Category Archives: Planning Guides

Intimate Wedding Planner: Professional Services Guide

What Intimate Wedding Planning Actually Involves So you’re thinking about offering intimate wedding planning services or maybe you’re just curious what we actually do all day—let me break this down because it’s honestly so different from planning those 200-person extravaganzas everyone imagines when they think “wedding planner.” First off, intimate weddings are typically anywhere from […]

Wedding Planner By Weddingwire: Professional Services Guide

So You’re Looking at WeddingWire’s Professional Services Look, WeddingWire is basically the platform you’re gonna see everywhere once you start planning weddings professionally or even just browsing vendors as a couple. I’ve been using it since like 2015 or 2016, and honestly it’s become one of those things where clients just expect you to be […]

Lesbian Wedding Planner: Professional Services Guide

Finding the Right Lesbian Wedding Planner Okay so first thing you gotta know is that not all wedding planners are created equal when it comes to LGBTQ+ weddings, specifically lesbian weddings. I learned this the hard way back in spring 2023 when I took over a wedding from another planner who had completely botched the […]

Google Sheets Wedding Planner: Professional Services Guide

Setting Up Your Google Sheets Wedding Planner Framework So Google Sheets for wedding planning is honestly one of those things I wish I’d gotten better at sooner because… okay, I spent years using Excel and then one day in spring 2023 a bride emailed me at 11pm asking about her vendor payments and I realized […]

Wedding Planner Google Sheets: Professional Services Guide

Why Google Sheets Changed Everything For My Wedding Planning Business So you’re probably thinking about organizing your wedding planning business better and honestly Google Sheets is gonna be your best friend here. I switched over from Excel and various paper systems back in spring 2023 when I had three weddings in one weekend and literally […]

Wedding Planner Coordinator: Professional Services Guide

What Wedding Planner Coordinators Actually Do So there’s this massive confusion about what a wedding planner coordinator actually is versus a full-service planner, and honestly it drives me nuts because couples waste so much money hiring the wrong type of service. A coordinator—sometimes called a “day-of coordinator” though that’s kinda misleading—comes in way later than […]

South Asian Wedding Planner: Professional Services Guide

What You’re Actually Getting Into With South Asian Wedding Planning Okay so South Asian weddings are absolutely nothing like the typical American weddings I started with back in 2015. I mean, you’re looking at multiple events over several days, hundreds of guests minimum, and honestly the complexity level is just… it’s a completely different category […]

Destination Event Planner: Professional Services Guide

What Destination Event Planning Actually Means for Your Business So destination event planning isn’t just regular planning but somewhere pretty. It’s a completely different beast and honestly, I learned this the hard way back in summer 2021 when I took on a wedding in Santorini thinking “how different could it be?” Spoiler: very different. You’re […]

Hindu Wedding Planner: Professional Services Guide

What Hindu Wedding Planning Actually Involves So you’re thinking about offering Hindu wedding planning services or you need to hire someone who actually knows what they’re doing. Let me tell you, this isn’t your standard “pick a venue and choose flowers” situation. Hindu weddings are basically multi-day festivals with religious ceremonies that have been happening […]

Wedding Planner Day Of Coordinator: Professional Services Guide

What a Day-Of Coordinator Actually Does (And Why Couples Get This Wrong) So here’s the thing about day-of coordinators – the name is kinda misleading because you’re definitely not just showing up on the wedding day. I learned this the hard way back in spring 2023 when a bride called me two weeks before her […]