Probably second to diamonds, wedding planners are today’s fussy bride’s best friend. True, the modern day bride has so much eating up her time that she has become more unavailable to plan her own wedding, in turn befitting wedding planners to be elevated to the pedestal of indispensability.

Ask any one who has had hands-on experience in planning a wedding and they are sure to go into a litany of details, highlighting the most horrific and complex labour of the process – a reaction most likely since only a handful have any authentic familiarity of organizing an affair as significant and flamboyant as a wedding. Undeniably, an overflow of details has to be addressed in a wedding preparation and more often than not, an organizer would be confronted of having to juggle so many things in so little a time. There’s the dilemma of hiring the best service providers, sorting out logistics, calendar, time tables and financial plans to assimilate – all of which are essential in itself that any disintegration of each part would ultimately lead to frustration and mess.

Before panic and fear does set in, it is good to be able to avail of a really efficient event organizer slash wedding planner slash wedding coordinator slash superhero! How do you know you’ve found one? Look out for these extraordinary qualities of a Wonder Woman (or man, for that matter…nothing personal guys!) and you’ll likely be to find the herculean alter-ego.

• They display impeccable audible range, superior swiftness, quick response, stamina, resilience, and superhuman strength. With endless details to facilitate, mediate, finances to manage and dreams to make into reality. Other add-ons to the role are being a shrink, campaigner, guru, counselor, and her buddy and confidante when fatigue and anxiety would seem to drown the key players in the wedding scene.The very person of a wedding planner is a fountain of creative ideas coupled with a masterful skill in negotiations and bargaining to get the best value and deal for your cash.

• They have the power of flight. Figuratively speaking, a wedding planner has the knack to ‘take flight’ – not to run away from responsibilities of course – but to be at the right place at the right time, doing business out of their homes or over the phone as well as be at the right locations to manage appointments at churches and reception venues.

• They have superior people skills. A warm and calm temperament, outgoing and fun and sincerely exhibits a natural gift to help others and enjoys work with people – negotiating and networking.

• They empathize well. A wedding is in essence a bride’s castle in the sky and who to better help weave and make that dream material than the wedding planner who should have a clear understanding and sensitivity as to how the wedding will actually become manifest. It would come as no surprise if even the minutest of detail as in the color and design of the table cloth or the flower arrangements can actually be a bit painstaking, but in the end brides will want to see that all things organized and done with style.

• They have power to regenerate. Oh, for goodness sake, of course a wedding planner’s life will probably have a blooper or two (boo-hoo!) but her nerves of steel will carry her through calmly in the face of harsh conditions. Literally, we may not see her growing an arm just as any superhero might, but unconsciously, she’d make it feel like extra pairs are hard at work.

• They make magic yet has incredible resistance to false impression. Okay, so people do get married once and maybe more in their lifetime but to every wedding the planner creates the ‘magic’ of forever that’s meant to be faithfully shared by a happy couple and their loved ones – a truly beautiful and exquisite memory supposedly cherished for the moment it is and hopefully for a lifetime. Yet at the same time, a timely, current and objective plan is what the wedding planner puts in place to see through the different elements of a wedding which would include venues, themes, flowers, food and refreshments, clothes, photography, honeymoons, and other aspects.

• They have the ability to tell the difference between fantasy and truth. Whilst it is said that a customer is always right, wedding planners have the great responsibility also, if need be, of compelling the bride to let go of the idea of a ghoulish electric green motif that’s fittingly for a Halloween party! A wedding planner’s good fashion sense should kick in high gear as well as a commanding first-rate knowledge of religions if the wedding ceremony is of spiritual roots.

• Weaponry. Of a different setting, but planning a wedding is a different kind of war in itself and as such, weaponry is requisite. A notepad or even an electronic organizer, a telephone or mobile, pens, a calendar, and a highlighter would take an amateur or even a professional wedding planner a long, long way – things to supplement the good head on her shoulders, the flair for excellent communication skills and an engaging personality.

Come to think of it, almost anyone can venture into the wedding planning sanctum and make into a lucrative business or even a serious pastime. You never know, those hours you invested in helping friends out in specific aspects of their wedding, or of handling the floral arrangement or creating the script for the reception, or just making the couple relaxed minutes before the event…whatever protocol that will facilitate gift strength were actually the stepping stones to this calling. Before long, by word of mouth, people will come to know of your ability prompting them to ask assistance in their weddings as well.

Patience is really a virtue though and if wedding planning is a joy you find doing, don’t be disheartened if the phone doesn’t ring in a few days, the business will probably start small in the first year but assuredly will pick up speed in the following years as you grow in reputation and reliability.

Persevere and success will be within reach: take it from a self-confessed accidental wedding planner a.k.a Wonder Woman’s doppelganger.