Product Description

Wedding Bells Can Be Sweet Music to Your Bank Account

It's the most important day in many couples' lives, and everything needs to be perfect. With weddings becoming larger, costlier and more complex, more than two-thirds of engaged couples are turning to professional wedding consultants for help. Learn how to combine your creative vision with their individual preferences to create the wedding of their dreams.

Discover the newest wedding trends, such as destination weddings, tapas-style catering, disposable video cameras, wedding logos and more-and find out how to be the first to adopt new trends. Plus, learn everything else you need to know to start and run a successful wedding consultant business, including:

• How to market your services and find customers
• Tips from the pros for handling the unexpected
• What licenses and permits you need
• How to avoid common mistakes
• How to negotiate with vendors to get the best prices
• The most important contacts to make
• And more!

You don't need an office or a lot of startup money. With your creativity and the tips in this book, you'll be well on your way to success!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #148431 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 142 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781599181028
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Not the best book in the series
Start Your Own Wedding Consultant Business is somewhat usefull, but I found its sister publication, Start Your Own Event Planning Business by Krista Thoren Turner, to be better written and have stronger content. Almost everything covered in the Wedding edition is covered in the Event Planning one, so if you're only willing to buy one book get the Event Planning edition- I reference my copy constantly. That said, there are a few gems in the Wedding edition so it's worth skimming if you can borrow it from the library or get a cheap used copy.

A good reference, but is really just a gloss-over
I found this book to be a great starting point for someone like me who really needed help with the business-end of starting a wedding consulting business. However, I feel that they really glossed over a lot of things, and went on a few tangents about other topics that are common sense.

This book has some great information about taking the first business steps in getting started, such as the difference between LLC's and Corporations, etc. It also has a good cost breakdown of the different fees for applying for a home-based business and such.

However, I was really hoping for more information about how to get established in the industry as well. How much does a start-up charge customers who haven't done any wedding coordinations, but have a background is corporate event planning? Do you do some weddings pro bono? How much do you charge when you've done a few weddings for free? How much do you need to charge for different packages to stay alive? What services should you offer at first? I would have liked to have seen the wedding planners who are interviewed throughout the book been asked how they each got their start in the business, which is just as important, I think, as getting the licenses, certification and vendor relationships.

It just seemed like the book jumped from, "Okay, get a desk, some pens and a computer" to "Get certification" to "Advertise your business." But what about in between?

I would have also liked to see examples of contracts and ways to protect your business, rather than the cop-out of "Hire a lawyer, it's real important." The "necessary office supplies" section could have been completely eliminated, and more valuable information could have taken its place.

Overall, though, it was a good starting point, but I'll definitely have to read a few more books to get a grasp on starting out in the industry.