| Once your wedding planning business gets established, | | | | 4) Offer products |
| you may want to expand and offer additional services | | | | Carry a line of invitations, favors or gift items. There |
| and products so you can help your couples with more | | | | are companies that sell these items and allow you to |
| of their wedding needs, create long term relationships | | | | be affiliates and dealers. You can sell on your website |
| with them, and bring in additional revenue. | | | | or, in the case of invitations, you can carry wedding |
| Here are 6 ways you can expand your current | | | | invitation albums to show your clients and sell them just |
| business: | | | | like they do in stationery stores. |
| 1) Plan wedding related parties | | | | 5) Rent out party items |
| You may already be doing this. While you are planning | | | | Small venues and party rental businesses in some |
| a wedding, you can plan the engagement party, bridal | | | | cities do not have the appropriate high-end chairs, china |
| shower, bachelor and bachelorette parties, bridesmaids' | | | | and other items you need for weddings. Therefore, |
| luncheon, rehearsal dinner, after-party or post-wedding | | | | you may want to purchase the items and rent them to |
| brunch for the couple or their families and friends. You | | | | your clients yourself. However, if you do decide to do |
| can also plan receptions for couples who have gotten | | | | this, make sure you have the ability to transport the |
| married at city hall, eloped or had small destination | | | | items to your events and have the space to store |
| weddings and want larger celebrations when they | | | | them. If you have to rent space, do some homework |
| return home. | | | | and make sure you are able to recoup the monthly |
| 2) Social events | | | | costs involved in renting a storage unit. |
| Don't think that planning a wedding is the only event | | | | 6) Plan destination weddings and honeymoons |
| planning your clients could ever want. Many people hire | | | | If you have done a lot of traveling and have |
| event planners for anniversary and birthday parties, | | | | knowledge of wedding venues and romantic vacation |
| retirements, graduations, bar and bat mitzvahs, | | | | spots in other states and countries, you might want to |
| quinceanera celebrations and large holiday parties. | | | | learn the travel business and help couples plan their |
| Keep in touch so they remember you when they need | | | | destination weddings and honeymoons. |
| help planning events for these milestones in their lives | | | | Remember that you do not want to stretch yourself |
| or the lives of their families and friends. | | | | too thin when you decide to add services and |
| 3) Teach wedding planning to do-it-yourself brides | | | | products. Your couples deserve your full attention for |
| There will always be some brides who want to plan | | | | their weddings, and you should not be busy offering |
| their weddings themselves. Why not help them by | | | | services that you do not have the time or the |
| holding classes and sharing some of your expert | | | | expertise to do with excellence. Also, if you are |
| advice? You may even turn some students into clients | | | | beginning to think about expanding, it is also time to |
| when they realize how difficult it would be to plan their | | | | think about adding employees to your business. |
| weddings on their own. | | | | |