A Water Colour Wedding Theme

As you can see from the mood board above this really is quite a stunning theme with some fabulous pastel colours to choose from. It almost has a vintage feel to it and yet is also light, airy and modern. What are your thoughts on this emerging trend?

Fee Structures for Wedding Planners – Part 3

Today we are continuing our series on how to charge as a wedding or event planner. Hourly Rate This form of charging is great when you are only doing a small portion of the wedding planning. There are many couples who are quite prepared to do some of the work themselves, but are really looking [...]

How do I deal with a client who only wants to pay for a part of what I do?

This question has been asked time and time again so is a really good one to address here on our blog. As a wedding a supplier, planner or designer you are are the expert and not the client. Would you go into a hairdressers and ask them for their hair dye and then go away [...]

Fee Structures for Wedding Planners – Part Two

Percentage of Overall Budget This particular form of charging used to be very popular in the late 90′s. Is it still popular now? Good question. In an age where couples are much more savvy and have access to allot of information via searching on Google it is harder to justify this pricing method. Charging a [...]

The Academy goes to the Wedding Industry Awards in the UK

The Wedding Industry Awards took place on Wednesday 18th of January and both Zoe and I attended as representatives for the UK Academy of Wedding and Event Planning (UKAWEP) and what a night it was. The venue, Cafe de Paris, was fantastic and was opulent and visually appealing with a chandelier hanging from the ceiling [...]

Interview with Academy Student and Wedding Blogger

Sonia Collet is a student with the UK Academy of Wedding and Event Planning and the owner of wedding blog Want That Wedding. Sonia is studying the Diploma in Wedding Planning, Styling and Design and has already launched her blog whilst studying, and has recently been featured on Rock n Roll Bride which was cited [...]

Polka Dots – the hot trend in weddings for 2012

Newsflash – the next hot trend for wedding and event design is polka dots and I for one love it. There are many different takes on the wonderful polka dot, but my favourite is definitely the fifties red and black theme. There is something so avant garde about this theme and it works so well. [...]

What else can I do whilst studying to become a Wedding Planner?

We tell all our students at the Academythat the best thing they can do whilst studying any of our courses is to subscribe to some of the industry blogs that are out there as this is a great way to enhance your study. There are some fantastic blogs all offering some amazing advice written by [...]

Sweet Lilac – another colour from Pantone Spring 2012

This week our featured mood board takes another look at Pantone Spring 2012 colour collection and this time we are looking at Sweet Lilac. I just love this colour from the purple family. It is refreshing and so easy to incorporate into events from the colour of bridesmaids dresses to the overlays and chair covers. [...]

Fee Structure for Planners – Part One

Set Fees As part of our plan for Event Experts in 2012 we will be running a theme through each month and the theme for January is Pricing Your Services. Our last blog post, Kickbacks in the Wedding Industry, looked at whether or not it is ethical to receive kickbacks and if so how they [...]

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