The Business of Luxury Weddings
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Booking Overview
Metrics
Episodes: 60
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Neutral
Location: USA
Instagram: 3.6k followers
Contact Information
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Host
James Christianson - Co-host of The Business of Luxury Weddings, focused on helping wedding professionals elevate their business with strategies used by luxury brands serving high-net-worth clients.
Otto - Co-host of The Business of Luxury Weddings, partnering with James to interview and extract business strategy from luxury wedding pros and brand builders.
Booking Intelligence
Booking Requirements
Recent Guest Discussions
Shelby Wax - Wedding Editorial Selection, Storytelling And Curation, Taste/timing/brand Alignment For Publication.
Chelsea Leigh Wenner - Luxury Wedding Studio Growth, Partnership And Standards, Editorial Design And Guest Experience As Luxury Benchmarks.
Natalie Kiran Laskowski - Building A Luxury Destination Wedding Brand, Taste And Quality Standards, Vendor Relationships, Guest Experience.
Josiah - Intentional Brand Building Through Sensory And Production Details; Culture As Competitive Advantage.
Recent Topics
Episodes
Haley Paige: Who Am I If I'm Not a Designer?" On Identity, Reinvention, and Protecting What You
June 08, 2026
What happens when you lose the legal right to use your own name? Wedding dress designer Hayley Paige spent nearly five years, and every dollar she had ever earned, fighting to win back her name and her right to design. In this conversation she joins James and Otto to trace the whole arc: the identity crisis of asking "who am I if I'm not a designer?", the businesses she built in the wilderness years, and the surreal comeback of seeing one of her dresses on a real bride during the Super Bowl h...
Shelby Wax: Inside the Mind of a Wedding Editor - Taste, Timing, and the Stories That Actually Get Published
April 27, 2026
In this episode, James sits down with writer and contributing editor Shelby Wax for a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how wedding editorial really works—and what it actually takes to get published. Shelby shares how her path through Martha Stewart Weddings, Brides, and now freelance work shaped her perspective on storytelling, curation, and taste. Together, they unpack what most photographers and planners misunderstand about editorial, why "beautiful" isn't always enough, and how timing, bran...
Kiran + Leigh: On Taste, Trust & Never Doing the Same Wedding Twice
February 25, 2026
Some planners execute a vision. Natalie Kiran Laskowski and Chelsea Leigh Wenner of Kiran + Leigh are the vision. In this episode of The Business of Luxury Weddings, the co-founders of one of the most quietly compelling destination wedding studios in the country sit down with hosts James Christianson and Otto to talk about what it actually takes to build something with taste — and keep it that way. How they left a firm, launched a brand during a pandemic, and decided early on that they would...
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