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communication since both foreign clients and wedding organizers are engaged in a discussion about wedding plan until wedding execution. Furthermore, starting
from conducting the need analysis up to the implementation of the materials, the researcher asked for help from some wedding organize
rs. As the researcher’s basic knowledge to design the materials, the followings sections can bring an
enlightenment for choosing any appropriate and related materials to the wedding organizer itself. The sections are divided into: a wedding organizer profile and
b wedding vendors.
a. Wedding Organizer Profile
Like common event organizer, wedding organizer is one kind of organizer who manage a wedding event starting from defining the concept up to the
implementation. According to Fithrati 2014, “wedding organizer is an
organizing service for planning and preparing a wedding, both from the conceptualization up to the final execution of the reception
” p. 75. The role of wedding organizer here is to help the couple to make the wedding come true. It
will help the couples to manage everything in the wedding organization. Couples who want to make a dream wedding and hire a wedding organizer
usually have reasons behind. The researcher concludes the reasons into five points: 1 time, 2 budget, 3 organized planning, and 4 a confidence booster.
Firstly, since preparing a wedding is a complex thing to do, some couples might sacrifice their time starting from listing the guests coming up to contacting all
related vendors. A wedding organizer can help the couples to save the time in preparing every single thing Lestari: 2005, p. 41; Priandarini: 2007, p. 196;
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Stewart: 2013, p. 19. Secondly, pressing the budget is one advantage of hiring a wedding organizer. When couples come to the wedding organizer with any
amount of budget, a wedding organizer will plan everything with that amount of budget as they also manage the couples’ expectations within that budget
Haywood: 2006, p. 21; Stewart: 2013, p. 19. Thirdly, when a wedding organizer can press the budget, it is caused by
the experiences in handling vendors. Furthermore, having experiences in handling vendors and other couples makes a wedding organizer a good planner by
following a clear timeline. According to Stewart 2013, “wedding planners have actual timeline that they follow in order to have all details be ready on time or
even way ahead of time, leaving all the last-minute changes behind “ p. 19.
Fourthly, when couples are in a rush in the middle of the preparation, a wedding organizer comes as a confidence booster. Stewart 2013 states that:
Couples will be more perfect at ease and more confident that their wedding will be perfect because they know that they have laid the
details of their wedding upon the hands of a professional. Indeed, there could be no better person who really knows the ins and outs of
wedding planning more than what the wedding organizer can do p. 19.
Presenting a calmness in the middle of rush by a wedding organizer can
make the clients more trustful to the wedding organizer they hired. Furthermore, having a confidence booster can also be a way to strengthen the chemistry
between the clients and the wedding organizers themselves. Related to the service that a wedding organizer provides, it needs several
skills to maintain the effectiveness of the work of the wedding organizer. According to Bricker 2011, the top five skills every wedding planner should
