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No one knows for sure when the first wedding planner appeared, or who the first wedding planner was. I think the planning industry dates centuries ago, when rich people wanted the best for their children’ s wedding, so they hired a specific person to take care of everything from planning, decoration, designing, baking so basically the wedding planner was the person with multiple skills.

At that time a wedding planner was a luxury; common people didn’t afford to hire a wedding planner, so they took care of everything. The major role in the planning process was played by the parents of the groom and bride. The parents didn’t involve only in the planning of the wedding but they also decided whom their children will marry. Arrange marriage was a common thing in high society, the status, the wealth, the education, the fame, and the name was considered when choosing a spouse.

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The children had to obey their parents and accept the spouse their parents chosen for them. So that is how the planning industry began at first the parents were planning the wedding, then a relative with multiple skills and later on another person that had the abilities, the skills, the talent, the creativity, the time, the experience to plan a wedding. In the planning process they used an old etiquette that had been forgotten these days. Every member of the family had a specific role in the planning process. The code of the etiquette they used, the wedding was practically a business between the two families, the mother of the bride was the one initiating the introduction between the two families. This was an informal luncheon or a formal dinner party. The formal engagement party was arranged after the two families agreed. The groom had the responsibility to purchase the wedding ring. The bride and groom buy a wedding ring for each other. The bachelor party was hosted by the best man. The bride and the groom purchased their own wedding outfits; the groom was responsible for purchasing the bridal’s bouquet, the mother’s corsages, and buttonholes for himself.

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The bride’s family purchased the bridesmaid bouquets, the grandmother’s corsages, the flowers for the ceremony and reception, arch for the entrance of the church. The marriage license was paid by the groom, officient’ s fees, the church fee; the choir’s fee was paid by the bride’s family. The groom also picked up the wedding transport and honeymoon expenses. The mother of the bride takes on the role of wedding planning; the mother of the bride liaises with the mother of the groom.