Third, by planning the wedding components at the appropriate time, you will feel yourself being less stressed the closer you get to the day of the wedding. Instead of procrastinating and feeling stressful, you and your fiance will feel more relaxed because their is less stuff to do. 

4. What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

• My mentor, Gretchen Davis Strutzenberg helped me the most while finding my second answer. The article "Short Engagements: How to Plan a Wedding on Short Timing" also gave me ideas as well. 

5. What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why?

• With me second answer, time managing, I plan on studying how couples who do not manage their time well have an unsuccessful wedding celebration because I feel like I need to look at what they are doing wrong in order to better educate myself on what is the right thing to do. It's kind of like monkey see, monkey NOT do. 

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

CONTENT: 
(1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your independent study component

• Well I plan on actually planning a "virtual/simulation" wedding covering from photographer to venue and so on. I will give myself the average budget and guest list size as a starter point of my wedding. I will actually be making the guest list, seating chart, and agenda for the entire event. Basically, I'll be trying to plan a wedding in 2 months which may be a challenge but I'm ready for it. I'm actually debating on whether or not to have someone pretend to be my "bride & groom" so they can make the decisions and pretend to be my client. 

(2) Describe in detail how you think your plan will meet the 30 hours work requirement. 

• Well on average, a wedding takes 16 months to plan and I'm basically trying to plan it in 2 months. Although the wedding won't actually take place, organizing all of this data actually takes a long time. Figuring out the guest list itself will take a couple of days. I'm not worried about not meeting the 30 hours work requirement because there are many components in this independent component that takes up time. 

(3) How does your independent study component relate to your working EQ?

• My EQ is "Why are wedding planners essential to a successful wedding?" and my possible answers are "budgeting and time-management". This independent study component is required to use the answers for it to become successful. By having a hands on experience of planning a wedding, I can see why wedding planners are so essential to a successful wedding. I will have to face a lot of stress in order to understand why wedding planners are like a god to some couples.