The Union Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jamie Wolfer, Heather Loree Fier
Planning a wedding, whether for the first time or hundredth time, can be isolating and overwhelming. Both couples new to the world of wedding planning and seasoned professionals who are busy growing and scaling their business often find themselves lost and adrift in the tedium of it all.
Welcome to The Union Podcast, a show created to build a community for those in the wedding planning trenches. Join your fellow wedding friends at the round table as we discuss the challenges and joys of the wedding business, how we as wedding professionals can better serve couples, and tackle strategies to collectively grow and strengthen our businesses.
The Union Podcast is a safe space for the wedding industry to come together. We dish on tips and tricks to help wedding industry pros better serve their clients and build flourishing businesses. By giving engaged couples a behind the scenes peek into the wedding industry, we also aim educate and empower couples so they can plan their wedding like a boss on any budget.
The show is hosted by two Southern California wedding planners who have each taken unique approaches to their businesses, allowing them to connect and serve thousands of engaged couples each year.
Jamie Wolfer of JW Coordination joins the podcast line-up to share her insightful and joyful perspective on weddings which she's shared on her wildly popular YouTube channel. Having built a business around celebrating one of the most joyous days in people's lives, Jamie has a heart for budget-minded couples and brings weekly wedding tips and tricks to her viewers in an effort to ease stress, save money, and maintain sanity. She serves the Southern California area and beyond with her wedding planner magic, and loves working one on one with treasured clients.
When she's not hollering wedding tips at a camera or hanging with her couples, she enjoys hanging with her three kids and husband, tending to her massive amount of houseplants, drinking her body weight in chai lattes, and vlogging all the chaos along the way.
Heather Loree Fier of The Wedding Hacker joins the mix as an author and budget wedding expert to share perspective on how vendors can better serve budget-minded couples and build stronger businesses along the way. After her event marketing company was acquired in 2018, Heather shifted her focus to the type of event she really loved - weddings! She had run a successful side-business as a wedding planner for seven years but is now ready to shake things up!
Wanting to service engaged couples on slim budgets who weren’t getting much love from the wedding industry. She started pouring her money-saving knowledge into her book and business, The Wedding Hacker.
Alongside her husband, Joe Fier, she’s living the entrepreneur life to the max. Her mama’s heart opened up the wild ride of hosting six foster children over two years. 2019 brings the long-awaited adventure of a biological child. Heather loves getting outside, so you might spot her hiking the trails of San Diego with the pups or playing some pickleball with the family.
Together with special guests, Jamie and Heather chat about important issues that matter to the wedding community while simultaneously pulling back the curtain for a behind the scenes view for engaged couples.
Join The Union Podcast for casual round-table conversations with Jamie, Heather, and special guests as they tackle key topics for each episode. We invite you to weigh in and join the discussion within the community. Enjoy each episode’s upbeat and inspirational tone intended to inspire both wedding industry entrepreneurs and newly engaged couples who enjoy a deeper (and often funnier) dive into the inner workings of the wedding industry.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
This is a YouTube video as well that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/ddrcNxwuLVY
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
This is a YouTube video as well that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/ddrcNxwuLVY
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
This is a YouTube video as well that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/cptmWCYlKe4
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
This is a YouTube video as well that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/lbRocG0D-DI
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
This is a YouTube video as well that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/7M2VGhZ0Pfc
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Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
This is a YouTube video as well that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/UPliBXI0YyM
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
This is a YouTube video as well that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/veecU_xgJnk
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
This is a YouTube video as well that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/X98tS55guf0
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Episode NotesTwo other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
- BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:* How to BECOME a Wedding Planner * BTS: Join Jamie on a Real Sales Call | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Mastering Wedding Planning: Vendor Etiquette, Logistics, Design Tips, and Stress Management
- How to Launch Your Wedding Planning Empire: From Digital Footprints to First Clients and Beyond
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Wedding Wits and Business Bits: Nailing Contracts and Client Charm
- From Vision to Reality: Navigating the Journey of Wedding Planning and Entrepreneurship
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Wedding Wits and Business Bits: Nailing Contracts and Client Charm
- From Vision to Reality: Navigating the Journey of Wedding Planning and Entrepreneurship
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to Build Your First DREAM Team as a Solo Entrepreneur with DJ Griff
- How to Ride the Changes Rollercoaster: Starting a business as a new Mom with Sara Margulis
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Check out Provenance here!
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- Wedding Wits and Business Bits: Nailing Contracts and Client Charm
- Building Your Community | Wedding Planning Business Q&A with Jamie
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Mastering Wedding Planning: Vendor Etiquette, Logistics, Design Tips, and Stress Management
- How to Launch Your Wedding Planning Empire: From Digital Footprints to First Clients and Beyond
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Check out Danielle Hayden:
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Business by the Books Podcast
Episode NotesTwo other episodes you might want to check out:
- Off-Season Hustle: Attracting Clients, Creating Styled Shoots, and Building Vendor Relationships
- Building Your Community | Wedding Planning Business Q&A with Jamie
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Community Over Competition - How To Get Started Planning Weddings
- Building Your Community | Wedding Planning Business Q&A with Jamie
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Jamila Musayeva is a certified etiquette expert and summa cum laude graduate in International Affairs from George Washington University. She is an 3x author, and YouTube creator with nearly 1 million subscribers, focusing on international etiquette. Jamila’s mission is to foster open-mindedness, cultural appreciation, and a balance between progressive living and preserving traditions, establishing her as a global ambassador for etiquette and cultural understanding.
Jamila has been featured in Fox News, Cosmopolitan, Mith Magazine, Caspian Post, and she has been interviewed on podcasts including Girl Talk Mondays and The YouTube Power Hour.
How to find Jamila:
- Website
- Youtube
- TikTok
Want to ask Jamie your wedding planning questions? Join her in The Master Plan!
What did you think about this episode? What were your takeaways? I want to hear your feedback! Screenshot the episode and post your thoughts on Instagram and tag us @wolferandco.
You can get your Perfect Wedding Timeline - HERE!
Be sure to grab your ultimate Wedding Day Checklist at weddingchecklist.co
You are also invited to join the Facebook Wedding Community she has created for y'all to support each other. ❤️
P.S. — These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Mastering Wedding Planning: Vendor Etiquette, Logistics, Design Tips, and Stress Management
- How to Launch Your Wedding Planning Empire: From Digital Footprints to First Clients and Beyond
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Find Sarah here:
- The Planning Co
- How to Run a Successful Wedding Planning Business
- A Mastermind Graduate's Wedding Planning Journey with Merissa Cole
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
- How to Run a Successful Wedding Planning Business
- A Mastermind Graduate's Wedding Planning Journey with Merissa Cole
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
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- Top 5 BIGGEST Wedding Day REGRETS
- Help Get Your Couples The Wedding Ceremony They Dreamed Of with Mark Allen Groleau
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Community Over Competition - How To Get Started Planning Weddings
- How to Launch Your Wedding Planning Empire: From Digital Footprints to First Clients and Beyond
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Community Over Competition - How To Get Started Planning Weddings
- Community Over Competition - How To Get Started Planning Weddings
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Community Over Competition - How To Get Started Planning Weddings
- How to Jumpstart Your Wedding Planning Career
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
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- Score More Ideal Clients at Bridal Shows and Expos
- How to handle BAD Vendors & Make Your Wedding Clients The HEROS of The Day with Vanessa Joy
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- From Vision to Reality: Navigating the Journey of Wedding Planning and Entrepreneurship
- How to Jumpstart Your Wedding Planning Career
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Kids & Clients: Growing your business while growing your family
- Balancing Acts: Collaborations, Commitments, and Client Tasks in Wedding Planning
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- What Type Of Wedding Planner Should You Be?
- The Real Reason You Aren’t A “Real” Wedding Planner
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Anc Coordination Instagram is HERE!
Check out Alex's website HERE!
Book a consultation with Alex HERE!
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Community Over Competition - How To Get Started Planning Weddings
- From Vision to Reality: Navigating the Journey of Wedding Planning and Entrepreneurship
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Episode NotesTwo other episodes you might want to check out:
- Community Over Competition - How To Get Started Planning Weddings
- How to Jumpstart Your Wedding Planning Career
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Community Over Competition - How To Get Started Planning Weddings
- How to Jumpstart Your Wedding Planning Career
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to Run a Successful Wedding Planning Business
- How to Jumpstart Your Wedding Planning Career
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Connect with Jessica:
Jessica Bishop
Budget Savvy Bride
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
How To Book Your First Clients + Follow Through | Wedding Planning Business Q&A with Jamie
What Type Of Wedding Planner Should You Be?
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to Run a Successful Wedding Planning Business
- Community Over Competition - How To Get Started Planning Weddings
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Community Over Competition - How To Get Started Planning Weddings
- Building Your Community | Wedding Planning Business Q&A with Jamie
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
- How to Run a Successful Wedding Planning Business
- A Mastermind Graduate's Wedding Planning Journey with Merissa Cole
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
- Wedding Woes and Wonders: Navigating Reddit's Trickiest Nuptial Conundrums
- Managing the Wedding Day Chaos | Wedding Planning Business Q&A with Jamie Wolfer
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- Community Over Competition - How To Get Started Planning Weddings
- Building Your Community | Wedding Planning Business Q&A with Jamie
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
- How to Run a Successful Wedding Planning Business
- A Mastermind Graduate's Wedding Planning Journey with Merissa Cole
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to BUILD Your Business Confidence | Wedding Planning Business Q&A with Jamie
- 6 Uncomfortable Truths About Starting Your Own Wedding Planning Business
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- PLEASE Don’t Hire Me: Avoiding Bad Clients with Kara Maureen
- The Dark Side of Wedding Planning
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
A Wedding Business We Never Knew Existed with Ash Moore
Don’t Get Screwed (or Sued) with Kunbi Odubogun
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- The Myth of Work-Life Balance with Kevin Ho
- This One is for the Mom-Prenuers | Wedding Planning Business Tips
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Get in touch with Merissa Cole:
Riss Creations Website
Alex Hormozi - The Game Podcast
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- 6 Uncomfortable Truths About Starting Your Own Wedding Planning Business
- How to BECOME a Wedding Planner
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Can Florals Actually Be Sustainable? | How to make your wedding florals sustainable with Jen DeMarti
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
- How to Build Your First DREAM Team as a Solo Entrepreneur with DJ Griff
- Recruiting An A-Team To Scale Your Wedding Business To The Next Level with Dave McQueen
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
Our Favorite Wedding Business Resources:
Generation Tux - join their Partner Program and start earning affiliate money recommending a reputable suit vendor to your clients!
Timeline Genius - create detailed timelines for your events (automated text messages, emails, and more!)
Legally Set - Get all your legal contract templates you need; use code “UNION” for 20% OFF
Honeybook - keep all your clients organized; use code “UNION” to get the current deal Jamie locked in for ya!
Photobooth Supply Co - Own your own photobooth and easily make a bit more money on the side
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think? Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Unboring Wedding Academy is HERE!
Mark Allen Groleau’s YouTube Channel
Two other episodes you might want to check out:
PLEASE Don’t Hire Me: Avoiding Bad Clients with Kara Maureen
What Officiants Wish Wedding Planners Knew with Jp & Clint from the Wedding Ceremony Podcast
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Wedding Pros Facebook Group. This is a group for aspiring, new, and experienced wedding planners and wedding vendor professionals!
Jamie would love to help you get started with your wedding planning business or optimize the one you have already started. If you’d like personal guidance from Jamie, access to her community of VIP wedding professionals, and the opportunity to be listed on her preferred wedding planner listing that is shared with thousands of engaged couples every month, consider joining The Union Mastermind. You can find out more about that program HERE.
P.S. - The links above may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Timeline Genius - setup amazing timelines for your clients!
- Unsplash, Pexels, & Canva - great stock photos resources
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Facebook Group!
Jamie may have referenced her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this episode.
The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 45,000+ couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
P.S. - These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources from the episode:
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie may have referenced her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this episode.
The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 45,000+ couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
P.S. - These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Honeybook
- Use the link above and code “UNION” to get your first 8 months for only $1/month!
- Aisle Planner
- Wedding Expos - Union Podcast Episode
- Taxes - Union Podcast Episode
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie answered questions from members of the Union Mastermind program.
The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 45,000+ couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
P.S. - These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources from the episode:
Find Alexis Lauren of Red Rose Events (@red_roseevents) HERE
The Game with Alex Hormozi’s Podcast
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie may have referenced her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this episode.
The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning business. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 45,000+ couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
P.S. - These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Taxes & Bookkeeping Podcast Episode
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie may have referenced her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this episode.
The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 45,000+ couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
P.S. - These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources from the episode:
Find Liz Ernshaw in a few places:
- https://elizabethearnshaw.com/
- https://www.withours.com/
- @lizlistens
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie may have referenced her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this episode.
The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 45,000+ couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
P.S. - These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources from the episode:
Share your thoughts on this episode over on Instagram! What do you think?! Take a screenshot and tag @wolferandco so we can hear from you!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie may have referenced her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this episode.
The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 45,000+ couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
P.S. - These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Honeybook - keep all your clients' details organized! Use THIS LINK to get Jamie’s 50% OFF for a year discount.
- Timeline Genius - The most organized way to create your client’s day-of timelines.
- BEHIND THE SCENES: Bridal Expo (and Do's and Don'ts!) YouTube Video
- Wedding Expo Tips - Union Podcast Episode
- Styled-Shoot Tips - Union Podcast Episode
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie may have referenced her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this episode. (The Social Media guide, Final Details Document, Styled Shoot Features are part of the materials and perks of the program.)
The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 45,000+ couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
P.S. - These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources from the episode:
- DJ Griff @djgriff out of Southern California
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie may have referenced her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this episode.
The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 45,000+ couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
P.S. - These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources from the episode:
- Urban Marigold website
- Flowering Minds Education - foundation of sustainable design
- New Age Floral (Sustainable floral design products)
- Eagle Song Alaska (Alaskan Peony Farm)
- The Ecology Center (local farm in Orange County that grows beautiful flowers and produce)
Jamie may have referenced her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this episode.
The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 45,000+ couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here:
https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
Resources from the episode:
- Honeyfund is an amazing tool to recommend to your clients to help get their honeymoon fully paid for
- Honeyfund Vendor Directory - FREE to be listed, reach out to their team if you are interested in applying to be added to their vendor directory
- Honeyfund Affiliate Program - get paid to HELP your clients
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie may have referenced her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this episode.
The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 45,000+ couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
P.S. - These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Honeybook - Jamie’s community gets 50% OFF for the first year! Use Honeybook for organizing all your client details.
- What type of wedding planner should you be? - Here’s a quiz to help you think about some options!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie may have referenced her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this podcast.
The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 45,000+ couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
P.S. - These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources from the episode:
Find Kara's podcast here: Whispers to a Bride
Find Kara on Instagram here: @karaghassabeh and her website here at www.karamaureen.com
You can get your Perfect Wedding Timeline at wolferandco.com/perfect
Be sure to grab your perfect Wedding Day Checklist at weddingchecklist.co
Want to ask Jamie your wedding planning questions? Join her in The Master Plan!
You are also invited to join the Facebook Wedding Community she has created for y'all to support each other. ❤️
P.S. — These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources from the episode:
Download the 25 Most Commonly Forgotten Items Checklist HERE: https://wolferandco.com/forgot
Find Kara's podcast here: Whispers to a Bride
Find Kara on Instagram here: @karaghassabeh and her website here at www.karamaureen.com
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Considering joining Jamie's Union Mastermind program? The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 42,000 couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Wedding Expo Role Play with Jamie - Podcast
Legally Set - use code "UNION" for 20% OFF!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie references her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this podcast. The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 42,000 couples strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Vanessa Joy's Instagram
Vanessa Joy's FREE Posing Guide
Wedding Horror Stories by Vanessa Joy
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie's Union Mastermind program is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 40,000+ strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity click here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Honeybook - 50% OFF for your first year! (client management software)
Legally Set - Use code "UNION" for 20% OFF (legal contract assistance)
Join our Facebook Community of engaged couples to see what challenges they face.
Take THIS SHORT QUIZ to see what wedding planner type I'd recommend for you!
Here is a detailed blog about the types of wedding planners I see out there!
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie references her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this podcast. The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 37,000 strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Score More Ideal Clients at Bridal Shows and Expos - podcast episode
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie references her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this podcast. The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 37,000 strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Boomerang - chrome extension that helps automate emails
Honeybook - Use THIS LINK for 50% OFF your first year
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie references her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this podcast. The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 30,000 strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Sales Call with Jamie Podcast Episode
Recruiting An A-Team To Scale Your Wedding Business To The Next Level With Dave McQueen Podcast Episode
WedSafe - wedding day insurance
The Event Helper - event insurance
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie references her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this podcast. The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning businesses. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list that is 30,000 strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
"Join Jamie on a Sales Call" podcast episode
Honeybook - Use THIS LINK for 50% OFF your first year
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie references her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this podcast. The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning business. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie, and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list which is 30,000 strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
In this episode, Jamie answers questions submitted by our Union Mastermind members. Some of the questions she answers are...
How do you determine what to pay for when setting up your business?
How do you set boundaries with your clients?
How do you persevere when you are having trouble booking clients?
Which social media platforms should I be active on for my wedding business?
What is the difference between full planning and partial planning wedding packages?
And several more...!
Resources referenced in this episode:
Honeybook - Use THIS LINK for 50% OFF your first year
Legally Set - Promo Code "UNION" for 20% OFF
Timeline Genius
Join the amazing discussions over in the Union Podcast FB Group!
Jamie references her Union Mastermind program and perks for members during this podcast. The Union Mastermind is a monthly membership program that walks you through starting your own wedding planning business. It includes a very detailed course, monthly live calls with Jamie, and the ability to be listed on Jamie's list of wedding planners shared with her email list which is 30,000 strong and growing! If you would like more details about this mentorship opportunity check our website here: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
These links may use affiliate platforms where commission may be earned based on clicks and/or purchases, and I would love it if you used them! It won't cost you anything extra, but affiliate links are RAD because they help creators like me to fund the free content we provide.
RECAP: Jamie & Heather talk about the MOST UNIQUE wedding Heather has ever coordinated and planned. Hear about some of the interesting hurdles and amazing moments this couple challenged Heather with! This episode is uplifting and a great idea generator to talk to your couples about as they plan their big day.
The bride, Scarlett Bailey, was on the podcast previously and you can listen to her episode about "Art, Weddings & Business Growth" HERE.
In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Letting your guests enjoy as freely as they could
- Putting your own spin on traditional things
- Going all out in creativity and personality
- Choosing what’s meaningful for you
Key Takeaways:
- Make sure to create some sort of system where people in your wedding will be able to enjoy as much as they can without worrying about the pandemic.
- Weddings can sometimes blend together and feel too similar to each other. Practice the traditional or “essential” things, but don’t forget to put your own spin on it.
- Paint your whole wedding with the fullness of both your personalities. Make your special day all the more special by going all out with creativity and unique ideas.
- Choose a theme or color scheme intentionally. Choose something that’s meaningful for you rather than something that’s just popular or trendy.
"I’ve always been one to encourage my couples to shake tradition if they feel like they want to… letting them have a ton of flexibility as we’re going with the planning but I feel like maybe even leaning into their priorities, vision, and interest and all that a little more. " — Heather Fier / Jamie Wolfer
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
In this episode we are going to do things a little differently. We are going to share with you a Q&A Session that Jamie did with the Union Mastermind members. She is going to answer questions about design, decor, and rentals.
If you would like to have your questions answered by Jamie, you should look into joining the mastermind. Details can be found at: https://wolferandco.com/mentorship
In this episode, Jamie discussed:
- How pricing is a value game
- Coordinating with the florist and other design tips
- Breaking down the decor
- What to do about wrinkles
Key Takeaways:
- Pricing is a value game. If it takes you four hours to complete a task and you get a hundred bucks for it , start playing with those numbers mentally. Do you feel like what you get describes your value or the value of your time spent doing it?
- It’s up to you on how involved you want to be with the florist, but generally, the best thing to do is to include them in the design meetings and check in on them after.
- When people start dancing, slowly pull out items into one central location where they can be easily put in the bin. Once that’s done, tear down the decor sneakily. For example, if you’re taking table numbers, take from the tables with no people around them.
- Wrinkles are a problem. It would be a good idea to always bring a portable steamer and some distilled water in order to do damage control. After the event though, you have to talk to the supplier and if they’re giving wrinkled linens consistently, it’s time to find someone else.
"We specifically like to design pockets. Don’t overdesign everything, just design a few key moments instead and the cost on decor can be a very slippery slope so be very strategic about it. " — Jamie Wolfer
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Focusing on your interests and strengths
- The difference between planning and coordinating
- Partnering with other planners
- Going full virtual
Key Takeaways:
- You’re allowed to change your mind. It is very much okay to cut out what is not working for you and lean into what is. It’s just a matter of focusing on where your strengths are.
- There’s a difference between a wedding planner and a wedding coordinator. A wedding coordinator does not plan the wedding, they coordinate the details that the client has already planned, executing it as close to what the client wants as possible.
- When you partner with other planners, you’ll be able to provide a service that they may not be able or equipped to provide in their package. An example of this is providing emotional support for the clients, not every wedding planner is qualified to do that.
- There is an option to go entirely virtual where the service you’ll provide is pure consultations. You’ll tell people how to plan the details, you help out alongside them. This would mean that you’ll also do advertising digitally.
"You don’t have to do the whole J Lo version of a wedding planner. You can pick and choose what you like, what’s really easy for you, what your network opens up for you. It’s totally okay to pivot, adjust, and lean into what’s working and leave behind what’s not. " — Heather FIer
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wolferandco/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wolferandcompany/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
In this episode Jamie and Heather interview each other! They wanted you all to have an episode to listen to that helps you get to know them. Find out the best places they've ever traveled to, Heather's fun NYE traditions and what makes Jamie's skin crawl. This one is just for fun, friends, so we hope you have a good laugh while listening!
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerclub/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
Jamie & Heather talk about all the improvements and new strategies they have implemented over the past year and how that has completely changed the trajectory of Wolfer & Co...to six-figures. They share actionable advice on tools you can try now and would love your feedback on this episode! Email them at "info@theunionpodcast.com" with your thoughts or what has been working for you to build your business.
In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- The best way to make sales
- Nobody likes spam
- A lead magnet that’s worth it
- Working hard and efficiently
Key Takeaways:
- Email marketing is the best way to make sales as long as it comes from a place of a legitimate desire to give value to the people that trusted you with their email.
- Nobody likes spam. Commit to providing insightful, meaningful, and overall useful content to your email list. Treat them like they’re a paid client.
- Make sure that your lead generation/magnet content is a good representative of how useful your email list content would be.
- Work hard but work efficiently too. The best way to grow is to put systems in place and find a way where you’re not doing everything in your business, but instead focusing on your certain expertise.
"We've been very intentional on not being spammy and not being overly salesy… it was ‘how do we make ourselves a resource…’ so even if no one bought from us… they’re being supported throughout their engagement." — Jamie Wolfer
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerclub/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Enjoying and growing from big events
- Talking to the speakers
- The intertwinement of your business and your life
- Getting literal facetime in networking events
Key Takeaways:
- Enjoy big group events while at the same time thinking about how you can also scale your business or social media presence and content.
- Don’t be afraid to talk to the speakers in an event after their talk if they’re easily accessible. Attend events in groups and discuss the topics in your group.
- You are your business. You can’t separate your life, emotions, and your business. Everything you experience affects your business, it is intertwined with the other aspects of your life.
- It’s important to get literal facetime. Events allow you to be in contact with high level groups, develop partnerships and network with people on an international level.
"What you are gonna get is a solid network of people who are also eager to grow their business, make changes, and go to the next level. It’s just surrounding yourself with people who have that desire to keep growing and building. " — Jamie Wolfer
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerclub/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
Jamie and Heather talk about the good, bad, and ugly of making money in the wedding industry outside of wedding coordination - think side hustle. Hear about one floral side gig that went horribly wrong and several ideas you can run with.
In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- What not to do when trying to earn more cash
- Starting a consistent networking event
- Bringing in experts and speakers
- Selling useful digital products
Key Takeaways:
- The common approach early on is to have rentals, do florals and add on a few extra dollars for an event - but this will not work. You’ll be spreading yourself too thin.
- Networking is very handy for the community, it adds a lot of value to the business. Host a networking event and charge for it to earn money while building connections, you can do this multiple times each month.
- You don’t have to be an expert in weddings or management to be able to hold a networking event for wedding planners. You only need to put the effort into getting invites, inviting speakers, and making the event a good experience.
- Sell some useful digital products. Time blocking formats, scheduling spreadsheets, wedding planning courses, or other little neat materials that could make a wedding planner’s life easier. If you have a system that works for you, sell it online!
"There’s so many opportunities to continue to grow this business and to make sure you’re being fulfilled… give it a try" — Jamie Wolfer
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Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerclub/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Preventing problems
- Bringing people in to help
- Communicating as a leader
- Learning from disaster
Key Takeaways:
- One good thing you can do is to check in on your vendors about 15 to 20 minutes before something becomes problematic. Be mindful of the vibe and energy of the event, you don’t have approach a vendor strongly if their screw up doesn’t affect anyone but when it does, then approach them with a gentle but firm rebuke.
- Do your best to mitigate disasters or do damage control, but understand that you can’t prepare for every situation. There will be a point where you won’t be able to handle a situation on your own, and you don’t have to - bring someone in to help.
- Talk to your vendors in a way that shows that you’re there to help, support, and serve. This will make it feel like they’re in a team and they won’t see you as a boss, but as a leader who’s there to support their team in succeeding.
- Not every battle can be won. Some vendors won’t budge even if you try your best. Remind yourself that serving and protecting the client and saving the event is your primary objective. Sometimes, all you could do is to learn from the situation and make sure it doesn’t happen again in the future.
"That is important to realize that that is your job. You are in charge of making sure that everyone else is doing their job, it can be very difficult to maintain it as diplomatic and kind... to give them that guidance or feedback " — Heather Fier
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerclub/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- The best gift you can give yourself
- Celebrating progress
- Giving yourself space
- Finding the balance
Key Takeaways:
- Accept that whatever you decide to do, you’re probably going to feel guilty about the way you raise your child. You’re always going to be worried. Grace is the best thing you can give yourself in this season.
- Celebrate any kind of forward traction. Think about how you can push the boulder one inch further today and celebrate that progress.
- Give yourself some space. You’re not gonna be able to either work effectively, nor take care of your children in the best possible way, if you don’t take time to take care of yourself.
- Learn to find the balance. Know when to go full throttle and when to pump the breaks. Choose how much you’re willing to sacrifice. Always communicate with your spouse.
"You can’t spend all the time with your kid, and make all the money, and have an easy business. Check yourself and see what’s gonna be the right fit for you in this season. " — Jamie Wolfer
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerclub/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
About Aleya Harris: Aleya Harris, CPCE is a powerhouse Storybrand Certified Guide, empire-building owner of Flourish Marketing, award-winning marketer, sought-after speaker, mic-drop copywriter, and woo enthusiast. She’s committed to helping entrepreneurs get out of the never-ending grind so they can tap into their heart’s purpose and live a life that uplifts their soul.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Aleya discuss:
- The Hero’s Journey marketing model
- Clarifying your message
- Getting an outsider’s perspective
- Making the focal point of your story
Key Takeaways:
- You are not the hero in the story, it’s your client. Position yourself as the guide that holds the solution to the hero’s problems.
- Clarify your message so that anyone can understand what you’re talking about. Don’t talk in archaic, abstract language. Tell your clients what problems you solve, how you solve it, and how they can contact you.
- If you believe you aren’t talking about yourself or your business in the best way possible, then you have to know that it’s okay to let go and let someone help. Someone with an outside perspective might be better able to see it than you.
- One of the most important parts of your brand’s story is your “why”. Your why is what makes your brand story connect to your client on an emotional level.
"When you’re the hero, you’re actually the weakest character in the story - the hero is the one that needs all of the help. When you’re a business owner you’re trying to position yourself as the guide." — Aleya Harris
Connect with Aleya Harris:
Website: http://www.flourishmarketing.co/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleyaharris/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ALEYAHARRISGROWTH
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aleyaharris
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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Suki talks about how she reinvented herself and joined the wedding industry as someone who wants to shake things up and think more outside the box. She talks about how she is making changes in the industry and how others working with weddings can to do the same. They talk about how wedding industry leaders need to start acknowledging beautiful weddings on a budget and show how that is the norm.
About Suki: Suki is a 1st gen Thai/Cambodian American comedy screenwriter and assistant editor of Offbeat Bride. She loves exploring the intersections of diversity, culture, and money in the wedding industry on her account @2buckchuckbride.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Suki discuss:
- The stigma of “low-budget”
- Talking about the real stuff
- Creating epic weddings despite the budget
- Trying out something different
Key Takeaways:
- Want to have a beautiful wedding and still have enough resources to get you started in your new life? You can have it both ways by planning a low-budget wedding.
- We need to talk about the real stuff in wedding planning like pricing and budget - not just about what to buy, but what to do and how to make the most out of your resources.
- With a little creativity, you can pull off a wedding successfully without having to overspend. You might even find it very empowering and more satisfying than if you were to do otherwise.
- There’s nothing wrong with mixing things up in your wedding and surprising your guests and yourselves with new and exciting ways to celebrate your big day. Almost all weddings are similar, and that’s an advantage - you don’t have to be too crazy to stand out.
"You don’t have to go broke to have a beautiful wedding" — Suki
Check this out! Here’s a link to The Wedding Hacker’s feature of Suki’s wedding: https://theweddinghacker.com/rw-suki-anthony/
Connect with Suki:
Website: https://offbeatbride.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/2buckchuckbride/
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/2buckchuckbride
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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In this episode Jamie and Heather talk to Margaux Fraise about how the transition from being an event planner to a small business coach. She talks about strategies for creating and maintaining boundaries with your clients and how to setup clear expectations from the start. Margaux also talks about how a life-changing event caused her to re-evaluate her life and business goals to support the life she wanted to live.
About Margaux Fraise: She is the owner + creative director of Harmony Creative Studio, an award-winning boutique wedding firm in Los Angeles, CA. A Stage IV breast cancer survivor, she has a unique perspective on what is truly valuable in love, life and weddings – and brings that viewpoint to help her clients hone in on what matters to them. As a result, her work has been featured in numerous publications, including Style Me Pretty, Brides, and Green Wedding Shoes, among others. Margaux serves as a wedding business educator, frequent podcast guest and motivational speaker. Her meticulous onboarding, planning, design and execution procedures have also caught the attention of her peers, and she shares insight regularly on efficient systems for creatives.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Margaux discuss:
- Covering your bases in regards to harassment
- Diving into your community
- Keep repeating yourself
Key Takeaways:
- Don’t endure harassment from clients. Include abuse and safe environment clauses in your contract where you’re able to leave if you feel uncomfortable or are unsafe since a lot of people get drunk on wedding events and that often brings out bad behavior in people.
- Open yourself up to connecting with people that are in the same industry as you because doing otherwise wouldn’t be sustainable. Find a community, meet people, and start relationships.
- Don’t get tired of repeating yourself. You’ve got a message to put out there and it won’t reach the right people in just one or two tries. Somebody new will always see your message as something new.
"I was one of those people that was like, 'I can't be friends with other wedding planners, I don't want them to know what I'm doing - what I'm charging', it was that kind of mentality which sounds okay until you realize that the wedding industry is small and life is long and that's not sustainable." — Margaux Fraise
Connect with Margaux Fraise:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HarmonyCreativeStudio
Website: https://harmonycreativestudio.com/
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/hrmnycreative
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/harmonycreative
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
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About Zabrina Zablan: Zabrina has always enjoyed planning events and is obsessed with pretty much anything love related. After getting engaged, she found that there weren't a lot of spaces that fit her very beautiful and unique relationship. Certain "traditions" did not work with her love story and she wasn't about to settle for anything less than what her partner and she deserved. The wedding industry has still not created the space that her community needs to showcase their love stories. In the midst of planning her own wedding, she still faced vendors calling her partner and her “the groom”, over explaining to people that this was a “same sex relationship”, and even worse — vendors saying they couldn’t work with her. She figured that enough was enough and that no other couple should go through what she went through. Thus, The Gay Agenda was formed!
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Zabrina Zablan discuss:
- The reward of going through hardships
- Being intentional and mindful
- Creating a long lasting impact
- The key to consistent creativity
Key Takeaways:
- Hardships and uncertainty will force you and your team to grow and learn new things that you may not have considered before.
- Be intentional, be mindful and take notes of important things, trust your people and invest effort and time in improving communication with your team and clients.
- Infuse your career with meaning and purpose. More than just making money, make good for your community.
- Balance creativity with rest - your brain will be able to create better quality and even better quantity of ideas if you give yourself time to rest.
"Overcommunicating is so much better than undercommunicating." — Zabrina Zablan
Connect with Zabrina Zablan:
Website: https://www.thegayagenda.co/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegayagenda.co/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Authentic affiliate promotions
- Tying in your affiliate piece with value
- When getting affiliated goes wrong
- Promoting your affiliates properly
Key Takeaways:
- There’s nothing wrong with getting others to talk about your business as long as it’s a genuine endorsement. In the same way, recommend only the stuff that you actually recommend even if they don't pay you - but if they pay you, that would just be a bonus.
- Think about content that’s useful with the affiliate tied up into it - with a reasonable amount of advertising only. Don’t go too hard on your advertising and don’t make it uninteresting.
- Make sure that there’s some sort of way to keeping track of and informing the partner about how many you’re sending their way
- Share your testimonies about the affiliate, yours and others. Don’t just give out a discount code, give the people the reasons why you love that particular business or product.
" It should be a ‘heck yes I’m so excited to work with them’ or ‘no, not for me’. You can’t lean into something like this and it’s not 100% authentic." — Heather Fier
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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In this episode we talk with Lynne Reznick about how to bring calm and confidence to your couples on their wedding day. She outlines how you can get organized beforehand to create a seamless timeline that helps put your clients at ease. The best part of implementing these tactics is that you are almost guaranteed to get amazing reviews and referrals from your very happy clients!
Check out the Styled Shoot Planning + Timeline Spreadsheet HERE: https://lynne-reznick-photography.ck.page/07707523ea
About Lynne Reznick: Behind the lens of Lynne Reznick Photography, Lynne Reznick is an educator-turned-photographer on a mission to share her knowledge and lessons learned from nearly a decade of industry experience. A lifelong learner at heart, Lynne combines her passion for training and mentoring with a unique teaching approach grounded in proven educational practices.
As the founder of The Wedding Client Experience Academy, Lynne offers an easy-to-digest online curriculum based on four fundamental pillars. The result establishes deeply rooted trust with clients, streamlined systems for the busiest workflows, and empowers pros to create bespoke moments for their couples.
In addition to providing ongoing mentoring and coaching intensives, Lynne shares several complimentary resources on her site’s educational hub- including the Styled Shoot Planning + Timeline Spreadsheet and The Manual Mode Pocket Guide.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Lynne Reznick discuss:
- Seeking mentorship and providing it
- The Four Pillars of Client Experience
- Styled shoot design tips
- Integrating your life’s “why” in your career
Key Takeaways:
- Mentorship works best when the apprentice is able to learn and experience freely without too much pressure.
- Communication, appreciation, education, and being a resource. Be clear about expectations upfront and overdeliver, anticipate the couples’ needs.
- Create a mood board, suggest unique idea, trust your team and your vendors - bring them in on the conversation, let them flex their creative muscles.
- Wedding planning is not for everyone, it takes some calling - it’s more than just organizing and designing, it takes genuine compassion for the client and giving them the best memories possible for their best day.
"Being proactive serves to show your expertise and help them to feel like they can trust you because you’re already anticipating their needs and communicating with them." — Lynne Reznick
Connect with Lynne Reznick:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lynnereznickphotography
Website: https://lynnereznickphotography.com/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/lynnereznickphoto
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/lynnereznickphotography
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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About Christie Osborne:
She helps event and wedding pros develop sane and scalable marketing strategies to grow their businesses. Her deepest wish is to help people stop wasting a bunch of time and money on marketing and advertising that just doesn't work using by asking the right questions and getting meaningful answer through metrics and analytics.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Christie Osborne discuss:
- Staying relevant on trending platforms
- Engaging with your numbers
- Key data points and making creative people excited about data
- Asking your data the right questions
Key Takeaways:
- Each platform is unique, what works for one wouldn’t work for the other. Staying relevant means researching trending platforms and being able to know how you can present yourself in a way that’s appropriate to the platform
- Data is more important than drama and marketing is not magic, it’s all about math.
- Looking at your data is like visiting a doctor. You’ll be able to see which part of your marketing or platforms aren’t healthy.
- You don’t have to love data analysis, you can think about it like hiring an accountant - you don’t have to know how everything works, you just have to ask your data the right questions so that you’ll be aware what’s working and what’s not.
"Data might not be sexy, but it can be insightful and exciting to get some clarity." — Christie Osborne
Connect with Christie Osborne:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MtnsideMedia
Website: https://mountainsidemedia.com/ | www.mountainsidebride.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christieosborne/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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In this episode we discuss how to attract ideal clients at a wedding show. We talk about how you can improve your first impressions with potential clients and the best ways to follow-up with people you meet to increase your ROI (book those contracts!).
In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Preparing for an onslaught of different personalities
- Collecting and organizing data after the expo
- Speaking with people who visit your boot
- Letting people choose and making them comfortable
Key Takeaways:
- Prepare yourself for an onslaught of different personalities and it would be very beneficial for you to be able to gauge a person’s personality quickly.
- Gather email addresses yourself - don’t rely on the expo to give you the email. Store data that you personally collected, pick and choose ideal clients
- Prepare pain points to discuss, and a short summary of what a coordinator does and how you can help them in those points.
- Give people the freedom to choose - it will work on your advantage. Don’t stress people out and rush them into making a decision that they might not be comfortable with.
"We’re really assessing personality and where the person is at in the process and what they want - like what are they looking at, what do they need " — Heather Fier
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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About Krista Stephenson: Krista Stephenson (she/her) has been a hairstylist for over 10 years. She specializes in hair for the queer community and allies. She is also a Difference Maker with an organization called The Dress Code Project. She helps educate and advocate for safer more inclusive salon spaces by teaching and sharing information about the LGBTQ2S+ community. Krista believes that hair has no gender and that everyone deserves to feel safer and comfortable within salon spaces.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Krista discuss:
- How can wedding planners/vendors be more inclusive
- What to do when you mess up or offend someone
- Advice for vendors who are uncomfortable working with queer people
- Turning creativity into a business model
Key Takeaways:
- Ask pronouns, don’t make assumptions, refrain from using gendered statements and do your own research
- When you mess up, apologize, correct yourself, and move on. Dedicate yourself to always be updated so that you won’t make the same mistake in the future.
- There’s no polite way to be hateful. Religion and accepting other human beings for who they are is compatible, dedicate yourself to a lifestyle of continuous learning.
- Build your business around being authentically yourself, allowing others to be the same, and radiating that energy of authenticity and genuineness in everything you do.
"When in doubt, ask. There’s never any shame in that, even if it’s multiple times that you forgot. Rather than misgender someone and make someone uncomfortable." — Krista Stephenson
Connect with Krista Stephenson:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Heyday-Salon-2451357998421486/
Website: https://www.heydaysalon.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sweethairbykrista/ | https://www.instagram.com/heydaysalon/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Taking a break and being more forgiving of your downtime
- Getting your business ready for a break.
- Talking to people and social media
- Recognizing your triggers
Key Takeaways:
- It's okay to give yourself space. You have to take care of yourself.
- Automations and anything that makes the day to day of the business easier is helpful for keeping things somewhat going while you rest up and rejuvenate
- Pick people whom you can talk to that won't add up to your anxiety or anything negative you're feeling.
- Take note of the things that trigger you and try to avoid them. Give yourself the permission to rest when your emotions get triggered.
"Any sort of terrible situation can be so isolating. Having people around who allow you to remember that you're important, you're valued, people care about you and that there's more to life than this phase..." — Heather Fier
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- How to make content for TikTok that can grow your business
- Making simple calls to action in TikTok
- Engaging with your audience
- Getting over content-block
Key Takeaways:
- It takes some effort to make TikTok content if you’re more used to making long-form content for platforms like YouTube. Make it short and sweet, and put a quick call to action in the end.
- A good and simple call to action can be to tell them to like, share, and more importantly, comment and answer to a question related to your content as a way of simple engagement.
- Your advantage if you’re a small business is that, unlike big businesses, you can engage directly with the people that comment on your content.
- If you want to get fresh ideas for content, you can read some good content from the internet and be inspired. There are no original ideas anyway - but remember to never ever copy-paste content from others.
"It is absolutely foolish marketing to not have some sort of call to action. Even if you don’t say it out loud, have it typed up on the screen." — Jamie Wolfer
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Us:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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About Meghan Ely: OFD Consulting owner, Meghan Ely, combines in-the-trenches event experience with a love of wedding PR to empower her clients to take their businesses to new heights.
A long-time industry speaker and writer, she is a WeddingPro educator with The Knot + WeddingWire, as well as a regular contributor to Wedding Planner Magazine, Catersource and SpecialEvents.com.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Meghan discuss:
- What is it like to be a publicist?
- The difference between advertising and PR
- Should you get a publicist for your business?
- Staying relevant in the wedding industry
Key Takeaways:
- Be a part of the conversation, get your voice out there.
- Advertising is when you say you’re great, but it’s PR if someone else says you’re great
- A good publicist is going to be looking at the goals and will know what the client needs
- Staying relevant is a commitment and it takes effort. Often, it’s better done with a team to brainstorm trending ideas. It doesn’t come naturally, so research and work on it.
"Good PR is when you have a message… Good PR is when you find the right channels for that." — Meghan Ely
Connect with Meghan Ely:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OFDConsulting
Website: http://www.ofdconsulting.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofdconsulting
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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About Taylor De La Fuente: Taylor de la Fuente is an award-winning writer, inclusive language educator, and the owner of Lemon Tree Editorial. As a copywriter serving the wedding industry, Taylor crafts persuasive and personality-packed copy that woos couples. Before starting Lemon Tree Editorial, she worked in journalism, SEO and marketing. You can find Taylor online at www.lteditorial.com and @lteditorial.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Taylor De La Fuente discuss:
- What “copy” is and how it can help your business to get a copywriter
- Incorporating authenticity into your copy. Some tips for working on your business copy.
- Testimonial mining do’s and don’ts
- Search-Engine Optimization - how to make your page visible
Key Takeaways:
- Informative content is different from persuasive content and copywriters are the expert of persuasion. They sell your brand and your business with text.
- Reverse engineer your testimonials: Look for patterns in your past testimonials to see what stands out about you and your business. These are what your clients tell you are important and what they value in you.
- Find your “you-isms”, the unique things that you say and incorporate it into your copy to give it personality.
- Think about what people will have to type on the search bar on Google to find your business and incorporate that into your headlines and a paragraph below that. Pick out keywords that point into your business, and insert it into that.
"There’s a line between being confident and being cocky, we want to be on the confident side… copywriting is an exercise on self-confidence." — Taylor De La Fuente
Connect with Taylor De La Fuente:
Website: https://www.lteditorial.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lteditorial/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
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Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Can you be a wedding planner even if you’re not great at designing?
- Embracing your strengths as a wedding planner
- Collaboration with other wedding planners
- Communicating your services clearly
Key Takeaways:
- There are so many kinds of great wedding planners out there, with many different kinds of skills and strengths. You can still be an amazing wedding planner even if you lack in some areas.
- People are looking for different kinds of wedding planners and people all have different needs - market your strengths so that those looking for you can find you
- Strategically partner yourself with other wedding planners. You don’t have to serve all the roles if you have a team.
- Noone knows what any of us do. We make up the rules as we go along. There are no standards, there are no rules. It’s simply a matter of you delivering it successfully.
"People don’t know what you do until you tell them… You have to get very good at your sales pitch, you have to lean into your offerings and how you describe them - very clearly. That’s how you get clients and how you communicate who you are and what you do " — Jamie Wolfer
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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About Zabrina Zablan: Zabrina is the owner of "The Gay Agenda Collective." The collective specializes in planning weddings and events for the LGBTQ+ community and their allies. The business was started with the intent to create space for the queer community and change the way we approach weddings as a whole. Zabrina truly believes that every love story deserves a happy ending and intends on making couples' wildest dreams come true (without breaking the bank!).
In this episode, Heather and Zabrina Zablan discuss:
- Planning and going to destination weddings
- Challenges to overcome when planning for a destination weddings
- Reminders for doing destination weddings
- Micro destination weddings trends and benefits
Key Takeaways:
- When inviting people for a destination wedding, you have to invite them in a similar way to how you’d invite them if you’re all going on a vacation together. Give them time to save and plan.
- Have a realistic perspective when having a destination wedding is needed. Not everyone you invite will see it as a feasible thing to do, and it’s not because they don’t love you but it’s just that it doesn’t work for them.
- You don’t have to know the whole history and whole culture of the place you’re going to go to. If you’re coming from a place of wanting to respect, you shouldn’t have any problem.
- Microweddings are not just more financially viable and pandemic-proof, but there’s a lot of venues that wouldn’t have been feasible with a big wedding group. Intimate weddings allows for more possibilities.
"Research and respect… research like you’re planning a trip… and the intention of why. Would you be mindful of the space? Would you check in to see what they’re comfortable with? If you wanna come in, you’re gonna want to have the same respect that you would if you were walking into someone’s house" — Zabrina Zablan
Connect with Zabrina Zablan:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zaaawb_
Website: https://www.thegayagenda.co/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zabrina-zablan-960b70123/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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About Geovanna and Yvette: Geovanna is the owner of Mia Bella Houston, an events and wedding venue in Houston, Texas. She is also the co-owner of Just Engaged University. Yvette owns Pop-Up Wedding Houston, another events and wedding company and is also the co-owner of Just Engaged University.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, Geovanna and Yvette discuss:
- How wedding planners can cope with changes due to the Pandemic
- What pop-up weddings are all about
- Having great relationship and connection with your clients
- Advantage for wedding planners and couples to do a pop-up wedding
Key Takeaways:
- Weddings can still happen in the pandemic, it just needs a bit of innovation and adjustment.
- The pandemic actually gave a good excuse to hold a small wedding, thus saving a lot of money for couples everywhere to start their new life together.
- Be with your clients from the beginning and all the way. Think about what need and how you can serve them.
- It doesn’t make sense these days to spend an extravagant amount of money to hold your wedding and a lot of couples understand that. That’s why pop-up weddings are a great venture for wedding planners.
“Pop-up weddings, it’s going to be the home of safe and intimate weddings, it’s what we’re promoting and it’s what we’re going to be doing going forward and I think that that’s what couples want. They want to feel like ‘we can have our cake and eat it too, we can do all of the things and not be in debt and not have to wait 10 years to live the life we want to live’” - Geovanna Burgess White
Connect with Geovanna Burgess White:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/justengageduni
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/geovanna.burgess
Website: https://www.miabellahouston.com/ | https://www.gbwbrands.com/education
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miabellahouston/
Connect with Yvette Valdenegro:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PopUpWeddingHTX
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/popupweddinghouston/
Website: https://www.valdenegroventures.com/pop-up-wedding-houston
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ph/yvettetbw/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvette-valdenegro-24a37a22/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yvettevaldenegro/?hl=en
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Practical tips for building your business and website
- Dealing with difficult people and rejecting clients with personality conflicts
- The importance of having a network of wedding planners
- How to make valuable content market effectively
Key Takeaways:
- Make sure you have photos on your website. Get a styled shoot ready to go ASAP, or get photos from your own wedding if possible without showing any faces. If neither works for you, use stock photos without people.
- If you want to reject a client with a personality conflict, you can always blame it on your schedule that you won’t be able to work with them. Or say, “we’re unavailable for your event”. For the best way, put an “out” clause in your contract.
- If you’re writing an email to a difficult client, acknowledge your feelings. If you’re angry, take a step back and recalibrate your emotions, come back to it later and think about what is the best way to deal with the problem.
- For making marketing content, think about potential customer’s pain points and give a high-value answer.
"Stick to your instinct on it. If you’re getting a vibe that it’s not a good fit, it’s not going to go well." — Heather Fier
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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About Alli Williams: Alli Williams is the CEO of FinanciALLI Focused, where she helps people create a flexible financial plan they can actually stick to (no deprivation here!). She believes you can pay off debt, save, and spend all at the same time. She has her MBA in Finance and lives in South Carolina with her husband and son.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Alli discuss:
- What budgeting is all about and how amazing it can be
- Practical tips on budgeting for beginners and misconceptions about budgeting
- Why you don’t need a formal budget meeting in your relationship
- Balancing finances as a budding solo entrepreneur
Key Takeaways:
- Budgeting is essentially all about telling your money where to go
- Start tracking your expenses. Try it for a month. Think about if your money is actually going to the right places. Oftentimes it’s the untracked little expenses that sink the budget.
- Make the topic of finance more conversational and less formal. Normalize the topic, make it easier and more casual to talk about in your relationship.
- Start a sinking fund or separate budgets for each specific purpose or big projects.
"Cover things that are important… think of yourself as an individual and also as a couple." — Alli Williams
Connect with Alli Williams:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/financiallifocused
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/337571133354791/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ph/financiallifoc/
Website: https://www.financiallifocused.com/
Email: alli@financiallifocused.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/financiallifocused/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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About Kevin Ho: He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology in the University of California in 2007, now he is the co-founder and CEO of Miho Catering Co., a full service catering company with a new school approach and innovative style.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Kevin discuss:
- Growing a business from passion
- Transitioning from working on a food truck business to a catering service
- Persistence and resilience in growing a business through various struggles
- Advise that you need to hear if you’re a budding entrepreneur
Key Takeaways:
- Big things start unexpectedly, often they start from what you’re truly passionate about.
- Being an entrepreneur can be lonely sometimes. What’ll really help you grow your dream business is having someone who supports you and believes in your dream.
- Building your dream business can take a sickening amount of trial and error but as long as you’re always moving forward in an upward trajectory staying resilient through all the failures, you’ll be successful.
- Think about what you need to innovate, what you’ll have to try to reach the goal.
"Persistence over failures is really the only recipe. Failing often has been our path, that was a critical step. " — Kevin Ho
Connect with Kevin Ho:
Website: https://www.mihocateringco.com/
Email: contact@amihoexperience.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-ho-miho/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mihocateringco/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Reasons why one should own a venue
- The most important things to have in a venue
- First milestone for venue handling
- The challenges to starting a new venue
Key Takeaways:
- Always practice clarity of service with your clients by setting the proper boundaries and expectations.
- Keep in mind the value and strengths of your venue
- If you own a venue, the first thing that you can focus on would be to inform the world that it exists
- Good things take time to grow, be patient
"Humble works. Humble totally works." — Jamie Wolfer
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Growing your business through networking in a community of masterminds.
- What the benefits are of being part of a masterminds group.
- Learning what you need to know from people who’ve been there
- The early challenges with starting a business that you have to overcome
Key Takeaways:
- Join a group of like-minded people who you can learn from. You are who you spend time with.
- Connect with people. People do business with people.
- Growing a business is a long-term endeavor. You may or may not have any returns in the first five years, but don’t give up!
- Growing your own business is difficult - but it’s much more bearable when you’re with others, especially those who have reached farther than you have. Connection, support and community are all key elements to a successful venture.
“You need someone who’s kinda crazy enough to encourage you to keep going when… it doesn’t seem like you should… and for other entrepreneurs to tell you that ‘this is normal’." — Heather Fier
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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About Kara Ghassabeh: She helps brides gracefully navigate wedding drama so they can have stronger relationships with those who matter most. She can teach you how to transform your wedding drama into the best marriage prep around.
With a masters in Social Work and Life Coaching Certification from Martha Beck Inc. (Oprah's Life Coach), Kara combined her passion for helping smart, savvy women with her childhood love of weddings to carve out her own category in the industry. Based in Bethesda MD with her husband Reza and daughters Magnolia and Rose, Kara serves clients all over the country.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Kara discuss:
- What is a bridal coach and what does it take to become one?
- Dealing with unmet expectations in an emotionally-charged time.
- Broken engagements and broken marriages
- Dealing with post-wedding blues
Key Takeaways:
- Weddings can be too much and too often, the married couple don’t really get to be present and enjoy the most awaited moment of their life because of the stress.
- A couple of conversations with a bridal coach could be enough to save the day. People that you thought would be there for you might not be, and that can cause a lot of frustration.
- It’s better to have a broken engagement than a broken marriage
- Don’t suffer in silence, talk it out with someone so that you can enjoy your special day. It takes more energy to resist the drama than to just commit to addressing it.
"How are you gonna show up to the most expensive, beautiful and the day you’ve thought of the most of your life… and not really be there clear-hearted and clear-minded? Have your stuff together..." — Kara Ghassabeh
Connect with Kara Ghassabeh:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEzT3udi3zwGpWm8dpYLG2g
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karaobrien/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- What's it like to be a "student of design".
- Design trends today in the pandemic and what they might be in the future.
- Design tip 1: picking a venue.
- Design tip 2: doing DIY for everything in your wedding.
- Design tip 3: designing for clients with themes.
- Design tip 4: making the design more affordable.
Key Takeaways:
- Ask about your client's general vibe, theme or what they're interested in, then you can start looking for venues.
- Don't overdesign. Focus on key areas to save money and inform your photographer and client to focus on those areas.
- When doing DIY, think about these: do you have a place to store stuff? Do you have the time and energy? Are you actually saving money by doing DIY, or are you spending too much on materials?
- Incorporate logic and concern for safety when designing, for example, in case of fire.
- Think about how much input your client wants from you when designing and knowing your boundaries.
- Get inspired! There are a lot of ideas around you that are waiting to be applied in your client's dream wedding.
"You need to let spaces breathe. There needs to be relief for the eye. There needs to be sections that are well decorated, that draw your eye in. But your eyes need a moment of respite." — Jamie Wolfer
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- How Jamie was able to do an awesome budget wedding and what can be learned from her experience
- Regaining momentum after getting burnt out in wedding planning
- What you can do to stick to your budget without compromising the aesthetic of your design.
- What wedding guests really care about and what they don’t
Key Takeaways:
- Find something that’s owned by the local city or the state when looking for a venue, it’s bound to be astronomically cheaper than other locations.
- Know your priorities to know where you should spend your time (doing DIY) and where you should spend your money.
- Guests don’t really care much about the color of your designs, they won’t remember it or pay too much attention to it. Consider the guests’ basic needs. They care about stuff like food or alcohol and making sure the whole event is not being drawn out.
- Don’t spend all your money on your wedding. Your wedding is one of the most meaningful events of your life, but at the end of the day, you still have to go home and pay bills.
"You either spend the time or you spend the money - either way, it’s gonna take away a portion of your sanity if you spend too much of either one" — Jamie Wolfer
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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About Ash Moore: She is the owner, dog attendant and Director of Belly Rubs at Black Dog & Company. She is a Certified Wedding Planner through The Wedding Planners Institute of Canada (WPIC). You can expect to see her at your wedding accompanying your dog when you book with Black Dog & Company. Ash is CPR and Pet First Aid ready.
Ash started Black Dog & Company after handling the logistics of trying to incorporate her ailing dog into her wedding day six years ago. Her wedding went off without a hitch but after she reflected on the experience and realized she didn't want to see a dog-loving couple ever struggle to include their dog in the biggest day of their lives. Since then Black Dog & Company has cared for a variety of dogs in all life stages, worked with amazing couples and extremely talented wedding professionals to make wedding dreams come to life!
In her downtime, Ash enjoys a variety of activities including; hanging out with her dog Morgan, experimenting with craft beverages, cooking new recipes, and listening to podcasts.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Ash discuss:
- Bringing your furry best friend in one of the most important days of your life - your wedding day
- Logistical challenges when bringing in a pup for a wedding day
- Some challenges with people as a wedding planner and dog attendant
- The downsides to being a “Director of Belly Rubs” (if any!)
Key Takeaways:
- Our pets are part of our family and the meaningfulness of the wedding increases if our furry best friends are included and taken care of during the wedding day
- Being a dog attendant in weddings is mostly balancing energy levels. Wedding days are high energy, super fun and stressful. The dogs are often feeding off the energy that the humans are giving off.
- Make sure that somebody trustworthy and reliable is always attending your dog when at weddings.
- As a wedding planner, remember that if a couple includes a dog in their wedding, that’s probably because their dog is very special to them and thus they deserve a special kind of service.
"This isn’t like a ‘tuck and roll, fido gets out of the car, ‘bye, have a great wedding day’’ situation. I would never treat someone’s dog like that and if someone treated my dog like that, we’re gonna have some words." — Ash Moore
Connect with Ash Moore:
Website: https://www.blackdogandcompany.ca/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ash-moore-6a65371ab
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/blackdogandcompanyca/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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About Marnetia ReFour: She is the co-owner, lead planner and designer at ReFour & After, a husband and wife owned wedding planning and design company out of Atlanta. Marnetia is also the founder of Bridal Design Box, the only virtual wedding design company that professionally designs weddings for DIY Brides specific to their details then provides them with the tools to execute their designs. They guarantee that with the Bridal Design Box, you will get professionally designed, cover ready wedding without blowing your budget.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Marnetia ReFour discuss:
- The latest innovation in wedding planning: Bridal Design Box.
- Serving clients with a slimmer budget.
- What are commonly the biggest hurdles Marnetia faced from her DIY clients.
- The biggest mental hurdles that each have in their businesses.
Key Takeaways:
- There’s a growing trend of couples who opt for DIY weddings because prices are steadily increasing but incomes are not.
- Simplistic and elegant designs can be a lot more meaningful than over-the-top wedding plans.
- Help the couples trust themselves and trust the process to be able to execute the wedding plan.
- You have to truly know your vision and stick with it. You need to be able to take in suggestions or criticisms openly without being swayed from what you set out to do.
"You got this… don't let the external influences turn you around. Stay on the course that you're on, and trust that the pieces will fill in themselves." — Marnetia ReFour
Connect with Marnetia ReFour:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nesha.re
Website: https://www.refourandafter.com/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.at/ReFourandafter
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plannedbymarnetiarefour/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Meagan Williamson: Meagan Williamson, Pinterest Strategist, niche marketing expert and OG Pinner. Meagan helps overwhelmed and confused business owners learn how to grow their audience with Pinterest. Unlock the power of Pinterest so you can level up and create a constant funnel of leads, sales and website traffic.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Meagan discuss:
- How pinterest marketing can help bring back the wedding planning industry
- The difference of marketing in Pinterest compared to other social media
- Responding to user intent and how that’s one of the greatest aspect of pinterest marketing
- Pinterest marketing basics - creating high-quality content and repurposing your own videos and images from TikTok or Instagram
Key Takeaways:
- Know where your customers are and meet them where they’re at
- Don’t just make good content - make valuable content that offer a really amazing solution in your customer’s journey
- It’s important to position your authority, what makes you different, and what will make you useful to them
- Make clear, simple content that’s easy to understand at any level but also represents you well and the solution that you offer
"Think about how your content inserts your business into your customers' journey - what are you going to offer? What problems do you plan to solve?" — Meagan Williamson
Connect with Meagan Williamson:
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/rowhousenest/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pinterestconsultant/
Website: https://meaganwilliamson.com/about/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meagan-williamson-pinterest/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meaganawilliamson/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- How to get started on your own wedding planner business.
- Wedding Expos: creating connections and getting useful leads.
- What to talk about with your potential client and what the ideal client is.
- Marketing your own business vs. getting paid marketing on wedding planner sites.
Key Takeaways:
- Have a clear idea of what your offerings and packages are but more importantly, know why you’re doing what you’re doing and who you are - then communicate to your clients what you do and don’t do.
- The thing that will attract customers more is your personality and your connection with them, not how much you charge compared to everybody else. (Although that is somewhat a factor!)
- Transition from personal business to corporation should be done a little further in the future of your business’s timeline. Don’t rush into becoming an LLC, you’ll get there when you’re ready.
- The ideal client has something more to do with how compatible their personality is with you and what they expect of you.
- The best kind of marketing you can do is something you’re in control of.
"Let them see your heart and your personality because they will book you because of who you are more so than they will book you because of how much you charge. " — Jamie Wolfer
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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In this episode, Jamie, and Heather discuss:
- What led up to the issue of the angry client. Then, ten bullet points in an angry email.
- Client’s unrealistic expectations of what's in the responsibility list of the wedding planner and how the wedding is supposed to be.
- Communicating to your client what’s within your control and area of responsibility and how that might relieve them of any unrealistic expectations.
- DJ Issues and how clients may sometimes place the blame on the wrong people.
Key Takeaways:
- For some clients, you have to make it clear what’s within and beyond your area of responsibility.
- Some clients, even if they hire wedding planners, are not willing to let go of the organizing process - which is only going to stress the clients out and get in the way of the planner.
- You have to communicate perfectly, otherwise, people will just assume that it’s the wedding planner’s fault.
- The best take-away from this angry email experiencer is that, as wedding planners, we have to make a literal list of things to set our boundaries on - to make sure there won’t be any misunderstanding or unrealistic expectations.
"It may not be our job… but it’s our responsibility to do our best to make sure it goes successfully even if it falls under someone else’s purview" — Jamie Wolfer
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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About Eugenia Morgado: Blogger and Podcaster, creator of Fairly Bold. Once confused by the modern feminist and self-empowerment conversations, I now love exploring the intersection between femininity and power, helping women live a fulfilled and intentional life, where they can have a positive impact regardless of where they are in their journey.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Eugenia discuss:
- Eugenia’s experience as a bride - what people told her she should do and how the wedding should be and how she decided to do it
- Taking a risk and starting a business in the pandemic
- Empowerment, identity, and natural feminine power
- Assumptions and preconceived notions about the dynamics of feminine and masculine energy
Key Takeaways:
- Do what’s unique, do what’s “you” - don’t let yourself be pressured by what others want.
- With the world coming into a halt due to the pandemic, there is some value in taking a risk rather than being stagnant along with the rest of the world
- Pause and understand what the true meaning of feminine power is - it’s not as far away from your nature as you think
- Confidence can be a trap - you will not feel confident until you do something right, and you will not be able to move forward with something until you feel confident. It’s a cycle that could be broken by simply trusting yourself and your vision.
"Your value as a business owner is not attached to you as a person. You can fail in your business without being a failure." — Eugenia Morgado
Connect with Eugenia Morgado:
Website: https://fairlybold.com/
Show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fairly-bold-podcast-feminine-growth-entrepreneurship/id1531585331
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenia-morgado/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eugenia.woo/?hl=en
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist:Justine Talla
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About Clint Hufft: Rev. Clint is a well–known and respected personality in the Wedding Industry.
Reverend Clint Hufft began officiating wedding ceremonies in 1995. Each ceremony is unique because the couple is "hands on" during the entire ceremony creation process. Every detail connected to the ceremony is addressed. As a Non-Denominational Officiant, Rev. Clint has been blessed to marry hundreds of couples from all over the world. The variety of backgrounds, traditions, cultures and Spiritual beliefs is astounding. No matter what the ceremony contains, the true magic is in the eyes of each couple as they pledge their love and commitment to each other.
About JP Reynolds: JP is a non-denominational, cross-cultural, inter-faith officiant. He has officiated over 1,000 ceremonies during the past 20+ years. He's written three wedding books including the best-selling, "How To Officiate a Non-Denominational Wedding Ceremony." He is also a corporate communications coach and trainer.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, JP and Clint discuss:
- What wedding planners do that make officiatant’s jobs harder and what they can do to make it easier
- The more important things to consider when it comes to wedding planning
- How you should treat your team
- Some tips that veteran officiants could give to their younger selves
Key Takeaways:
- Acknowledge that you are a part of the team
- The bottom line is making the couple’s dream celebration come true
- Even the perfect picture or perfect set-up can bring back the worst memories - focus on making the couple and guest’s experience more
- Always consider the well-being of your team just as much as the event itself
"Your preconceived notions of what a wedding is supposed to be… isn’t going to be true 50% of the time. Every single ceremony is it’s own beast" — Clint Hufft
Connect with JP:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JPRWeddings
Website: https://jprweddings.com/
Connect with Clint:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReverendClintHufft/
Website: http://clinthufft.com/
Podcast: http://www.weddingceremonypodcast.com/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
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About Elana Walker: Certified wedding planner of Elana Walker Events, co-author of Planners Unplugged, wedding industry mentor, and founder of Elana Walker Events & Wedding industry expert speaker.
Named Top Wedding Planner by Brides, over the past 11 years, Elana has developed a business founded on her expertise, timeless style, attention to detail, and ability to build a trusting and lasting relationship with her clients. Elana's number one goal is to create a wedding experience that honors her clients vision while striving to make each of her clients weddings unique.
Elana's work has graced the pages of Brides Magazine, The Knot Magazine, Southern Bride & Groom Magazine, Weddings Magazine, B Collective & Munaluchi Bride Magazine. Such blogs as Style Me Pretty, Essence, Ebony, Aisle Perfect, Black Bride, Wedding Wire, and The New York Post have featured while ABC, CBS & NBC affiliate stations along with NPR & Radio One have all turned to her for her expertise on such topics as Covid-19 & The wedding industry, Diversity & Inclusion in the wedding industry, Wedding trends and so much more.
Winner of the highest honors from The Knot & Wedding Wire, Elana prides herself on her accomplishments. As a former member of the International Live Events Association (ILEA), she won Best Wedding in 2016 & 2017 and Event of the Year in 2016 which lead her to serve on the board as Vice President of Programs & Education. Currently sits as the Director of Communities for the National Society of Black Wedding & Event Professionals.
Community over competition is something that Elana lives and breathes. Dedicated to uplifting fellow wedding planners and professionals, she developed Elana Walker Education to help carry out her mission. While her continued focus is on being an active participant of the growth and progression of the wedding industry, she is also a huge animal lover and enjoys traveling with her 2 sons, Tré & Clark, and bingeing her favorite Netflix shows.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Elana discuss:
- When to reevaluate how much you charge.
- Getting past the imposter syndrome.
- Developing the client experience.
- How to handle reviews, good and bad.
Key Takeaways:
- Comparison shop to see what other planners are doing and charging.
- Know the value of your service in your market.
- Be specific about what services you are going to provide that others will not.
- Have an “out” in your contract and don’t be afraid to use it.
"Communication is key to working through problems with incompatible clients." — Elana Walker
Connect with Elana Walker:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElanaWEvents
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elanawalkerevents/
Website: http://elanawalker.com/
https://www.elanawalkereducation.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elanawalkerevents/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Catalina Viau: Catalina is one of the Photobooth profession’s top mentors. She is the founder of MDRN Photobooth Company. In just 3 years, she grew her company from a single booth in one city to 20+ booths in 3 cities (about to be 4). Cat shares her knowledge freely through her photo booth training website, educational videos like “Secrets To Running a 6 Figure Photobooth Business” and weekly with Photobooth Supply Co Social Media.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Catalina discuss:
- Why you should get into the photo booth business.
- The challenges of the photo booth business.
- Virtual photobooths, a photo booth on your phone for virtual events.
- The income opportunities that come with owning photo booths.
Key Takeaways:
- You can make the photo booth business as complicated or as simple as you want.
- Business won’t throw itself at you or come find you, marketing is still key.
- Go to any and every networking event you can to help build consumer awareness.
- Build a partnership with a wedding dress store.
"Somebody’s gonna do it, why not you?" — Catalina Viau
Connect with Catalina Viau:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mdrnphotobooth
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MDRNphotoboothcompany
Website: https://www.mdrnphotoboothcompany.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9MycbelnYKSsI64I7dpITw
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mdrn-photobooth-company/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mdrnphotoboothco/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Megan Garmers: Megan Garmers, Founder and Director of The Bridal Masterclass, is a business coach and sales and marketing strategist with experience spanning the last 2 decades in multiple industries. She has taught for The Knot since 2011, named as one of their Educators and one of the "Top 100 Most Influential Wedding Pros”. She speaks across the globe at the various schools, individual companies, and industry events such as Wedding MBA, The Knot Pro Experience, Aisle Planner’s Aisle Academy, and London Bridal Fashion Week.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Megan discuss:
- Engaging via Instagram for marketing and networking.
- Understanding proper engagement through the comments.
- Actively sharing your narrative to authentically connect with others.
- Recognizing and getting familiar with what your Instagram why is.
Key Takeaways:
- Use Instagram to build relationships via social media, especially in this time that we can’t always meet in person.
- Don’t get overwhelmed and overly concerned with the algorithms.
- Recognize the demographic of your followers. Is it clients, vendors, or prospective clients?
- The biggest mistake you can make is not knowing or understanding your content strategy.
"Just do what you know what you want to do." — Megan Garmers
Connect with Megan Garmers:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebridalmaster
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebridalmasterclass/
Website: https://thebridalmasterclass.mykajabi.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_bridal_masterclass/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Megan Gillikin: Megan is a veteran wedding planner, podcast host, and international speaker dedicated to making life easier for her fellow wedding pros. Her love for mentoring blossomed from her tumultuous entrepreneurship journey: In 2010 Megan purchased her planning business, A Southern Soiree and revived the struggling brand into one of North Carolina’s most sought-after firms serving a luxury clientele. Between her own experiences and hearing others’ stories first-hand as the host of the Weddings For Real podcast, Megan now offers new wedding planners an easier way to grow their businesses through her education and community membership, The Planner’s Vault. She has captivated audiences with her warm, personable style as a speaker at events like Wedding MBA, Catersource, WIPA, NACE, and others. You can find Megan online at theplannersvault.com, weddingsforreal.com, and asouthernsoiree.com
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Megan discuss:
- Acquiring a struggling wedding planning business.
- The differences in making decisions early on in business as opposed to the decisions you make now.
- Networking, mending, and building professional relationships.
- Learning to manage your imposter syndrome and feel confident in yourself.
Key Takeaways:
- Embracing and learning from your mistakes and experiences.
- Quiet the inner critic, don’t compare yourself to what others are doing.
- Take the time to reflect upon your actions and your personality.
- Find a business coach or accountability friend to help you keep a positive mindset.
"I like the scrappy and new and figuring how to grow from that." — Megan Gillikin
Mentioned: Quiet the Inner Critic
You are a Badass
Connect with Megan Gillikin:
Website: https://www.theplannersvault.com/?r_done=1
http://asouthernsoiree.com/
https://www.theplannersvault.com/
Show: http://www.weddingsforreal.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddingsforreal/
https://www.instagram.com/plannersvault/
https://www.instagram.com/asouthernsoiree/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Carrie Hayward: When print and broadcast journalist Carrie Hayward began planning her EPCOT wedding, the only way to get the information and real pricing required to determine whether one could afford a Disney wedding was to sign a contract for one! After her wedding, Carrie wanted to share what she’d learned with other couples to help them decide and to show them ways to customize their Disney weddings to their tastes and budgets. Since 2012, Carrie has also hosted the Disney Wedding Podcast, a weekly show devoted to weddings and honeymoons at the Disney parks and on Disney cruises. Because she does not work for the Walt Disney Company, Carrie is free to share unbiased opinions and advice on weddings at the Disney parks and resorts.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Carrie discuss:
- Tips, tricks, and timelines for Disney Weddings.
- Finding the truth behind Disney World Weddings.
- Becoming a Disney World vendor.
- The differences between the day of and venue coordinators.
Key Takeaways:
- You are not required to have a princess or character wedding just because you are at Disney. Explore your options.
- Weddings can be as inexpensive as $5,000 and anything you spent money on counts toward that minimum.
- Weddings in Disney World give you theming, magic, fireworks, and an all-around experience.
- Disney World weddings are unique and unlike anything you have ever done.
"If you have a chance to work on a Disney World wedding, take it!" — Carrie Hayward
Connect with Carrie Hayward:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/disneywedcast
Facebook:https://business.facebook.com/FairytaleWeddingsGuide/
Website: https://fairytaleweddingsguide.com/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/fairytaleweddingsguide/_created/
Book: https://fairytaleweddingsguide.com/shop/
Show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disney-wedding-podcast/id503483435?mt=2
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairytaleweddingsguide/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Scarlett Baily: Scarlett Baily is a Chicana visual artist specializing in murals, portraiture, and illustration.
Working on a large scale and often to a public audience, Baily’s work draws attention to the nuances of culture with an intent to preserve diversity. Through unexpected artistic encounters, Baily hopes to bring communities together to evoke critical thinking and curiosity. The long sinuous lines and gestural minimalism that mark Scarlett’s style, recall her fashion background while nodding to street art and mid-century urban propaganda.
Baily solidified her interests by earning a B.A. in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Baily’s further studies include Avant-Garde Art History at the Universitat de Barcelona, Fine Arts at the Art Students League in New York City, and a fine arts and muralism apprenticeship with celebrated Mexican Artist, Manuel Guillén.
In 2014, Baily expanded her studio to Mexico City to bridge her Mexican-American roots. Producing between the two countries allows Baily to hone in on her visual dialogue with themes of identity, multiculturalism, and belonging. Media such as Vogue, Architectural Digest, Elle, Huffington Post, El Financiero, and the Heraldo have published her work.
Baily’s art is visible from Madison Avenue, New York City, to the outdoor walls of the largest market in the world- Central de Abastos in Mexico City, as well as various street art installations worldwide. Recently, the Society of Caricature Artists of México has inaugurated Baily. Currently, Baily is contributing illustrator for Design Hunter Magazine and Director of Galería La Óptica - an alternative space exhibiting female artists, and founder of @MujeresMuralistas, a visual archive of female muralists in Mexico.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Scarlett discuss:
- Fun interactive activities to relate to the guests while helping them relax.
- Working to understand how you will find clients and how they will find you.
- Knowing your worth and setting goals for monetary expansion.
- Recognizing and establishing healthy boundaries.
Key Takeaways:
- Never compromise or sell yourself short by taking jobs that will not financially support your dream.
- Be clear and transparent about your pricing and policies.
- Not everything will happen overnight, at the start, learn to be happy with just having something to do tomorrow.
- Ask plenty of questions and plan for all outcomes in your contract so that you are covered if you and your client should need to move in different directions.
"Creating memories that will last forever, for everyone." — Scarlett Baily
Connect with Scarlett Baily:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SCARLETTBAILY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SCARLETTBAILY
Website: www.scarlettbaily.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SCARLETTBAILY/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Kalyn: Kayln: Kitchen is the tenacious and shouty mastermind behind Queerly Beloved, a wedding marketplace for LGBTQ+ people in love and the vendors that celebrate them. She broke into the wedding industry in 2009 as a photographer and has always had a soft spot for authentic, unapologetic love in all its forms. She currently lives in Denver with her new wife and their three-legged dog.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Kayln discuss:
- Filling a need in the wedding industry.
- Bringing the focus and emphasis on respect.
- Being genuine and finding genuine vendors.
- Intentionally incorporating social justice into the business.
Key Takeaways:
- Ask all of your couples to self-identify.
- Make sure your pronouns on your social media are explicitly clear.
- Verify the comfort and preference of positions for photography.
- Embrace who you and your spouse are and incorporate that into your wedding with intentionality.
"So many people end up eloping because the marriage means so much more than the day and we want to be able to mesh both of those." — Kalyn
Connect with Kayln:
Website: https://www.queerlybeloved.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queerlybelovedco/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie, Heather, Dan, and Danielle discuss:
- How 2020 changed the wedding industry.
- The skill sets acquired through the unpredictability of 2020.
- Adapting to changes while still serving your clients.
- The high emotional currency of the current wedding climate.
Key Takeaways:
- Weddings in 2020 put the couple’s priorities into focus.
- Give yourself permission to not live up to societal expectations.
- Focus on the joy of your wedding and let the rest go.
- Focus on fostering relationships by giving and receiving support and understanding from one another.
"Couples had to stop thinking about the party and make it about their intention and priority." — Danielle
Connect with Dan and Danielle:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanielMoyerPhotography
https://www.facebook.com/putaringonitpodcast
Website: https://putaringonitpodcast.com/
Show: Put a Ring on it Podcast
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/putaringonitpodcast/
https://www.instagram.com/dpnak/
https://www.instagram.com/danielmoyerphoto/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- The technology must-haves for wedding planners
- Essential items to keep with you at every wedding and why.
- Necessary first aid items to have on hand.
- Quick and fun items to decorate the couple’s car and bridal suite.
Key Takeaways:
- The fewer pro vendors the more you will need and use your emergency kit.
- Some emergency items should stay with you and the others can be left in an easily accessible location.
- Most venues have restrictions on what can be attached to the walls and fixtures, be prepared with zip ties, fishing line, and tape as well as something to cut them down.
- Be prepared for children or animals at weddings and having items to help keep them occupied.
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Brandon Wong: Born with an entrepreneurial spirit, Brandon began his first business in college with his future wife, Katrina Santos. They chose the creative industry of wedding photography, and it took off... literally. The jetsetters found themselves photographing nuptials in Australia, Mexico, Singapore, Canada, and all over the US. Shortly after graduating college, their business had surpassed six figures in profit. Finding it difficult to scale a service-based business, Brandon and Katrina decided to invest in an automated photographer, a photobooth.
This machine captured memories and generated income at a higher margin. The couple soon discovered that this product could be an incredible asset for other photographers all over the world. So, the pair spent their entire life savings to attend WPPI, the world's largest wedding photography convention as a vendor selling their first invention: The Legacy Booth. The wildly successful show gave birth to Photobooth Supply Co, and Brandon immediately used the earnings to purchase a wedding ring for Katrina.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Brandon discuss:
- Photos booths for every event.
- Logistics: generate demand and generate leads.
- Diversify your photography and your audience.
- Quick, easy, cheap way to build your income.
ey Takeaways:
- Lead generation from photo delivery to personal devices.
- Quick, touchless set up with fun filters to spice up your party.
- Merging the in person event with the virtual event by creating a photo album that includes each audience.
- Utilize trade shows to generate interest and increase sales.
"We don’t just sell a photo booth, we sell a business in a box.” — Brandon Wong
Connect with Brandon Wong:
Website: https://photoboothsupplyco.com/?aic=R73LKH3&utm_campaign=referralcandy_28151_1531141929&utm_source=referral&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_term=R73LKH3
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Be mindful of the kinds of weddings and photos to be taken for a variety of budgets.
- The benefits and drawbacks of participating in group styled shoots.
- When and how to split costs for styled shoots.
- Hiring videographers for behind the scenes shots, and another look at the shoot.
Key Takeaways:
- Develop your styled shoot around what your audience is looking for.
- The product you put out stylistically is the style of customers you will bring in.
- Be intentional about inclusivity displaying diverse couples and wedding parties in your marketing materials.
- Provide transparency, note that your photos are part of a styled shoot, and provide approx cost for those products if they were used as part of a wedding.
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Creating and engaging your email lists.
- Taking advantage of and marketing your good content.
- Building the value of a day-of wedding coordinator with The Union Masterclass and Network.
- Details on Jamie’s new mentorship program, The Union Mastermind.
Key Takeaways:
- Cultivate a relationship before you worry about selling.
- Get creative, it’s all about solving problems for clients.
- Make sure to diversify your revenue stream to have more financial security.
- Take feedback and use it creatively to improve your business.
SIGN UP FOR THE MASTERMIND:
https://wolferandco.thrivecart.com/mastermind
Mentioned: https://jwcoordination.com/timeline
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://weddinghackerexpo.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Kunbi Odubogun: Kunbi Odubogun is a Business Attorney and Publisher with over 10 years in the legal and creative industries. As founder of leading events publication Perfete, Kunbi is personally versed in the needs of creatives and online entrepreneurs. She is also the founder of Legally Set a template shop offering legally sound contract templates for entrepreneurs and creative business owners
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Kunbi Odubogun discuss:
- Getting started in business with legally binding contracts made easy.
- Maintaining a professional front by avoiding the most common mistakes made in wedding contracts.
- Contracts for the benefit and protection of the vendor and the customer.
- Specific contract and clause language.
Key Takeaways:
- Create a contract with clear postponement language, for any reason including force majeure, that also includes financial specifics that state whether or not your retainer or deposit is fully refundable.
- Be sure to include a safe working environment clause in your contract to keep you safe from the unknown.
- Include specific language surrounding fees, guest counts, payment schedules, details of the services you will be providing, and that you will not be taking responsibility for other contractors.
- Construct a legal section of your contract where you detail your limitation of liability, the jurisdiction in which legal proceedings can occur, and your accepted methods of dispute resolution.
"You look 100 times more professional if you have a contract." — Kunbi Odubogun
Connect with Kunbi Odubogun:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/legallyset
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/legallyset
Website: https://legallyset.com/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/legallyset
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/legallyset/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Daniel Linares: Daniel is a born a raised New Yorker from the most diverse city in the world – Queens, NY – Daniel Linares is the founder of DLE Event Group. DLE is a premium wedding entertainment agency specializing in DJ and Hybrid DJ Band services.
He had his biggest month ever in June 2020 during the pandemic booking 65 virtual graduations and proms within 21 days.
He is also a coach and business strategist that helps Wedding Pros position themselves as elite in their market so that they can quit their 9 to 5, thrive to six-figures and beyond, and become an in-demand premium-priced professional in their market.
He believes success is 80% mindset and 20% strategy.
He teaches what really grows people and their companies is a proper mindset, systems and processes, strategic positioning, and a customer-centric experience like the greatest hospitality brands in the world – you can rise above the ordinary and be exceptional.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Daniel discuss:
- Searching for experts in each aspect of the business.
- Success is dependent on having the proper mindset.
- Who to contact to grow your business and why.
- The importance of relationships and checking in with people.
Key Takeaways:
- Create and deliver authentic outreach not just a bunch of links and spam.
- Acknowledge and understand your fear in order to thrive and grow.
- Don’t wait, embrace, and trust the process, there is never a “perfect” time to do something.
- Make an effort to be present in the moment.
"I look at the butterflies and fear inside of us as growth." — Daniel Linares
Connect with Daniel Linares:
Website: https://www.daniel.nyc
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Anna Bennett: Power influencer and Pinterest marketing strategist Anna Bennett is the owner of White Glove Social Media and co-founder of True North Marketing Inc. As a Pinterest for business expert, she’s been helping businesses supercharge traffic and sales growth with Pinterest since 2012.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Anna discuss:
- You need to be able to solve a problem for your prospects.
- Focusing on your most important online search keywords.
- Knowing each step of your client’s online search process.
- Invest in paid Pinterest ads once you know your fundamental keywords.
Key Takeaways:
- Ask specific questions so that you understand what problem you can solve or what you can help your potential client with.
- Focus on your strengths if you aren’t great at something outsource it.
- You don’t have to do any extra work, you just need to work on your Pinterest account.
- Follow the top keywords relating to your business so that you can tailor your keywords in your descriptions.
"No problem equals no sales." — Anna Bennett
Connect with Anna Bennett:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/annasocialmedia
Website: https://whiteglovesocialmedia.com/2020/02/pinterest-marketing-strategy-more-repins/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pinterestmarketingexpert/_created/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annacadizbennett/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/annalexus2011/videos
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- The struggles of being a working mom and business owner.
- Balancing your professional and personal time.
- Learning and knowing when you need to ask for help.
- Do the best you can and accept that mom guilt will still happen.
Key Takeaways:
- The importance of excellent communication and division of duties with your partner both in life and business.
- Don’t be afraid to start small and build as you would like.
- Balancing what amount of time you can contribute and when you contribute it.
- Be intentionally present with the time you put into your family or business and don’t forget to take time for yourself.
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Kathryn Joachim: Kathryn Joachim is a brand designer and strategist for creative professionals. While she loves playing with great typefaces and creating timeless logos, what she’s really passionate about is helping artists grow confident and heartfelt businesses that are profitable and purposeful. She’s been delighted to work with clients of all sizes in her career as a graphic designer — from award-winning creatives to New York Times bestselling authors. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Kathryn discuss:
- Building your business’s first impression through branding.
- Branding with visuals, voice, and experience that create connection and reputation.
- To make a brand successful you must first determine what is successful for your business.
- Hierarchy and design, call to action, avatars, and keyword word banks.
Key Takeaways:
- Your brand is who you are as a business and how people remember you.
- Color improves brand recognition by 80%.
- Your presentation changes how your work is perceived.
- Create a Pinterest visual board of materials that appeal to the ideal client or work that you want to do more of.
Pinning prompts:
- Pick the outfits that your dream client "lives in –" from clothing to accessories, colors, textures, and brands.
- Gather images of items that feel like your brand in the context of the office and even moments from your personal home (or your vision for those). This could be the inspiration you pulled when designing or dreaming of your home or office space.
- Gather more defining details about your ideal client. Pull in places your ideal client would love and that feels on-brand for your company — This could include Airbnbs, hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques, apartments, mansions, or vacations home — whatever is relevant to the spaces your ideal client lives in or loves to be in. Additionally, feel free to pull in any of the following: the candle brands, shoes, cocktails, bags your ideal client would be obsessed with.
- Gather your most defining work or images of the type of work you strive to be doing, including images that show the detail, style, price point, texture, and emotion that is characteristic of the type of work you want to be known for.
"Branding is so much more than just a logo." — Kathryn Joachim
Resource Links Mentioned: https://www.tdc.org/competitions/typeface-design-winners-2020/
https://www.monotype.com/resources/expertise/2019-type-champions
Connect with Kathryn Joachim:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cremebrands
Website: https://cremebrands.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cremebrands/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Being on time, participate in the rehearsal, and know the location of the event.
- Vendor mishaps and hiring a professional that specializes in weddings.
- Bringing on an extra assistant if the couple chooses to DIY a portion of the day.
- Reading through and understanding each contract in its entirety.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn to look for and spot the warning signs surrounding questionable vendors.
- Have a prepared digital play and professional equipment.
- Encourage the vendors to uphold a sense of professionalism with alcohol.
- How to handle various situations with grace, professionalism, and assertiveness.
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Matt Remuzzi: Matt Remuzzi owns CapForge, Inc., a San Diego, CA-based Corporation he founded in 2000 and incorporated in 2003. He has a BA and an MBA as well as various bookkeeping certifications.
We currently have over 850 small business clients we help run their businesses better through smart bookkeeping and accounting and general business consulting. Every business owner can grow their business and reduce their stress if they run things the right way!
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Matt discuss:
- Where to start when it comes to your books.
- The benefits of and when to upgrade your accounting systems.
- Common mistakes that happen when inexperienced people are bookkeeping.
- The proper use of cash recording with your business account.
Key Takeaways:
- Don’t co-mingle your personal funds with your business funds.
- Keep it simple to start, utilize Excel Spreadsheets or Google Sheets to keep a list of your business expenses and earnings.
- Bookkeeping doesn’t have to be scary or expensive to get it done right.
- Use your business to pay for all gas, insurance, and car maintenance. It’s easier and you generally get better refund results.
"Have procedures, tracking, and rules when it comes to using cash."
— Matt Remuzzi
Connect with Matt Remuzzi:
Website: https://capforge.com/union-podcast/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- The anxiety associated with not being able to maintain inbox zero.
- Maintaining social media and utilizing automation to help you.
- The positive and negative aspects of return customers.
- The connection you establish with your clients.
Key Takeaways:
- When you are feeling the pressure that comes with giving the perfect response give them a resource instead of advice.
- Establishing your boundaries while wanting to please your client but not letting yourself be taken advantage of.
- Utilize the benefit of implementing the same process repeatedly with minor adjustments tailored to each client.
- Don’t get yourself into a rut and use the couple as a plug into a wedding you have repeatedly planned without using their input and ideas.
Mentioned: The Social Dilemma on Netflix
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Completing tasks that are normally beyond your boundaries. To do or not to do?
- Set up and tear down. Working out the details with everyone that is helping.
- Cautionary tales, tips, and tricks of battling the elements.
- The things in the job description that you may not think of.
Key Takeaways:
- Prepare for the “Friendor,” (family friend/vendor). Also book an extra assistant for that day to help with any hand-holding, support, and set-up that person may need.
- When dealing with rentals pay the extra fee for delivery and set-up it’s worth it!
- Prepare for dealing with a variety of emotions and situations. Dealing with family drama, being a bouncer, being a counselor, administering first aid, or being a shoulder to cry on.
- Make sure you read all of the vendor contracts from your couples so you know all the details and what you have may have inadvertently been signed up to deal with.
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Lilian Hung: Lilian founded Lyra Vega Bridal in 2016, a direct to consumer bridal e-boutique, created to revolutionize how brides shop for their wedding day. She leads and manages a global supply chain to support all aspects of the business, and the company has proudly maintained a 0% return rate in an industry where the average is 50%. Prior to starting her own business, Lilian was an event planner in the Boston area for 8 years. Today, through Lyra Vega Bridal, she is focused on empowering women to make smart choices with their big day, rather than blindly following tradition.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Lilian discuss:
- Made to measure wedding gowns in around 8-10 weeks.
- A different way to shop for wedding dresses with a 14-day return policy.
- Challenging the historical and traditional ideas of a wedding.
- Changes you would make looking back at your business when it started.
Key Takeaways:
- Low price availability made possible because there is no overheads cost of a brick-and-mortar location with online convenience.
- Wedding day looks with simple gowns and detailed accessories show better virtually.
- Hurdles to owning a small business in the wedding industry is the competition with bigger brands.
- Take your time with your business building a good foundation slowly.
"Bringing modern options to brides that make more sense for modern women."
— Lilian Hung
Connect with Lilian Hung:
Website: https://lyravegabridal.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lyravegabridal/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Marketing: bringing in leads both virtually and physically.
- Leaning into sales: sales calls virtually, over the phone, or in-person.
- Accounting aspects of running a business, write-offs, deductions, bookkeeping companies, IRS audits, and when to consult an accountant.
- Event timeline and layout development. How to’s + tips and tricks.
Key Takeaways:
- Websites don’t list vendors in order of skill they list in order of advertising dollars.
- Streamline project management while creating and communicating clear boundaries and expectations.
- Utilize professional programs to help lighten your workload and amp up your professionalism.
- Management of an event includes help and support of the vendors, crisis management, couple and guest support, and timeline management.
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Christy Mathews & Michelle Martinez: Co-hosts of The Big Wedding Planning Podcast, Christy Mathews and Michelle Martinez are two fun-loving, friends and Certified Wedding Consultants. Michelle is located in the San Francisco Bay Area and has been planning weddings for over 18 years. Christy is located in the Pheonix, AZ area and has been planning weddings over 12 years. Together, they share their deepest, darkest secrets to help couples all over the world plan their weddings. The goal of the podcast is for listeners to learn a lot, laugh even more, and most importantly get the inside scoop on how to make the most of their big day.
Inclusivity is of the utmost importance to Christy & Michelle, so the podcast is for EVERYONE.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, Christy Mathews, and Michelle Martinez discuss:
- Smaller guest count weddings and creating a more intimate experience.
- Becoming hyper-specific in your business focus.
- The virtual components and streaming services of a wedding.
- RSVP changes and modifications that will come from the 2020 season.
Key Takeaways:
- Create, collaborate, and connect with a core group of people that you trust.
- Take time for business introspection. Does running this business still make me happy?
- Focus on what’s important for you as a couple not what’s important for the guest.
- An important part of virtual wedding attendance is making sure that the people at home feel as if they are part of your event, not just watching it.
Connect with Christy Mathews Michelle Martinez :
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TBWPpodcast
Website: https://www.thebigweddingplanningpodcast.com/
Podcast: https://www.thebigweddingplanningpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebigweddingplanningpodcast/
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie discusses:
- Getting the details about the event date, budget, and guest count.
- Getting to know the couple’s wedding priorities.
- Using active listening when speaking with a client and tell them what they are doing well.
- Give free advice and information as often as you can.
Key Takeaways:
- Be genuine and ask the right questions.
- Make sure that the couple’s wants and needs can be met with your services to know if you are a good fit.
- Encourage the couple to look into other wedding planners and to find the best fit for them. Put the boomerang effect into play.
- Always create and have an open line of communication with the couples.
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- How to be successful in your onboarding process.
- Putting systems in place to streamline your business process.
- Setting up and using canned responses to email.
- Sending welcome packets or handwritten notes.
Key Takeaways:
- Honeybook generates the forms and questionnaires that you need to run your business.
- If you are feeling overwhelmed by replying to all of your emails turn your inbox to out of the office with a reply that states when they can expect to hear from you.
- Letting your personality come through in your emails.
- Collect the information that you will need to look back on later and keep it stored in a central and easily accessible location that you can access from anywhere.
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Legalities of running a business from costs, permits, licenses
- Liabilities associated with different business types: sole proprietor, LLC, S-Corp, or a DBA (doing business as).
- When to get a CPA and how they can help you.
- Building a digital presence, building a portfolio, and setting your rates.
Key Takeaways:
- Find a niche: it’s all about finding the people that will fit with you and your brand.
- You can always rebrand later, you aren’t locked in.
- Don’t be afraid to trade your services to help build other aspects of your business.
- Fake it until you make it and build your own confidence.
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie, Heather discuss:
- How to use enneagram as an opportunity for growth.
- Understanding that you are someone’s opposite yet striving to understand and meet the needs of your opposite.
- Capitalize on the strengths of one another.
- Developing the resources that enables the business to run without your constant presence.
Key Takeaways:
- Partner with someone who has strengths that are different from yours.
- Knowing your personality number lets you know your weak spots and where to focus for improvement.
- Knowing your personality type helps you to build the right marketing system for you.
- Knowing and embracing your personality strengths helps you in all aspects in your life, not just your business life.
Mentioned in the episode:
Enneagram Institute
Evergreen Profits: Hire an Amazingly Compatible Assistant
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/808964402938175/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Selena McCollum: Selena McCollum, Co-founder, lead designer. Attended the for undergrad and graduate studies at the Univ of South Carolina, and studied Biology and Public Health, yet began floral design while in high school assisting my mother, an avid gardener and florist. I learned by having hands-on training and grew while attending lots of continuing education floral workshops/conferences with her. Worked primarily with fresh floral weddings through SC and had my own wedding published in Southern Living magazine.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Selena discuss:
- Flower options for couples who want to stretch their flower budget.
- The inspiration behind the faux floral collections.
- Predicting and following trends, or making special orders.
- The joys and hardships of a working family business.
Key Takeaways:
- Creating pieces that are flexible enough to fit in spaces of various sizes yet look custom made.
- An affordable option for couples that want the looks of fresh flowers for many different aspects and areas of their weddings.
- The quality of the product is vital. Take the time to replace any blemished pieces.
- Having adequate inventory, proper logistics, and time to plan and create the arrangements creates a recipe for less stress and more success.
"We can design an order to accommodate any bride.” — Selena McCollum
Connect with Selena McCollum:
Website: Wedding Flowers For Rent
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Building friendships and business networks virtually.
- Revisiting your money situation.
- Marketing during the pandemic.
- Feeling alone and down because this year has been so crazy.
Key Takeaways:
- Make an effort to be a part of a community, just virtually!
- Set up that money date with your significant other and make a plan.
- It’s crazy cheap to advertise right now!
- Check out all outlets of advertising and do it because weddings will be happening again so get your name out there.
Mentioned: The Richest Man in Babylon
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Lara Wagner: Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Lara's parents encouraged a love of different cultures from a young age. Since then her career has taken her to live in Mongolia, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, further strengthening her love of diverse people and cultures. When it came time to plan her own multicultural wedding, she struggled to find sources of inspiration and community. Once her own wedding was over, she created Blended Bliss to give to others what she wishes she had.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Lara discuss:
- Diversity in weddings and marriage with looks from multiple backgrounds and religions.
- Inspiring a community and giving them a sacred space.
- Different ideas and ways of incorporating cultural traditions.
- Getting past familial conflict while fusing families.
Key Takeaways:
- Create a list of must-have ideas from your culture in order to develop a plan to incorporate cultural traditions.
- Figure out your life priorities and traditions that you want to incorporate into your new life together, not just for your wedding.
- If you aren’t sure how to incorporate traditions into your wedding talk to people who have done it before.
- Don’t feel lonely and don’t be afraid to reach out. You aren’t alone and there are many people who will celebrate your love.
"You can’t be what you can’t see." — Lara Wagner
Connect with Lara Wagner:
Instagram: @blended.bliss
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- The most memorable wedding moments.
- Cringeworthy wedding memories that you can learn from.
- Wedding food, the good, the bad, and what to feed your vendors.
- Being a wedding vendor can mean sometimes doing out of the ordinary things to keep your couple happy.
Key Takeaways:
- Make sure you have enough bathroom facilities at your event.
- Use caution when utilizing animals in your wedding.
- Clearly label all items utilizing cannabis, no one wants that surprise.
- Put a limit on speech times or you could be paying extra in the end.
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Jordan Maney: Jordan A. Maney started her business All The Days in 2016 with the desire to serve couples the industry chooses to ignore. By blending wedding planning and relationship development she helps couples plan for their big day and all the days ahead.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Jordan discuss:
- Recognizing LGBTQ+ Equality in the wedding industry and everyday life.
- The push for employers and marketers to be fully inclusive.
- The expectation of the current generation and new generations for equality and to focus on ethics and values.
- The priority of serving people over money.
Key Takeaways:
- Realize that quality will take time, but small and consistent actions will cause big results and changes.
- Make a marketing content audit: take a look at who are you excluding, and then make an effort to be an inclusive part of your entire community.
- Diversify who you are seeing and following on social media, there are many people to learn and grow from.
- Appreciate difference and variety in love, the wedding industry, and in life.
"It’s not enough to have a couple of posts here and there, in support of something, follow through and do it." — Jordan Maney
Connect with Jordan Maney:
Facebook: The Love Grove
Email: hello@loveallthedays.com
Instagram: @loveallthedays
Coming August 25th, 2020: Love Culture on Slack
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Liza Roeser: Liza Roeser disrupted the flower industry after completing a Peace Corps assignment in Ecuador—one of the world’s largest exporters of cut flowers—in the 1990s. She saw and seized the opportunity to export directly from farm to consumer and founded FiftyFlowers, today a multi-national, multi-million-dollar company. Liza is a frequent speaker and shares her knowledge and passion for flower sourcing, entrepreneurship, and women’s empowerment in business.
Today, Liza is an active champion of the flower industry and is a member of the board of The Society of American Florists, the Association for Wedding Professionals International, and NorCal Flower Association. Liza advocates for the industry on Capitol Hill annually as a lobbyist for the flower industry, working with lawmakers to make sure the voices of her peers are heard. She also serves on the Board of Entrepreneurs Organization and takes pride in mentoring budding entrepreneurs.
Liza speaks at conferences and on stages around the world, sharing her knowledge and passion for flower sourcing, entrepreneurship, and women’s empowerment in business. She has been nominated as Idaho Business Review Woman of the Year (2019) and has been featured in Inc.com, Idaho Business Review, BRIDES, as the feature cover story of Greenbelt Magazine, and interviewed on many broadcast outlets.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Liza discuss:
- Being more effective within your business and how to grown your business utilizing EO.
- Building a team and a community out of your business.
- Your mindset and attitude matter. Don’t accept failure, you have the power to choose.
- Analyzing your mistakes or failures to improve your business and not repeat your mistakes.
Key Takeaways:
- Don’t be afraid to mourn the vision of what you thought your wedding would be and reexamine what is most important to you.
- Humility is very important in business. “Everyone takes the trash out,” work together to make a good team.
- Overcommunicate, be authentic, and be vulnerable with your team because we don’t know what’s coming to our business due to COVID, but we are in it together.
- As an entrepreneur, if you let your gut guide you, you’re gonna do well.
"You write your own story and you get to choose your ending."
— Liza Roeser
Mentioned: Entrepreneur’s Organization Network (EO)
HEB Stores Company Culture
Connect with Liza Roeser:
Website: https://flowerfix.fiftyflowers.com/
Instagram: @theflowerceo and @fiftyflower
#savethegrowers
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Melissa Wilmot: Having planned her own wedding 15 years ago, Melissa knows that it’s a process to gather information from wedding vendors and conduct phone or in-person meetings in order to determine who is going to be able to deliver the best product or service for each individual wedding. She developed WedBrilliant as a solution to simplify the wedding planning process and help couples select the right vendors for their special day.
WedBrilliant is FREE for all couples to use and post all their wedding needs for vendors to bid on. Vendors pay a nominal monthly or annual fee, but our primary goal is really to make these connections, help wedding pros find new clients, and help all the brides and grooms out there cross "to-do's" off their wedding planning lists.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Melissa discuss:
- Using the Wedbrilliant platform to enter bids as a vendor to provide services at that couple’s wedding.
- Using the Wedbrilliant platform to reach a more targeted group of vendors or clients.
- Saving time and minimizing leg work while planning your wedding.
- The process of getting started with Wedbrilliant
Key Takeaways:
- Lead with transparency and then work out the details with your clients.
- Sell gift cards now to help keep a 2020 revenue stream and then people can redeem them later.
- Platforms like Wedbrilliant enable vendors to access clientele throughout the country.
- Take a critical look at your social media and your website to keep everything looking fresh and updated.
"The goal with Wedbrilliant was to decrease both the effort and required budget to allow vendors to meet these couples." — Melissa Wilmot
Mentioned: Making Websites Win
Connect with Melissa Wilmot:
Website: Wedbrilliant.com
Connect with The Union Podcast:
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun
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About Elle Martinez: Elle is the creator and award-winning blogger of Couple Money, a personal finance site, and podcast. Her podcast has over 25,000 listeners each month. She's also the author Jumpstart Your Marriage and Your Money, which gives couples a 4-week plan to get on the same page, dump their debt faster and build wealth together.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Elle discuss:
- Money Dates: making time for financial planning, every month.
- 50/20/30 Budget 50% for essentials, 20% for saving or paying debt, and 30% for guilt-free spending.
- Participate in monthly money challenges, lunch in challenge, frugal $20 date night challenge.
- Preparing for the wedding with full quotes from vendors to avoid surprise costs.
Key Takeaways:
- The first money date is all about getting excited about your why.
- Can you live off of one income and put the other income toward paying down debt and saving?
- Having clear boundaries and expectations with people who are contributing financially to the wedding.
- Scheduling payments from anyone who is financially helping with the wedding so everyone has the same expectations.
"Look for the win-win." — Elle Martinez
Mentioned: Honeybook Trial Offer
The Budget Savvy Bride
Weddings For Real Podcast
Connect with Elle Martinez:
Website: Couple Money.com
Book: Jumpstart Your Marriage & Your Money
Show: Couple Money Podcast
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
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About Jordan Maney: Jordan A. Maney is a local wedding planner, writer, and owner of All The Days Event Co. She started her company as an inclusive community of people of color, the queer community, oddballs, and lovebirds young and young at heart. She also founded KeepHer, an organization all about elevating and celebrating San Antonio’s women of color and “brash,” a networking event series for women creatives, professionals, and entrepreneurs.
In this episode, Heather, and Jordan discuss:
- Highlighting everyone in love and living while also being inclusive to the LGBTQIA couples.
- The importance of life and relationship planning before the wedding planning.
- Accommodation and inclusivity with everything from your venue, your hair and make-up artist to your seating plans.
- How is the wedding industry evolving?
Key Takeaways:
- Showing solidarity and inclusivity through planning, local initiative donations, wedding party volunteering, and being intentional with the selection of vendors and businesses owned by or that support inclusivity.
- Request knowing the pronouns that the couple would like used for their event.
- Recruit your family to help with tasks for the wedding to make them feel included and that they have contributed emotionally.
- It is your wedding, you can celebrate however you want. Build what you want
"People shouldn’t be having an identity crisis when it comes to wedding media." — Jordan Maney
Connect with Jordan Maney:
Facebook: All The Days
Website: LoveAllTheDays.com
Instagram: @loveallthedays
Petition: Wedding Media STEP UP & Commit to Anti-Racism
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Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
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About Drew Peters: Drew Peters, aka "Mustachio X", is the owner of SONGSTRUCK DJ, an award-winning turntable DJ/music curation brand for engaged couples and event creatives throughout Southern California, New Orleans, and adventure destinations. Since 2014, Drew has built an exclusive, word-of-mouth-only entertainment service for those seeking to build deeply personalized, musically unique, one-off party experiences for their tribes. Featured in ... Junebug Weddings, The Knot, Green Wedding Shoes, Ruffled Blog, and Exquisite Weddings
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Drew discuss:
- Having a leader to run and host the wedding.
- Finding a great DJ that builds the proper energy in the crowd.
- The role of the wedding party, getting out on the dance floor.
- Finding a DJ that matches the vibe of the couple and can bring those vibes onto the dance floor.
Key Takeaways:
- Communication prior to the wedding is key. When does the dance party need to begin? What flexibility is there? Don’t stop the energy for wedding events and then bring people back out trying to build the energy back up.
- Be sure your DJ specializes in weddings and how they function.
- Work with your DJ to pick the right music for the mood of your event.
- Make the wedding timeline specific to what you want to do.
"Anything you want or don’t want at your wedding, it’s up to you." — Drew Peters
Connect with Drew Peters:
Website: SongStruckDJ.com
Instagram: @songstruckdj
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Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
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About Dan Braunstein: Dan Braunstein is the founder of Grassfed, a leading cannabis events and education platform which is paving the way in the cannabis events category. The company's mission is to help shift the stigma on cannabis by offering a series of innovative, healthy, and sophisticated approaches to social cannabis consumption, and foster a community of like-minded individuals who enjoy, consume, and want to learn more about cannabis and its many benefits. Dan spearheads and oversees business development and operations- such as securing key partnerships, collaborations, customer acquisition, and sponsors. All with an eye toward ensuring the highest quality experience for his customers.
Dan is an avid cannabis enthusiast, advocate, and connoisseur
In this episode, Jamie, Heather, and Dan discuss:
- Cannabis as part of the wedding industry.
- Legally incorporating cannabis into private events, and any events that don't sell tickets at the door.
- Cannabis as a healthier and safer option than alcohol with fewer side effects.
- Providing ancillary services such as projection mapping and visuals, immersive technology, virtual reality, and live music to enhance the experience.
- The necessity of the vendor or venue carrying cannabis insurance.
- Having both THC and CBD products on hand.
Key Takeaways:
- Smoke-free services that can be used in many applications, eliminate the smell and elevate the event creating more classiness and sophistication.
- Preparing for an event with cannabis:
- Know your crowd and their preference.
- Know how to handle the crowd.
- Local government rules and regulations.
- Tailor the effects desired for the event, making sure you have enough product and proper potency.
- Make sure your venue is cannabis-friendly and understand rules/restrictions.
- For the do-it-yourself option, clearly mark all cannabis products, and do not allow the products around children. Having a bud-tender is the best practice.
- Serve only micro-dosed products with 2.5-5mg of THC. This will give the consumer the ability to consume more than one product.
- Buy legal cannabis products. This ensures a lab-tested product with no pesticides and heavy metals and clear potency measurements.
"Smoke is one of the biggest enemies of changing the stigma surrounding cannabis." — Dan Braunstein
Connect with Dan Braunstein:
Website: Grassfed.la
Instagram: @grassfed.la
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- Heather and Jamie first connected due to the 2019 Expo… and they want to connect with you!
- The virtual Wedding Hacker Expo is being re-launched in August!
- The Expo is packed full of incredible resources for engaged couples.
- By sharing the Expo, you can help couples feel more confident planning for their wedding and marriage.
- Experts educate attendees on more than wedding planning; it also helps couples prepare their finances and relationship for marriage.
- You can earn money as an affiliate of the Expo… by simply signing up and sharing the event!
Key Takeaways:
- Couples can snag a FREE Expo pass with access to all the incredible sessions
- There is an option to upgrade to the VIP pass which includes videos, audio files, notes for every session, and a virtual goodie bag worth over $1,000!
- Affiliates who refer couples earn 50% of any VIP passes their referred attendees purchase!
- Bonus! We are having an Affiliate competition. The top three affiliates will earn cash prizes on top of their affiliate commissions!
- Sign up as an affiliate at WeddingHackerExpo.com
"It’s more than just planning a wedding, it’s planning a marriage." — Heather
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Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerexpo/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
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At a time when the issue of racial inequality is making airwaves across the nation, people from all walks of life are called in to make a stand, and those in the wedding industry are no exception. A true leader in the industry, Terrica Skaggs is an award-winning planner and leading the movement for #UnityThroughCommunity. In June 2020, she brought together an exceptional line up of wedding industry professionals for a town hall called "Healing Wounds & Bridging Gaps: An Honest Conversation about Race and Allyship in the Wedding Industry." Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier were both inspired by the town hall conversation, as were over 2,000 other wedding professionals. It is a great eye-opener to the myriad issues associated with racial inequality and the movement against oppression. With Terrica's blessing, they are sharing the audio from the town hall, so the message can be amplified. Terrica will be hosting an additional town hall focused on the action plan for the industry in the coming weeks. Jamie & Heather encourage listeners to follow her social media account for more details.
Other wedding industry professionals included in the town hall conversation include: Jason Marino - https://www.instagram.com/imaginephotoaz/ Heather Benge - https://www.instagram.com/styledshootsacrossamerica/ Denice Lillie - https://www.instagram.com/deniselillieengagements/ Michael Stravros - https://www.instagram.com/mculinaryaz/ Eliana Baucicault - https://www.instagram.com/bcollectivemag/ Jamie Lee Quickert - https://www.instagram.com/jamieleequickert/ Brian Green - https://www.instagram.com/bybriangreen/ Kirsten Ott Palladino - https://www.instagram.com/kirstenpalladino/
About Chantelle: The daughter of Canadian small business owners, Chantelle began her career at age 17 as the in-house makeup artist for a hair salon in Sidney, BC. Chantelle has spent the last 18 years blending beauty with business. In 2014, bringing her understanding of startup culture and the evolution of the beauty industry to the table, she joined the STYLEBEE founding members team. As a celebrity makeup artist, Chantelle has styled such notables as Seal and Emmanuelle Chriqui among countless others. As a businesswoman Chantelle sat on a White House Business Council panel and as the Creative Director of STYLEBEE Chantelle has blended her multifaceted background to build an international network of over 3,000 beauty professionals.
Chantelle says “As a STYLEBEE creative director am I able to utilize every skill I possess and then some! Everyday in a startup is an incredible learning/growth experience.”
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Chantelle discuss:
- Not signing a contract first. Ask questions, develop a relationship, and know how you feel about the person first.
- Being an easy client sometimes can create problems in the end by not asking the right or enough questions.
- Communication between an artist and the bride is vital.
- Find inspiration that has the same skin tone, hair tone, hair texture that you have and provide them for your artist.
- Be realistic. The inspiration you bring may not work for you.
Key Takeaways:
- When you are spending money you have a right to ask questions and make suggestions.
- Always ask for example photos of previous work that compares to your features.
- It’s ok to not be able to provide a service you just need to be up front and honest. Refer her to someone who fits with her and can provide that service.
- Stylebee handles the logistics, booking, management, and payments for the services you are looking for, or provide.
"Just because someone has good work doesn’t mean they can do every type of style and just because they have been in the industry for 30-40 years doesn’t mean they can do everything." — Chantelle Hartshorne
Join the conversation in the Facebook community- https://www.facebook.com/groups/808964402938175/?ref=share
Connect with Chantelle Hartshorne:
Website: Stylebee
Stylebee/Weddings
Email: Support@Stylebee.com
Pros@Stylebee.com
Chantelle@Stylebee.com
Instagram: @stylebee
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Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerclub/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
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About Zabrina Zablan: Zabrina Zablan is a wedding planner based on the beautiful island of O'ahu. She was born and raised on the island before spending a handful of years in California in early adulthood. She founded the Gay Agenda Co after her experience planning her own wedding; she is passionate about developing a more inclusive culture in the wedding industry. Her favorite part about being a wedding planner is being a part of her clients' love stories.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Zabrina discuss:
- Planning weddings for LGBTQ+ community and their allies.
- Being gay affirming and supporting gay owned buisniess and vendors.
- Help couples who may not have family support by offering counsel and guidance through the wedding experience.
- Destination wedding: hire someone experienced in the local area to educate yourself of the local customs to be respectful.
Key Takeaways:
- Be aware of how you communicate with the couples and helpers in an effort to make everyone feel involved and important in the wedding.
- Showcase that you are a gay affirming wedding vendor.
- Use affirming verbiage and ask your couples what traditions if any they want included in the wedding.groom/bride, not all normal wedding traditions
- Post photos of gay couples all year long not just in June for Pride month.
- Deconstruct gender norms and strive to be gender neutral by diversifying who you are seeing on your feed and by reading blogs.
"Love really has no gender." — Zabrina Zablan
Get your free copy of Heather’s book “The Budget Hacker- A Budget-Minded Wedding Playbook” here- https://theweddinghacker.com/playbook/#cbc17c8bb0
Connect with Zabrina Zablan:
Website: The Gay Agenda.CO
Instagram: @thegayagenda.co
Email: Info@TheGayAganda.Co
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Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerclub/
Pintrest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
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About Ariel Macon-Richard: Ariel has been a licensed clinician for 14 years. She supervises interns and other clinicians while helping to build various mental health programs. Ariel is trained in mindfulness, self-care, and a Certified Wellness Coach.
In this episode, Jamie, Heather and Ariel discuss:
- Mindfulness: intentionally focusing on the present.
- Show kindness and compassion.
- Be present, focused, and intentional about your time and life.
- Only worry about what you can control.
- Lead through example and have empathy for others.
Key Takeaways:
- In mindfulness, be focused on the present in a non-judgemental way. Don’t be focused too far into the future or too far into the past. That is not in your control.
- Be kind and show compassion to yourself as well as others. Treat others in a way that makes them feel human and that you understand and see their presence.
- Find a way to stay connected, but still find time to disconnect and think of, and enjoy what we are grateful for.
- Worry about what we can control. When we worry about what is beyond our control we bring anxiety and fear.
- Our actions speak louder than our words. Be inclusive and kind in your treatment of people in your life and business. Focus on having a non-judgmental stance.
"When we focus on what is out of our control, that is where anxiety and fear lie." — Ariel Macon-Richard
Connect with Ariel Macon-Richard:
Facebook: Meditate Motivate & Movement
Show: Meditate Motivate & Movement
Instagram: @yourhappylivingsolutions
@meditatemotivatemovement
@herecometherichards
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Connect with Jamie:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Website: https://jwcoordination.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwcoordination/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JWCoordination/
Connect with Heather:
Website: https://theweddinghacker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/weddinghacker
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weddinghackerclub/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theweddinghacker/
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In this episode, Jamie and Heather discuss:
- “The Wedding Tax”- those charges and fees for anything wedding related.
- Why the extra fee? Prep time, clean up time, behind the scenes work, etc.
- Vendor Marketing: Are you inadvertently creating a bigger wedding tax?
- Are these leads from these big expensive platforms a reliable lead?
- What is your cost per client acquisition with your marketing platform?
- Urge clients to look for how vendors are advertising and if those costs rollover.
Key Takeaways:
- “Wedding tax,” these fees are added to compensate the vendors for the additional time and communication spent with wedding couples.
- Advertising, bridal shows, and some marketing platforms are expensive. Those expenses are then made up by charging more to the clientele.
- Some big marketing platforms can create big expenses, competitiveness, anxiety, stress, and are not beneficial for the most part. This could lead to you to unintentionally add a “wedding tax” to your overall costs.
- What is your overall cost per acquisition? If it’s high look at different ways to market and get leads for less money. Shift your business away from paying for advertising that isn’t very beneficial and create your own advertising.
Connect with Jamie and Heather :
Website: https://theunionpodcast.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unionpodcast/?hl=en
Show: https://theunionpodcast.com/our-podcast/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdAcY6YGgF-RgGYXTsOENbA
Email: info@theunionpodcast.com
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Ready for a raise? Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier have said it before, but today they’ll say it again… it is time to lean into digital marketing and develop a community to fuel your business. Jamie and Heather brought in an expert on developing raving online fans to share some wisdom with you all. His name is Joe Fier. Beyond being an investor, marketing expert, and podcast host, Joe is also Heather’s husband. This episode dives into techniques to grow an online audience that will fuel your business and profits.
Becoming a wedding planner is not something that just happens overnight. It takes a lot of preparation, a specific taste, and a whole lot of networking to really be at the top of your game. Jamie Wolfer puts Heather Loree Fier in the hot seat to talk about her journey from planning events to becoming a wedding planner. Heather’s journey is an incredibly inspiring one with lots of lessons to take away, so make sure you don’t miss out!
Nothing is more thrilling than doing what you really love and getting paid for it. For Jamie Wolfer, wedding planning is that dream job. Flipping their format in this episode, Jamie is interviewed by co-host Heather Loree Fier about her entrepreneurial journey. Jamie shares how she got started, her greatest moments, and the biggest lessons she learned. Jamie planned her own wedding and just refused to stop from there.
Wedding pros often see how wedding planning and finances strain relationships. The lack of a shared collaborative vision can often cause couples to grow apart. Jocelyn and Aaron Freeman join Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier today to share guidance and wisdom that will help couples grow and strengthen their relationship during this challenging era. Jocelyn and Aaron are authors, speakers, and sought after relationship coaches who help motivated couples become a true team. They believe that couples should have a shared vision so that they can fully collaborate as they enter a new chapter in their lives. Whether you are listening with your own partner in mind or listening with hopes of better serving your engaged clients, this episode is a goodie.
Weddings have gotten prohibitively expensive, thus more newly engaged couples are finding themselves in situations wherein they actively have to seek out deals to afford the wedding they want. Luckily, wedding rentals have made this particular situation miles easier to manage. In this episode, Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier chat with Marie Kubin from Rent My Wedding about how wedding industry pros and engaged couples can benefit from the unique offerings they provide. Marie demonstrates how wedding rentals are perfect for those who are willing to go the DIY route—and save a lot of money in the process.
During this economic downturn, closing a sale is a longer process than normal. The key is being in the forefront of your clients’ minds. Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier discuss generating and building relationships with your leads. By providing amazing value now, you’ll be on top of mind when they are ready to make a purchase. They also talk about how to create a lead magnet for your wedding business and share some information about the best ways to generate leads, including emailing and relationship building.
No one wants their wedding to be remembered as unremarkable and boring. A special day such as this warrants an equally special ceremony with memorable moments that last a lifetime. Delivering this kind of experience to others, Mark Allan Groleau of Unboring!Wedding joins Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier for a chat about fun, story-based wedding ceremonies. He also spills all the details on developing his online program called Unboring!Officiant—from why he made that pivot to how impactful it has been for his business. Learn from Mark’s experience about launching a virtual resource to help the masses officiate weddings in a more entertaining and engaging way. Say goodbye to boring in this episode and say hello to an amazing wedding ceremony that tells the magic of a couple’s love story.
No matter where you are in business, once you start on your journey, the only way to go is up. However, for some, growing business tends to be a far-reaching concept, proving to be way more challenging than starting one. In this episode, Dave McQueen of Amari Productions provides great insights into how you can make this already possible thing closer to reality. Starting with his own story, he shares his journey of growing and scaling his wedding videography company. At the heart of it is having a solid team that can collectively carry on your business goals. Dave shares his tips for building and developing your A-team so you can take your company to the next level.
The Internet is ripe with not only sources but also tools that make our lives better. For business people, this means having that extra support system to delegate processes and tasks so we can focus on doing the best we have to offer for our business. In this episode, Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier dig into the tools they use to keep their businesses running smoothly. They share the applications that you can implement into your business strategy for a smoother sailing, more productive, and better-streamlined business process. Join in on this great conversation that will guide you on how to take advantage of what the Internet has to offer and will make you become better business people.
For a day in your life as important as your own wedding, it’s hard to not want all the best things for your big day. The reality is that in the present, weddings have become almost prohibitively expensive for all parties involved in them, that is why many people are finding smart and crafty ways to go about them. Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier speak with a high-end wedding vendor, Meghan Makela. Pulling from her own experience, Meghan shares her story of being a budget-conscious bride while working in the more luxurious sector of her industry. This is a unique insider perspective that you’re not going to want to miss!
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With social distancing in place to help flatten the curve of the COVID-19 Pandemic, many social gatherings have been put to a stop. This is undeniably a very trying time for those in the wedding industry, feeling the burden of the sudden shift in business operations. Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier address the elephant in the room in this episode to help you navigate this challenging wedding season. Packed with actionable guidance, they show you that there is a way to keep your business in everyone’s mind. With some creativity, collaboration, and focus, you can emerge from this season of chaos and fear much stronger and even more ready to take on big challenges.
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We live in an Amazon and Google world. Consumers expect immediate gratification, 24/7 support, and a polished online presence. Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier welcome Trevor Wessman-Lavelle from Aisle Planner to discuss the dramatic changes in client expectations over recent years. They dive into the realities of running a business in this 24/7/365 world, especially when you’re running as a solopreneur. Now more than ever, small businesses need smart systems to deliver a product or service that the clients of today love. Allow Trevor to help figure out how we can let tech work for us to create a fuller customer experience, set clear boundaries, and have a better overall quality of life. Sharpen your tech game to deliver a stellar client experience through this great conversation.
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Most of the time, people use work as an excuse for the lack of self-care they give themselves. Working on that key factor may be the answer to surviving this wedding season. In this episode, Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier give out some amazing tips on how you can improve your work efficiency and improve your lifestyle in one go. They emphasize the fact that preparation still determines how well you’ll do when the wedding season begins. If you are an engaged couple diving into your planning journey or a vendor ready to work at full speed for the coming months of the wedding season, your life might be feeling a little over-packed very soon. Jamie and Heather are dishing out wisdom on how to handle the coming months without burning yourself out. Learn the basic foundations you need to work on if you want to reach success.
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Despite the constantly changing and shifting trends in wedding culture, the one thing you can almost always rely on seeing at a wedding is flowers. Wedding flowers are their own industry. In recent years, more service providers have been working towards being able to provide their services to a wider range of clientele with different budgetary needs and restrictions. Alison Fleck of Juniper Designs and Bloom Culture Flowers is a top floral designer who’s been recognized by the likes of lifestyle mogul Martha Stewart. Joining Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier, Alison dives into the ability of a business to provide service to people at different price points. Empower your clients by making them an active part of your process.
Instagram Stories has become its very own breakout marketing tool thanks to the accessibility and easy engagement it creates for businesses working on Instagram. This is why the platform has become so important in creating brand engagement not only for popular personalities and individuals, but also for businesses. Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier talk about the who, what, when, where, and why of sharing free content to build a community of raving fans. Jamie shares tactical tips about how to make videos that your audience will engage with. Making sure you’re not being left behind on the IG Story curve!
For those in the wedding industry, delivering the best value for your clients is greatly a one-shot experience. When the wedding is done, you are left hoping that they are happy and satisfied with your work. That is why the quest for overdelivering value is very crucial in this industry. However, to do so, you have to go through the money talk with your clients. Financial mastermind, Dan Hinz from Adulting with Money, joins hosts Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier to discuss the financial knowledge that every single vendor should have in their tool kit. This financial wisdom is important for vendors to have for their clients; it allows you to better guide couples through this (often) once-in-a-lifetime journey. Going deeper into providing you amazing knowledge, Dan also dives into financial wisdom for vendors on how to best ride the waves of entrepreneurship.
Event planning is a thriving industry. However, every event planner or coordinator is not without his or her foibles as mistakes happen to everybody in business. In this episode, Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier laugh at some of the mistakes they have made in their event planning careers. They hope listeners learn what not to do from this tell-all episode so that they can grow their businesses faster and enjoy their lives to the fullest.
Attending weddings as a groomsman or as guest is an honor but the journey to getting the perfect tuxedo can be daunting. Here with Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier is Nathan Bellah whose company offers a solution to bring the right tux without wasting time driving to the rental or on fittings. In this episode, Nathan, the VP of Marketing for Generation Tux, amazes us with how they are ditching the brick and mortar for a digital-based business. He notes how logistics is a powerful tool for their growing business and how vendors can partner with online-based solutions to create a win-win for vendors, clients, and awesome resources. He also talks about the icon of the suiting space, George Zimmer, and the vision for the future of the industry.
Juggling tasks between schedules, meeting clients, and keeping a home intact is a superhero’s job. This, for sure, is something that Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier are doing in their everyday lives. In this episode, Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier discuss the struggle to find a work-life balance. They also share the systems that are working and tricks that help them to keep balance, where improvements can be made, and their goals for 2020 in finding a better balance.
Weddings these days are evolving to be savvier and costlier. In this episode, Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier interview the fantastic Jessica Bishop from Budget Savvy Bride. Here, she talks about why there is tension between the budget wedding community and the general wedding industry. Even so, there is always a way to balance it out, which Jessica can help us with. She shares how the wedding industry can help each other and where the niche is heading. Jessica then shares how vendors with budget resources can grow what they have.
When growing your business, the traditional approach to dealing with competitors is by beating them. However, in this episode, hosts Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier veer away from this thinking and instead reflect on the immense value collaboration has brought to their businesses and their clients. Not only true to them, but this idea has also been slowly starting to set the wedding industry on fire. They dive deeper to discuss why this traditional approach no longer serves wedding vendors or clients and how a shift from a scarcity to an abundance mindset benefits your business even more. Giving you a fuller perspective, Jamie and Heather also tap on the logistics of collaborating with a competitor. Get inside in today’s discussion and find immense value from this unconventional business approach.
Life is not without challenges, even more felt when you have something to reach for. Here to tell us how they help individuals and organizations achieve what matters most through goal setting are AnneMarie Schindler and Melissa Stewart, co-founders of Ivy.Ly Co. Starting with their own share of overcoming challenges and tackling goals, AnneMarie and Melissa talk about their entrepreneurial journeys that started from an unlikely place—the public collapse of a very successful and impactful nonprofit. Amidst the chaos, they planned their own weddings and took on new challenges as entrepreneurs. These ladies have leveraged the power of intentional goal setting, accountability, and community to achieve dreams in their lives. Just in time for the new year, take in all the goal-setting advice and wisdom from AnneMarie and Melissa and have a fresh start this new decade as you go boldly towards your dreams.
In this modern world, many have forgotten the power of in-person networking. So much now happens online that people are slowly overlooking the value of real-life connections in both business and life. In this episode, hosts Heather Loree Fier and Jamie Wolfer dive into the ways networking in real life have grown their businesses. Human connection is the key to success in the wedding industry. The ladies explore how you can leverage this technique and empower you to grow your network.
The age-old question for wedding vendors is how do you get your name out there and make sure you reach the right people? In the age of social media, some might argue marketing for wedding vendors has become a lot easier and doesn’t require the capital that it might have in the past. Max Sadik, wedding photographer extraordinaire, chats with Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier about how wedding vendors can make the most bang for their buck when it comes to marketing. At the end of the day, marketing really is a game of being smart about who you want to reach and what kind of content you want to provide for them. Learn from one of the most booked photographers in the industry, and see how you can avoid overpaying for advertising that you can essentially do for yourself.
Wedding planning can be one of the most stressful things about the wedding once you’ve committed to it. Finalizing dates, gathering vendors, making sure everything is in place for the big day all falls into place if you can just start right. Wedding planners Jamie Wolfer and Heather Loree Fier help you get started right on the path towards your big day. In the wedding planning industry, there are good, bad, and absolutely beautiful things, and Jamie and Heather take you through all of them in detail. Your path to the big day begins here!