Planning weddings is a growing business area. The author is one of our top-selling home-based business authors and is herself a successful event and wedding planner.

Do you want to know how to start a home-based wedding planning business? Look no further, this book will detail exactly how to get your business started the right way! Learn how to gain valuable experience, market your services, meet with clients, and plan every detail of a wedding. Get insight into what it's like to plan weddings for a living (including average hours spent, typical work load, and day-of responsibilities). This book includes: Practical Advice from a professional wedding planner with over 10 years of experience Sample contracts for you to use to book clients Checklists, worksheets, and templates for you to use to plan any size or type of wedding BONUS (a free PDF download of all of the forms in this book is included with your purchase! print and fill them out as many times as you need to) Grace Lorenzen is a wedding planner based out of the Central Coast of California. Her work has been published in Style Me Pretty, Green Wedding Shoes, Wedding Chicks, Grey Likes Weddings, and Once Wed. Grace has authored two books, one for aspiring wedding planners and one for brides looking to plan their own weddings. Grace earned her degree in Hospitality Management in 2006 and has since owned and operated two restaurants, a hotel, and a wedding venue. She launched her planning business in 2008 and has since planned over 100 weddings. In addition to planning weddings, Grace also offers consulting services to wedding venues & aspiring planners.

Event planning continues to be a thriving business area for the motivated entrepreneur. Jill S. Moran is a certified special events professional with twenty-five years of experience in the field and the owner of an award-winning event-planning company. This fourth edition of her popular book includes updated ideas about creating business plans, balancing home and work, building a client base, and a more in-depth discussion on the role of social media in your event planning business.

Professional Wedding Planners MUST HAVE THIS Book! Whether you're just getting started or need to improve your business.Used by the most premier industry educators, "How to Start a Wedding Planning Business" is unlike any other instruction manual for the business of planning weddings.

START YOUR OWN EVENT PLANNING BUSINESS AND CELEBRATE ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK! Weddings, graduations, birthday parties, anniversaries, and conferences; what do these all have in common? Everyone would rather hire someone else to plan and run them! That someone can be you. Take your passion for event planning to the next level with in-the-trenches advice and tools you need to start, run, and grow a successful business. From writing a solid contract to finding reliable vendors, our experts help you identify your niche, teach you how to scout potential clients, evaluate the competition, market your business, and more. Discover how to: Identify a niche and establish yourself within the industry Build a loyal customer base for large and small events Implement targeted strategies for planning commercial, political, civic, social events, and more Promote your business, events, and yourself with Pinterest, Instagram, and other social and online marketing tools Develop proposals, vendor agreements, contracts, and manage day-to-day operations and costs Keep within budget using money-saving tips and industry-tested ideas Plus, gain valuable insights from interviews with practicing event planners, and stay on track with checklists, worksheets, and other resources. Everything you need to make your event planning business a successful reality is right here—get the party started today!

From making the decision to work at home to finding the right business for you, this comprehensive guide provides down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based business to become a work-at-home mom. Learn all about writing for profit, inventing parent-related products, achieving a balance working at home with your children, and discovering everything you need to know about how to market yourself. Whatever your plans, large or small, each chapter can help you experience the satisfaction of establishing and building your own home-based business. Look for useful information throughout the book, including: Top Ten Home-Based Businesses for Moms Work-at-Home Moms’ Success Stories Tips for Work-at-Home Moms Helpful Glossary Chapter by Chapter Resources

The special events industry is responsible for the execution of some of the most well know and memorable events. This project will overview the special events industry and focus more closely on the lucrative niche of wedding planning. The Wedding Report Inc. claims that 2013 saw 2,156,320 weddings in the United States alone with a market value of $54.3 billion (2015). The primary goal of this project is to provide the framework for an individual to start his or her own home-based wedding and event coordination company and will include financial aspects. The support for this project will stem from real-world application and academic research surrounding the industry. The information needed to succeed in the industry is heavily scattered and cannot be found in one source. After providing the history of the profession, the industry outlook and details pertaining to the profession of wedding planning, a step-by-step guide to opening a home-based wedding business will be presented.