The Wedding Project
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
So, you’re planning on getting married? Congratulations! Now get ready for the “craziest ride” you’ve ever been on.
Traditionally, weddings (especially the more elaborate ones) are full of spectacle. There’s the beautiful wedding dress, the (hopefully not too tacky) bridesmaids’ dresses, the magnificent arrangements of flowers, the personalized exchange of vows, the emotional speeches, food, dancing…the list goes on.
Sure, there are some weddings that are smaller (fewer than 10 people), more budget-friendly (held in a backyard with crockpot contributions), or more performance driven (think skydiving or scuba diving). But for the most part, weddings have certain established norms of feature, function and cost.
To make a wedding possible, however, often requires a carefully crafted plan that encompasses the kind of responsibilities and tasks that should be carried out by a project manager.
The WP PM
For those couples that have the resources to bring in a true project manager (or for the purposes of marriage-related activities, a person called a wedding planner), there are meticulous degrees of management that need to be considered.
At the heart of the more complicated and successful weddings, the wedding planner is the usually unsung hero who ensures that everything runs smoothly. Like PMs in the business world, they have…
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