By Sasha Vasilyuk, I DO PR Submitting real or styled weddings has become the go-to way for wedding professionals to get their work published. A couple of years ago, getting a real wedding published on a blog was cause for true celebration because it often brought real customers to your doors. Today, however, wedding blogs and social media channels have

Your source of all things wedding biz from around the web. All Things Weddings: 5 Startups Disrupting the Wedding Industry: The wedding industry in the US is changing, and these start-ups are behind it. Wedding PR: The Key Components for a Real Wedding Submission: Meghan Ely shares how featuring actual events is one of the best forms of PR for

By Meghan Ely, OFD Consulting I’ll never forget my first weekend as a wedding reception planner. I had three weddings, uncomfortable shoes (hello, newbie mistake!) and a clipboard filled with minute details, all of which had to be executed just so. Intimidating doesn’t even begin to cover it. Thankfully, after a few successful events under my belt, as well as

  Last month a journalist from our local newspaper called to interview me for an article she was writing about green weddings.  Would I be interested in answering a few questions about how couples could plan an environmentally friendly wedding?  Do I mind if she quotes me? Would I mind.  Seriously? A good number of the people reading that article

by Meghan Ely   I’ve always been particularly envious of wedding pros who could grab a 120″ linen, a handful of flowers and some table numbers and turn it into a thing of beauty. Me? I’ve always been an excel spreadsheet girl. My couples’ Grand Entrances always started on time and my post-reception “what do we do with all these leftover candles

by Meghan Ely If there is one thing that I don’t miss about wedding planning, it would be wedding feet. Despite my best efforts prior to the start of wedding season, you could still find me every Sunday with a set of numb feet propped up on the couch, while I bemoaned of the far less glamorous aspects to my

 by Meghan Ely Like many of the brides I used to work with in my previous life, I met my husband on Match.com. Unlike most brides I used to work with, I actually saw him out on a date with someone else prior to our first date. This wouldn’t have been so controversial if he hadn’t said he was at his

Thomas Murrell takes an interesting view on PR marketing and planning in his article by drawing examples from the planning behind making the royal wedding a success. Planning the PR and marketing for your wedding business needs to be intense, with drawn out steps of action that you stick to. Getting distracted from the plan is what will create a marketing

by Meghan Ely  I’ll admit it- sometimes I grow weary of my beloved lap top.  There are days that I simply don’t feel like logging into it, keeping up with it and balancing it with the rest of my day to day To Dos. Some 2004 style when a Facebook Profile was simply you’re who, what, when and where.  I