Should We Hire a Micro Wedding Planner?

The Ideal LPS Client: Is This You?

Jessie and Jesse just got engaged!  They live in a brownstone apartment in Boston with their dog Fenway.  Jessie works in tech and Jesse is an ER nurse.  On weekends, they love getting out of the city for hikes with Fenway or taking the ferry to the south shore for a beach day.  They recently got engaged after a romantic dinner and stroll through the Seaport. 

They took a few weeks to enjoy being engaged before starting to think about wedding planning, and now that they've begun their research, they're not quite sure how they feel about what they're seeing.  Many hours scrolling Pinterest later, they've seen hundreds of decked-out ballrooms, a thousand strapless white gowns, scores of photos of bridal parties in matching dresses and coordinated suits.  Nothing has quite struck their fancy yet.  Even moreso, when they begin researching the cost of wedding venues, supply rentals, and catering and bar prices, they start to feel uneasy. 

They look at each other with furrowed brows.  "I don't know, what do you think?" "I don't know..." They take a step back.  "Okay, this is a lot.  Have you thought yet about who we should invite?"  "I'm not sure.  I know my mom will want all my aunts, uncles, and cousins to be invited.  But if we do that, plus my siblings and their partners, plus our friends, plus everyone on your side of the family, that's almost 200 people."  "Yeah...that feels like a lot".  They table it for the night.  They know that that's how weddings work, but it seems...insane. 

Before falling asleep, Jessie is scrolling through Instagram.  The algorithm knows she's engaged.  She sees an ad for Logan Planning Solutions answering the question "What is a Micro Wedding?"  Jessie wonders..."what IS a micro wedding?"  A micro wedding is an opportunity for more extravagance, importance, love, luxury, purpose, memories, adventure...for less money. 

When you make the guest list an exclusive group, your possibilities are endless.  More sentimentality, less small talk with your parents' friends.  More once-in-a-lifetime, less chicken-beef-or-fish.  More "I'm so glad we did that", less "wait, who is that in our wedding photos?"  Jessie is intrigued.  She drifts off to sleep and wakes in the morning excited. 

Maybe this is the solution!  She sends the LPS Instagram page to Jesse.  "I found this wedding planner on Instagram.  She specializes in micro weddings and elopements, and talks about how special they are when you have fewer guests.  She seems passionate about it.  I don't know, I think she might be on to something!  What do you think?" "That's an interesting idea.  I've never thought of that before.  Looks like we can schedule a free consult call with her.  Should we?" "Let's do it!" 

"Jesse", "Jessie", and "Fenway"

Jessie and Jesse are the ideal Logan Planning Solutions client because they just don't see themselves fitting into the mold of the traditional wedding.  It all seems like too much, but oddly at the same time...too little.  Too impersonal, too cookie-cutter, too "been there, done that", too what they are "supposed to do" instead of what actually excites them. 

And when they're spending tens of thousands of dollars for their wedding, they don't want to feel "meh" about it.  They want to LOVE it.  They want to be so thrilled and feel so special, not just because they're the centerpiece of a big party, but because they're actually doing something out-of-the-box.  Something where, when they tell people about it, people say "OMG that is so cooooolllllll!!!" and Jessie and Jesse look at each other with a smile.  "Yeah, it is!", they're both thinking. 

They're not quite sure yet what "it" is that they'll be doing, but after their consult call with Katie, their heads are bursting with ideas.  "We could go to Italy!  We could rent a giant house in the mountains and have our best friends there for the weekend.  We could have a huge lobster dinner with our parents and siblings down the Cape and relax all week together on the beach.  We could do that hike we've always talked about in Peru!  We could go to Hawaii and have a sky-diving ceremony!!!" 

Suddenly, the hotel ballroom with all their extended family they're not even that close to seems completely out of the question.  No way they're going with something that...unoriginal.  They want something they'll be reminiscing about forever.  Something that, when they tell new friends about it years from now, they'll still get that blown-away reaction because the friends have never heard of anything like it.  "Omg..." the new friends will say, "...that is SO 'you guys'".  Jessie and Jesse look at each other again with that same knowing smile.  "We know, right?!  It was so awesome".