What Does a Wedding Stylist Do?

The job description of a wedding stylist entails the following things.
- Have a consultation with the couple and other stakeholders for their dream wedding day vision. By other stakeholders, we mean the parents. For a wedding stylist in India, it is important to consult with the parents of the couple. In our country the parents are more invested in the wedding, sometimes even than the couples.
- Conceptualizing and bringing to the form the style of the wedding day. This may include the ceremony itself, floral decorations, lighting arrangements, furniture, and its layout, general décor among others.
- Forming an inventory for every item and object required to create the design and theme. Sourcing and providing items required for the design.
- Personally supervise the set-up and style of the wedding for the days hired to the pack-down.
- Some additional services that wedding stylists are increasingly providing based on the ease of operation and extra remuneration include the following. Acting as a vendor for décor and style items such as linens for tables, furniture, candlesticks, and signage. Some wedding fashion stylists also source flowers, stationery, and even wedding ensembles themselves.
- The scope of a wedding stylist contract and the additional services to be provided depends on the investment of time and money and availability of the skillset and the storage and other space you may have. The options are limitless as the demand for wedding stylists is growing exponentially.
Skills Needed to Be a Wedding Stylist

a. Designing and Conceptualizing
b. Preparing Estimates and the Budget
c. Planning and Logistics Management
Styling a wedding is a product that you have to create and present to the ultimate consumer, the couple. For any product, planning is necessary. A wedding stylist should be a good planner who can think ahead about how the wedding production is going to run. They also have to ensure that all the required items are delivered on time. They have to be delivered at the right time, not too early and not late. For this, a wedding stylist should have efficient planning and logistics management skills too.
d. Sourcing and Negotiating
Sourcing and negotiating skills are requisite for any business to succeed. You need to identify the right vendors for sourcing the materials and negotiate so that the budget does not overshoot and you get the quality materials and a favourable contract.