Wedding Planner Society Podcast

Join Laurie Hartwell (founder and CEO of the Certified Wedding Planner Society) and Krisy Thomas (owner of Southern Sparkle Events and co-instructor for the Certified Wedding Planner Society’s Wedding Planner Certification Program), as they discuss who your unexpected bestie in the industry should be! Krisy talks about when she first found the Certified Wedding Planner Society. She mentions that s...

There are millions of engaged couples planning weddings right now and looking for a wedding planner, but not every couple is meant to be YOUR client. In this episode, we are going to touch on some ways you may not mesh well with a couple, and the fact that Certified Wedding Planners need to interview their potential clients just as much as the clients are interviewing them. If you are a Wedding Pl...

One of the most important parts of a wedding planner's job is the heavy responsibility of matching excellent wedding professionals with our amazing couples. Reputable wedding planners don't work with wedding pros who haven’t proven themselves to be credible, reliable, and talented. This means there is a lot of investigation that wedding planners have to put into creating their dream team...

As wedding planners, we are constantly looking for our ideal clients, but are we looking for the right set of characteristics? In this episode, we will discuss what wedding planners should be looking for in their ideal clients, and then we will dive deeper, discussing how incredibly important it is to be the ideal wedding planner for our ideal clients. Join us for this great conversation! Become a...

Every wedding planner has been there...they take on too many clients and then feel overwhelmed, overworked, and definitely not overjoyed. Join Laurie Hartwell and Krisy Thomas with the Certified Wedding Planner Society (previously known as The Bridal Society), the world's leading wedding planner certification program and largest membership of Certified Wedding Planners, as they discuss why so...

This episode of The Wedding Planner Podcast talks about how wedding planners are being ghosted, how it makes us feel, and tips on how to avoid it from happening.  We discuss knowing your value and how to teach people how to treat you. Join two veteran Master Certified Wedding Planners chatting, venting, and sharing their thoughts.  Listen to the end where we play a fun game of "Would You Rath...