Greenery Trend Alert – Savvy venues be aware! | Pantone 2017
Wedding trends change constantly and the most successful and endlessly popular venues keep up to date with trends, fashions and make smart choices as to where to adopt and incorporate them into their offer. Today’s blog is about Pantone naming ‘Greenery’ as their colour of 2017 shortly before Christmas. You might say “so what?” – we leave the creative part of a wedding to the bride or her/our team of...
Must-Know Trend for Independent Wedding Celebrants
Trends come and go and the latest product or offering isn’t always something you can or would want to adopt into your wedding venue but this trend I’m featuring today is a big one and it’s very likely here to stay. It rocks the very foundation of the wedding day itself and it’s vital you keep up to date with this trend and work with it as a host wedding...
An image says a thousand words – Photographing Your Wedding Venue
Never has the power of the image been so great – we're constantly surrounded by photos. Photos all around our social media feeds are bursting with image after image and millennial couples (those born from 1978 to 2000) want to actually see exactly what they are getting before booking, so it’s critical they see your venue in the very best possible light. What do you need the images to say/do...
Top Ten Tips for Hosting a Winning Wedding Showcase or Open Day
I know a thing or two about designing, planning and hosting venue-based wedding events aimed at couples planning their upcoming wedding. Whether we call it an open day, a showcase or (shudder shudder) a wedding fair, there are certain ingredients that I know really work in delivering superbly attended events, with the right audience finding the right support for their wedding celebrations and I’m sharing my top ten with you...
2016 – what a year! | Wedding Venue Consultant
As we approach the end of the year, I’ve been reflecting back on all the happenings here at Kelly Chandler Consulting. So I thought I’d dedicate this blog post to a quick look at just some of the brilliant clients, venues and people who I’ve had the privilege to work with. Training for Wedding Venues – with my group training days this year I’ve taught intimate groups of progressive venues in...
Spot-on Gifting | Gifting Advice for Wedding Venues
As the season of gifting is most definitely upon us, I thought I’d set down some tips which your venues and properties could find useful in planning how to win and wow your clients and customers in 2017. This post was prompted with a great deal of inspiration from the amazing team who head up The Engage Luxury Wedding Business Summit where I was fortunate enough to be spoiled with...
Let’s Talk!
Today’s blog is all about the need for venues seeking success in the wedding world to talk, share and collaborate with each other for best results. Talk to the competition? Really? Yes, really! I know it works and has tremendous results in so many other parts of the overall wedding industry. Wedding planners by definition tend to be naturally sociable and working pretty much as a solo-preneurs, there’s always been...
Chiswick House & Gardens – Industry Showcase
Cast your mind back to the switching of the seasons and the changing of colours and today’s post is dedicated to showcasing a collaborative industry event which I headed up on behalf of one of my consulting venue clients, the beautiful Chiswick House & Gardens. The team at Chiswick House & Gardens are always seeking to grow and improve their commitment to the wedding market which the house & gardens...
The little touches that brides will love you for | Wedding Venue Extras
Sometimes it’s the little things which really make all the difference. It sounds cliché but I really believe it’s true. As wedding professionals we are here to make all our couples planning journey fun, inspiring as well as smoother and easier. We are mainly dealing with very busy people who have endless social and work commitments and, with the greatest will in the world, usually have limited time to plan...
What wedding clients want to see on your venue’s website | Tips for Wedding Venues
What wedding clients want to see on your venue’s website Impressive imagery – and by this I mean high-quality, emotive images in large sizes that showcase your venue. Brides and grooms want to see images of the spaces they are going to be using and backdrops to their wedding photos, so close-ups aren’t so great. Think wide shots of the dining space, the civil ceremony set up, the evening party...