What you are actually paying for A venue coordinator is paid by the venue to manage the venue. A full-service planner is paid by you to manage the entire event. The two roles are routinely confused, and the confusion is the most expensive mistake a host can make, because a coordinator will look after the…

A Lucy Attwood Events editorial — for the ones starting to think about how they want to mark this one. Forty arrives differently now. It is no longer the cliffhanger it once was, nor the punchline. For the people we tend to work with, it lands as something quieter and more considered: a marker of…