So You’re Thinking About Hiring a Wedding Planner Look, I’ve been doing this for almost 15 years now and the number of couples who contact me not knowing what wedding planners actually DO is kinda wild. Like they think we just show up on the day with a clipboard and boss people around. Which, okay, […]
What Even Is a Wedding Consultation So a wedding consultation is basically that first official sit-down with a couple where you figure out if you’re gonna work together and what the heck they actually want. It’s not just a sales pitch – though yeah, you’re kinda selling yourself – but it’s more like a fact-finding […]
So You Wanna Offer Elopement Planning Services Okay so elopements are basically everywhere now and honestly they’ve completely changed how I run my business since like 2020. If you’re a wedding planner thinking about adding elopement services, you’re gonna need a totally different approach than your standard 150-person ballroom wedding. First thing – elopements aren’t […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]