Quinceanera Party Planner - Affordable Or Not?

If you are planning on celebrating your Quinceanera reception at a hotel, reception hall or other rented space consider the possible benefits of hiring a professional party planner.

Most professional party-event planners fees range between 10% to 20% of the total cost of the event. However, if you have done a lot of pre planning work you might be able to negotiate a flat fee instead of a percentage. This would more than likely save you money. The professional event-party planners fees cover all the management, co-ordination, meetings, overseeing of the contracts with vendors and the supervision of the day of your event.

There is a secret most people are not aware that many professional event planners get paid an extra booking percentage from the hotel and many times from the vendors they do business with all the time. This is where you can save money when negotiating with a professional event-party planner. You need to request the inside price after deducting the booking fee or any other name it might be called in your region be the price you and your family agree to.

It is your budget, your money. It all depends if the professional planner wants and needs your business. If this is the case you will benefit and in the overall picture you will save money by using a professional event-party planner.

The more pre planning and organized you and your family are before hiring a professional planner will influence the actual cost you will end up having to pay the event-party planner. You are buying his or her time for the services they will perform.

If the professional planner has to start putting the event together from scratch they are going to have to put in more time and therefore the costs to you will be much higher.

• When negotiating with a professional planner and you feel the price is too high, ask them how much they would charge if you did some of the preliminary work yourself. It is a give and take. They will calculate the approximate number of hours they will need to spend on your event and translate that into how much they need to charge you for the professional services they will commit to deliver for your celebration in order for it to outstanding.


• There are many benefits when you use a good professional party planner. However the top of the list benefits is that the planner focus is to prevent mistakes from happening at your Quinceanera celebration. One of the major responsibilities of a professional planner is to avoid horror stories we have all heard about from occurring that do not seem funny at the time of the celebration.

In a large party, a small mistake can end up costing more than the fees of a planner. If you have hired a party planner to do all the work, you can just sit back and enjoy.

A professional party planner only has their good reputation they can sell. Therefore, it is very important for them to make sure your event goes off perfectly with out any problems.

Things to consider when checking out a professional party - event planners: personally check out his or her references; talk to a minimum of three people who have used his or her services before; check out how long they have worked in your community and ask if they would ever use them again. If the answers are all positive then ask why would they use planner again and benefits did they receive.

The usual is for professional party planners to require a deposit up front. Then they will ask for two equal payments during the planning process. They will expect a final payment just prior to the event.