Getting your clients started with wedding planning
Working with a pair of wedding neophytes who need help with the basics? These posts will get them started:
- The official Offbeat Wed wedding checklist
- What to do first when you get engaged
- How to get a marriage license
- How to change your name after the wedding
- Sample wedding budgets for all kinds of offbeat weddings
- Package deals, tax write-offs, and pants: How to save money on your wedding
- The “Shit People Suggest” spreadsheet
Photo by Tiny Human Photography
Advice wedding planners and coordinators love to share
Want to help your clients with their schedule and logistics of the wedding? Wedding planners and day-of coordinators especially may find these posts helpful:
- How to make a “less worry/more party” wedding day timeline
- How long should your reception last?
- How to kill the hours between ceremony and reception
- Your last-minute wedding checklist
- How a trash bag helps you go pee all by yourself
- What to put in your “Oh-Shit!” Kit
- How my wedding planner saved me so much money that she paid for herself
- Venue coordinator vs. a day-of coordinator: What's the dif!?
- Should you hire a wedding planner?
- How to deal with a venue-mandated coordinator
- How to search for unique wedding venues
Photo by Oh, Karina Photography
Ceremony advice that officiants love sharing
Wedding officiants: do you need to help your clients figure out their ceremony details? From unity ceremonies to aisle-walking drama, couples always need help planning their ceremony. Here are your go-to posts to help them:
- Wedding Ceremony 101: Crafting your own wedding ceremonies from scratch
- A non-traditional, non-religious, non-boring wedding ceremony script
- Ceremony Advice archives
- Ceremony script advice archives
- Vow examples archives
Photo by Sarah Place Photography
Advice that wedding photographers love sharing with clients
Photographers have been vital to helping us educate couples on how to get the most from their photographer. Here are some of our favorite posts about wedding photography:
- Important questions to ask your potential wedding photographer
- 12 things wedding photographers want to tell you, but can't
- 5 tips to get better wedding photos
- Offbeat guide to the wedding photo shot list
- Why I'm saying goodbye to the wedding photo checklist
- The unplugged wedding: couples tell guests to put down their devices
- How to have an unplugged wedding: copy ‘n' paste wording and templates
- 8 wedding photographer secrets for less sucky family portraits
- How to look (and feel!) amazing in your wedding photos
- The “less-than-photogenic” couple's guide to engagement pictures
- 4 sad-but-true reasons to turn your wedding pics into OMG REAL LIFE ACTUAL photo prints
- 6 excuses to break out your wedding finery for a post-wedding portrait session
- How to think like a photographer on your wedding day
- Don't want to hate your wedding photos? Here are the 11 things you need to do NOW
- Why you should absolutely do engagement photos if they're included in your wedding package
- Those people are models: a wedding blog secret
- Save yourself from these 4 common kinds of wedding photobombers
Industry insider advice to share with wedding clients
As wedding vendors, you're your clients' allies in the trenches. These posts will help you help them navigate the waters with you and with other vendors, often with advice from vendors themselves. Don't forget: we LOVE receiving industry insider guest posts from vendors!
- You don't need that much cake: catering advice from a wedding caterer
- How to spot and avoid the wedding vendors that are faking it to make it
- 6 vital things you need to know when working with a wedding florist
- 6 non-rules for tipping your wedding vendors
- A musician's guide to having live music at your wedding
- Bar talk: Licensing, insurance, and when to hire professional bartenders
- Liquor guess-timation: how to creatively calculate your wedding alcohol
- Insider advice that jewelry stores may not want you to know
Photo of Kelli from Shindig Events by Barbie Hull.
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