Virtual Wedding Consultations Couples Should Do Right Now

Virtual Wedding Consultations Engaged Couples Should Take Advantage of Right Now

Getting married is an incredibly exciting and happy time, but with the constant planning and budgeting, it can also be pretty stressful. And if you're engaged right now, the current novel coronavirus pandemic has most likely made things much more complicated. While many couples have decided to cancel their celebrations altogether, a lot are just postponing them until it's safe to once again gather family and friends in one place. If you're hoping to have your special day in the future, you can continue wedding planning right now!

Thanks to technology, many venues, vendors, caterers, wedding dress shops, and more are offering virtual wedding consultations in order to make sure you can plan while staying safely at home. With a little help from our friends at Be Inspired, we've rounded up the major consultations you can request right now. From tux fittings to venue tours, keep reading to see how you can plan the perfect day for when that day finally comes.

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1. Virtual Venue Tours

Virtual venue tours have been around for a long time. On Here Comes The Guide, they have lots of 360-degree virtual tour videos on their wedding venue pages that allows you to see a panoramic view of the different event spaces.

"During the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, many wedding venues are taking it a step further by offering personal site tours via FaceTime and Skype! You can virtually 'walk' through the event spaces with the venue's on-site coordinator, talk through what your wedding could look like at their location, and ask questions as they come up in real time. What better way to find your ideal venue from home than with a one-on-one virtual site tour? This is a great chance to get to know the venue coordinator and discuss details. Also, since it's happening on your device, you can screenshot or record key moments of the walkthrough! Treat this just like a normal site tour, and don't be shy about asking to see everything that you want to see." – Jenna Miller, Creative Director, Here Comes the Guide

"Virtual tours provide the opportunity to tour venues when it's best to stay at home. Our venue, Hutton Brickyards, is also set up on AllSeated.com, which provides us the opportunity to plan in 3D with live VR tours available." – Joel Lippman, Hutton Brickyards

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2. FaceTime Meetings

"We are really staying connected to our clients right now, and we've always contacted them via phone calls, email, and texting. We have now found that setting up virtual chats has really taken the worry out of this uncertain time. It's nice to see venues in person, but our venue managers have been able to set up FaceTiming appointments for potential and current clients to show them around, figure out floor plans, etc. Also, on the catering side, we are planning videos to talk about our cuisine and menus, so there are new and refreshing ways to get to know our business." – Sarah Kuhlberg, Creative Director, Colette's Catering

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