The Planner's Edit with Desirée Adams: A Podcast for Wedding Planners and Pros (FKA Ask the Planner)

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239 | How to Pay Yourself Consistently as a Wedding Pro, With Money Coach Erinn Bridgman

2026-11-0452:40

Text the Wedding Planning Hotline If you’ve ever had a record booking month and still felt stressed about money a few months later, this episode is for you. I’m sitting down with money coach Erinn Bridgman, whose program changed the way I run the money side of my own business. Erinn went from shooting weddings on the weekends to building a $7M real estate portfolio, all by learning how to make her business actually pay her. In this episode, we talk about why revenue is the wrong number to obs...

238 | Welcome to Season 7: My New York Bridal Fashion Week Recap and What's Coming to The Planner’s Edit This Season

2026-10-2743:52

Text the Wedding Planning Hotline Season 7 of The Planner's Edit is here. In this kickoff episode, Desirée takes you inside New York Bridal Fashion Week to share what she saw, why a wedding planner goes to Fashion Week at all, and the trends she expects to shape 2027 weddings. She closes with a look at the season ahead: monthly edits on finance, the back office, pricing, and AI, plus guest conversations and a new series on remarkable venues. Links: Read the Show NotesWatch the episode ...

237 | Investments in My Business I Made Early That Paid Off

2026-10-1943:08

Text the Wedding Planning Hotline Not every investment Desirée made in her wedding planning business was worth it, and she's sharing both lists. In this episode, she walks through the investments she made early that moved the needle, including joining a planning intensive, hiring a business coach, bringing on a VA, investing in day-of staff, content creation, and brand design. Desirée breaks down what each one gave back in her business, plus she also covers the ones that didn't pay off,...

236 | Things I Wish I Had Done Sooner in My Planning Business

2026-10-1329:52

Text the Wedding Planning Hotline In this episode, Desirée shares an honest list of the things she wishes she had done sooner in her planning business. She sharing the actual decisions that changed how she operated, what she could offer, and how sustainable her business felt from the inside. Desirée reflects on hiring support sooner than felt comfortable, getting clear on the legacy she wanted to build, not just the weddings she wanted to book, and building the kind of backend structure...

235 | What No One Tells You About Becoming a Full-Service Planner

2026-09-2826:42

Text the Wedding Planning Hotline Full-service planning comes with more creative ownership, deeper client relationships, and a higher level of impact. It also comes with things no one really prepare you for but yourself. In this honest episode, Desirée shares the side of full-service planning that doesn't make it into marketing materials: the weight of responsibility that arrives before the certainty does, the confidence you have to lead with before outcomes are guaranteed, how client relatio...

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The Planner's Edit with Desirée Adams: A Podcast for Wedding Planners and Pros (FKA Ask the Planner)