Over the last several years, I’ve been coaching and mentoring fellow wedding planners and coordinators who want to grow their wedding planning businesses and get more wedding inquiries. Chatting with fellow wedding planners about this has quickly become a new favorite thing of mine, because I’ve been there. I created JDWC from a place of [...]

While most of us Wedding Planners and Coordinators are still in the thick of our fall wedding seasons, it’s important to remember that engagement season is right around the corner! With nearly 40% of engagements occurring between the months of November and February, we can’t discount that now is the time to shift our focus [...]

As we continue our off-season prep, it's important to really take a deep dive into your packages and wedding planning services. Your services are the backbone of your business - and often where I find coaching clients losing money.  Often, when you first start your wedding planning business, you just pick your pricing based on [...]

Knowing your numbers is one of the most important parts of running any business - especially as a wedding planner! Our finances are often a bit more confusing since each client might have different packages and expenses. But that is all the more reason to keep track of everything! One of the biggest game-changers in [...]

As we enter the fall, we start to enter the off-season in the wedding industry. Fall business winds down, and as wedding planners, we have time to reset, reorganize, and refocus! While things are slower on the wedding front, now is the time to shift your focus to the backend of your business (aka everything [...]

5 Benefits of using email templates. Have you ever heard the phrase “time is money”? Well, it could not be more true – especially when you own your own business. And it is something I for one have learned the hard way as a small business owner. When I first started my wedding coordination business, [...]