Booking Season Doesn't Start In November: How To Prep Your Wedding Marketing Now

Marketing Strategy for Wedding Professionals & Businesses: The Evolve Your Wedding Business Podcast

Marketing Strategy for Wedding Professionals & Businesses: The Evolve Your Wedding Business Podcast
Booking Season Doesn't Start In November: How To Prep Your Wedding Marketing Now
Sep 16, 2026 Episode 375
Heidi Thompson | Wedding Business Coach, Marketing Strategist, & Consultant

You've got the date circled. Week before Thanksgiving, booking season kicks off, and that's when you'll finally get serious about your marketing again.

Here's the problem with that plan. Couples don't wait for your calendar. By the time engagement season hits, they've already been researching, comparing, reading reviews, and quietly deciding who's in and who's out. The wedding pros showing up in that research did the work back in September.

Tayler Cusick Hollman has been working with wedding pros for 11 years and she watches the same thing play out every single year. Busy season eats your marketing. Your business goes quiet. Then November arrives and the knee-jerk reaction is to post more.

Posting more is not a plan. We got into what is.

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