Wedding Planners Are In Demand!
It used to be common for the bride and her family to plan the entire wedding, from invitations to the ceremony and reception. Not so any longer! In The Wedding Boom, a report published by the prestigious Conde Nast Bridal Group, the facts show that the percentage of couples hiring a professional Wedding Planner to plan their wedding has DOUBLED in just the last 3 years!
In her report, Wedding & Honeymoon Statistics, highly respected author and noted wedding expert Susan Breslow Sardone reports that the American wedding industry is BIG business, totaling more than $50 Billion each year. There are close to 2.5 million weddings every year in the United States an average of 44,230 weddings every single weekend! Weddings have gotten much more elaborate as well. No longer a simple afternoon gathering, some weddings are actually a 3-or 4-day event, with theme and destination weddings setting new trends. With large-scale weddings like this, it's easy to see why the average cost of an American wedding is now over $27,000! With that much money at stake it's no wonder thousands of couples are now hiring professional Wedding Planners to make sure their wedding day is flawless.
Wedding Planners typically charge 15 - 20% of the total cost of the wedding for their services. This means you could make a GREAT income... When you start your own Wedding Planning business, you're the boss! You work as much or as little as you want when you want.
Here are just a few of the little-known secrets you're about to discover:
- Current wedding trends and new traditions to consider.
- How to conduct the first interview with your client - when you need a contract and what it should include.
- Learn the specific traits you MUST develop to succeed as a Wedding Planner - ignore these at your peril!
- he importance of networking and how to become successful at it to build your business.
- How to market your services - what to include in your portfolio.
- What a typical wedding planning timeline should look like and what it should include.
- Catherine's "secret tip" for getting new clients - after the wedding!
- What to do when too many family members want to help plan your wedding.
- Secret tips on budgeting and saving money on every aspect of your wedding.
