Wedding Planner Society Podcast

Do you want to know the secret to evolving into a better wedding planner year after year? Not busier. Not more booked. Better. More efficient, more confident, and more in control of your workflows, processes, and client experience. That question sets the tone for a candid conversation between Laurie Hartwell, and longtime friend and CWP Society educator, Krisy Thomas of Southern Sparkle Wedding and Event Planning. Krisy has been featured in major publications, earned multiple planning and des...

The father-daughter dance is happening, the dance floor is packed, and then the fire department walks in with lights flashing. Outside, a flash flood is rising so fast that cars are sitting in water and the roads may not be safe by the end of the night. As brand-new business owner Christina Collins learns in her very first wedding under STEP Events, wedding planning isn’t about forcing the timeline to behave. It’s about leading through the unexpected. We talk through the full behind-the-scen...

“Effortless” weddings are usually the ones with the most happening behind the curtain, and we’re finally saying the quiet part out loud. We sit down with returning guest Rima Shah of Big Guava Events, a certified wedding planner and educator known for running wedding days so smoothly that couples and guests think the magic just happens on its own. It doesn’t. It’s built through planning systems, calm leadership, and a team that can execute thousands of details without making it about themselv...

The wedding industry loves the word “balance,” but nobody tells you what it looks like when a wedding weekend collides with a school event, your partner works overnights, and your body is running on fumes. We’re sitting down with Nikki Rogers, a 23-year wedding planning pro and owner of The Serendipity Collective, to talk about what “all in” really means when you’re building a wedding planning business and raising a family at the same time. Nikki shares her path from high-end hotels an...

Weddings do not fall apart all at once. They unravel in tiny moments: a late delivery, a missing linen, a vendor who vanishes when it is time to cue a key event. The reason so many couples never see the chaos is because a tight vendor dream team is quietly fixing it in real time, and that kind of calm is built long before the wedding day ever starts. We sit down with Emma Cockerham of Infinity Events Memphis to talk about what “team player” really means in the wedding industry and why vendor...