Wedding planner opens in Barn Shops

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Shannon Wellington, of Shannon Wellington Weddings and Events, says she specializes in designing as well as planning weddings.

Weddings can be an emotional time for a young couple. Lots of decisions need to be made to help make it a special day for all concerned. It’s stressful, and that’s where a wedding planner comes in.

And a wedding planner did come into the Barn Shops in Chadds Ford Township. Shannon Wellington Weddings and Events moved into the building where Barbara Moore Fine Art used to be.

Wellington, a Concord Township resident, said she’s been involved in the business for 20 years, the last 12 running her own shop. Her specialty, she said, is planning and designing home weddings.

“What sets us apart from other wedding planners out there is that we also design weddings. That something that has only happened in the past decade or so,” she said.

She explained that designing weddings came about mostly because of social media sites such as Pinterest and Instagram since “so much visual information being thrown at brides and grooms. So, now they want a certain aesthetic, a certain look. It’s more of a production these days,” she said.

And it’s that aesthetic and look that Wellington produces for her clients by acting as a liaison between all the vendors and the client. She works with a variety of vendors, florists, photographers, musicians, and the like and proceeds to make that inspired vision a reality.

“Not only are we planning it and doing all the logistics and dealing with all the vendors and transportation and all of that, but now we care what it looks like,” she said.

As a rule, her fees range from $4,000 to $18,000, depending on what’s required. That lower-end figure comes into play when the bride and groom have already done most of the work in hiring the vendors but bring in Wellington to coordinate things during the last month before the event. The $18,000 is for full planning, while partial planning costs $12,000.

For more information and to contact Shannon Wellington, go to www.shannonwellington.com on the web, @shannonwellingtonweddings on Instagram, or phone 610-324-3091.

About Rich Schwartzman

Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.

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