Everyone knows wedding planners need to be organized and detail-oriented but it takes much more than just those traits for you to be a success. The current issue of Special Events magazine features an article that names the personality traits that top professionals have, and you should too.
Here are 5 of the traits they listed along with why I think they’re important:
1) Leader
Your own staff, the wedding vendors and the bride will be looking to you for leadership during the planning process and the wedding itself. You need to be able to motivate people, give directions and get people to listen to you.
2) Time manager
You need to keep track of the wedding timeline and get wedding vendors and the bride and groom to meet their time commitments for the wedding to go off without a hitch.
3) Problem-solver
Unexpected things can happen at a wedding and you need to resolve any emergencies that arise. (This means you also need to be able to always stay calm and be a quick thinker!)
4) Artistic
Whether or not you’re a wedding designer in addition to be a wedding planner, you need to have, or develop, an eye for event design. This will help you understand the work of wedding design vendors and will enable you to help your brides make design decisions.
5) Motivated
You must always have a positive attitude and be ready and willing to work hard and do your best for your brides and for the success of your business.
You can read the article on the Special Events Magazine website.
And you can learn more about starting and running your wedding planning business in my Free Special Report “7 Steps to Becoming a Top Wedding Planner.” You can get it here.
