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. 👰🤵 🌎 🤝 🏳️‍🌈👭👬

Society & Culture
Relationships
Education
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#266 Accessibility and Inclusion at Your Wedding
Kelly Bron Johnson is an Autistic and Hard of Hearing self-advocate, author, and founder of Completely Inclusive, which is a consultancy helping businesses transform their company culture to be inclusive and accessible to ALL. She lives in Montreal, QC, Canada with her husband and two boys. Her passion is to help people, and make all things easier for everyone. 25% of the population of the US and Canada has a disability, that’s 1 in 4. It is something that definitely needs to be talked about.
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#265 You Ask, We Answer - 45
On the last Wednesday of every month, Christy & Michelle answer listener questions live on the show - YAWA! This month we're answering questions about: engagement parties, a ceremony planner, a bride with fibromyalgia and more.
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#264 April and Aljon: A Wedding Weekend Story
Christy and Michelle head down to San Diego’s Intercontinental Hotel to coordinate April and Aljon’s special day. No strangers to pandemic weddings, they help keep the bride and groom calm as they find themselves dealing with the ebb and flow of Covid’s new delta variant. Masks and Vaccines aren’t the most exciting thing a couple will have on their mind when preparing for their wedding day but it’s important to understand how to navigate through these realities in order to make your big day a happy one.April and Aljon give us an inside look into their big day, filled with rich Filipino traditions as well as a unique twist in how hiring a videographer capable of doing same day editing so they could share the footage during the reception, added a surreal and special touch to their event.Today’s show captures the day before, day of, and day after moments of a weekend wedding as April and Aljon go from Me to We.
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#263 Humility, Forgiveness, Wedding Planning
Wedding planning takes a turn when the happiest day of your life involves adult children, step children, blended families and a previous spouse who isn’t on the best of terms with the family. Do weddings really bring families closer together? Or do they just force the tough stuff we bury deep down inside of us to rise to the surface?
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#262 Art of the Dinner Party
The dinner party is back! Our guest, Nathalie Cadet-James throws the most amazing dinner parties and you are going to love hearing Nathalie & Christy talk about the most effective ways to give your guests all the "feels" at your next dinner party.
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#261 You Ask, We Answer - 44
On the last Wednesday of every month, Christy & Michelle answer listener questions live on the show - YAWA!
62 min
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#260 How a Fan of Our Show Planned Her Own Wedding
Karlie & Josh got engaged a month before the United States shut down due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Despite the challenges and uncertainty, they were married in May of 2021. Karlie is an avid listener of The Big Wedding Planning Podcast AND a user of The Big Wedding Planning Master Class. With our help (yeah, we love hearing that!), Karlie was able to plan a wedding that most of her family and friends had never experienced before.
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#259 The Realities of Travel Mid-Pandemic
Irina Vishnevskaya, from Alle Travel, joins us again to talk about traveling (especially with honeymoons) mid-pandemic. She shares tips on traveling abroad, how to find out restrictions in other locations, and more. While traveling is different right now, it doesn’t mean it can’t happen. It’s all about adjusting expectations, and having grace for those on the ground.
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#258 South Asian Wedding Wardrobes with Nazranaa
Our guests are Shia and Shashank Gupta, the sister and brother team behind [Nazranaa](https://nazranaanj.com/), the biggest Indian bridal boutique in the country. They design and offer South Asian Wedding Wardrobes, and are sharing all you need to know. From figuring out what to wear during all the wedding festivities to navigating expectations of parents
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#257 You Ask, We Answer - 43
On the last Wednesday of every month, Christy & Michelle answer listener questions live on the show - YAWA! This month we're answering questions about Catering Compromises, Sibling Issues, Airbnb Weddings, Listener Comments on Our Recent Episode with Linsday, and more!
63 min
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#256 Wedding Planning with Queerlyweds
Kirsten and Margie talk to Christy all about their experience wedding planning as a Queer couple during the Pandemic. They share replanning their wedding multiple times, marriage equality, and more. Things get edgy on this one, so buckle up and enjoy!
63 min
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#255 Dual-Faith Ceremonies with Guest Rabbi Block
Combining faiths and religious traditions into a ceremony can be both beautiful and confusing. Our guest, Rabbi Block is the master of dual and even multi-faith ceremonies. And of course, being that he is a Rabbi, we are getting some great insight into Jewish ceremonies as well.
78 min
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#254 Not quite engaged, but jumping right in!
Some people start planning before they are officially engaged. It really does happen a lot more than you might think. Our guest this week is Lindsey Leardi. Lindsey has been a listener of the podcast for several months. She is not engaged yet, but she knows it's coming.
54 min
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#253 Summer Reading 2021
Georgia Clark joins us to talk about her new rom-com novel, It Had To Be You, set in the world of wedding planning in NYC. She also shares tips and fun stories of her own wedding planning experience.
72 min
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#252 You Ask, We Answer - 42
On the last Wednesday of every month, Christy & Michelle answer listener questions live on the show - YAWA! This month we're answering questions about: Destination wedding logistics / Hybrid wedding invitations / Food for a multi-cultural wedding / Surprise pregnancy while wedding planning / who to share wedding excitement with when nobody you're around regularly are invited to the wedding.
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#251 This One's for the Grooms
In this episode, we're calling bullsh#t on the wedding being "all about the bride". A wedding is the union of 2 people. Let's pay attention and pamper each them.
60 min
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#249 NETFLIX'S Marriage or Mortgage
Hosts of the new unscripted Netflix show, “Marriage or Mortgage,” Sarah Miller and Nichole Holmes are our guests on this one!
50 min
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#248 COVID & Weddings 2021: An Update
Finally, governments are starting to pay attention to the Live Events Industry. We are getting more defined guidance on how we can safely hold wedding celebrations. It can be hard to navigate through this constantly changing information.
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#247 You Ask, We Answer - 41
On the last Wednesday of every month, Christy & Michelle answer listener questions live on the show - YAWA! This month we're answering questions about: Sending thank you notes early. Floor Plans & flow of events. Starting over with wedding plans cause things are getting too complicated. Saying no to parents about an after-party. FMIL wants a separate wedding weekend party just for her side of the family. How much to tip a wedding planner and more!
62 min
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#246 Easy Tips for a More Sustainable Wedding
Today we talk about some easy ways to make your wedding more sustainable / Green. Remember it is not all or nothing, do what you can! Our guest is Sarah Baillie is a sustainable wedding expert who educates soon-to-wed couples on how to plan the unique wedding of their dreams while embracing their eco-conscious values. Sarah also oversees SoKind, an alternative gift registry, where couples can register for secondhand or homemade gifts, charitable donations, gifts of time or service, experiences, and more.
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#245 Netflix & Chill With "The Wedding Coach"
Jamie Lee is a stand-up comedian, actor, and established television writer/producer whom Elle Magazine recently named one of the top comedians to watch.In December 2016, Lee released her debut book Weddiculous (Harper Collins), which quickly rose to #1 on Bustle.com’s list of best wedding books. The book was adapted as an upcoming series, The Wedding Coach, for Netflix hosted and Executive Produced by Jamie. It premiered on April 7th, 2021.
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#244 Virtual Elements Are Here To Stay
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#243 You Ask, We Answer - 40
On the last Wednesday of every month, we answer wedding planning questions from our listeners. This month, we are talking about Masks, Furniture Rental, Transportation, uneven wedding party, invitation etiquette, and racist family members.
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#242 David Tutera
We are so happy to have had Mr. David Tutera as our guest this week. With 35 years, planning events, David is sharing a plethora of valuable tips and fun stories. Not only is this a great interview, but 5 lucky listeners, planning their own weddings were able to ask David their own questions. So much amazingness happening on this one!
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#241 The Big Wedding Planning Master Class
We are celebrating! And as a result, we are flipping the script. Mark ALLEN Groleau of Unboring Officiant interviews us, Michelle and Christy, as we talk about how we met, what brought us together, and all about the interactive new Wedding Planning Master Class we've created for you.
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