Weddings can be shockingly expensive. When it comes to keeping your clients on a budget, there are hidden fees, financial traps, and add-ons that crop up along the way that may not get factored into your initial wedding budget projection. Here are 5 Hidden Wedding Costs: 1) Gratuities While tips are not necessarily required, they […]

Things we do that our clients never know about. What would you add to this list? Plunge toilets, dry ceremony chairs after a rainstorm, fill up generators, hold umbrellas for guests, fetch water for photographers, crawl under the stage to find the power for the gobo light, run interference with drunk guests, hold the bride’s […]

Sound familiar to anyone?⁣ Trying to answer 20 emails, respond to 3 new inquiries, finalize 2 timelines, post on Instagram, check dates for 5 venues, and eat lunch  …while sitting in your car  for 45 minutes  between client meetings. You can find this post on #weddingplannerlife on Instagram too where you can repost it and […]

There are so many gorgeous destination wedding locations around the world. From Tulum to Thailand, a faraway locale will turn a destination wedding into an adventure for both you and your clients.  As a wedding and event planner, you may already offer planning for destination weddings or you may be considering adding destination wedding planning […]

There are so many details and tasks that wedding planners do as part of their job. While a couple may hire a “wedding planner”, they usually get an exceptionally talented professional who also performs many other jobs and duties during the planning process and on the wedding weekend. Job Title: Wedding Planner Actual Job: therapist, […]

There are a lot of tasks that wedding planners take on as a part of their services. As we work closely with our clients, we often take on additional responsibilities to make sure that their wedding day is perfection. There are tasks that we should never take on for legal reasons and there are tasks […]

Seriously. Don’t doubt what we are capable of. Wedding and event planners have magic powers when it comes to multitasking. #truth Does this sound like you on event days? We can fix the stain on the wedding gown, give orders to 3 assistants, calm down the overly stressed MOB, line up 5 intoxicated groomsmen, and cue […]

Event planning can be overwhelming. That is why people hire an expert like you to provide the skills necessary to plan the perfect event.  What are the skills that a successful event planner has? Here are 10 essential skills every event planner should possess: 1) Flexibility The event planning process does not always run smoothly. […]

When we are accustomed to putting other people’s needs first, we often neglect ourselves. By creating healthy habits and self-care rituals during wedding season, we will have the energy and resilience to deal with the hassles and demands we experience as professional wedding planners. Wedding planners are notorious for getting burned out. Don’t let that […]

There are so many things that we learn over the years while working as a wedding planner such as how to sew a bridesmaid into her dress and how to perfect the amount of champagne needed for a 100-person toast. There are some things that can only be understood by other planners. 10 things only […]