Frumi Metz 32 lives in Far Rockaway. She’s been working as a party planner in the Five Towns for six years.   Think you want to be a party planner? You’d better be very __________ patient. Your clients will change their mind a few times over the course of the planning — either in terms of taste or because of their budget — and you need to wait for them to figure out what they want. Also you need to be sensitive to people’s needs; their simchah is an expression of who they are you’re there to help them express it. Last you need to be detail-oriented because once you’re hired your client doesn’t worry about the details: accepting deliveries coordinating with the caterer placing the bentshers on the table setting out the place cards — those small things that go into making a simchah are your responsibility. The preparation and planning can be stressful which is why I love being a part of it all; I’m helping people navigate their simchah so they can truly enjoy it.   and you’d better not mind… making last-minute decisions. You could be so organized have everything lined up and still you’ll have to decide things on the fly. I remember a bar mitzvah I did the mechitzah was a wall of water like an upside-down waterfall. It looked beautiful but it took up a lot of electricity and once the band and lighting were there we realized the hall couldn’t handle it — there wasn’t enough electricity to go around. We made it work: we dimmed the lights moved the band to a different spot in the room and the mechitzah stayed up.