Event planning is a fun and satisfying job – but it is not always just about attending parties and fancy wedding venues. Event coordinator and event planner daily tasks can be wide-ranging, and no two days are ever really the same! An event planner’s daily schedule ranges from sending out venue enquiries to liaising with potential event photographers.
Carry on reading for a rundown of a typical event planning daily routine, as well as an overview of skills that are useful for becoming a successful event planner.
Event planner daily schedule
Here is a typical event planning daily routine, but keep in mind that everyone is different and not every event planner’s daily schedule will look like this!
Event planning can involve a lot of desk-bound work. Office-based tasks include a LOT of research, including:
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- researching potential venues
- understanding your client’s particular venue requirements
- meetings with all potential clients for an event
- researching potential caterers
- researching and arranging guest speakers
- working on event marketing and advertising
…to name just a few!
As an event planner, emailing will become second nature to you, but you will have to be comfortable with all modes of communication to work around the needs of your clients. Networking skills are essential, as sourcing new clients for your event is also a significant task for an event planner.
Once you are further along with the event planning process you will spend more time out of the office visiting potential venues, visiting caterers to discuss the accommodations they can make and networking and relationship-building with other external clients.
When an event date nears, the tasks of the event planner shift and the emphasis is placed on setting up the event and ensuring that it runs smoothly.
Event planner useful skills
Event coordination, event management, and event organisation are the first skills that come to mind with event planning.
As an event planner, you may have many different jobs on the go at once so it is important that you can remain organised and on top of all the different jobs at once. You should have a good understanding of the many deadlines that you are working towards and be conscientiously working to meet them.
Furthermore, because you are responsible for planning an event your clients will expect you to mostly take the lead. Although event planning is a collaborative job and your clients will give you some guidance on what they want out of their event, you should have strong enough leadership skills to play a dominant role in the event planning process.
As we have previously suggested, as an event planner you will have to liaise with many people – event attendees, sponsors, vendors, event photographers etc. Therefore, you will require strong interpersonal skills to ensure that everyone involved in the event knows their role and the event runs smoothly.
Part of an event planner’s job is to consistently host fresh and unique events, therefore, to ensure that the events you are planning are varied and unique you require a certain level of creativity to apply to your practice. You will need to be creative with the theme of each event, the type of event venue, and how to decorate this.
Lastly, as an event planner, you should be prepared to be flexible – you must possess the ability to easily adapt and overcome any obstacles that you might face.
As you can appreciate, event planning, and an event planner’s daily schedule, can vary immensely and therefore there is no single description of the day-to-day life of an event planner. This rundown of event planning services, however, should help give you a good idea of some of the many tasks you will need to complete as an event planner.
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