In the wedding world, tipping can be confusing, misunderstood, and even controversial. Perhaps you didn’t even know that the wedding industry was a tipping industry at all! But that’s okay; in this episode, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about tipping so that you don’t have to worry about stiffing your vendors—or spending more than you intend to.

We talk more about: 

• Who gets tipped at a wedding and how much they’re expected to be tipped
• When and how to tip your vendors
• Whether a tip is mandatory in the first place
• How to budget for tips ahead of time
• And much more!

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Your wedding DJ does a lot more than just play music. From keeping the event flowing to making sure the mood is right, there’s a lot riding on making sure you’ve got the right DJ for your wedding. That being said, how do you even find that perfect DJ? Today, we’ve brought on our friend Jack Kristian, CEO of Platinum Events Company, to help answer these questions.

We talk more about: 

• The behind-the-scenes work a DJ does to make or break your event
• How to find a DJ that’s right for you
• The differences between the three types of DJs
• And much more!

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Instagram: @platiunumeventscompanyllc
Website: https://platinumeventscompany.com/
Facebook: @platinumeventscompany
TikTok: @jackkristiandj

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Speeches can be hard to get right—especially at a wedding. You have to be brief, entertaining, appropriate, and heartfelt, all while not being too nervous to speak. Luckily, you don’t have to do it on your own! Today, we sit down with Brian Franklin, co-founder of Vows and Speeches, who can help you craft your own custom vows, wedding speeches, and ceremony scripts.

We talk more about: 

• What the process of working with Vows and Speeches looks like
• Easy pitfalls in the speech-making process
• How to write and deliver a speech about someone you don’t know well (or don’t care for)
• And much more!

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Instagram: @vowsandspeeches
Website: https://www.vowsandspeeches.com/
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TikTok: @vowsandspeeches

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Welcome back to part 2 of our TikTok live “Ask a Wedding DJ” Q&A! Tune in to listen to more great questions asked by our followers. Check out our TikTok at noon CST on Wednesdays if you want to catch us live and get your questions answered!

We talk more about: 

• What to do if your planner suggests a DJ you don’t like
• How many songs are you going to need for a wedding
• Whether you even need all of these dances anyway
• Even more song recommendations that might be right for you
• And much more!

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If you follow us on TikTok, you know that every week we do Wedding Wednesday, where we go live and answer all your wedding planning questions! This time, Dominic went on air to answer all of the questions y’all had for a wedding DJ, and we wanted to share some of those answers here. Check out part 1 of one of our most recent TikTok lives - we might be answering a question that you have!

We talk more about: 

• How to find a good venue on a budget
• Questions to ask when looking for a wedding DJ
• A bunch of song recommendations that might be right for you
• And much more!

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Your wedding is a very important day, but it is just that: one day. And between everything that’s brought together for that one day—a dress you’re probably never going to wear again, flowers that are just going to get thrown out, invitations your guests are going to forget, food that’s going to go waste—it’s enough to get the environmentally conscious couple to stop and ask if there’s a better way. In this episode, we’ll give our tips on how to make your wedding that much more sustainable—but no less magical.

We talk more about: 

• Renting versus buying a dress second-hand
• How to waste less food, flowers, and invitations
• How to make your focus on sustainability memorable
• And much more!

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It’s tough celebrating a wedding when family members have passed away. There can be so many reminders of the fact that, as much as we want all of our loved ones to be there for that special day, some just can’t, and it’s hard to know what to do with all of those feelings. In this episode, we do our best to give advice, based on our years of wedding experience, how to honor those most important to you.

We talk more about: 

• Opportunities to honor passed loved ones
• How to handle logistical concerns around family members missing from the ceremony
• Options for including guests or keeping things more private
• How to keep the day in the spirit of celebration
• And much more

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Leading up to and on the day of your wedding, there’s a LOT to keep track of, so it’s no secret that we think hiring a wedding planner is generally a pretty good idea. If someone else can coordinate that chaos for you, there’s going to be so much less on your mind so you can focus on what matters to you most. You’ve heard us talk about this before, but this week we’ve brought on another wedding planner—our friend Meredith Bartel from Plus One Planning, so that she can share her thoughts and experiences about the wedding planning process!

We talk more about:

• How wedding planners can help you save time, money, and stress
• What wedding planners do to put out fires the couple never even needs to worry about
• The skills that Meredith brought with her from education into wedding planning
• How couples and planners can collaborate to make a shared vision for the wedding shine
• And so much more!

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Instagram: @plusoneplanningllc

Website: https://www.plusoneplanningllc.com/

Facebook: @plusoneplanningllc

TikTok: @plusoneplanning

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Pets at your wedding: should you or shouldn’t you? What are some ways you can incorporate your pets into your special day, either by having them there physically, or other ways? In this episode, we discuss how to best honor your pets in your wedding, regardless of the venue’s policy on dogs, cats, or… rabbits!?

We talk more about: 

• Pet-friendly venues
• When it might be a good or bad idea to bring your animals to the wedding
• Cute ways to incorporate your pets when they can’t physically attend
• And so much more!

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If you want to learn everything you can about choosing your wedding venue, who better to talk to than someone who has owned one for 12 years? We were excited to chat with Kristin Voss, the owner of a gorgeous venue here in Texas, where she shared some very important things to consider when choosing your venue.

We talk more about: 

• What to ask when visiting a venue
• Red flags to watch out for
• What the deal is with preferred vendor lists
• When a gorgeous venue just isn’t worth it
• And so much more!

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Instagram: @KendallPointVenue
Website: https://kendallpoint.com/
Facebook: @KendallPointVenue
TikTok: @texasweddingvenue

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