As event professionals, it’s extremely hard to find the right wedding tools that will help you keep track of all your events, help you share inspirations and tips with your clients and make it easy for you to run your wedding business on the long run! With technology always changing and evolving we have come up with some great wedding tools that you can start using today to ensure you are well organized, well presented and trusted by clients.
These wedding tools will also simplify your client process and save you lots of time. Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint presentations, and Word documents are still my go-to tools for creating certain things that I may need for my clients such as wedding itineraries. So you can definitely keep using these.
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WEDDING TOOLS FOR WEDDING & EVENT PROFESSIONALS
Creative Inspiration boards //1 – Pinterest
My number one tool and the most powerful wedding tool to use is Pinterest! This tool is the best way for sharing images, finding inspiration and helping brides plan a wedding. You are able to create private boards to share with your clients. If you are feeling stuck on what to share and create with your clients or are unable to get your creative juices going, you can always count on Pinterest to do the trick.
It’s a great tool for sharing past events you have planned as well as for creating a mini portfolio that you can share with your clients. Believe it or not, it is my number on referral tool base for booking clients. If you are not sure how to use Pinterest to your advantage, we have a course designed for you right here!
Its a great tool for designers and other wedding pros to come up with ideas for event décor, design, and themes.
Aisle Planner is the new black! If you are looking for something that will keep your business together, provide a nice stylish design for your clients and pretty much do everything you need, then Aisle Planner is the tool for you. Here are some of the tools included with Aisle Planner:
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Business Tools
Aisle Planner supports your planning business with a powerful suite of tools that makes it easy to streamline your process and keep your business moving forward.
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Planning Tools
Created to help you stylishly plan and manage every last detail for every one of your weddings.
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Design Tools
Our integrated design tools make it easy to define the vision for each event. Create inspiration boards and color palettes and easily share them with clients and vendors.
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Collaboration Tools
Create a collaborative hub between you, your team, clients, and vendors. Invite your clients to plan, share, and communicate on everything from images, ideas, and files.
Try Aisle Planner today- Aisle Planner! You won’t regret it!
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Keep your schedule and planning in check with the Happiness Planner. I love this planner because it focuses on a lot more than just a calendar. It has enough space to plan out your actual full day such as adding in exercise block times, meals and your to-do lists! It also shares positive thoughts to keep your day going and believing. We all need this from time to time.
As wedding planners juggling multiple events, it can become extremely stressful, we can barely find time to work out and block time for ourselves- This will force you to do so! Give it a try. **Use this link to get started!
Mailerlite is a tool I use to create emails that I can send out to potential clients. When you get a list from a wedding show, create campaigns to send to your list using mailerlite. It is more professional and saves you a lot of time. You are also able to keep track of those that are reading your emails and those that did not open it.
You can also start building and collecting your own email list of clients using this tool. Make your email campaign pretty by adding your brand colors and logos! It’s free for the first 1000 people on the list!
The reason I love mailerlite is that they do no spam readers and emails are guaranteed to go to the client’s inbox instead of junk mail.
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5. So you want to be a Wedding Planner– E Book
This E-Book outlines all the changes you need to make in your business in order to actually boost sales and become a thought leader. Get this today!
What is included in this E-Book:
- Reasons to become a wedding planner
- Courses to take to become a wedding planner
- How to find your perfect Niche
- Finding your brand
- Logo and key messaging
- How to pick your business name
- Creating your websites
- How to increase your wedding business!
- Places to market and book your clients and much more!
If you want to jump start your business and start seeing results, follow the steps in this E Book to succeed!
6. Canva
Do you want to create great graphics like what you see in this blog post? Use Canva! This makes your work look extremely professional even though you might not be a professional graphic designer. Get away with design great images for your social platforms. Sign up for it, it’s absolutely free!
7. Vivien
Are you a wedding designer or decorator? This tool is GREAT for you! And by that, we mean- AAAHMAZINGGG! It’s a tool used to show your clients exactly what their dream wedding vision could possibly look like. Vivien’s eye-popping visuals will revolutionize your event ideas, win clients, and close deals! You are also able to create floor plans, sketches and 3 D Designs. Highly recommended for event designers.
This is actually a course you can take in order to perfect your drawing skills. The Sketchbook Series is a workshop for creative professionals developed and taught by Mary Phan. After using her sketching skills as both an interior designer and to illustrate design concepts and as an event planner, Mary has developed a workshop that aim to teach creative professionals — from event designers and planners to cake bakers and florists, and any creative individuals in between — how to use sketching to bring ideas to life. Absolutely amazing! Try it!
9. Hootsuites
I assume we are all busy trying to market our business, meet clients, respond to client, manage employees! No one has time for social media but we all understand that we need to be on it to succeed! We need to keep in constant contact with clients, potential clients, vendors and we also need to be able to socialize! Well Hootsuite is the best tool out there to manage and pre- schedule your posts! With the ability to manage all your social networks and schedule messages for future publishing, Hootsuite gives you a wide scope of your social media activity.
10. Lastly your Blog
Your blog is the most powerful tool out there! It is the best place to market and create great content all year long! Remember, Google loves fresh content! No better place to create this than on your blog. Give brides tips, keep them posted about your business by showing them your portfolio, behind the scenes shots and much more! Talk about the vendors you work with! Talk about your services and how it can help them. We have created easy to follow courses to help you grow your blog and become a selling machine! Sign up here!
If you would like more tools to be build your wedding planning business we have worksheets that you can grab. They contain sample wedding itineraries, wedding budget templates, client tracking sheets, vendor tracking sheets and more! Click the picture below to get access to it as well as more information!
We hope these tools help you in your business! Leave us a comment below on some of the tools you are using to grow your wedding business!
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First of all I would like to say wonderful blog! I had a quick question that I’d like to ask if you do not mind.
Hello, thanks for the great article! Instagram is another fantastic tool for weddings. Simply create a hashtag for your wedding and have all your friends post using that tag. Instant photo album for your wedding!