Marketing for celebrants, planners and wedding suppliers
Couples book their supplier team twelve to eighteen months out, in a specific order, after shortlisting from about four options. Most of that happens on a phone at night while they're scrolling. I build the brand, website and content that get you onto that shortlist — and give them a reason to enquire instead of saving the post.
How couples actually choose their suppliers?
Weddings have a buying pattern unlike anything else I work with: long lead times, a fixed booking order, one shot at the sale, and two people who both have to agree.
They book in a set order.
Venue and date first. Then photographer and celebrant, usually together, because both lock to the date. Then everything else. Where you sit in that order changes everything about when couples need to hear from you — and by the time they're searching for a florist, they've already met four suppliers who could have referred you.
They shortlist about four, mostly from Instagram and one directory.
They save posts for months before they enquire. By the time they contact you they've read your whole feed, looked at your website and decided you're probably the one. The enquiry isn't the start of the conversation. It's near the end.
They're deciding whether you fit their day.
Not just whether you're good. Whether you fit the tone of the wedding they're picturing — relaxed backyard, black-tie, elopement in the Blue Mountains, big Greek family, second marriage with kids in the ceremony. Suppliers who look like they'd suit anything look like they'd suit nobody.
For celebrants, they're deciding whether you'll be weird.
It's the fear underneath every celebrant enquiry and nobody says it out loud. They've been to a wedding with a stiff, scripted, faintly awkward ceremony and they're terrified of it happening at theirs. Everything on your website is being read through that filter.
Then they email three or four at once.
Same night, usually. Whoever replies first with warmth and actual information has a large advantage. Twenty-four hours later, the shortlist has already narrowed.
Closing line
Everything I build for a wedding business is aimed at those five moments. Not at follower counts.
What's usually going wrong?
Every celebrant's website says the same thing.
Fun, relaxed, no boring legal stuff, a ceremony as unique as you are. All of it true, all of it identical to the other forty celebrants a couple is scrolling through. Nothing there tells them what your ceremonies actually feel like or whether you're right for their day.
Couples can't tell what kind of weddings you do
Your portfolio has a barn wedding, a black-tie ballroom, a beach elopement and a backyard party. It shows range. It also means nobody can picture you at their wedding, because they can't tell which of those you actually love doing.
You're posting pretty photos that sell nothing.
A gorgeous image, a heart emoji, a couple's first names. Beautiful, and it gives nobody a reason to enquire. In an industry where everyone posts beautiful photos, beautiful photos are the baseline, not the differentiator.
Enquiries go quiet after you send pricing.
Usually not the price. It's the reply — a rate and availability with no warmth, no sense of you, nothing that reminds them why they were excited. Meanwhile someone else sent something personal within the hour.
You're only busy in the season.
Flat out October to April, tumbleweeds through winter. Some of that's the industry. A lot of it is that enquiry generation stops during the busy months, so the pipeline empties exactly when it should be filling for next year.
For celebrants: your legal knowledge is invisibl
You know the Marriage Act, the NOIM timing, the required wording, what happens with overseas documents and previous divorces. Couples don't know they should care until something goes wrong. Positioned right, that competence is reassurance — not boring paperwork you apologise for.
What I'd do about it !
Brand and positioning
Wedding suppliers position on personality and everyone lands in the same place. Fun. Relaxed. Warm. Not stuffy.
I work out what kind of weddings you're actually best at and who you're actually for. Small intimate ceremonies over big productions. Blended families with kids involved. Multicultural ceremonies where two traditions have to sit together properly. Elopements. Second marriages. Couples who want something genuinely funny, or something genuinely moving, or both.
Getting specific is what makes a couple stop scrolling and think that's ours.
What's included
Positioning and competitive differentiation
Ideal couple definition — the wedding, not the demographic
Core messaging in plain language, industry clichés stripped out
Your story and why you do this
Package and pricing structure
Brand voice guide
Visual identity — logo system, palette, typography
Ceremony booklet, welcome guide and document design direction
Brand guidelines any future designer can follow
Website
A wedding supplier website has one job: turn someone who's been following you for months into an enquiry that night.
What's included
Site structure and page-by-page plan
Full copywriting, including page titles and meta descriptions
Design and build
Enquiry forms and booking integration
On-page SEO setup
Handover training or managed by me
What that means in practice ?
A homepage that shows the kind of weddings you do, in the first screen
Pricing, or a starting point. Couples working to a budget will skip you entirely rather than ask
What actually happens — the process from enquiry to the day itself
Real weddings, not just detail shots. Couples need to picture themselves there
For celebrants: what your ceremonies actually feel like, and the legal side handled with confidence
Availability and how far ahead you book
Service areas and travel — couples search by region constantly
An enquiry form that captures date, venue and what they're picturing
Written so Google understands your service, your style and your region
Enquiry response system
The fastest money on this page. Couples email three or four suppliers at once and whoever replies first with warmth usually wins.
What's included
An enquiry response template that sounds like a person, not a rate card
An automatic acknowledgement so nobody waits, even when you're at a wedding
A pricing or package document that sells the experience alongside the number
Follow-up sequence for enquiries that go quiet — most suppliers never send one
A structure for the consultation call with a clear next step
Content
Content built around where couples actually are in their planning, not around the calendar.
That means engagement season in January when everyone's just got engaged and knows nothing. The stretch where they're choosing a celebrant and don't know what to ask. The bits nobody explains — how the paperwork works, what a ceremony actually runs like, how to include a child or a grandparent or someone who's died. That content ranks in search and it does the pre-selling before anyone enquires.
What's included
Content strategy and pillars
Monthly content calendar
Captions and branded graphics
Real wedding features written as stories, not photo dumps
Blog articles targeting what couples search while planning
Reel and Story planning
Monthly reporting on what actually moved
Reviews
Weddings run almost entirely on reviews and testimonials, and the window to ask is narrow — couples are contactable and glowing for about two weeks after the day, then they're back at work and gone.
What's included
A review ask timed into that window
Where to collect them — Google, Easy Weddings, your own site
A process for turning couple feedback into usable website copy
Response templates
A system for using testimonials without them all sounding the same
Let's talk about your store
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. Tell me what's going on and I'll tell you what I'd do first — even if that's fixing your Google listing before you spend a cent with me.
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