Institute of Professional Wedding Planners

Tips covered in 'Vital Advice for a Wedding Planner'

• As a wedding planner, how quickly can you get established?
• Are Wedding Fairs a good place to find business?
• Three important things about social networking.
• How effective is magazine advertising for a wedding planner?
• What’s the most effective way to get clients?
• How important is a website?
• Do affluent brides have a different attitude compared with brides with less money?
• One drawback to being a wedding planner.
• Advice from a potential wedding disaster. What to do if something might go wrong at a wedding.
• Three methods of charging.
• How to get more revenue per client.
• Are selling skills important for a wedding planner?
• The percentage we recommend you seek from regular suppliers.
• How to save a bride money.
• What responsibility you should take for paying suppliers on behalf of the bride.
• What format could your contract take? And how should you deliver it? Who should help you with your contract?
• If the wedding cake turns out not to be very nice, what responsibility should you take?
• How important are overseas weddings?
• Do you many enquiries for gay weddings?
• Several major trends in weddings.
• Advice for a new wedding planner.