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How to Handle Annoying Event Guests (and Vendors) Like a Pro - Even the Nightmares

How to Handle Annoying Event Guests (and Vendors) Like a Pro - Even the Nightmares

Guest Contributor
Wedding Industry, Events

If you've ever attended any type of networking event in our industry you've likely been inundated with tales of vendors and guests misbehaving.  Sometimes I feel like it's a competition to see who has the most outrageous story or has survived the greatest offense. If you've been in business more than a minute, you've probably experienced at least one instance when someone made your job very difficult. You may have even been genuinely surprised by their actions. After all, aren't vendors supposed to be consummate professionals, working as a team? Aren't guests supposed to be rational, thoughtful adults who want to have a safe, fun time? If you're snickering, you know what I mean and could probably write this post for me.  No matter your experience level, we all could use a little reminder of how to be diplomatic while getting the work done.  Especially during the busy season.  

How to Train Your Team to Resolve (or at Least Mitigate) On-Site Emergencies

How to Train Your Team to Resolve (or at Least Mitigate) On-Site Emergencies

Guest Contributor
Wedding Industry

(Editor's Note: Today's post concludes our three-part training series on event day management!)

Earlier this month, I wrote about how to train your team to avoid event-day emergencies, simply by creating systems to prepare for events and cultivating a mindset that makes such preparation a priority. Unfortunately, the fact remains that emergencies do happen at events. They happen all the time, sometimes even in spite of our best efforts to avoid them. In my own company, we've dealt with major weather catastrophes, power failures, vendor no-shows, and (worst of all) sudden medical crises involving guests.

Getting in the Zone: Making the Most of Your Event-Day Mindset for Maximum Success

Getting in the Zone: Making the Most of Your Event-Day Mindset for Maximum Success

Guest Contributor
Mindset, Wedding Industry, Events

Perhaps you’ve gone to school, taken classes or gotten a certification.  You may have worked as an assistant, apprenticed with someone or worked your way up through a company.  If you learned the hard way, you just launched a website, purchased the necessary tools and figured it out along the way.  Whatever method brought you to the place you are now, you gained useful knowledge regarding your particular service or product and consider yourself skilled enough to offer it to clients…for money.

There are so many schools, conferences, retreats and online courses that will teach you the specific techniques of your trade.  But what about the mental acuity that goes into running your business and preparing for those intense wedding and event days.  Let’s face it being a great chef, videographer or limo driver isn’t enough. You need to prepare hundreds of gourmet meals in record time, create stunning imagery among dozens of guests with cameras and transport loud, excited wedding parties to multiple destinations. Not to mention possessing a congenial and even pleasant attitude while performing these tasks. This is the aspect of our career that is the most taxing.  So how do you prepare for the intensity of the weekend? Here are my suggestions for getting in the zone mentally so you can handle whatever comes your way.   

Event Day Management: Destination Wedding Style

Event Day Management: Destination Wedding Style

Guest Contributor
Guest Posts, Wedding Industry

(Editor's Note: Today, we welcome a fantastic guest post from a faraway contributor - Fabrice Orlando of Cocoon Events Group, based in Morocco! Read more about Fabrice at the end of the post)!

No matter where a wedding is, there are a number of things that are the same when it comes to the planning process – whether it’s a few miles from your house or halfway around the world. That being said, destination weddings also come with its own set of specific considerations to keep in mind.

Flashback Friday: Wedding Pros' Event Day Irritants & Vendor Pet Peeves, Revealed

Flashback Friday: Wedding Pros' Event Day Irritants & Vendor Pet Peeves, Revealed

Guest Contributor
Relationships, Wedding Industry

As our loyal WeddingIQ readers know, we eagerly solicit anonymous rants from our colleagues in the wedding industry, with the purpose of bringing other professionals' real feelings into the spotlight. Let's face it: sharing our real thoughts can be hard, especially when we don't want to jeopardize our referral relationships or make our next networking event even more awkward.

Collecting anonymous submissions from our readers enables us to bring up problematic issues and actions for discussion here on the site, and to determine what's important to the people who follow our blog. (With that in mind, we invite you to submit your own anonymous rant, or, if anonymity isn't your thing, email us directly with what matters most to you!)

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