Hi! I am about one week engaged and already dealing with the headache of being engaged. Both my fiance and I are students and so my parents are helping out with paying for the wedding. Due the hectic schedule of both my fiance and my career, a few of our classmates suggested a wedding planner because they can actually help stay in budget and find you ways to save money. Is that true? If so, do you recommend anyone in the DC area? Not a rich DC elite which seems like a lot of these wedding planners cater to :P. My parents are the other hand are stubbornly resistant on getting a planner because they think it's ridiculous. They are even resistant to weekend of/day of planners, but I'm positive I will at least hire for the weekend. Help! I want to enjoy my engagement and have not been and the wedding has seem to put my family in agony.