{"id":73,"date":"2011-06-03T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T16:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.weddingsforaliving.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2016-07-22T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T19:14:48","slug":"wedding-planning-business-niche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weddingsforaliving.com\/wedding-planning-business-niche","title":{"rendered":"Create a Niche or Specialty for your Wedding Planning Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">D<\/span>on\u2019t fall into the trap that so many wedding planning business owners do of thinking that you can serve all brides well.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to be successful in any business\u2014weddings or otherwise\u2014identify your niche or specialty and go after a select group of clients&#8230;your target bride.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t panic!\u00a0<strong> This does NOT mean you can&#8217;t plan weddings for clients outside of your target group!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead, it means that you won&#8217;t have to divert your marketing energy and dollars beyond the brides that are in your core audience.<\/p>\n<p>Many successful businesses have carved out niches by doing something better, faster (think Jiffy Lube) or just being bigger (think Amazon.com) than their competition. There&#8217;s no reason that you shouldn&#8217;t do the same for your wedding planning business.<\/p>\n<h3>Find your Wedding Speciality<\/h3>\n<p>As a wedding planner you can also set yourself apart from other planners (i.e. your competition) by creating your own niche. Possibilities for a wedding planning niche include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encore weddings &#8211; 2nd or 3rd weddings<\/li>\n<li>Same-sex unions and weddings<\/li>\n<li>Serving price conscious brides<\/li>\n<li>Planning High-end weddings &#8211; wedding budgets upward of $50,000<\/li>\n<li>Celebrity weddings<\/li>\n<li>Theme Weddings<\/li>\n<li>All-inclusive wedding planning<\/li>\n<li>Weddings in a hurry (I once read about a planner, in Florida, whose specialty was planning local weddings in a week!)<\/li>\n<li>Destination weddings\u2014focus on one particular destination or area<\/li>\n<li>Ethnic weddings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>And<strong>&#8230;<\/strong>Own It!<\/h3>\n<p>Once you decide on a niche for your wedding business, own it!<\/p>\n<p>Find out all you can about your specialty and the brides that your specialized wedding planning services will attract. Open your eyes to her demands and desires and do all that you can for her. Become the expert so that you&#8217;re ready when that email or phone call comes in.<\/p>\n<h3>Specializing = Your Ideal Client<\/h3>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say Brenda Bride just got engaged and wants to do something different for her big day. She has known from a very young age that a &#8216;typical wedding&#8217; with the big poofy dress and formal tuxedo for her groom just wasn&#8217;t for her. And, now that the time to plan her big day has arrived, she wants her nuptials to reflect her personal style and she decides to have a 1930s wedding (love that!).<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s imagine that you are a wedding planner who specializes in vintage weddings. You know all about incorporating vintage details from the Art Nouveau elegance of the 1910s; to the Audrey Hepburn-era of the 1950s. You&#8217;re familiar with all the necessary vintage wedding elements like invitations, music, menu and more.<\/p>\n<p>Now, how excited do you think Brenda Bride (and others like her) will be to speak to YOU, the vintage wedding planner? And, just imagine how interesting you&#8217;ll be to the local media!<\/p>\n<p>Do you get the idea?<\/p>\n<p>With a niche for your wedding business, you will <em>instantly<\/em> know who your target bride is and then you can make her happy\u2014very happy\u2014instead of trying to make a lot of different types of brides moderately satisfied (which is what the majority of wedding planners are doing now!).<\/p>\n<p><strong>HAPPY PLANNING!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why you need a wedding planning niche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,129],"post_series":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 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