Welcome! I am so glad you found WeddingVenueOwners.com. I have dedicated the last 10 years to helping wedding venue owners and managers find each other, connect, share information and access strategies for wedding venue success! I relentlessly research wedding venue websites, social media, SEO, advertising, contracts, operations and management tactics from successful venues all over the country. I am obsessed with researching & compiling wedding venue success strategies from my travels around the country. Use the contact form on this page if you are seeking more information on Wedding Venue Consulting, Mentors & Education.
You are not alone in your journey to start, grow or develop your wedding venue. Join the Wedding Venue Owners & Management Community group on Facebook to find over 7200 colleagues actively networking and sharing strategies for wedding venue success. Please note, I screen this group tightly, only wedding venue owners & management gain entry. Consider joining this wedding industry group for all industry pros and for engaged couples to find wedding planning support.
If you are interested in finding a wedding venue coach or wedding venue consultant, please contact didi@weddingvenueowners.com. I provide in person consulting where I travel to your wedding venue. We work together to identify the challenges that may be holding you back from reaching your goals and together we will find solutions and develop a plan that is custom made for you! I would love to work with you or help you find a wedding venue coach that is a great fit for your specific needs. Remember, you are not alone!
Wedding Venue Education: Onsite Consulting
1. I will come to your venue for 2 days of hands on, in person strategy review of your policies, practices, contract, site and services. We will review the most pressing issues you want to cover & develop working solutions and plans together to help you overcome business challenges and create a long term plan for success.
2. I will tour the venue, spend hours learning about your specific venue & venue needs. I want to know who you are as an individual venue owner, we’ll discuss in detail what your goals are & help hash out realistic goals for the next year and next 5 years.
3. I can bring a 2nd wedding industry expert with an impressive wedding venue management/ownership background. I work with some of the most respected and successful wedding venue owners in the country. Some specialize in wedding venue zoning & permits, some specialize in contracts or venue operations. I work with one of the most effective wedding venue SEO experts in the country, providing a proprietary system for fast, professional SEO strategies to help you advance your wedding venue website, SEO and social media. We focus heavily on your digital sales tools.
4. I provide wedding business consulting on site for under $5000, before you spend $10,000 to $20,000 or more to get on a fast track cookie cutter program, consider a program where the expert(s) comes to you, reviewing your best venue assets & potential, listening to exactly what you are struggling with & help customize solutions for YOUR venue. Your venue is not like any other venue and can’t evolve with one size fits all solutions! #weddingnerd
5. You will receive ongoing monthly instruction via Zoom, customized for your venue. This will help to ensure that we focus on your goals and continue to follow through with the plan we implement. It is easy to feel overwhelmed, as you transition from outdated or ineffective business habits to innovative solutions. I will be there with you along the way.
6. You will receive 6 months of Zoom follow up consulting calls to collaborate with me.
7. Contact me today to schedule our big day of wedding venue solutions! The consulting investment starts at $3500, travel fees are not included in this fee. didi@weddingvenueowners.com
SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING: I assist a limited number of social media clients per month to ensure that their accounts are managed properly, and their expectations are exceeded. Most of my clients eventually learn the skills to take over their own accounts or I provide training to their staff in order for the venue to manage their social media in house. I am available for training and will gladly help you train your staff to manage social media marketing. I typically have one to 2 spaces available a year to take on a new social media marketing client, so if you are in need of these services, please email me didi@weddingvenueowners.com SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING SUPPORT STARTS AT $500 a month, a small price to pay for your freedom from a tedious task that takes up a lot of your time that you should be using to do more important things. I will help you grow your social media and use it to increase inquiries, bookings and conversion!
SEO – I can help you implement tactics on your website to organically increase your SEO, Search Engine Optimization. We will use social media marketing, vendor partners and methods I have learned over the years to help you improve your SEO and increase your online visibility. I offer this service for $200 a month.
Website Design & Maintenance – I no longer provide website design but I have some trustworthy resources for you. Let me know if you would like information on affordable, dependable website design.
Business Consulting – I offer a variety of business consulting options for new start ups needing guidance on well…everything. I help seasoned business owners looking to delegate out some of their tedious or time-consuming tasks. The first thing we will do is schedule a Zoom to talk about your specific venue challenges, goals and current needs. I charge $100 for the initial Zoom to ensure that I am starting the process with a business that values my time. We will create a plan that works for you, customized to suit your needs. It could be one hour a week to discuss sales goals & strategies. It might be 5 hours a week to oversee your social media planning & come up with creative content ideas that get your venue noticed online. I could set up a weekly meeting with your operations team to review recent events for areas of improvement and planning for upcoming events to make sure all the details are being managed properly. Maybe you’re not a great motivator and your team needs a business cheerleader like me to get them pumped up for the weekend events and then thank them and appreciate the team after each weekend, so they stay motivated. You may need me to come to your venue on wedding weekends to support the management team and help identify areas of improvement. OR I could assist your team while one of your staff is out on maternity leave, suddenly ill or has decided to leave. Managing turnover is a big challenge. I am able to step in when your management changes require temporary support. If you have hired a new manager and need to train them on customer service, day of operation, social media marketing, vendor relations, general management, etc.. Or help your staff improve their professionalism at the office, online and with clients. I assist venue owners during their hiring efforts and help them find and screen candidates. I help venue owners identify their ideal client, successfully target and reach those clients, get more premium leads, turn those into venue tours and turn more tours into bookings. I help venue owners identify weak areas in their booking process so we can increase their conversion rates. There are so many different reasons a venue owner requires consulting, most often it’s to reduce your stress and get rid of some of the tasks that take up too much of your time. You should be running the business, not getting run over by it! The investment for my consulting are considered on a case by case basis. To manage social media accounts, my packages start at $500 a month. For hourly support, my fees start at $100 an hour, this may sound high but most of my venue owners only need me for a few hours a month. For interim management support, the fees vary.
Start Up Areas Of Support: Zoning, Planning, Financing, Permit Process. I will help you organize and manage this process. I will come to your venue to help with management meetings, strategy planning, plan neighborhood welcome parties to encourage neighbor support. I will help you plan your styled shoots for social media marketing and website content. I will help you develop a contract and venue policies. I will help you plan your grand opening, press releases, wedding open houses, vendor events and develop expo show marketing including designing your vendor space and plan for a premium return on investment. Together we will plan your first year and I will help you implement successful tactics to ensure a successful first year.
Not ready to invest in the Rent-The-Nerd program? No worries, for ONLY $299 to $499 you can join a Wedding Venue Owners Working Vacation! You get to travel to an incredible city with 20 to 30 wedding venue owners for venue owner to venue owner education, inspiration & motivation!
Wedding Venue Owner Working Vacations: For venue success, there is nothing more valuable and valid than venue owner to venue owner education. Others can guess at what makes a successful wedding venue, but VENUE OWNERS know what works and what does not. Join us on our monthly wedding venue owner working vacations as we journey to incredible cities all over the country and internationally (coming soon). When you attend a Venue Owners Working Vacation you get will tour 6 to 8 wedding venues, meet 20 fellow wedding venue owners, discuss contracts, policies, social media marketing, advertising, venue tours that lead to more bookings, successful website designs & content, legal issues experienced & overcome by venue owners, day to day operations and all while enjoying incredible cities together. Contact didi@weddingenueowners.com to sign up for: New Orleans, Austin, Chicago, Savanna, Nashville, Miami, Charleston and more.
WHO IS DIDI RUSSELL? Didi Russell began her event management career more than two decades ago with the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. Her initial task involved managing an event expected to draw 8,000 attendees, requiring 250 volunteers, members of the press, military dignitaries, 2 locations miles apart and a committee of local business leaders. It was somewhat terrifying yet thrilling, serving as an intensive crash course in event management, communication, and organization.
Since then, she has turned her career focus to the wedding industry with a dedication to wedding venue business strategies for success. Didi has visited close to 1,000 wedding venues in 27 states to understand what drives their success, the common challenges owners encounter, and to create educational programs & business solutions that empower and unite venue owners & managers.
She is a passionate advocate for wedding venue owners who are relentlessly targeted by marketing & advertising scams and often feel isolated and cut off from communication and effective business solutions. The less a business owner knows about SEO, Website & Social Media Marketing, the less revenue a business will generate and the more likely they will be to sign up for low quality, unethical and innefective marketing scams. As the founder of the Wedding Venue Owners & Management Community Group on Facebook, she provides free education and business development instruction weekly to over 7200 active members of this community.
In 2021, She initiated Wedding Venue Owners Working Vacations to empower venue owners and management teams to connect and build lasting alliances, strengthening their businesses for the long term. Today, Didi Russell continues to champion communication programs that equip wedding industry small business owners with effective strategies to grow and thrive in their markets.
As a speaker at various wedding industry conferences, I have shared my insights on marketing, sales, and customer service strategies specifically tailored for wedding venue management. Through these speaking engagements, I have been able to connect with many venue owners and learn from their experiences as well.
I am thrilled to be speaking at the upcoming Tennessee Agritourism Conference. Let’s work together to create more opportunities for small business wedding venue owners!
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“The Best Wedding Venue Owner Education Comes From Other Successful Wedding Venue Owners” – Didi Russell
Wedding Venue Blog: Learn more About Wedding Venue Owners Community through our blog. Venue owners share their stories and give us a glimpse into their life as they navigate the wedding industry. Venue owners & managers share how they started their venue, how they manage operations. These wonderful venue owners share tips and information on the best practices and polices they know to be successful for their wedding venue. We feature a new venue every week and share their wedding images and locations. This is an incredibly valuable resource for wedding venues owners to use as a guide in developing their best practices. If you would like for us to feature your wedding venue in an upcoming blog please use the contact for on this site to send us a message.
Engaged Couples: while the main focus of our website is wedding venue ownership we have hundreds of engaged couples that visit our site weekly so it makes sense that we provide some information to help you find reputable, locally owned wedding venues in your area. The wedding venue map search tool is simple but effective. Just click on the map and search your area to see the venues listed. You can use our wedding venue gallery to view images of local venues as well as wedding venues around the world for inspiration. Members of our site have a heart icon next to their listing, this means we have verified that they are a licensed and insured wedding venue operating in compliance with their county guidelines. They provide couples with a contract prior to accepting any fees. These venues are legitimate operational businesses and that is very important for you to know as hundreds of amateur venues operate without proper permits or legal requirements of their county and local government. Do not risk your wedding investment in a venue that could shut down prior to your wedding.
Engaged Couples can use this Facebook Group to search venues and get wedding planning advice.
