Planning your wedding is not a simple process. From who’s tailoring your clothes to which venue is hosting your reception, there are a thousand and one details you need to handle before the big day arrives. More and more often couples are including wedding security services in their wedding plans to help keep the peace and handle any issues that crop up throughout the day. If you’ve considered adding security to your wedding, then keep the following tips in mind to help make the process as smooth as possible for your wedding day.
Tip #1: Look for Corporate Security Experience
Security comes in a wide variety of styles and disciplines, and each one offers unique advantages and disadvantages. Security services that are used to providing corporate security, however, tend to have the skill set needed for working a wedding.
The reason for this is that you don’t want your wedding to feel like it has bouncers. Rather, you want your security to come across more like a concierge. This impression of compact efficiency is something that is prized in corporate security services. There, personnel specializes in preventing issues from happening while de-escalating potential problems as they arise. As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and that is often the philosophy that drives corporate security personnel.
Tip #2: Make Sure Your Wedding Security Services Are Involved in the Event
In order to provide adequate event security (because at the end of the day your wedding is a unique event with its own parameters) personnel will need to be involved in the process. As such, you should treat it as a red flag if your security services expect to just show up on your wedding day and operate on their own protocols. You shouldn’t have to plan your wedding around their service. Instead, they should plan their services around your wedding.
This need to be an integral part of your wedding means that your security should be involved around the time you start final details and rehearsals. Indeed, they should be present and a part of your rehearsals so they can get a sense of what’s going to be happening, who should be where, and how they should be folded into the production. That understanding of the nuts and bolts of the event should be worked into all their plans, and personnel should show both interest and willingness to be involved.
Tip #3: Understand What Your Wedding Security Services Will (And Won’t) Do
The reason security services for a wedding are so appealing is that you can, at least in theory, delegate some of your worries and concerns to them. However, as Self Growth says, it’s important to make sure that you ask questions about what your security can and will handle, rather than just expecting them to take certain worries and duties off your plate.
For example, it can be assumed that your wedding security will handle physical problems that crop up at your wedding. Whether it’s wedding crashers who want to sneak into your reception, or two of your guests starting a fight, that’s the sort of thing most wedding security services will step in to handle. However, you need to know what other duties they may be prepared to help with. Will they help call rides for guests that have been drinking? Will they provide parking lot escorts for those going out to their own vehicles once the evening draws to a close? Lastly, will your security personnel be trained in first aid, basic CPR, or any other emergency techniques? These are the sorts of questions you need to have answers to so you know what your security is capable of, and just as importantly what is outside their skill set.
Tip #4: Make Sure They Work on Your Timeframe
Arranging security services takes time. How much time will depend entirely on the company you go to. As such, it’s important to make sure not just that the company is capable of providing the service you want, but that they can do it in the timeframe you need.
For example, if you hadn’t considered adding security to your wedding and reception, and now you’re on something of a time crunch, you need to be sure that your security services will be available to come in two weeks from now. Some security services can put together a team in hours and have them ready to go. Others will need more notice, or they will have personnel booked solid. So the earlier you can start shopping for your security needs, the more likely you are to be able to get a contract for the block of time you need. Additionally, before you sign on the dotted line, make sure you have flexibility should something happen and the time of your event changes. The last thing you need is for unexpected circumstances to change your times, and then to find it has a cascade effect on your wedding security.
Tip #5: Ask What Additional Benefits Security Can Provide for Your Wedding
A wedding is an expensive endeavor. However, with that said, adding security services to your wedding might have fringe benefits for your budget you haven’t considered.
Venues that rent out for weddings and receptions have to judge clients based on risk. If you are providing security services for your own ceremony, that will make you a significantly smaller risk as a client. This could reduce your price, though there’s no guarantee that it will. If a venue requires security to be present, as some do according to Brides, you often won’t have to cover the costs of their in-house security if you provide your own.
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When you consider all of the other tasks that wedding security can handle, from taking control of medical emergencies to de-escalating arguments, to preventing theft, and making sure that only the people on your guest list are the ones actually there for the event, you really start to see just how much easier wedding security services can make your special day.
For more on what wedding security services from SMART Security Pros can do for you, simply contact us to get a quote today!
