CCWEP Educate

Each year, in addition to our unmatched industry-specific networking opportunities, the CCWEP offers educational programs geared to help you streamline and grow your wedding & event business. These morning programs are offered

at various locations around Charlottesville. Check out the list (below) of past seminars and please consider joining us. CCWEP Educates programs are a benefit of CCWEP membership.

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Upcoming Educational Events

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Educational Speaker - Adrienna McDermott| CCWEP

Lisa Watson

The Owner of CCWEP
Thur 11 Jul 2024
Kimpton The Forum Hotel
2024 CCWEP EDUCATIONAL EVENT

Crystal Ball: Case Studies, Strategies and Trends For Marketing Your Wedding Business

During this workshop, attendees will learn:

  1. A clear understanding of how marketing is shifting and how to embrace these changes in their business.
  2. A detailed look at how Gen Z couples’ needs and ways of finding vendors are changing and how marketers can update their marketing to connect.
  3. Ways to increase touchpoints to book couples – without having to join another social media platform
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Tuesday • February 4, 2020 • 9AM

2 TOPICS: “Steps to Becoming an Equality-Minded Wedding Business” – and – “Tales from an Editor: The Ins and Outs of Publishing”

 

Speaker: Brittny Drye of Love, Inc. ~ Brittny Drye is the founder and editor-in-chief of Love Inc., the leading equality-minded wedding blog and print publication. Her inclusive efforts have been celebrated by the New York Times, Forbes, The Advocate, OUT Magazine, Refinery29, NY Daily News, Cosmopolitan, and more. She is a founding editor of the Aisle Society and a member of the 2018-19 North American Advisory Board for the International Academy of Wedding & Events.

First, “Steps to Becoming an Equality-Minded® Wedding Business“: In this session, Brittny Drye will guide you step-by-step through understanding the LGBTQ+ demographic, from a breakdown of the LGBTQIAP spectrum, heteronormative language that is regularly used in the wedding space (and gender-neutral terms to use instead!) and diving deeper into tokenism and genuine marketing, while giving you direct actions to take in order make your wedding business more inclusive.

Then, “Tales from an Editor: The Ins and Outs of Publishing“ Get an insider’s look at submitting to publications, directly from an editor! Brittny Drye will share the secrets of what editors look for, what to include in submissions, and why all wedding pros (beyond just photographers and planners!) should be submitting their work. You’ll walk away with a spreadsheet of publications and their niches, plus a checklist of to-dos before you hit “Submit.”

Free for paid CCWEP members. Join today!

Past Events from CCWEP

CCWEP event offers great networking opportunities and educational programs to grow your wedding and event business.

See past events below!

"Wowing" Clients from Onboarding to Offboarding

January 2024

Speaker: Kawania Wooten

Venue: City Space

20 Best Practices to Book More Weddings

November 2018

Speaker: Chris Jaeger of Book More Weddings

Venue: Pippin Hill Farm & Vineyard

The Art of Surprise & Delight and Implementing it in the Wedding Industry

January 2018

Speaker: Meghan Ely of OFD Consulting

Venue: Darden

Social Media Tips & Tricks for Wedding Professionals

January 2017

Brantley Ussery & Ellen Sewell Convention & Visitors Bureau

Venue: CitySpace

Setting Goals & Developing a Marketing Plan

April 2016

Speaker: Marijean Jaggers of Jaggers Communication

Venue: Darden School of Business

Streamlining Your Wedding Business

November 2015

Speaker: Meghan Ely of OFD Consulting

Venue: Old Metropolitan Hall

Personalizing Your Social Media Plan

August 2014

Speaker: Jennifer Prince of Hill City Bride

Venue: City Space

Building Your Business in the Off Season

November 2013

Speaker: Meghan Ely of OFD Consulting

Venue: Restoration Hall

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