Best Wedding Planning Books
The wedding industry is constantly evolving. As planners, we are striving to perfect our craft daily. Reading is one of the best and easiest ways to learn. Wedding planning books offer a vast amount of advice from wedding experts, tools for creating and organizing budgets and timelines, and checklists. They also offer advice on creating and managing budgets. Whether you aspire to become a luxury planner or work with couples on a tight budget, these books are the perfect tools to make sure you can give your couples the wedding of their dreams.
Redefine Your Wedding Business - Andrea Eppolito
Celebrating life, luxury, and above all else…love!! Andrea Eppolito believes that you can Redefine Your Wedding Business and Create the Business You Want Wherever You Are. It has never been easier to start a business, or harder to build a business that is transformative for you, your clients and your local market. By investing in your education, you can learn how to define success on your own terms, identify your ideal client, and speak to them in a meaningful way. By leveraging storytelling techniques, the press, publishing, and content creation you can cut through the noise and redefine your business and your market.
2. The Gold Standard - Colin Cowie
Learn how to cultivate the most incredible customer experiences on earth through this essential guide by Colin Cowie, distinguished purveyor of unforgettable “wow” events for the world’s most demanding clients. If you’re searching for ways to ensure your customers walk away from your company with a smile on their face and a plan to return, you found it. And any business organization can adapt the tools and techniques in this book. Colin Cowie, one of the world’s most sought-after event planners, shares the hard-won and hard-nosed advice he has learned through entertaining and engaging stories and examples.
3. The Wedding Bible - Sarah Haywood
The Wedding Bible is described by Conde Nast Brides magazine as “the ultimate guide to getting married.” Provides detailed advice, shopping tips, planning solutions, checklists, and money-saving advice for brides on a budget. It’s also a great guide for brides wanting to plan a wedding with style sophistication, and panache from one of the best in the world.
4. The Wedding Book - Mindy Weiss
The complete, informative, lively, hand holding, step-by-step guide to help every couple have a perfect wedding, no matter their budget, taste, or personalities. Finally, the ultimate all-in-one planner…from the ultimate wedding planner. A book that takes you from getting engaged to getting to the altar, from planning a great honeymoon to preserving your bouquet when you get back. No matter what your vision, taste, or budget, you’ll be on your way to the wedding of your dreams.
5. Vogue Weddings - Brides, Dresses, Designers - Hamish Bowles. Foreword by Vera Wang
An exquisite collection of nearly 400 iconic, inspirational wedding photographs of royalty, models, artists, actors, musicians and designers who have appeared in Vogue through the magazine’s storied history. Showcasing the work of legendary photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Patrick Demarchelier, Jonathan Becker, Norma Jean Roy, Mario Testino, Irving Penn, Arthur Elgort, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, and Annie Leibovitz, Vogue Weddings transports you to a myriad of romantic settings around the world, from storied castles, palaces, and cathedrals, to weddings by the sea or in the countryside.