6-figure wedding planner! I’ve run into 2 who are quoting $180k+. Has anyone ever come across this? I’m a little shocked and wonder what warrants that kind of money. Granted, we are having a multi-day destination wedding, but my goodness

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That’s so obscene!! I had a three day wedding in Barcelona and my wedding planner was under 7k euro!

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Excuse me what? 180k+ just for the WEDDING PLANNER? That's absolutely insane, I've never heard anything like that. My budget was less than six figures for the whole wedding, so I never in a million years would have been able to afford that. That sounds like an A-list celebrity budget

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Right?! I need to switch up my career

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Wait, they are charging six figures for wedding planning?!?!? Holy moley I didn't know that people charged that kind of money but that is insane. HOw can anyoen even afford that? That is literally the price of a house.

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Are you sure that's not their minimum wedding budget? Which would still be high. 12k was the highest I ran across. I paid 3k, but it wasn't a destination wedding.

A percentage of your total cost?!!!!not flat fee??? Good grief!

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Yeesh I also need to switch careers. That’s just one wedding. They probably do 100s a year.

They do 6 a year and have 4x FT staff to support those 6

That’s Highway Robbery… don’t believe anything that person says. Report that you suspect fraudulent activity that looks like a scam. Maybe

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