Wedding Planner Society Podcast

Laurie Hartwell

Booking Overview

This interview-led industry education show focuses on wedding planning careers, operations, design, and client service, typically featuring working wedding planners and related professionals with substantial hands-on experience. Agencies could credibly pitch experienced wedding planners, designers, event producers, and educators with practical expertise or a distinctive cultural or specialty focus; booking difficulty is likely low because guests are generally accessible industry practitioners rather than celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 139

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 6.4k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

info@cwpsociety.com

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Host

Laurie Hartwell - Award-winning Master Certified Wedding Planner, industry educator, and founder and CEO of the CWP Society.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Established wedding planners, designers, event producers, and industry educators with substantial hands-on experience, a demonstrated specialty, or ownership of a wedding-related business.

Required Achievements:

10 or more years of wedding or event industry experience, Ownership or leadership of a wedding or event business, Master certification or professional education experience, Experience producing large-scale or culturally specific events

Recent Guest Discussions

Vicki Amar - Transitioning From Large-scale City Events To Intimate Weddings, Event Coordination, Guest Experience, Contingency Planning, Vendor Networks, And Sustainable Careers In The Wedding Industry.

Rima Shah - South Asian Wedding Planning, Multi-event Coordination, Religious Rituals, Family Customs, Communication, Cultural Understanding, And Specialized Wedding Education.

Brianne Ackerland - Business Continuity, Emergency Planning, Operational Redundancy, Delegation, Client Handoffs, Backup Systems, And Sustainable Wedding-planning Businesses.

Riley Snider - Wedding Design Strategy, Translating Inspiration Boards Into Cohesive Wedding Concepts, Client Discovery, Intentional Budgeting, Guest Experience, And Avoiding Trend-driven Design.

Recent Topics

Weddings, Event Design, Wedding Industry, Client Experience, Career Development

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Wedding Planner Society Podcast

The Dream Team Behind The Wedding Day

September 01, 2026

Weddings do not fall apart all at once. They unravel in tiny moments: a late delivery, a missing linen, a vendor who vanishes when it is time to cue a key event. The reason so many couples never see the chaos is because a tight vendor dream team is quietly fixing it in real time, and that kind of calm is built long before the wedding day ever starts.We sit down with Emma Cockerham of Infinity Events Memphis to talk about what “team player” really means in the wedding industry and why vendor v...

The Pivot: From NYC Events To Intimate Weddings

August 25, 2026

One missed detail in Times Square can ripple across a million people, but Vicki Amar says the emotional stakes of a wedding can be even higher. She spent nearly a decade producing major NYC citywide events, then walked away to become a full-time wedding planner and the owner of Amarvelous Event in South Florida. That career pivot forces a bigger question: is “big” really about headcount, or is it about how much care you bring to the work?We talk through the surprisingly direct overlap between...

The Complexities of South Asian Weddings

August 18, 2026

A South Asian wedding can mean five events, hundreds of guests, sacred ceremony timing, and a timeline that shifts the moment an elder remembers "one more tradition." That's not chaos — it's culture, and it's exactly why preparation matters.In this episode, we're joined by Rima Shah of Big Guava Events, a planner with more than 14 years of experience, to talk about what planners rarely see from the outside: the mountain of coordination before the wedding weekend ...

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