The Big Wedding Planning Podcast

Gain expert knowledge, share hearty laughs, and discover the best tips to maximize your budget and wedding planning experience. Hosted by 2 Wedding Planners with with decades of experience, they share invaluable insights and industry secrets to empower you on your path to 'I Do.'

🎉 We celebrate inclusivity here, making this podcast a perfect companion for EVERYONE planning their wedding. 👰🤵 🌎 🤝 🏳️‍🌈👭👬

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#64 Fall In Love With Your Wedding Photographer...
Trish Dove, owner of Beatbox Studios in DFW, is a wedding photographer. She is full of tips and tricks for awesome photo sessions, and she’s sharing them on the podcast!
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#63 Set-up & Breakdown
This is an educational episode! We are zooming in on two specifics parts of the wedding day timeline - the set-up and the breakdown. How much time do you need to allocate for these parts of the day? What exactly happens during set-up anyway? Can’t we ‘breakdown’ in 10 minutes if we get all of our friends to help at midnight?
46 min
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#62 Fan Fave - Fancy Fake Cake - Lauren Kitchen...
One of our most popular episodes! We are busy wedding planners preparing for some awesome future shows. In the meantime...You're going to LOVE this one!
52 min
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#61 Yoga Bride - Lauren Star
Michelle welcomes her dear friend and yoga teacher to the podcast today - don’t call her a guru! Lauren Star practices meditation, mindfulness and yoga - and she thought that wedding planning was going to be a breezy dream.
50 min
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#60 It's Our Anniversary!
It’s our anniversary! We are SO STOKED to celebrate this one year mark with you, our dear listeners. We’ve had such a great time doing this podcast and we’re so f*%king proud of our first year.
48 min
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#59 You Ask, We Answer
We’ve received a lot of feedback and questions from our dear listeners lately, and we want to address everything! This episode covers a recap from our emotional episode with Lauren (The Happiest Sad Day, link below) and Michelle and Christy answer questions from YOU about disappointing bridesmaids, planning a wedding with a deployed partner, addressing appropriate church ceremony attire, and plenty of questions about going from a bride to a wedding industry professional. Let’s go!
58 min
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#58 The Happiest Sad Day
For some people, wedding planning happens to coincide with a devastating life crisis. We listen to a bride tell her story of love, loss of her mother and grief during her wedding planning.
57 min
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#57 A Wedding Day Story
Michelle manages the impossible on this one when she takes her microphone along on a wedding day. Listen in as Michelle, Stephanie & Ryan as they tell the story of the wedding on the actual wedding day. Hearing the perspectives not only of the Bride and Groom, but also of their Planner. Congratulations Stephanie & Ryan!
46 min
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#56 Wedding Crashers & Natural Disasters
Michelle deals with a ‘first’ in her illustrious wedding planning career, and we round it out with some great, applicable advice about what to do if your wedding is affected by crazy weather and potentially dangerous conditions. A skateboarding accident isn’t a natural disaster, but we’re still gonna talk about it! Christy and Michelle catch up in the midst of a very busy wedding season.
41 min
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#55 Quick Focus! How To Write A Ceremony Script
Lots of couples are opting to have a friend or relative be their wedding officiant. You may have to draft the bulk of the script yourself, as a couple.
11 min
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#54 Quick Focus! The Guest Book
What is a guest book? Is it necessary? Is it something our parents had at their wedding that we want too, or is it old fashioned and uncool? Listen to this short episode and find out!
11 min
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#53 Big Ideas, Little Budget
A listener with a 10K Budget that was shot down by a wedding planner / Michelle tells you all about a wedding she worked last weekend / Yoga and morning routines.
43 min
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#52 Just Married! Real Couple Andrea & Dre
We’re so stoked to have newlyweds on the podcast! You may remember Dre from our awesome ‘Groom Interrupted’ episode #40.
59 min
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#51 Catch Up & Playing Officiant
It’s a smorgasbord of topics and we think you’re gonna love it! Sometimes your lovely hosts just need to catch up. Travel horror stories, anniversaries, first days of school, cool mom tips, and...wedding planner stuff. We are girlfriends, after all. So, we recorded this episode to just get back to basics, the two of us, the original duo.
45 min
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#50 Rent My Wedding
Convenient, inexpensive, hassle free rentals for your wedding. We are blown away by Rent My Wedding and we think you will be too!
47 min
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#49 WeddingWire's Anne Chertoff Part 2
Because 3 wedding experts are better than 2! This episode is rapid fire, Q&A Style! We are so happy to have Anne Chertoff of WeddingWire back.
51 min
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#48 Fitbit In Da House!
Fitbit's Managing Editor is here to talk to us about staying healthy, grounded and mindful as you plan your wedding!
46 min
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#47 Wedding Withdrawals
Wedding planning is not for the faint of heart. It’s WORK! But one things for sure. Once the wedding is over, you’ll feel differently. Maybe even a little sad.
53 min
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#46 How To DJ Your Own Wedding
Brandon Stiles is on the show today! He reached out to us months ago to pitch his book and course, “How to DJ Your Own Wedding”.
55 min
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#45 WeddingWire Trends Expert Anne Chertoff
We interview Anne Chertoff, the Trends Expert (that’s her job title!) at WeddingWire - the premier online resource for wedding planning
52 min
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#44 On Being Considerate
We want to take a little step back. A deep breath. And talk about perspective
28 min
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#43 Thanks But No Thanks
Breaking up is hard to do! In this episode, we are talking about etiquette and how to let a vendor know you will not be working with them.
29 min
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#42 Quick Focus! How To Write A Toast
Surprise! Bonus episode this week. Christy is going to tell you how to write an awesome Wedding Toast!
5 min
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#41 A Sister's Toast
In this episode, we go deep and get a little personal. Michelle is interviewing her dear friend Sarah about Sarah’s wedding toast and the story behind it.
33 min
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#40 Groom Interrupted
Andreas is a ‘typical’ groom - totally excited about his wedding, but not as involved in the planning as his bride-to-be, Andrea. (Yes, Andreas and Andrea.)
45 min