All-Inclusive Micro-Wedding Package vs. Partial Planning + Day of Coordination: Which Package Is Right for You?
OUR DC AND CHICAGO MICRO WEDDING OFFERINGS EXPLAINED
Some couples see a list of photographers, florists, officiants, and bakers and think:
Excellent. I’d love to spend hours and hours researching all of these vendors myself.
And other couples think:
Please choose the professionals so I can close these browser tabs.
Neither couple is planning incorrectly, they simply want different levels of control and support. Tiny Wedding Collective offers two primary paths: an All-inclusive Micro Wedding Package (DC + Chicago) and Partial Planning and Day-of Coordination.
The best package is not automatically the one with more services or the higher price. It’s the one that solves the planning problem you actually have.
Choose all-inclusive when you want us to assemble the principal team
Our all-inclusive package is designed for couples who have not hired most of their core vendors and would prefer a trusted structure rather than an open-ended vendor search.
The package includes:
Onboarding materials and planning resources
Preferred vendor, venue, and catering lists
A planning checklist and wedding-day planning workbook
Three planning calls
Unlimited email support
Planning tools and timeline creation
Vendor Management
Day-of Coordinator
An Officiant
Professional Photography
Two Personal Floral Designs
A Small Celebration Cake
A two-hour base event, with additional time available
The package begins at $4,775, with pricing varying according to the day of the week.
All-inclusive is likely your fit when:
You’re mostly starting from scratch.
You want fewer vendor interviews and contracts.
You’re working within a budget and want to avoid vendor minimums
You value expert curation over unlimited choice.
You’re comfortable having trusted vendors assigned according to availability.
You want the principal ceremony and creative services bundled together.
Decision fatigue is one of the main things you want the package to solve.
You still shape the wedding’s personality through your ceremony choices, floral palette, cake flavor, attire, music, details, and overall direction. Curated does not mean predesigned.
Choose partial planning + Day of coordination when vendor choice matters to you
Partial Planning and Day-of Coordination is designed for couples who have already hired most of their vendors - or who strongly prefer to select and contract each vendor personally.
The package costs $2,200 and includes:
Onboarding materials and planning resources
Preferred vendor, venue, and catering lists
A planning checklist and wedding-day planning workbook
Three planning calls
Unlimited email support
Timeline creation
Vendor management beginning four weeks before the wedding
Four hours with one of our incredible wedding-day coordinators
The option to add more coordination time when needed
Partial planning is likely your fit when:
You’ve already hired most of the vendor team.
Choosing each vendor is important to you.
You need expert guidance but not a bundled creative team.
You want someone to turn your plans into a complete timeline.
You need a professional to manage vendors and logistics as the wedding approaches.
You do not want to be the point person on the wedding day.
Partial planning isn’t a less important version of all-inclusive. It’s a different service for a different stage of planning.
One partial-planning client shared:
“Lauren was able to provide the perfect level of partial planning for us. It made our wedding planning process so much less stressful, and most importantly, we were able to relax on our wedding day and just enjoy it.”
THE PACKAGES AT A GLANCE
Venue, catering, rentals, entertainment, transportation, and most reception expenses remain separate from the all-inclusive base package.
STILL CAN’T DECIDE? Ask yourselves these five questions
1. Do we want to interview and contract every vendor?
There is no correct answer here. Some people feel reassured by understanding every option and choosing every professional. Others become less confident with every new comparison. Be honest about which experience sounds more like you.
2. Have we already hired most of the team?
When your venue, photographer, florist, caterer, and officiant are already contracted, it usually doesn’t make sense to purchase a package intended to assemble those services. Partial planning + Day of Coordination can help organize what you have already built.
3. How much decision-making do we want?
All-inclusive still includes meaningful choices, but it intentionally reduces the number of vendor-level decisions. Partial planning + Day of Coordination gives you more control over the team - and more responsibility for finding and hiring it.
4. What kind of help do we need most?
Do you need someone to build the principal vendor structure? Or do you need someone to review the structure you’ve created, fill gaps, build the timeline, and manage the final month and wedding day? The answer points toward the right package.
5. Does trusting a curated vendor team sound relieving or uncomfortable?
The all-inclusive model works best when the idea of trusting a vetted local team feels like a benefit. When the inability to guarantee a specific individual vendor would create ongoing concern, partial planning + day of coordination may offer a better experience.
okay but what if we’re somewhere in the middle?
You may not know yet. Perhaps you love the idea of the bundled team but have one photographer you have followed for years. Perhaps you’ve booked a venue but no other vendors. Perhaps you thought you wanted to choose everyone and have since discovered that vendor research is not quite the delightful hobby you imagined.
Select both packages on the inquiry form.
The inquiry call is where we learn what you have already planned, what matters most to you, and which type of support is most likely to make the process easier.
From there, we can design something totally custom for you!
The goal is the right support - not the biggest package
A package should'n’t ask you to pay for work you don’t need. It also shouldn’t leave you carrying the exact responsibilities that made you seek professional help. Whatever you need, we’ll make sure the package is the perfect fit.