How to Start a Home-based Wedding Planning Business

By Jill S. Moran and Jill Moran

Book Overview

There a few events in life more important than a wedding. It is a day when everything must go according to plan. In the United States alone, more than four million people tie the knot annually, with over $85 billion spent on services and products.Not surprisingly, many couples are hiring wedding planners to help coordinate their special day, and business opportunities for such consultants abound. Even if you know how to make a wedding happen with elegance and style, and with stellar organization, making the leap to offering your services professionally requires a specialized skill set, one that can be learned in this book.

WithHow to Start a Home-Based Wedding Planning Business in hand, you can gain the know-how and perspective to become the wedding planner everyone wants to hire. Uniquely, this book covers not only general weddings but religious ceremonies, destination weddings, multicultural weddings, vendor services specific to weddings, wedding-planning timetables, wedding styles, outdoor/tented weddings, and the emotional nuances of the wedding client. It will channel your creativity and show you how to get your business off the ground. You'll be the one couples turn to-and make money doing so

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762749393
• ISBN13: 9780762749393
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: The Globe Pequot Publishing Group, Inc.
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A great Event Planning Guide

This book is one that I will always keep by my side.It covers everything from the time a person thinks of creating an event planning company all the way to planning the first event and how to maintain a home and run the business. If you eve thought about starting an EVent Planning Business and would be working it from home, then I suggest this book.

helpful tool

jill moran's book 'how to start a home based event planning business' was tremendously helpful to me as i navigated the new business start up waters. she has practical suggestions on pricing, record keeping, and marketing. a MUST tool for anyone considering entering the event planning business. se cunningham

Excellent Book!

This book is excellent for anyone that is starting out and wants the 411 on how to start it off right! I am thoroughly impressed with the publication. The author covers just about every end. I highly recommend this book. I learned quite a bit.

Good info

I decided to become a party planner, then bought this book. It really helped with basic information on how to start the business. I recommend this book.

Good book with lots of helpful info

This is a great book with lots of great tips and information for running your own successful event planning business.