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Know Your Worth: Educating Your Couples On Your Pricing

Certified Wedding Planner Society

Showcase Your Knowledge: Educate couples on the depth of your expertise during the initial consultation. Explaining the complexity of logistics, vendor coordination, timeline creation, and unforeseen challenges, can help couples understand the need to hire a CWP. Awards: 2022 Wedding Planner on the Rise

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Setting a Realistic Wedding Budget For Your Couples

Certified Wedding Planner Society

Initial Consultation and Assessment : Begin by scheduling an initial consultation with the couple to discuss their wedding vision, budget expectations, and priorities. and how these terms can affect the budget and vendor selection. Remind couples that any tips or gratuity to any vendors should be included in their budget.

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Navigating Your Workflow While Dealing With On-going Health Issues

Certified Wedding Planner Society

As the business owner, you handle the day to day operations such as responding to inquiries, setting up and attending consultations, handling bookkeeping, sending out contracts, etc. Weekday consultations may now have to be replaced with doctor appointments. The list of the responsibilities of an entrepreneur seems never ending.

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Master Certified Wedding Planner Feature: Bristol Echeverria

Certified Wedding Planner Society

Bristol Echeverria Master Certified Wedding Planner Sustainable Soirées Illinois Being a Master Certified Planner means that I have both advanced formal training and experience to draw upon as a wedding planner and, most importantly, hold myself and the vendors I work with to higher standards.

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Why Hire a Wedding Consultant?

JoAnn Moore

The best gift a bride or groom can give herself or himself is a wedding consultant. From selecting wedding vendors to managing the contracting process, Lake Tahoe wedding planners focus on priorities and finding a perfect match with style and themes. Time is the most precious commodity for a busy couple.

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Does Your Wedding Vendor Support Gay Marriage?

Dream Catcher Wedding

Let’s get something out in the open… Clients turn to us for help finding wedding vendors that align with their values. When it comes to finding vendors who share an intersection of values like queer pride, antiracism, AND ecological sustainability, you may wonder if you’re asking for too much. if they “sir” or “ma’am” assumptively.)

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Additional Hotel Fees to Be Aware Of As a Wedding Planner

Certified Wedding Planner Society

Administrative (Admin) Fee: An administrative (or admin) fee is a percentage based fee applied to help the hotel cover their fixed, overhead costs, such as vendor imposed credit card fees, programs and softwares used, as well as supplies (ie. paper and ink, etc.) Awards: 2022 Wedding Planner of the Year