Today we are joined by Katy Turchich, the proud owner of Coastal Coordinating, based mostly in Florida. The idea for Coastal Coordinating started in 2006 when she began helping family and friends plan their weddings and events. Eventually, it morphed into a strong business that continues to grow. Covid is stressful when it comes to many things. But Katy has some great tips for what to do when it comes to rescheduling.

Kate Whelan is a wedding planner, business owner, and an Advocate for the Live Events Industry. The live event industry includes everything from weddings, concerts, festivals, and conferences to live sports. More than just the planners, the venues, the vendors are being effected by the pandemic! There is a massive trickle down happening causing a big wave in the events economy. Kate joins us to talk about about all the challenges, successes, questions, and more.

Suki and Anthony are writers from Miami, Florida. They combined their love for storytelling, performance, nerd culture, and all things offbeat into their wedding with a budget goal of $5k. Suki performs, writes, and teaches sketch comedy writing across South Florida. Anthony is a contributing author for a game publishing company. Fun Fact: Anthony and Suki teach screenwriting courses at the university where they met. They join us to talk about planning a wedding on a budget! Doing things your own way, saving money, and getting creative while not spending more than you want!

Our monthly installment of You Ask, We Answer. Where we answer all sorts of questions from our listeners.

Bree Carroll is a Wedding and Event Specialist, Speaker and Coach who transforms spaces and hearts through authentic design and purposeful planning. With a background in civil engineering, Bree brings her brilliance of problem solving and eye for design to couples so they DESIGN a marriage even more beautiful than their wedding day. She has been featured in Military Spouse Magazine, Military Family Magazine and the B Collective. She is also the 2020 Armed Forces Insurance Air Force Spouse of the Year advocating for strong military marriages & is the Founder of Military Marriage Day.

A crash course in wedding planning expectations. This is the episode that you ask your partner to listen to, if you believe they will not listen to any of the others. This is the episode that’s going to tell them all of the big, important parts they need to be prepared for. It’s not a how-to, it’s more of a What To Expect when You’re Planning.

Stop Playing the Comparison Game! The grass isn’t always greener and it’s really easy to go down the wedding rabbit hole online - this episode is about how to avoid the trappings of comparing your own wedding to all of your friends...and the entire platform of Pinterest. Let’s get real, people! Styled shoots are not weddings. And not everyone looks like a runway model. And your wedding should be a reflection of YOUR love - and a celebration of the big life decision you are making...it can look any way you want it to!Today we are joined by Margaux Fraise, wedding planner since 2011, lead planner and owner of Harmony Creative Studio.

Our monthly installment of You Ask, We Answer. Where we answer all sorts of questions from our listeners. There is a lot of frustration and confusion when it comes to planning, replanning, postponing, changing, etc their weddings right now. You are not alone! At the top, we share some comments about our facebook group’s experiences during Covid-19.

Shafonne Myers is a media mogul, self-love coach for plus size brides, and visibility & online revenue strategist for wedding professionals from Temecula, California. She graduated with a biology and psychology degree but always had a love for weddings and helping people. She has built an internationally recognized, award-winning wedding publication for plus size brides, Pretty Pear Bride. Her wedding publication is the only one in the world and has solidified her as THE plus size bridal expert. She works privately with plus size brides looking to gain the confidence to show up on their wedding day and slay the aisle as the beautiful bride that they’ve always wanted to be but never felt they could.

Our guest Denise Lillie O’Neal is the Owner and Lead Event Stylist of Denise Lillie Engagements which she founded in 2008. She is a professional full-time planner with over 20 years of government, corporate and wedding planning experience. Denise shares her journey into wedding planning, and her work in cultural wedding celebrations.

On today's episode we are joined by Jaz, a Ugandan American bride, and her groom Rodney, a Haitian American, who are getting married in October. She reached out after episode 200 to open up a larger conversation about wedding planning while Black.

Our monthly installment of You Ask, We Answer. Where we answer all sorts of questions from our listeners.

Tanya Pushkine, The Vow Whisperer, NYC, joins today to talk all about crafting wedding vows. We meet with one COVID survivor and NYC Physician’s Assistant who is planning her own micro-wedding right now.

As cities and counties begin to explore re-opening, wedding venues must adhere to new safety standards. Today we are joined by a variety of folks in the wedding venue business to answer questions about these changes!

We are not talking about weddings on this one. Today is different. It’s our 200th episode and we had planned to release an episode with an awesome DJ, but we don’t feel right about a ‘business as usual’ approach right now. The world is still in the grips of the COVID pandemic and now America is on fire due to yet another murder of a black man by a police officer.

Our monthly installment of You Ask, We Answer. Where we answer all sorts of questions from our listeners.

Amy McCord Jones is a country girl from the plains of Oklahoma. She actually got her degree in Forensic Science before she realized she did not, in fact, want to pick maggots off of dead bodies for the rest of her life. So in her 20’s she worked as a chemist, picked her guitar down in Austin, had a corporate job, and finally fell into wedding planning in 2007. Since then, she has been a full-time planner and a self-taught florist and in 2014, she decided to start a little side- hustle for DIY brides called Flower Moxie for extra travel money and it took off from there. She joins us today to share about her business and give great tips on what you need to know with your wedding flowers!

McKenzi Taylor is an elopement expert based in Las Vegas. She started her photography business in 2008, but ventured into her elopement coordination business -- Cactus Collective Weddings in 2017. In that time she’s helped well over 500 couples elope in Las Vegas and knows a good match for an elopement when she sees it.

By day, Caroline Fox is a Virginia attorney whose practice focuses on creative small- to medium-sized businesses. She assists both large and small companies incorporate, tighten up contracts, protect trademarks and copyrights, and resolve disputes. In her "free time," Caroline founded the Engaged Legal Collective, an educational resource for wedding professionals to learn about the often convoluted legal aspects of their business. She travels internationally to speak with event professionals about contracts, client disputes, and protecting their brands.Today Caroline joins Michelle to help unpack contract law for wedding professionals and couples waiting to wed.

Just because we cannot gather in groups, does not mean the desire to marry one another has disappeared. Countless couples all over the world have been forced to postpone their wedding celebrations, but they are choosing to marry one another regardless because after all, that is the whole point isn’t it? To be married! On this month's edition of You Ask, We Answer, we have an exciting announcement we want to share on how we're leading the way on Virtual Weddings.

Jason Mitchell Kahn has been planning weddings for ten years now. It began while he was running all of the events at the iconic Soho House New York and became known as their in- house wedding guru. When same-sex marriage first became legal in New York he pitched his idea and got a book deal to publish the first wedding planner for gay grooms aptly named Getting Groomed. From there he went to Shiraz Events overseeing their wedding division in New York, Los Angeles and London. He is now in the third year of having his own business Jason Mitchell Kahn and Co. Additionally, he serves as the Director of Weddings and Editorial for Men’s Vows. Jason is also a playwright and known for bringing his story-telling lens to his events. You can read a handful of his creative ideas on his latest blog post “Tips for a Successful Virtual Wedding.” Today he joins us to share some of those valuable tips! We are also joined by real life quarantine wedding couples: Jim and Kim, and Julia and Jordan. And wedding photographer David Perlman.

Mollie is a journalist and Greg is a web developer. Turning tradition on its head, Mollie proposed to Greg. They join us today to talk about their relationship, what made her decide to propose, and share their insights on the whole process.

Today we are joined by Landis Bejar, LMHC - a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York City and the founder of AisleTalk: Consultation & Therapy. AisleTalk is a therapy and coaching practice devoted to working with brides and grooms who are experiencing stress during the process of planning their wedding – a moment in time that, from the outside can seem fabulous and euphoric, but on the inside can often bring up concerns related to partnership, stress management, mood changes, body image, family strain, and much more. Landis helps her clients deal with stress so that the planning does not take the excitement out of the process, nor the joy from the wedding day. Landis shares her insights on how to quarantine in a small space with a partner, and how to handle asking for space.

With so many amazing guests on their way for upcoming shows we wanted to take moment and host a learning episode! On today's show we break down the whole topic of Save The Dates and get into the details. In light of having to reschedule, and communicate much more with your wedding guests, we know the topic is on a lot of people’s minds.