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Education
Lovegevity Wedding
Planning Institute
Your Path to Excellence in Wedding and Event Planning:
Leading Career & Technical Education Provider Partnered with 2200+ Colleges & Universities.
Lovegevity is a leading Career, Technical, and Entrepreneurial Education Publisher and Course Provider, dedicated to helping individuals learn the skills they need to create a fulfilling and rewarding career. Our mission: Do what we love, love what we do, and help others do the same through education, training, and lifelong learning for all.
Webinars
Hotel Gurus
Hotel Gurus is a new service to help pros book hotel room blocks for clients (for free!). The process is super simple and Hotel Gurus shares 10% of the commission with you! Hotel Gurus works with over 50,000 hotels, all across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico and will have the capability to book worldwide in the fall of 2023. As long as the hotel is bookable online, Hotel Gurus can get rates from them.
Business Tools & Resources
Business Tech BFF
Business Tech BFF provides tech support for wedding pros. Whether eliminating your busy work and improving your client experience with workflow automations or streamlining the ways you engage with your digital business tools, they do it all! They’ll help you level up your technology, so your business can run itself while you focus on your couples and their weddings.
Webinar
The Business of Wedding Planning Podcast
How Technology Adds Value
to Your Planning Business
A conversation about the benefits of implementing technology in business. The discussion highlights how technology can drive greater efficiency, enhance service quality, and create opportunities to increase pricing.
WEBINARS
The Venue RX Podcast
Streamline Your Venue Systems with Aisle Planner | Sara Kincaid | The Venue RX
In this episode of the Venue RX podcast, host Jonathan speaks with Sara Kincaid from Aisle Planner, a software company for the wedding and events industry. They discuss the need for resources and best practices for venue owners, and Sara explains the features of Aisle Planner, including lead management, contracting and proposal capabilities, and project management.
EDUCATION
Mae&Co Monthly
Mae&Co Monthly is a membership for planners and designers in the wedding industry that has monthly video courses and digital resources designed to teach you everything from tablescape styling techniques to business mentoring and pricing development. Plus, you’ll gain a constant community of peers to encourage you, provide advice, and share secrets with.
Education
Equally Wed Pro
Equally Wed Pro provides LGBTQ+ inclusive education to wedding, hospitality, and event professionals. Equally Wed Pro’s LGBTQ+ inclusive certification program sets the gold standard for inclusivity and diversity in the events industry. Equally Wed Pro was created by Kirsten and Maria Palladino, the founders of Equally Wed, the leading LGBTQ+ wedding magazine.
Business Tools & Resources
Minted
Help your clients plan the event of their dreams with stationery essentials from Minted.
Through the Minted Planner Program, members receive 35% off save the dates & 25% off all wedding & event stationery to share with clients as well as access to our Planner Rewards Program. Additional perks include complimentary custom design services and free samples for client consultations & styled shoots.
Business Tools & Resources
Wed 2 You
Wed 2 You focuses on organizing and automating businesses within the wedding industry, specializing in creating workflows and templates and building out platforms to streamline and strengthen the backend of the business. The goal is to enrich businesses’ foundations to enable business owners to get back to what they love quicker and with less stress!
Business Tools & Resources
Wedding Hashers
Wedding Hashers helps couples celebrate their love with personal, memorable, and custom wedding hashtags. Our team of professional writers have provided thousands of couples with the perfect hashtags for their wedding day. Think your couples would be interested in our service? YOU can make money by introducing us!
EDUCATION
The CWP Society
Get your Wedding Planning Certification with the nation’s leading Wedding Planning Certification Program and the largest group of Certified Wedding Planners in the world! You will receive lifetime membership, a support system, and many other benefits.
Business Tools & Resources
VOW for Girls
Every year, millions of couples celebrate their love by getting married, and millions of their family and friends celebrate with them. In the U.S. alone, Americans spend $100 billion annually on saying “I do.” But at a time when a child is married somewhere in the world every three seconds, who’s invested in making sure that girls can say “I don’t” or “not yet”? Let’s work together to create a world in which every girl can decide if, when, and whom to marry.
Business Tools & Resources
California Events Coalition
The California Events Coalition was created to provide advocacy, support and resources for our community. We aim to communicate the catastrophic effects of COVID-19 on the business of live events during the statewide conversation to ensure we’re included in policies and relief aid packages moving forward.
Business Tools & Resources
Planner’s Lounge
Planner’s Lounge is a leading resource hub for wedding and event planners, offering expert guidance, business tools, and community support. From templates and courses to real-world advice and inspiration, Planner’s Lounge empowers planners at every stage of their career to grow successful and sustainable businesses.
Business Tools & Resources
The Wedding Business Collective
Heidi Thompson’s value-packed membership, The Wedding Business Collective, provides a focused, proven, step-by-step plan for growing your wedding business without going crazy in the process. Take a test drive with a free 10-day trial to see if it’s a good fit for you!
EDUCATION
The Helm by Beth Helmstetter
The Helm is an educational resource designed for event planners and designers hoping to elevate their planning and design business. Take one course at a time or become a member and receive all access to incredible content, including the opportunity to work one-on-one with Beth.
Webinar
Protecting Your Future With Annette Stepanian
Check out our discussion with Annette Stepanian, attorney for entrepreneurs, about protecting your business from big life changes, creating cash flow, navigating insurance, contracts, and how to handle new engagements and possible postponement fees.
WEBINARS
Hotel Gurus
Hotel Gurus is a new service to help pros book hotel room blocks for clients (for free!). The process is super simple and Hotel Gurus shares 10% of the commission with you! Hotel Gurus works with over 50,000 hotels, all across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico and will have the capability to book worldwide in the fall of 2023. As long as the hotel is bookable online, Hotel Gurus can get rates from them.
Business Tools & Resources
Business Tech BFF
Business Tech BFF provides tech support for wedding pros. Whether eliminating your busy work and improving your client experience with workflow automations or streamlining the ways you engage with your digital business tools, they do it all! They’ll help you level up your technology, so your business can run itself while you focus on your couples and their weddings.
Business Tools & Resources
Minted
Help your clients plan the event of their dreams with stationery essentials from Minted.
Through the Minted Planner Program, members receive 35% off save the dates & 25% off all wedding & event stationery to share with clients as well as access to our Planner Rewards Program. Additional perks include complimentary custom design services and free samples for client consultations & styled shoots.
Business Tools & Resources
Wed 2 You
Wed 2 You focuses on organizing and automating businesses within the wedding industry, specializing in creating workflows and templates and building out platforms to streamline and strengthen the backend of the business. The goal is to enrich businesses’ foundations to enable business owners to get back to what they love quicker and with less stress!
Business Tools & Resources
Wedding Hashers
Wedding Hashers helps couples celebrate their love with personal, memorable, and custom wedding hashtags. Our team of professional writers have provided thousands of couples with the perfect hashtags for their wedding day. Think your couples would be interested in our service? YOU can make money by introducing us!
Business Tools & Resources
VOW for Girls
Every year, millions of couples celebrate their love by getting married, and millions of their family and friends celebrate with them. In the U.S. alone, Americans spend $100 billion annually on saying “I do.” But at a time when a child is married somewhere in the world every three seconds, who’s invested in making sure that girls can say “I don’t” or “not yet”? Let’s work together to create a world in which every girl can decide if, when, and whom to marry.
Business Tools & Resources
California Events Coalition
The California Events Coalition was created to provide advocacy, support and resources for our community. We aim to communicate the catastrophic effects of COVID-19 on the business of live events during the statewide conversation to ensure we’re included in policies and relief aid packages moving forward.
Business Tools & Resources
Planner’s Lounge
Planner’s Lounge is a leading resource hub for wedding and event planners, offering expert guidance, business tools, and community support. From templates and courses to real-world advice and inspiration, Planner’s Lounge empowers planners at every stage of their career to grow successful and sustainable businesses.
Business Tools & Resources
The Wedding Business Collective
Heidi Thompson’s value-packed membership, The Wedding Business Collective, provides a focused, proven, step-by-step plan for growing your wedding business without going crazy in the process. Take a test drive with a free 10-day trial to see if it’s a good fit for you!
Education
Lovegevity Wedding
Planning Institute
Your Path to Excellence in Wedding and Event Planning:
Leading Career & Technical Education Provider Partnered with 2200+ Colleges & Universities.
Lovegevity is a leading Career, Technical, and Entrepreneurial Education Publisher and Course Provider, dedicated to helping individuals learn the skills they need to create a fulfilling and rewarding career. Our mission: Do what we love, love what we do, and help others do the same through education, training, and lifelong learning for all.
EDUCATION
Mae&Co Monthly
Mae&Co Monthly is a membership for planners and designers in the wedding industry that has monthly video courses and digital resources designed to teach you everything from tablescape styling techniques to business mentoring and pricing development. Plus, you’ll gain a constant community of peers to encourage you, provide advice, and share secrets with.
EDUCATION
The CWP Society
Get your Wedding Planning Certification with the nation’s leading Wedding Planning Certification Program and the largest group of Certified Wedding Planners in the world! You will receive lifetime membership, a support system, and many other benefits.
EDUCATION
The Helm by Beth Helmstetter
The Helm is an educational resource designed for event planners and designers hoping to elevate their planning and design business. Take one course at a time or become a member and receive all access to incredible content, including the opportunity to work one-on-one with Beth.
EDUCATION
Smartphone Photography
The Helm is an educational resource designed for event planners and designers hoping to elevate their planning and design business. Take one course at a time or become a member and receive all access to incredible content, including the opportunity to work one-on-one with Beth.
EDUCATION
The Abundance Group
The Abundance Group is a revolutionary membership exclusively for Wedding Professionals. There are two core ways they help your business: Education and Savings.
EDUCATION
LVL Academy
The best in wedding education, LVL Academy raises the bar with a hands-on and community-based approach. A comprehensive online curriculum provides an in-depth introduction to the fundamentals of wedding planning. Use the code “AISLEPLANNER200” for $200 off registration.
Webinar
The Business of Wedding Planning Podcast
How Technology Adds Value
to Your Planning Business
A conversation about the benefits of implementing technology in business. The discussion highlights how technology can drive greater efficiency, enhance service quality, and create opportunities to increase pricing.
WEBINARS
The Venue RX Podcast
Streamline Your Venue Systems with Aisle Planner | Sara Kincaid | The Venue RX
In this episode of the Venue RX podcast, host Jonathan speaks with Sara Kincaid from Aisle Planner, a software company for the wedding and events industry. They discuss the need for resources and best practices for venue owners, and Sara explains the features of Aisle Planner, including lead management, contracting and proposal capabilities, and project management.
Webinar
Protecting Your Future With Annette Stepanian
Check out our discussion with Annette Stepanian, attorney for entrepreneurs, about protecting your business from big life changes, creating cash flow, navigating insurance, contracts, and how to handle new engagements and possible postponement fees.
