You Should Automate Wedding Week

Make your wedding week easier - automate a request for flowers in getting-ready pictures

Business Automation is the highest form of self-care.

When you feel anxious the week before your next wedding, it’s not because you’re insecure about whether you’ll do a good job that day. Of course, you will. Most likely, you’re anxious about getting all the prep work done or worse, figuring out when you’re going to do the prep work.

That anxiety can be dissolved by automating the prep work. Simple: You set it up on a certain date relative to the wedding date, and you know it’s gone out, and you don’t have to touch a keyboard again.

If you're a wedding, event, or photography professional, there are at least four important notices that you should send out to your clients in the week surrounding their project date.

You need to do it anyway, so automate…

1. Their balance invoice. Let's start by getting real - you need to get your balance payment before you show up. Automating your invoices expedites that and saves having to scramble and grovel for June's payment in September...and then again in November. You know who you are.

2. A Prep Guide - For photographers, especially. If you're a wedding photographer, send an email that tells the couple what your process is for the day. Include what they need to have available for you to shoot when you get there - dresses, suits, rings, bouquets.

If you're a family or branding photographer, send a guide that tells them when they should arrive, what they should bring, and even who should be fed before the shoot! Setting expectations makes everyone feel better.

3. Wedding Decor list - Every couple has stuff they're bringing in that they also need to take out with them. Automate a questionnaire/checklist that makes them list what those are and - more important - who's responsible for it at the end of the night. Who are you handing the boxes back to?

4. Review request - Whenever you like to send it, automate it, and get it off your desk.

You can set these up in Honeybook, your CRM, or even your Gmail account, so let's talk about it - schedule a free 30-minute consultation with me by clicking the button below.

I’ll talk to you soon,

Elizabeth