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As a wedding planner, you spend a lot of time working with your couples. From initial consultations to dozens of emails back and forth to researching décor and vendors, it adds up quickly! Oftentimes, planners never take the time to track how much time they work on each client's wedding. But we are going to [...]
4 Reasons You Should Be Tracking Your Time Spent on Client Work

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As a coordinator myself, I know firsthand how beneficial document templates can be. These important documents are pre-written and designed templates that you can use again and again in your wedding planning business! One of the most important parts of being a wedding planner or coordinator is not just being detail-oriented, but being consistent. From consistent [...]
iimportant document templates every wedding planner needs

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As a wedding planner, you email a lot. And for most of us planners and coordinators, email is our main form of communication with our couples (and their vendors!). Which means a lot of emails, over and over again! As you plan more and more weddings, you start to see a pattern. Some of the [...]
Three Easy Steps To Create Email Templates for Your Wedding Planning Business

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At the beginning of every new year, we set goals for our wedding planning businesses. These goals can cover a variety of things from financial, growth, social, team goals, etc. But what we often fail to do is check in on those goals throughout the year to be sure we're hitting them or even to [...]
How To Conduct a Mid-Year Business Review for Wedding Planners

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When it comes to weddings, there’s just something about those small details that add that special touch to your big day. We love when our couples dream up ways that make their wedding stand out, so we thought we’d share with you some unexpected (and often forgotten) places to add florals to get your creative [...]
Magnolia leaf bar garland, navy and pink southern wedding | Ivan & Louise Images and Jessica Dum Wedding Coordination

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One of the tasks we spend a lot of time on as wedding planners is creating and managing timelines. And it can be quite overwhelming, especially during a busy wedding season! After executing countless weddings, I have created a system that I use to organize and manage my client’s wedding day timelines. This system has [...]
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