Seeking Your Help for a Better Blog/Website Experience

Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge's friend and fellow wedding planner, Emilie Duncan of Emillie Duncan Events  in Ohio has put together a short questionnaire about what attracts you, as a reader, to our websites and/or blogs. Is it the content, the images? We want to know the answers so we can better serve your interests and needs for getting the information you seek in researching quality wedding professionals for your event. 

I am looking forward to hearing the results of this survey and encourage you to take part. I am currently in the stages of redesigning and upgrading my blog and these results may certainly help in guiding me in creating the best and most productive site experience when you visit the new blog and my website.

So, thank you in advance for your participation and please do let your friends know about this to help get a healthy amount of quality feedback.

Tracey

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I promise, this will only take a minute of your time!  If you wouldn’t mind, please click on the link below and answer 9 quick, easy questions about different design aspects of wedding vendor’s websites.

Wedding Vendor Website Survey

We won’t record anything about you other than what state or country you are from - we don’t even ask for your email address so no spam or anything like that.

You will likely see this link on lots of other blogs and sites - this survey is being shared all over the blog-o-sphere so please take the survey only once.

If you have additional comments on the subject, please feel free to email me with those and I will share them with the other wedding vendors who are participating!  We can’t wait to hear what you have to say!

(If you are a wedding vendor and would like to participate, just copy this post to your blog and email the link to emilie {@} emilieduncan {.} com - I will send you the results once we have closed the survey in March)

Wedding Concierge Featured on Wedding Podcast Network-"Meet the Masters" series from NACE "Experience 2008".

Tracey Kumer-Moore, JWIC of  Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge is excited and honored to be included as one of the featured interviews from the NACE "Experience 2008" "Meet the Masters" series of wedding podcasts from the Wedding Podcast Network.

The NACE (National Association of Catering Excutives held their annual educational conference in Philadelphia, PA this past August called "Experience 2008: The Future of Catering and Event Design".

The conference showcased the best, most talented caterers, chefs, designers and planners in the business including celebrity wedding planner Mindy Weiss, the coolest and newest trends in food and decor and a lot of the exciting new ideas you will soon be seeing in magazines and on tabletops in 2009.

The Wedding Podcast Network travelled to Philadelphia to cover this event to bring all of the exciting ideas, trends and passion for the industry from the attendees (that would be all those fabulous catering managers, wedding planners, DJ's, event designers, etc. that you are hiring) to you directly to hear to draw inspiration from. This is why I love the "WPN" not only as a benefit to brides but for my own professional education as well!

This special podcast included interviews with Keynote Speaker Walter Scheib; former White House Chef to the Clintons & President George W. Bush, former National NACE president Chef Jerry Edwards,CPCE, The Glazier Group Director of Catering Cheryl Kahn Brocco (The Glazier Group owns Michael Jordon's Steakhouse, "Strip House" Steakhouse which has a Vegas location at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino). Also interviewed are my good friends and fellow Las Vegas NACE members Jodi & Patrick Harris of Sight and Sound Events and my good friend Andy Ebon from the Wedding Marketing Network Blog was also mentioned.

I think you are going to get a lot of great wedding planning information from this podcast so make sure to listen to it on your computer or download it onto your iPod or MP3 player.

Have a Stylish Day!

Wedding Concierge has reached "The Tipping Point"

I got a pleasant surprise today in my inbox from my friend Andy Ebon of the Wedding Marketing Blog to tell me that I "had been blogged" and sure enough, Andy has featured me on his blog again and I could not be more proud about the content of his post.

In a nutshell, Andy referred to me reaching "The Tipping Point" by making all the right moves when it comes to marketing my company by consistently using my personal brand of style through my new business cards, my blog, and my new website and backing all that up with good old fashioned networking and just taking pride in my work and doing a good job.

The Tipping Point,by Malcolm Gladwell (a book I must check into now-I admit that Andy's mention of it was the first time I had heard of it). Andy's "plain English" definition is about as succinct as you can get.

I consider Andy a mentor and someone who I look up to on both a professional and personal level and who has taught me so much about the wedding business and more. So it is especially meaningful when I not only get complimented on the steps I am taking to improve my business, but in addition I am commended for doing a great job and referred to on his blog as an example of what to do right.

Thank you so much Andy & I promise to keep up the good work!

Then again, it doesn't always seem like work when you do what you love and love what you do. And..."I Do"!

Have a Stylish Day!

Wedding Marketing Blog says "Tracey's Business Cards Rock!"

My good friend Andy Ebon, who is also a "mentor" of mine in many ways and the man behind the Wedding Marketing Blog which I read regularly, featured me and my brand new gorgeous and stylish business cards on his blog today!

I am really honored that Andy has referred to me on his blog as a positive example of "what to do" and thinks that I hit the nail on the head with these cards and that, to paraphrase here, "My Cards Rock!".

I have to say Andy, I totally agree! I LOVE THEM!

And again, a huge shout-out to the very talented Los Angeles illustrator Samantha Wise (who, by the way, revealed to me that she was also a Las Vegas bride!) who helped create the animated me in my blog masthead and my business cards.

And I agree with Andy, having a creative business card that shows my creativity, my personality and makes me memorable is definately what is going to set me apart:)

Have a Stylish weekend!

Tag, I'm it! The Wedding Concierge Takes on the Green Challenge

My friend Mark Kingsdorf, the fabulous Queen of Hearts Wedding Consultant in Philadelphia, PA, has tagged me to take on the "Green Challenge" and list 3 things that I am doing either in my company or home to reduce the impact on the environment & then tag 5 more of my blogger friends to do the same...so here it is...

1) The majority of my marketing materials are distributed in digital format by email in the form of a PDF brochure to minimize paper, printing and ink and is only printed "on-demand" on recycled paper. Furthermore, the bulk of my marketing budget (98%) goes to internet marketing and not print marketing which also promotes using less paper.

2) We conserve energy in our home by using energy efficient lightbulbs throughout, leaving lights off that we are not using, and take advantage of the dry desert air by air drying much of our laundry instead of the dryer.

3) We have installed a filter for our cold water at home so we don't need to purchase cases of bottled water.

So now, it's your turn...

Sight N' Sound Events
The Wedding Jeannie
CLM Weddings
Romanza Events
Wedding Marketing Network & Blog

What is Good Advice Worth To You?

My wedding coordinator friend Isis of Posh Events, LLC in Cherry Hill, NJ mentioned me in her blog post today (thanks Isis) but the topic really was focused on the percieved value of what a wedding planner can do and the all too true fact that a good portion of the population still doesn't get it.

I think we will always be competing out there to make a reputable name for our industry and the best way to advertise our value and our worth is to keep putting good information in the hearts and minds of readers & viewers to share what qualified wedding planners are capable of and how they can help the average bride make their day just a bit easier.

It will come Isis, I promise you. Thank you again for the shout out friend and for being able to quote your blog entry.

Have a Stylish Weekend!

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A very good friend of mine contacted me today to let me know that his friend was getting married in Vegas and he wanted to know if I had any recommendations, good links, etc. Quite naturally, I pointed him in the direction of Tracey Kumer-Moore of Your Las Vegas Wedding Concierge, who is an extraordinary planner and quoted him her hourly rate. I recommended that his friend sit down and speak with her and after 2 hours or so, I’m confident she’ll be well on her way…after all-I live in NJ, I plan in NJ, DE and PA…I am clueless as to quality vendors in Las Vegas and it didn’t seem like taking my Vendors to Vegas was an opportunity his friend would be willing to entertain… Logical right?

His response- eh, not looking to pay for advice… thank you anyway though".

Ok, someone please help me…If you needed to defend yourself, you’d contact a lawyer; hurt-call the doctor; car breaks down-dial a mechanic…Not necessarily looking for “the cure” but some advice to lead you in the right direction so that you can narrow down just what the issue may be.So…why in the world, when you are participating in what for most is the 2nd largest expense in your life, would you just “wing it”?

I’m a bit confused.I know there are authors who recommend not hiring a Wedding Planner and every magazine that you pick up these days shows you the easiest way to plan your big day. Can you do it-absolutely! It’s no secret; people have been doing it for years. The difference is, when you hire a Professional Wedding Planner, someone who is trained in the field as opposed to the new generation of “wanna be’s”, you are paying for sound, expert knowledge in the SKILL of planning a Wedding.

We have invested time and a substantial amount of money to research the industry and reputable vendors, learn the skill of negotiating, contract review and budgeting, execute the flawless movement of 300 plus people from one location to another, in under 30 minutes for a 5 hour event involving alcohol (and it’s liability), massive amounts of food consumption and on average 6 other vendors, on time and without complication.

After spending $30,000 to assure that you have the day of your dreams, $300 for a consultation to guarantee that you get what you are expecting, just doesn’t seem to compare. I know that budgeting for a Wedding is extremely difficult and I am very conscious that as it gets down to the wire, money becomes the determining factor for a lot of decisions.

I also have personally planned enough Weddings to know that when I do the last “fluff” of the veil and I lock eyes with my Client (and there is a tear in both of our eyes), in that moment of silent communication-we both agree that all of the time, dedication, effort and money spent to execute her vision, has just paid off-there are no regrets and no fear and she is ready to begin the next phase of her life.This is why we do what we do. Believe me, it is a job unlike any other.