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What to charge, what goes in a contract, how to hold a wedding day that is running forty minutes late. What the wedding planners who use Weddtap go through, written for the people who do it for a living.

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Being Found by Couples: Why Your Agency Belongs on a Map, and How to Get There in Two Minutes

A couple looking for a wedding planner is not looking for a name, they are looking for a place: “wedding planner Lyon”, “wedding planner Bordeaux”. If they do not find you on a map, they find someone else. Here is what a well-filled listing changes, what couples really look at, and how to get listed with no account and no sales call.

2 minto submit a free listing: name, address, services, starting price. A person checks it, then it is on the map.

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Business

Wedding planner pricing: what to charge, and how to work it out

Flat fee, percentage of the budget, hourly rate: each method has its traps. The only one that holds over a whole season starts from your real hours, and it usually gives a higher figure than the one on your website.

· 8 min read

Tools

Spreadsheet or software: what a wedding planner really needs

Notion for tracking, a Google Doc for the schedule, a spreadsheet for RSVPs, WhatsApp for everything else. It works until the fourth wedding running at once. How to choose your tools without changing everything at once.

· 7 min read

Clients

Wedding planner contract: the clauses that really protect you

A contract is useless while everything goes well. It matters the day the wedding is postponed, the couple disputes an invoice, or a supplier lets you down. The clauses not to forget, and the ones that get written badly.

· 8 min read

Clients

Managing your couples’ guests without losing your evenings

The guest list belongs to the couple. But it’s you the caterer calls for the number of vegetarians, and you who finds out the night before that two chairs are missing. How to handle this part without doing it for them.

· 6 min read

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