S4 E14: Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall isn't a Marketing Plan | Evolve Your Wedding Business
S4 E14: Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall isn't a Marketing Plan | Evolve Your Wedding Business

Wedding professionals, I don't know who needs to hear this today, but...⁠
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⚡Get your hands out of everyone else's wallet and don't price your services or products based on what other people are doing⁠
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⚡Don't watch what everyone else seems to be doing and try to imitate them, just hoping it works for you⁠
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⚡And, remember that your clientele has never planned a wedding before, so step back from the curse of knowledge and educate your clients⁠
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These are just a few tidbits that came out of our conversation with Heidy Thompson, the woman behind Evolve Your Wedding Business.⁠ We delve into marketing in the wedding industry and how different it is from most other entrepreneurial spaces. ⁠

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S4E13: Engage with Your Engagement | Wedding Coach, Makeup Artist, Married Human
S4E13: Engage with Your Engagement | Wedding Coach, Makeup Artist, Married Human

Planning a wedding can bring up a lot of emotions — for everyone.

Getting the support you need in order to engage with your engagement, manage expectations (yours and others), and move forward with excitement!

Planning your wedding - and your marriage! - should feel fun, not frustrating. Sara is joined by Jacquelyn Burt, the woman behind First Looks.

Jacquelyn is a coach, educator, and award-winning wedding makeup artist.

She combines her experience as a wedding industry pro with training in education and counseling to offer both on-site makeup services and personalized emotional support coaching. Her work is to bring ease, clarity, and joy into your wedding planning and celebration!

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S4E11: A Fun and Accessible Wedding - All You Need is a Little Outside-the-Box Thinking | Married Couple
S4E11: A Fun and Accessible Wedding - All You Need is a Little Outside-the-Box Thinking | Married Couple

Have you ever thought about how lighting, the height of the centerpieces, combining live music with a DJ, and captioning your music might enhance your guest experience (and yours)?

What about scheduled a 45-minute nap into your wedding day? Outside the box thinking can make your wedding day more enjoyable than you ever imagined!

In this episode of The Wedding Dish, we dive into a whole bunch of ways that weddings can be accessible and super fun!

From having interpreters to transcripts to captioning the music and displaying it, Keri and Andrew made sure everyone was included in their wedding day. And, we love it!

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S4E10: African Wedding Celebrations and What Makes them so Unique
S4E10: African Wedding Celebrations and What Makes them so Unique

How do we learn about different cultures and customs? Ask!

Millen, a wedding and event planner in the Washington DC area, shares her experience growing up as an Eritrean woman in the United States and the importance of culture and tradition in wedding celebrations.

In this episode of The Wedding Dish, we dive into Ethiopian, Sierra Leone, and Eritrean wedding traditions.

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S4E9: May the Force be with You | An Elegant Star Wars Wedding
S4E9: May the Force be with You | An Elegant Star Wars Wedding

An elegant Star Wars wedding might seem hard to pull off. Now, imagine incorporating Filipino wedding traditions — and it came together PERFECTLY. When Chad took Johanna to Comicon for their first date, she knew what she was in for — and she was all in. And when their guests received their save the dates, they knew they were in for a real treat. And, you won't believe what they did for their first dance! Truly a first!

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S4E8: Wedding Photography, Inclusivity, and Unique Perspectives | Entrepreneur
S4E8: Wedding Photography, Inclusivity, and Unique Perspectives | Entrepreneur

Excluding LGBTQ+ Couples - or any Couples - Shouldn't be a Thing.

In 2020, one of the major global wedding expos neglected to showcase LGBTQ+ or diverse couples in their styled shoots, according to this week's guest, who was attending for the first (and last) time. Not only that, but the list of presentations didn't include anything about inclusivity or using inclusive language.

I'll be honest... My mind was totally blown when Chris Ferenzi Photography shared this information with me.

A photographer that I very much admire, who also works with many LGBTQ+ couples, I knew I needed to bring him on the show to share this experience.

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S4E7: Gracefully Navigating Stress and Drama | Married Human, Entrepreneur
S4E7: Gracefully Navigating Stress and Drama | Married Human, Entrepreneur

Your friends and family are wildly invested in your wedding day, but they may not know the best way to support you.

Kara O'Brien Ghassabeh, the woman behind Kara Maureen Bridal Coaching, joins us to dish about how to handle stress and anxiety during the wedding planning process without burning bridges.

Weddings are amazing celebrations of love and happiness. But, that doesn't mean there isn't a whole bunch of drama or even just minor anxieties that can happen during the wedding planning journey.

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S4E6: These Ladies are Ready for the Dance Party | Married Humans + Entrepreneurs
S4E6: These Ladies are Ready for the Dance Party | Married Humans + Entrepreneurs

Your friends and family are wildly invested in your wedding day, but they may not know the best way to support you.

Kara O'Brien Ghassabeh, the woman behind Kara Maureen Bridal Coaching, joins us to dish about how to handle stress and anxiety during the wedding planning process without burning bridges.

Weddings are amazing celebrations of love and happiness. But, that doesn't mean there isn't a whole bunch of drama or even just minor anxieties that can happen during the wedding planning journey.

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S4E4: No Crazy Diets at our Table! Just Intuitive Eating | Married Human and Entrepreneur
S4E4: No Crazy Diets at our Table! Just Intuitive Eating | Married Human and Entrepreneur

Setting unrealistic expectations and crazy dieting should be a thing of the past. With the body positivity movement, you'd think it's old news. But, it's still very much the case for most people. Katelyn Parsons is on a mission to change that.

Sara is joined by guest co-host Taylor de la Fuente of Lemon Tree Editorial.

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S4 E2: From “Yes” to “I Do” with Neela Asaadi
S4 E2: From “Yes” to “I Do” with Neela Asaadi

Engaged and Entrepreneurial

A few years after founding Asaadi Graphics, Neela Asaadi got engaged, moved down the east coast of the United States, and helped her fiancée embark on his own entrepreneurial journey.

From her unique perspective, she realized that everyone who is planning a wedding needs additional support. So, what did she do? Neela launched The Wedding Collective!

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