Creating that powerful first impression with paper goods

Black calligraphy writing on a white envelope with calligraphy pen | Kelly Chandler Consulting

Vaishali Shah, founder of luxury stationery company Ananya Cards, creates and designs some of the most gorgeous stationery for wedding couples. In this blog, Vaishali will guide you through how you can create an amazing first impression with stationery designed to resonate with your couples and give that ‘WOW’ factor that takes venue appeal to another level.

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Ask Good Questions

I’m rather a big fan of face-to-face and there’s nothing like winning the opportunity to show couples your wedding venue possibilities via a show round or site visit. There is no greater chance than to leave them in no doubt you are the PERFECT venue for them.  I’ve written, Conducting a brilliant venue show round, for some…

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Why invest in wedding co-ordinator training?

Kelly Chandler Coach and Wedding Venue Trainer

Today’s film tackles the subject of training of wedding co-ordinators and the benefits of investing in this for great returns. 1. Hire for Passion, Train for Skill – this I wholeheartedly believe in. You can’t teach a passion and enthusiasm but I don’t think our industry is short of the enthusiasm, but it is short…

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Our Latest Wedding Showcase Project

Today’s post is dedicated to our most recent event project which we were thrilled to produce with and on behalf of the events team at Chiswick House & Gardens Trust. This quiet oasis of landscaped Italianate gardens located in west London, with its stunning 18th-century villa, has long hosted beautiful weddings but had not, to…

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Wedding business resources

In today’s post, I’m sharing some of my favourite wedding business resources to help you with increasing your knowledge, learning and understanding of the brilliantly diverse and super-fast moving wedding industry that we work in.   I strongly believe that it’s really important that as both businesses and individuals that we never stop learning and…

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Wedding Inspiration at Waddesdon Manor – Insights and Images

Today’s post is dedicated to a now well-established and well-talked about wedding showcase that I’m proud to produce on behalf of the venue’s in-house team.  Wedding Inspiration at Waddesdon Manor returned for the 4th time this spring and I’m sharing with you some images, insights and some of the key ingredients to this highly successful…

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The wedding venue and professional blogger – a great match

As part of my wedding market training day I offer to wedding venues, we talk a lot about modern marketing methods that successful venues adopt, and naturally, working with professional blogs is a key part of that. My last training group were lucky to have a short presentation from Louise Beukes of well-known wedding blog,…

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