Andrea Eppolito | Celebrating Life, Luxury, & Above All Else Love

Get to know DJ Digital Dave. His resume is vast and varied. He works for the Pittsburgh Steelers, researches the psychology between songs and memories, and got his start in a roller rink. Check him out on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/djdigitaldave1/ and on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/djdigitaldave/ MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppolito.com Wedding Busines...

In today’s episode, I discuss the impact of Covid-19 with Sean Low of the BBC Collective. How do you move through a pandemic when everything is uncertain? When you are in the middle of a crisis, how can you tell what the final impact will be? What can you do today to impact your future? Sean makes some predictions about the demise of the middle and the impact for those who care the most. MY SERVIC...

It’s been an intense few weeks on the podcast and in the world! For this episode, I wanted to go back to a simpler time when I was just hanging out enjoying girl talk with my friend, Wedding Fashion Expert Naryi of Lovella Bridal. This is from when she interviewed me on her podcast and I just love our easy banter and the way that we communicate! MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.and...

It’s April Fool’s Day but this is not a joke….I am BEGGING you to STOP complaining! As an eternal optimist, I am always looking for the bright side of things. I am always looking for the silver lining, the lesson, and the pathway forward. I get that we are living in weird times and that things are strange, but some of us are taking this to a less than great level. So instead of complaining, I’m gi...

As wedding and event professionals, we manage a number of relationships. Our industry talks at great length about how we treat our clients and how we treat ourselves, but we do not spend nearly enough time on how we treat each other. In this episode, I discuss the importance of managing vendor relationships as a business strategy. MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppolito.com...

How to live through a recession and have your business come out stronger on the other side. Every business will go through a recession - A dip in revenue and in volume. Leads become fewer. Your closing rate decreases. You wonder if you and your business will survive. Not only is this a normal part of business, but a vital one. Being in the dip gives you a unique opportunity to review your business...

Every business and every professional can benefit from business coaching and consulting services. I have a tendency not to dive too deeply into the services that I offer on this podcast, because I never want it to be a sales-y space. However, as someone who has been hired both as a coach and a consultant, I wanted to take a moment to explain the differences between the two services to those of you...

Managing vendor relationships is key in both running your wedding business and managing your client's experience. By developing pre and post-wedding surveys and reviewing the information with your team, you will be better at conflict resolution and team building. MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppolito.com Wedding Business Consulting: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/consulti...

How will the Coronavirus impact the wedding industry? What can we do as wedding professionals to help keep our clients calm? MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppolito.com Wedding Business Consulting: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/consulting Speaking & Appearances: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/speaking Online Education: https://courses.andreaeppolito.com/   Are you...

I have been receiving a lot of leads lately that start with “I got your name from…” or “I was referred to you by…” and it struck me how much easier these conversations go, how much more often they convert to paying clients, and how important the 3 Rs really are: Referrals, Relationships, and Reputation In this episode, I discuss why referrals are so valuable, why relationships matter so much, and...

This “stream of conscious” episode features Wedding Fashion Expert Nayri and I talking about our projects and partnership. How do you know when you have found someone that you really connect with? What allows trust to build in a professional relationship, and how do you know if you have found a partner that you can align your brand with? MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppol...

How does the team at Wedding MBA vet their speakers and plan their tradeshow? What should you do if you want to apply as a speaker? Is it worth taking a booth? Shannon Underwood of Wedding MBA answers these questions and more on today’s episode. For more information on Wedding MBA visit https://www.weddingmba.com/ or call 480-636-1066. MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppolit...

I recently got mean, personal email from a vendor who was offended that I unsubscribed to their email. I responded and my email was both honest and informative, with an ending that did take a swipe at the sender. It resulted in a tit for tat, and made me wonder…. Why can't we just be nice to one another? MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppolito.com Wedding Business Consultin...

How should you approach a potential mentor? Offering to work for free typically does not work. What you are really asking is for a professional you admire to give you one on one coaching a training / a full-day seminar at no cost. There is a better way to approach someone. Instead of offering to work for free, create a value proposition that allows you to trade a skill you have for time with a bus...

When up and coming wedding planners ask how they should begin, it's very difficult for me to give them advice without knowing anything about them personally. That said, the answer that is ALWAYS true is learn, learn, learn. Education is the answer to every question and will be the thing that saves us as an industry and propels you as an individual further. MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: http...

Let’s talk about how I got started in this industry. How did I become a wedding planner? FAQ: How did you get started in this industry? This is the most commonly asked question that is sent in on email and through direct messages. In this episode, I will share how I discovered the industry and th4e steps I took to become a wedding planner. This is my origin story. MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planni...

The Top 10 Trends of 2020. The biggest wedding trends that we can expect to see this decade. MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppolito.com Wedding Business Consulting: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/consulting Speaking & Appearances: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/speaking Online Education: https://courses.andreaeppolito.com/   Are you a Wedding Professional?  M...

Happy New Year...New Decade! How do you approach this? Do you look at it as a new beginning or as an end? My entire life I’ve hated endings. I struggle with goodbyes, I mourn the ending of friendships, leaving jobs, walking away. Endings always brought me such sadness.... And yet every end is a new beginning, and so they are necessary. So what do we do on a go-forward basis? There are THREE (3) im...

How do you survive a recession? What can you do during a dip in your primary business? Recently I spoke at the Engage! Luxury Wedding Summits conference in Nizuc, Mexico. My topic was not only how you survive a recession, but how you position yourself in such a way that allows you to come out of the dip and be positioned stronger and in a much better place than before. MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding P...

After 10 Engage! Luxury Wedding Summits, what is the value of my continued participation? How do I now approach the conference? What do I hope to get from the conerence, and give? MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppolito.com Wedding Business Consulting: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/consulting Speaking & Appearances: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/speaking Online Educat...

AS HEARD ON THE WEDDING BIZ PODCAST: ANDREA EPPOLITO: CELEBRATING THE GREATEST LUXURY OF ALL Andrea Eppolito, founder of Andrea Eppolito Events, shares her journey of becoming an event planner, how she establishes relationships with her clients and the magic of creating a unique and personal experience for couples. By Andy Kushner / May 27, 2019 In today’s episode, guest Andrea Eppolito, founder o...

How do you express your thanks for colleagues, clients, and the people you love most? I have ideas for you here, along with a message of gratitude and thanks for this community, this business, and this life. I cannot tell you how much it means to me, now and always. MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppolito.com Wedding Business Consulting: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/consu...

This was my second time speaking at The DJ Collective, a symposium dedicated to the education and empowerment of the DJ Community. https://www.thedjcollectiveofficial.com/ MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppolito.com Wedding Business Consulting: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/consulting Speaking & Appearances: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/speaking Online Education: htt...

In loving memory of my father, Louie Eppolito MY SERVICES Luxury Wedding Planning: https://www.andreaeppolito.com Wedding Business Consulting: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/consulting Speaking & Appearances: https://www.andreaeppolito.com/speaking Online Education: https://courses.andreaeppolito.com/   Are you a Wedding Professional?  My book, Redefining Your Wedding Business can he...

EXCITING NEWS! Tony and I are going on the road….TOGETHER…for the very first time! Over the past 10 years, Tony and I have traveled as educators and consultants separately; me teaching wedding professionals how to grow their businesses intentionally while cutting through the noise of a saturated market while my husband worked with restaurants and hospitality companies creating systems and initiate...