Planning assistants
CC:Planners
This is the most real thing I’ve seen all day. If there isn’t someone with the planner then its expected that the photographer is the planning assistant.
Planners should have an assistant with the couple, nearby, at all times!
CC:couples
If you’re hiring a full planning team, make sure they have an assistant who can be close by at all times. If they don’t they’re not really full planning. I can’t tell you how many luxury, full planning teams are focused on everything else for the beginning hours of the day and as a photographer I’m having to do their job (wrangle family, grab your bouquet, communicate to wedding party where they need to be and when, grab this, grab that— really anything that takes me away from documenting!).
May 27