In this episode of Clarity Convos for Wedding Pros, Aislinn and Kevin Dennis discuss professional associations for the wedding industry. Kevin is the owner of Fantasy Sound Event Services since 1989, and currently runs WeddingIQ blog. They discuss both national level and local level associations, which Kevin has lead as WIPA National President and a founder of the local Tri-Valley Wedding Professionals. They walk through how to find good fits for associations and how to contribute and plug in to your association to make the most out of them. They also show how these associations give back to members and their community.

Connect with Dennis here:

https://weddingiq.com/

https://fantasysound.com/

Other incredible resources for the wedding industry:

https://www.wipa.org/

https://www.naceweb.org/

https://www.ileahub.com/

https://www.trivalleyweddingpros.com/

In this episode of Clarity Convos for Wedding Pros, host Aislinn wraps up her Quarterly Planning series with the final step: intention setting for wedding photographers. After reflecting on the facts, feelings, and obstacles from previous episodes, she guides you through powerful goal-setting questions including how many weddings to book, planned cash injections and launches, marketing priorities, and new habits to implement. Aislinn emphasizes that quarterly planning requires both mindset work and strategy work, helping you see where your own beliefs kept you from taking action. This episode gives wedding photographers a complete framework to set clear, actionable intentions for the quarter ahead, plus an invitation to continue this work inside Grounded for ongoing mindset support.

In this episode of Clarity Convos for Wedding Pros, host Aislinn continues her Quarterly Planning series with Part 3, focused on reflection and systems for wedding photographers. She guides you through identifying what felt clunky in your inquiry, consult, and wedding processes, plus celebrating your wins from last quarter. Aislinn helps you audit the habits and practices that supported your focus, recognize key lessons learned, and pinpoint what got in your way. This episode gives wedding photographers the clarity to stop carrying forward what didn't work and double down on the systems that actually move the needle, setting you up for the goal-setting finale in Part 4.

In this episode of Clarity Convos for Wedding Pros, host Aislinn kicks off 2026 with Part 2 of her Quarterly Planning series for wedding photographers. She takes you through powerful reflection questions to sort through your feelings about the previous quarter—from which consultation calls felt best to where you let your numbers mean something about your worth. Aislinn challenges you to identify emotional patterns that derailed your progress, pricing adjustments that need to happen, and systems gaps that left you unprepared for inquiry volume. This episode gives wedding photographers the exact questions to process what happened last quarter with full responsibility and zero excuses, setting the foundation for Part 3 where you'll tackle the systems and habits keeping you stuck.

Are you meeting your goals or are you forgetting you even set them? Join Aislinn for this new series on quarterly planning and see why her clients are achieving the goals they're setting.

On this "What to Focus On" episode, Aislinn walks you through diagnosing whether you need to focus on marketing/sales, mindset, systems, or the overall energy within your business. Learn what the non-negotiables are for each area of your business.

Samantha Leenheer joins the podcast again! She is a 14-year event industry expert and creator of Kinetic Experiences, House of Joy, and House of Samantha. Learn how to navigate in-person industry events and how to build networks from these events. You'll also learn about Kinetic and how Samantha strategically designs these events.

Connect with Samantha here:

instagram.com/houseofjoy.co

instagram.com/house.ofsamantha/

houseofsamantha.com/coaching

instagram.com/kineticexperiences

Making a big shift in your wedding business? How do you approach that transition? Listen to this episode to find out how to approach fewer but higher quality clients in your business, or to transition out of weddings into a different career or business.

How do you view your clients? Do you feel magnetic towards clients you love? Do you empower your clients to be creative partners, or do you feel like they're problems you need to solve? In this episode, Aislinn leads you through a mindset riff to change how you view your clients in a way that leads you and your clients to the highest level of work you've ever done.

Do you find that you are struggling to set and keep boundaries with your clients? Are you bending over backwards every time they seem to want something? In this episode Aislinn talks about how to handle setting boundaries with your wedding photography clients by focusing on your systems within the business. She also asks you to look at how you respond in the moment and what you get out of the way you engage with your clients.