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<\/a><\/div>\nPodcast: Play in new window<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\nA Celebrity Wedding Showdown<\/h3>\n
Did you hear? Bravo TV’s Real Housewives of Atlanta<\/em> (RHOA) star, NeNe Leakes, is (or maybe it’s was, now…) considering becoming a professional wedding planner<\/a>!<\/p>\nAnd in the same never-a-dull-moment vein as her TV show, NeNe is also<\/em> going through her own drama with professional wedding planner Tiffany Cook<\/a>. Cook claims that NeNe owes her thousands in unpaid wedding planner fees.\u00a0\u00a0 Yikes!<\/p>\nBut what I find really fascinating about this wedding planner debacle is that there are several layers of planning fees involved, here: a percentage of the wedding budget, a separate (and astonishing!) amount for wedding design and then another fee that covers the travel expenses for the wedding planning team to fly from their base in Florida to the wedding location in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
This breakdown of wedding planning fees makes perfect sense (although, according to NeNe was not contracted) and confirms what I’ve been preaching for years…professional wedding planners should charge separately for each type of service provided.\u00a0 Don’t lump your wedding design services in with your wedding planning fees.\u00a0 Charge separately!<\/p>\n
Start a Wedding Blog<\/h3>\n
If you’re considering planning weddings for a living, why not create a wedding planning blog while you’re getting everything together? There’s really no reason to wait!<\/p>\n
A blog is a great way to simultaneously share your local wedding planning knowledge with your target audience as you develop (and decide if you truly want to delve into) the business end of things.<\/p>\n
What should you write about? Post info about the wedding vendors and wedding venues as you discover them.\u00a0 Share short, need-to-know wedding planning tips.\u00a0 Share your opinion about the latest Bridezilla<\/em> episode (and how area brides can avoid becoming one!).<\/p>\nSimply, create a “Hire Me” page that lets visitors to your site know that you’re available to help them plan their local wedding.\u00a0 No need to go in-depth with details, here.\u00a0 A few paragraphs and a contact form will do the trick.<\/p>\n
The search engines (i.e. Google) love blogs and so will couples planning a local wedding.<\/p>\n
Meeting with Wedding Venues<\/h3>\n
We got a great question from Claire, a destination wedding planner based in Belfast.\u00a0 Claire asked for help with determining the best method for contacting well-known wedding venues in her area.\u00a0 Should she drop-in, schedule an appointment, send an email….<\/p>\n
Pinterest or Instagram?<\/h3>\n
So, are you using Pinterest<\/em> or Instagram<\/em> for your wedding business?\u00a0 Is there an advantage to using one over the other? \u00a0 Why not leave a comment, below,\u00a0 and let me know<\/strong>.\u00a0 (And, it will come as no surprise that yours truly is absent on both platforms!)<\/p>\nMENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:<\/h2>\n
Wedding Business Guide<\/strong> is a comprehensive, online resource that provides you with step-by-step info about launching your own, part-time, wedding-day management company.\u00a0 Learn more about Wedding Business Guide, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nPodcast: Play in new window<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n Did you hear? Bravo TV’s Real Housewives of Atlanta<\/em> (RHOA) star, NeNe Leakes, is (or maybe it’s was, now…) considering becoming a professional wedding planner<\/a>!<\/p>\n And in the same never-a-dull-moment vein as her TV show, NeNe is also<\/em> going through her own drama with professional wedding planner Tiffany Cook<\/a>. Cook claims that NeNe owes her thousands in unpaid wedding planner fees.\u00a0\u00a0 Yikes!<\/p>\n But what I find really fascinating about this wedding planner debacle is that there are several layers of planning fees involved, here: a percentage of the wedding budget, a separate (and astonishing!) amount for wedding design and then another fee that covers the travel expenses for the wedding planning team to fly from their base in Florida to the wedding location in Atlanta.<\/p>\n This breakdown of wedding planning fees makes perfect sense (although, according to NeNe was not contracted) and confirms what I’ve been preaching for years…professional wedding planners should charge separately for each type of service provided.\u00a0 Don’t lump your wedding design services in with your wedding planning fees.\u00a0 Charge separately!<\/p>\n If you’re considering planning weddings for a living, why not create a wedding planning blog while you’re getting everything together? There’s really no reason to wait!<\/p>\n A blog is a great way to simultaneously share your local wedding planning knowledge with your target audience as you develop (and decide if you truly want to delve into) the business end of things.<\/p>\n What should you write about? Post info about the wedding vendors and wedding venues as you discover them.\u00a0 Share short, need-to-know wedding planning tips.\u00a0 Share your opinion about the latest Bridezilla<\/em> episode (and how area brides can avoid becoming one!).<\/p>\n Simply, create a “Hire Me” page that lets visitors to your site know that you’re available to help them plan their local wedding.\u00a0 No need to go in-depth with details, here.\u00a0 A few paragraphs and a contact form will do the trick.<\/p>\n The search engines (i.e. Google) love blogs and so will couples planning a local wedding.<\/p>\n We got a great question from Claire, a destination wedding planner based in Belfast.\u00a0 Claire asked for help with determining the best method for contacting well-known wedding venues in her area.\u00a0 Should she drop-in, schedule an appointment, send an email….<\/p>\n So, are you using Pinterest<\/em> or Instagram<\/em> for your wedding business?\u00a0 Is there an advantage to using one over the other? \u00a0 Why not leave a comment, below,\u00a0 and let me know<\/strong>.\u00a0 (And, it will come as no surprise that yours truly is absent on both platforms!)<\/p>\n Wedding Business Guide<\/strong> is a comprehensive, online resource that provides you with step-by-step info about launching your own, part-time, wedding-day management company.\u00a0 Learn more about Wedding Business Guide, here<\/a>.<\/p>\nA Celebrity Wedding Showdown<\/h3>\n
Start a Wedding Blog<\/h3>\n
Meeting with Wedding Venues<\/h3>\n
Pinterest or Instagram?<\/h3>\n
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:<\/h2>\n