Meet Your Host
Hey friend - I'm so happy you're here!
Hey! I’m Heidi Thompson and for the past 14 years I've been helping wedding professionals book more of their ideal clients and craft a business that gives them the life and freedom they want.
I’m the creator of The Wedding Business Collective as well as the host of The Evolve Your Wedding Business Podcast and the best-selling author of Clone Your Best Clients.
I don’t know about you but I love making things easier and more effective. That’s what I do every day with members of The Wedding Business Collective and it's what you can expect from the Wedding Business CEO Summit.
I created this summit to help you finally regain control of your time so you can continue booking weddings without feeling like your business is on fire. You wanted freedom and flexibility when you started your business, right? You'll get it during this summit!
Adrienna McDermott
The Buyer Blueprint: How Couples Decide Who To Hire
Adrienna McDermott is the founder of Ava And The Bee, a marketing agency exclusively for wedding professionals that builds connections with dream couples through inclusive, results-driven marketing, copywriting, branding, and website design. As a former bridal boutique owner, wedding planner, and florist with over 16 years of industry experience, she now channels that insider knowledge into creating marketing that actually works and brands that stand out from the competition.
When she's not diving deep into analytics reports, you can find her doing embroidery on the couch with her cat (the Bee in her business), getting lost in romantasy novels, and explaining why Lewis Hamilton is the GOAT to anyone within earshot.
Amanda Shuman
The Marketing Detox
Amanda Shuman is the founder of Carrylove Designs and a strategist obsessed with one thing: turning the brands that should win into the brands that do win. After rebranding over 200 luxury B2C businesses, ranging from boutique hotels to million-dollar hospitality companies, her strategy-first approach has changed how clients are perceived in the market, helping them attract premium audiences, command higher prices, and build lasting loyalty.
As a sought-after speaker and podcast host, Amanda offers clarity, honesty, and a refreshing sense of humor in conversations about branding, business, and what it takes to lead in a competitive market. Based in Texas, she travels often, speaks on stages across the country, and believes that the best brand strategies come from genuine conversations.
Amy Pearson
Stop Losing Leads: 5 Client Experience Systems That Increase Booking And Referrals
Amy Gould is a Systems Strategist who helps wedding professionals work less, make more, and WOW their clients through thoughtful automation. As a Certified Dubsado Specialist and HoneyBook Educator, she specializes in turning messy, manual client processes into streamlined, stress-free systems that still feel personal.
After her HR role was eliminated during Covid, Amy started her business as a VA and quickly discovered a passion for designing seamless client experiences behind the scenes. Today, she works with photographers, planners, stationers, and other creative service providers to simplify lead management, booking, and onboarding.
Amy lives in a small beach town in western Michigan with her husband, five cats, and two dogs. When she’s not mapping workflows, she loves trying new recipes, embracing her inner foodie, going on long dog walks, playing flute with the Michigan Army National Guard Band, and finding ways to make business feel lighter and more intentional.
Anansia Leslie-Bailey
Trauma-Informed Practices To Support Couples’ Mental Health And Build Client Trust During Wedding Planning
Anansia Leslie-Bailey is a Registered Psychotherapist, Canadian Certified Counsellor, Certified Trauma Professional, and Founder of I Do Therapy, a practice dedicated to helping couples build relationships that last well beyond the wedding day. Based in Yellowknife, NT, she works with couples and families navigating communication breakdowns, generational patterns, and emotionally charged life transitions.
Anansia bridges mental health and the wedding industry by equipping vendors with the insight to recognize stress, emotional triggers, and relational strain that often surface during wedding planning. Grounded in real therapeutic practice, her work helps professionals create calmer client experiences, strengthen trust, and support healthier dynamics for the couples they serve. She is preparing to begin her PhD in Counseling with a Marriage & Family Therapy focus in Fall 2026, further deepening her work at the intersection of relationships, mental health, and meaningful life milestones.
Andrea Shah
Is The Price Right? How Today's Couples Prize Pricing Transparency
Andrea Shah is a copywriter for wedding creatives who want to spotlight their artistry and client experience. She has over a decade of experience working on websites and brand voice for Fortune 500 companies and luxury brands alike. She teaches wedding professionals how to use psychology, storytelling, and market research to make their perfect-match clients feel deeply seen and heard.
Andrea is also a wedding industry speaker who has appeared at events such as The CFWA Summit, SWEL Summer Summit, and Wedding MBA.
She lives in South Florida with her family. When she’s not working, you can find her chipping away at an endless TBR pile, embroidering tiny animals, or adding to her candle collection.
Ann Koppuzha
Wedding Pro Legal 101: What Every Wedding CEO Must Know
Ann Koppuzha has a soft spot for all things wedding-related. While she's swooning over the celebrations, she also puts on her legal hat. Ann is dedicated to ensuring your contracts are top-notch legally and echo your unique story so you can book clients faster and secure your brand with trademarks. While you focus on the wedding details, she's got your back on the nitty-gritty legal details. And just so you know, this isn't just passion talking; Ann has the legal street cred, too, with a decade of legal experience at top law firms and the Department of Justice.
Ashley Ebert
Stop Hiring Out Of Panic: How To Build A Team That Actually Books You More Weddings
Ashley Ebert is a wedding-pro scaling coach who believes building a wedding business shouldn't feel like a constant uphill climb. After growing and selling her own wedding planning company for over a million dollars in 2025, she now teaches seasoned pros how to scale through connection, not hustle.
Ashley's all about real conversations, smart strategy, and reminding people that rest is actually productive. When she's not coaching, you'll find her at Disney with her family or cozied up at home in Minnesota with her husband and daughter. She's a people person at heart and believes the magic isn't in the hustle, it's in how deeply you care for the humans in front of you.
Becca Mai
Stop The Chaos: SOPs That Actually Work Without Killing The Human Connection
Hi! I’m Becca Mai, a West Virginia native who found her way to the DC area and into the heart of the wedding industry. I’ve spent over a decade planning weddings and events. Most of my career has been rooted in operations, logistics, and the behind-the-scenes wizardry that makes an event run smoothly. With everything I have learned over the years, I now educate and mentor wedding professionals on how to create SOPS, workflows, and tools that bring structure and ease to their business. This enables them to spend less time buried in the backend and more time doing what they love to do.
Becca Pountney
Done Is Better Than Perfect - Get Out Of Your Own Way And Take Messy Action Today
Becca Pountney is known as the UK's leading wedding industry marketing expert. After a successful career in television and radio marketing, and experience running her own wedding business, Becca has spent the last decade helping wedding venues and professionals stand out and get booked with her marketing strategy, courses and membership programme.
Becca is also an author and podcaster. Her successful book - Done is Better than Perfect - is a mindset for productivity and building a profitable wedding business.
Becca’s hugely successful podcast - “Wedding Pros Who Are ready to grow” recently won the Best Business Podcast of the year award at the British Podcast Awards - beating off competition from huge media outlets including The Times, The Economist and Bloomberg. This huge achievement is a testament to Becca's desire to show that the wedding industry is a serious industry - and one that you can find success in.
Candice Coppola
The Three Levers Wedding Pros Need To Grow In 2026
Candice Coppola is an educator, strategist, and former wedding planner who helps wedding professionals build businesses that are creative, profitable, and sustainable without burning themselves into the ground. She is the founder of WeddingPro Insiders and The Planner’s Playbook, where she teaches wedding pros how to lead with confidence, think like creative directors, and use modern tools like AI to work smarter and stand out in a crowded industry.
Candice is known for blending big picture strategy with real world practicality and a very human approach to growth. She loves helping wedding pros see what’s coming next and prepare for it before everyone else catches on. When she’s not teaching or creating, you can usually find her cooking, working out, watching Bravo, or obsessing over good design and beautiful details. She believes the future belongs to wedding pros who know where to focus their energy and aren’t afraid to evolve.
Dana Bahr
Pinterest Power: Discover Your VEIL Visibility Score™ And Attract Dream Clients On Autopilot
Dana Bahr is a strategist who helps service-based businesses make clearer growth decisions in increasingly noisy markets. Her work centers on long-range visibility, pattern recognition, and the steady interpretation of demand so leaders can move with confidence rather than reaction.
She brings a measured, systems-oriented approach to growth, working at the intersection of strategy, search behavior, and business capacity. Dana is known for her ability to reduce complexity, name what matters, and help founders and teams hold direction as their businesses evolve.
Danison Fronda-Tietz
Don’t Fudge It, Just Budget: Simple Money Plan To Help Wedding Pros Control Their Finances
Danison Fronda-Tietz is the founder of Bowtie & Biz, where he helps creative entrepreneurs actually understand their numbers and feel confident with core business basics. He is a Certified Public Accountant with 8+ years of experience in accounting for The Walt Disney Company, before leaving the corporate world to start his own live wedding and event art business, Bowtie & Brush—where, yes, he still does all his own books, budgets, and forecasting. He proudly calls himself the business hype-man you know you needed.
Danison has helped several creatives shift “I’m bad with money” and “I hate social media” into “Wait… I can do this.” When he’s not painting guests at weddings or nerding out over spreadsheets, he’s probably obsessing over Pokémon, K-pop demon hunters, or negotiating with his toddler, Emmy, mid-tantrum—iced matcha in hand.
Emily Dilworth
The Perfect Portfolio Formula: A 5-Step System To Make Your Portfolio Profitable
Emily is a copywriter and the founder of Paradise Copy Co. She writes SEO-based, personality-packed messaging for wedding pros that actually resonates with couples—without watering down their voice or bending to tired industry norms.
Her background in both technical and creative writing allows her to effectively combine psychology and sales strategy with emotion-driven storytelling. The result? Copy that doesn’t just sound nice—it builds real connection.
Emily is unapologetically honest and fiercely committed to helping wedding pros show up as themselves. She’s a sucker for an immersive fantasy book, anything smothered in dark chocolate, and an ice-cold cocktail somewhere warm (preferably at the same time).
Emily Foster
What Gen Z Actually Wants: Get The Goss On What Couples Are Saying About Your Brand
Emily Foster is the founder of Emily Foster Creative, a branding, website, and marketing studio based in Portland, Oregon, serving wedding professionals worldwide. She helps wedding vendors and photographers stand out through personalized branding, high-converting website design, and strategic marketing. Outside of client work, you can find Emily planning episodes of her podcast, Engage Your Brand®, traveling for fun or business educational events, spending time with friends and family, reading, or hitting the gym.
Emily Jane Lee
Streamline Your Sales Flow To Free Up Your Time (And Sanity)
Emily Jane Lee runs a website strategy & design studio, By Emily Jane, that’s been supporting wedding pros for the past 7 years. (She’s also a big fan of a good Loom video and always has a spooky podcast in the queue.) She’s known for simplifying what feels messy and making space to do business differently. Whether that means raising your standards AND your prices, rewriting the “rules” of having a luxury brand, or just finding a calmer way to run things - Emily helps her clients feel proud of how they’re showing up online.
Emily Rochotte
How To Be The CMO Of Your Business (Without Living On Social Media)
Emily Rochotte is a social media strategist, SEO blog writer, and marketing educator. With over a decade of experience in the industry working with wedding pros and publications on their marketing, she knows how to help you build brand awareness and grow your business with the help of engaging content that speaks to your ideal client. She is passionate about empowering small business owners to feel confident about their marketing. When she's not scrolling TikTok, you'll find Emily at a concert, building a Lego set, or re-watching Gilmore Girls for the millionth time. Say hi to Emily over on Instagram or TikTok @emilyrochotte
Hailey Fernelius
Money, Mindset, And Movement: How Somatics Boost Your Confidence And Income
Hailey is not your average Somatic Money Coach. She’s the calm-but-sassy bestie who will help you call in the kind of money that makes your nervous system say, “Hell yes, we can handle this.” Tired of feeling like your bank account is ghosting you while you manifest with zero results? Hailey’s here to fix that. After years as a bookkeeper hearing every money meltdown under the sun, she knows the real problem isn’t just mindset... It’s your body, your stories, and the way you actually move with money. Inside her world, you’ll drop the “what ifs,” rewrite the old money drama, and anchor into practices that make your business feel safe, juicy, and wildly abundant. If you’re done second-guessing and ready for hell yes money energy, Hailey’s your girl.
Irene Tyndale
How To Build, Train, And Lead A Reliable Team That Helps You Book More Weddings
With over 25 years of experience in the wedding and event industry and 12 years as a business owner, Irene Tyndale is a seasoned expert, educator, and mentor to wedding planners at all stages of their businesses. She is the founder and host of the Becoming the Business Retreat for Wedding Planners, an annual retreat style conference in Atlanta, Georgia, where planners come together to become better CEOs, planners, and women.
Irene coaches planners in the startup, growth, and scaling phases through two coaching programs, Success Pod for Planners, designed for planners in the startup and growth stages, and CEO Collective for Wedding Planners, created for planners who are ready to scale their businesses. Her signature program, the Wedding Management Blueprint, teaches planners how to plan, manage, and execute weddings with precision.
She is also the host of the podcast Inside the Wedding Planner’s Mind, where she dives deep into the experiences, challenges, and successes of wedding planners. Her passion for design, logistics, creating memorable experiences, and most importantly people, defines her approach to the industry. Irene is the owner and principal planner of Irene Tyndale Weddings & Events, a premier planning firm based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jade Ladson
From Inquiry To “I Trust You”: A Blueprint for Booking Luxury Clients Without Burnout
With more than twenty-five years in the industry, Jade Ladson has earned a reputation as one of Atlanta’s most respected and sought-after planners. As the Founder & Creative Director of J. Ladson Weddings, she's known for producing sophisticated, heartfelt celebrations.
Beyond planning, Jade is the creative mind behind several industry initiatives, including Match Made in Wedding, an experiential bridal showcase designed to connect couples with exceptional vendors. She also serves as lead producer for the upcoming Black Bride Gala.
A mentor and speaker, Jade is recognized for her candid, humorous, and insight-driven approach to guiding fellow and emerging creatives. Her forthcoming book, Whispers of a Wedding Planner, is an unfiltered tell-all that pulls back the curtain on what wedding planning is really like. Through honest stories, unforgettable moments, and practical advice including how to spot vendor red flags. Jade offers readers a true insider’s view of the industry she loves.
Julie Fried
Your Business Deserves A Backup Plan. Start With A Death Folder
Julie Fried is the creator of The Entrepreneur’s Death Folder and host of The System for Everything podcast, where she explores the small systems that make life and business feel a little lighter. After a decade working behind the scenes as an operations manager for wedding professionals, Julie now focuses on helping entrepreneurs protect their businesses, reduce mental load, and prepare for the unexpected with clarity (and zero doom vibes).
She lives in Dallas with her husband, Eric, and their daughter, Ellie—whose excited yells and constant discoveries fuel most of Julie’s work these days. When she’s not organizing the internet for a living, she’s reading thrillers, rewatching comfort TV, or trying to keep the laundry from staging a coup.
Kaitlyn Blair
Set It And Forget It: Automations That Actually Feel Personal
Kaitlyn Blair is the owner of Virtually Vital. She is one of 21 Certified Honeybook Pros and a Dubsado Expert who utilizes her knowledge of the tools to bring her clients clarity to their efficiency, workflows, and templates. She has worked within the wedding industry for several years, allowing her to truly understand the industry’s best practices to give to her clients.
She currently lives in Florida, soaking up the sun and going to the beach with her high school sweetheart during any free time she has. If she's not at the beach, she's with her 15-year-old kitty, Lola, working on a crochet project.
She has provided courses, educational workshops & masterclasses, and podcast episodes for educators all across the wedding industry.
Karie MacLeod
The Future Of The Event Industry: Building Sustainable Businesses That Last.
Karie has spent more than a decade in the wedding industry, building two successful businesses shaped by her passion for meaningful, experience-focused celebrations. Through SSY Events, she creates wedding weekends that feel intentional, personal, and unforgettable.
As an educator, Karie founded Planning the Plan, an online platform where she shares practical tools, honest insights, and real-world guidance for event pros. Her approach is warm, humorous, relatable, and rooted in years of hands-on expertise.
Beyond her work, Karie is a proud mom and wife who believes the best moments are built with love, purpose, and connection.
Kevin Dennis
Maximizing The Venue/Creative Partner Relationship
With over 35 years in the game, Kevin Dennis is no stranger to the wedding biz. Kevin is the editor of WeddingIQ and the owner of Fantasy Sound Event Services, a full-service event company based in Livermore, California. He is also the founder of the Tri-Valley Wedding Professionals, the 2025 President of the NACE Foundation, and the host of two podcasts: Now That I’m Engaged, How Do I Get Married?, and Mind Your Wedding Business.
Kevin quickly found a passion for networking, education, and thought leadership as a way to give back to his community and contribute to the future of the industry. As a sought-after speaker, he has graced stages of every size, from national conferences to association chapter events. He is also a regular contributor to B2B publications, including Catersource and Special Events, and has been featured in Brides, Martha Stewart Weddings, and The New York Times.
Marc McIntosh
Wedding Directories Are Fading, And AI Is Taking Over. Is Your Website Ready?
Marc McIntosh is the CEO and co-founder of Team Wedding Marketing, an outsourced marketing partner for wedding professionals.
After a long career as a successful wedding expo producer, Marc launched Team Wedding after seeing the same challenge repeated across the industry: wedding pros are incredible at what they do, but overwhelmed by the ongoing demand to market, sell, and grow their businesses while servicing active weddings.
As a nationally recognized speaker, writer, and marketing expert, Marc has educated thousands of wedding professionals worldwide. His team provides strategic, done-for-you marketing leadership, combining SEO, messaging, lead generation, and performance tracking with a deep understanding of the wedding industry’s seasonality, emotion, and time constraints.
Marc and his team help wedding pros book more of the right clients, reduce marketing stress, and free up time to focus on delivering exceptional weddings.
Margaux Fraise
The Currency Of Staying Current
Margaux Fraise is an award-winning speaker, educator, and the founder of the Wedding Summit Series and the Wedding Industry Pulse—a monthly membership helping pros stay ahead of shifting trends and couple behavior. With 15+ years in the industry, she’s led dozens of summits and workshops and has spoken at major conferences and associations including Wedding MBA, Catersource + The Special Event, WIPA, NACE, and ILEA.
A Stage IV breast cancer survivor, Margaux is known for her no-fluff teaching style, actionable strategies, and deep commitment to helping pros build sustainable, thriving businesses.
Mark Chapman
What's Working Right Now To Get Quality Leads From Paid Advertising
Mark is the wedding industry's authority on paid advertising. His love of paid ads started in 2010 when he cracked the code of Google Ads for his family's wedding business. After mastering ads for himself he started helping others > and fast forward to now, his team successfully manages $30M per year in paid ads for wedding businesses across the country.
When he's not studying advertising data and trends you can find Mark snowboarding, hiking and enjoying everything Mother Nature has to offer at his home in Mammoth Lakes, CA!
Meghan Ely
The Intersection Of PR + Luxury
OFD Consulting owner, Meghan Ely combines in-the-trenches event experience with a love of wedding PR to empower her clients to take their businesses to new heights. Her team’s publicity efforts are regularly honored by the Public Relations Society of America, and more recently, Eventex named her one of the most influential Wedding Professionals in the Industry.
A long-time industry speaker and writer, she has regularly earned clients' press in such outlets as the New York Times, Brides, Martha Stewart Weddings, People, Bridal Guide, Architectural Digest, and Style Me Pretty, among many others.
Meghan is a past national president WIPA and is a member of the Allied Council for the National Society of Black Wedding and Event Professionals.
Melissa Rich
Why Couples Aren't Booking You - And The One Fix That Changes Everything
Melissa Rich is a systems strategist and the founder of Virtually Done Systems, where she helps creative entrepreneurs simplify their operations, elevate their client experience, and reclaim their time without losing the magic that makes their work unique.
A former wedding photographer turned workflow wizard, Melissa blends creative empathy with strategic problem-solving to help business owners move from overwhelmed and reactive to confident and in control. Through her signature program, The Client Experience Accelerator, and her high-touch VIP Weeks, she teaches entrepreneurs how to build systems that feel natural, sustainable, and genuinely supportive — not rigid or restrictive.
When she’s not knee-deep in automations or client experience strategy, you can find her with a Coke Zero in hand, nose in a book, or chasing her nieces or corgis around.
Nata Salvatori
Delegation + Integrity: How To Let Go Without Losing Your Standards
Nata Salvatori is a Freedom-First Leadership & Scaling Coach known for helping high-performing founders step out of the operator seat—without the business falling apart. She is also the host of The Accidental CEO® podcast. With a doctorate and a decade in psychology-driven healthcare systems, she helps high-capacity founders exit over-responsibility, redesign their role, and install structures that scale—without sacrificing their lives. Through her R.E.T.U.R.N. Framework, leaders reclaim time, distribute ownership, and sustain performance with clarity and calm. Her mantra: High standards. Human pace.
Nina Addeo
The KISS Guide to Social Media: Clarity, Consistency, and Client Attraction
Nina Addeo is the founder of I Do Wedding Marketing, a leading social media agency dedicated to helping wedding professionals attract aligned couples through strategy-driven content. As the host of the I Do Wedding Marketing Podcast, she shares industry insights, marketing education, and candid conversations that empower vendors to grow with confidence. Nina is also the creator of The Social Studio, an online content hub where wedding pros gain access to monthly content calendars, trending audio, reels prompts, and plug-and-play marketing tools designed to convert. With a background rooted in both digital strategy and hands-on wedding industry experience, Nina has become a trusted voice for vendors worldwide, known for her practical approach, creative expertise, and unwavering commitment to elevating wedding businesses through social media.
Nora Sheils
Cruise Control: Tech Hacks And Automation That Give You Back Your Time, Elevate Your Business And Your Life
Nora Sheils is a veteran wedding planner and industry thought leader with more than two decades of experience creating unforgettable celebrations through her company, Bridal Bliss. A fierce advocate for operational efficiency and work-life balance, she is also the co-founder of Rock Paper Coin, a software platform built by wedding pros for wedding pros. Nora is passionate about empowering planners to streamline their businesses while protecting their passion and peace of mind.
Nora met her husband of seventeen years at a wedding she coordinated, where he was a guest! She is a mom of two (very active) young boys, and her family just brought a new goldendoodle puppy to the mix to make things a little crazier. Nora loves spending her free time being active with workout classes, tennis, and her latest obsession, golf!
Sandra Henderson
Industry Standard Isn’t Sustainable: Rethinking Wedding Business Systems
Sandra Henderson is a systems strategist for wedding photographers who are done playing by “industry standard” rules. With 12 years in the wedding industry, she’s seen how fast burnout hits when your backend is built for appearances instead of sustainability. She helps chronically ill and neurodivergent photographers create systems that actually work—automations that don’t break the second you need them, admin that doesn’t drain the life out of you, and workflows that hold steady even on your worst day. Sandra isn’t interested in busywork or copy-and-paste fixes. She’s here to rebuild the backend of your business into something sustainable, simple, and unapologetically yours.
Sara Dunn
AI Search For Wedding Pros In 2026: How To Get Found
Sara Dunn is the go-to Wedding SEO expert for wedding planners, photographers, venues, and other industry professionals who want to rank higher on Google and ChatGPT without the tech overwhelm.
At Sara Does SEO, Sara and her team help wedding pros get found online through done-for-you SEO services, coaching, and DIY courses. Her Wedding SEO Framework breaks down the confusing world of search rankings into clear, actionable steps that actually work.
Sara is a sought-after industry educator, having shared her SEO expertise on stages for Wedding MBA, WeddingPro, WIPA, and more. She has also been featured by Honeybook, NACE, The Vendor Table, and many other industry publications and podcasts.
Every year, Sara’s tried-and-true SEO framework helps over 1 million searchers connect with the wedding pros and advice they need. If you’re ready to become Google famous, Sara’s ready to be your geeky best friend who makes it happen.
Shannon Tarrant
From Overwhelmed To Booked: Using Clarity To Improve Wedding Sales
Shannon Tarrant is here to help you get SH** done! A professional go-getter, she has a distinctive 20-year background in helping local companies become the most referred wedding and event businesses in their market.
As a caterer and then venue manager, she developed both companies into local powerhouses by developing sales systems for success.
Shannon is a highly regarded coach and a no-bs award-winning speaker. All that while running her own wedding business - Wedding Venue Map, a Central Florida resource helping engaged couples find the perfect venue.
Shannon tells it like it is, whether you’re ready for it or not.
Stephanie Laur
Designing A Wedding Business That Supports Your Nervous System
Stephanie Laur is a speaker, educator, and former wedding planner with over a decade of experience supporting couples and wedding professionals through some of life’s most meaningful (and emotionally charged) moments. After years of running a full-service planning business, she now works through State of Amor, where she helps wedding pros build businesses that are sustainable, grounded, and actually supportive of the people running them.
Her work focuses on emotional labor, leadership, seasonality, and nervous-system-aware practices — especially during long weekends and busy wedding seasons when burnout can sneak in fast. Stephanie blends practical strategy with a very human approach, offering tools that work in real life, not just on paper.
When she’s not working, you’ll usually find her outside, hosting meaningful gatherings, planning future retreats, or dreaming up ways to make the wedding industry feel more supportive, connected, and sustainable for everyone in it.
Tami Santini
How To Seamlessly Add Destination Weddings Without Reinventing Your Business
Tami Santini is an accidental travel business owner-turned-coach for wedding & travel pros. Her claim to fame as a destination wedding travel specialist is matching couples with the perfect resort and venue. Her claim to fame as a business coach is helping wedding and travel pros make six figures working with 5-10 wedding couples per year while traveling the world. None of this is possible without God, coffee, and long walks (so she has time to think, pray, and plan life with her business partner and hubby, Lou).
Heidi Thompson
•Marketing Made Easy: A Simple Plan That Actually Gets You Booked
•Stop Doing All The Things: Focus On What Actually Books Weddings
•How To Stop Getting Ghosted In 2026
•The Shortcut To Booking Better Clients
Heidi Thompson is the best-selling author of Clone Your Best Clients and the wedding business coach & marketing strategist behind Evolve Your Wedding Business where she helps wedding professionals book more ideal clients and craft a business that gives them the income, life, and freedom they want.
Her business & marketing expertise has been featured on several wedding and business outlets and events including The Huffington Post, Wedding Business Magazine, Sprouting Photographer, WeddingMBA, Aisle Planner, Honeybook, and WeddingWire World.
She is the creator and host of Book More Weddings Summit & Wedding Business CEO Summit. Over the past 10+ years, Heidi has helped thousands of wedding pros of all kinds across 6 continents grow their businesses without working 60+ hour weeks.
