What can you give your fellow wedding peeps to show your love and appreciation? Here are a few unusual ideas for the wedding vendor in your life. Gift #1 – The Perfect Pricing Plan Pricing your packages and products is tricky, but it gets a lot easier when you have done for you market research revealing the average cost of

Recently, we had the pleasure of interviewing Nancy Tucker of Weddings Beautiful. She provided some great insight and advice about the issues facing wedding planners today, along with some great ideas to help overcome challenges and have a successful wedding business. What is the biggest challenge facing wedding planners today? Today’s wedding planners face many challenges, including the growing DIY

Shannon Underwood is the speaker and profit coordinator for Wedding MBA. She helps to develop the topics, speakers, videography, as well as the conference. She’s a Jill of all trades! We asked her to share a bit of her expertise, and (lucky you!) she did! Let’s get started… What is the Wedding MBA? Wedding MBA is a series of educational

What do wedding vendors want? Last month we sent a survey to our wedding vendor friends asking for their opinion about some freshy-fresh training ideas we have in mind. We just HAD to find out what you want the most, so we can give it to you. Well, we read through every one of the hundreds of survey responses to

It’s been years since I’ve been a wedding guest. Despite my warnings to engaged and pre-engaged family and friends that if they want me at the wedding, they need to call me with a date as soon as it’s official, we’re still forced to decline invitation after invitation because those weddings are: a) in prime wedding season  b) on a Saturday

I came across a rather interesting article called, “How to Negotiate With Your Wedding Vendors.”   Of course, this immediately caught my eye. It’s always a good thing to know what the media is telling brides about negotiating.  This advice wasn’t too hard core (I actually saw one article recommend LYING to vendors to get the best deal… “Why not? They

These are the most Frequently Asked Questions of wedding vendors and blog posts that offer tips and strategies to answer them. We’ll be adding to this list as we go, so if you have a question you’d like us to answer, please leave a comment and we’ll get to it as soon as we can. Thanks! How Do I Deal

Jeff and I have dedicated ourselves to answering the pressing questions of wedding professionals. If we don’t have the answers, we’ll find ’em! The response has been PHENOMENAL.  I’ve got literally hundreds of emails filled with questions and challenges.  Our heartfelt thanks goes out to everyone who has shared with us. But there is a Dark Side… There are so