Wedding Businesses: Cash In On 'I Do'
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Cash In On 'I Do'
Want to cash in on the growing wedding industry? Here are 12 ways you could turn a profit.
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Create Pet Wedding Apparel
Don't forget the pets. With more and more Americans choosing to include pets in their wedding celebrations, it's a growing market. The wedding ceremonies of celebrities like Gwen Stefani, Tori Spelling and Adam Sandler all featured their canines.
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Offer Bridal Boot Camp
From the moment a bride-to-be puts the ring on her finger, she's probably already thinking about how she's going to fit into the perfect dress. That's where you come in. By offering fitness training and dietary advice, you can fill a growing niche of the wedding industry. Other popular aesthetic treatments include teeth whitening, cellulite-reduction therapy and hair removal.
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Design Cake Toppers
Roney says the days of traditional wedding images, like bells and doves, are fleeting. That means the traditional bride and groom cake toppers are also on their way out. Alternatives range from the couple's initials or wedding monogram to themed pieces that reflect their personal style.
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Create Unique Bridal Garters
Today's brides want personalized garters that will impress their beaus. Try making garters with college colors and insignias, sports themes and traditional designs for the hopeless romantics.
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Create Personalized Bottles of Water
Bottled water with personalized labels, often featuring a picture of the couple, their wedding date and a short thank you note, are making their way to the exit of many receptions.
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Make Honeymoon Kits
With the hectic pre-wedding schedule, most engaged couples don't start thinking about what to pack on the honeymoon until a few days before the wedding. Create fun honeymoon baskets based on popular destinations like Hawaii or Tahiti. For example, for Hawaii, you could include reef shoes for scuba-diving, sunscreen, after-sun lotion, beach cover-ups and flip-flops.
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Design Bride and Groom T-shirts and Hats
If you can't tell a newlywed couple by the way they look at each other, these shirts and hats will confirm they're recently hitched. Featuring words like "bride," "groom," "newlywed," "Mrs. Smith" and "Mr. Smith," they're a fun way for a couple to show off their new marital status.
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Rent Photo Booths
This trend has caught on over the past few years, and it's just as much fun for wedding guests as it is for the bride and groom. The newlyweds can get some great black-and-white snapshots inside the booth and then open it up to guests. Guests can choose their favorite image, cut it out and paste it into the sign-in album.
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Start a Marriage Preparation Course
Couples may think love is all they need. But a marriage preparation course is invaluable to couples before they take the next big step. If you and your partner have a loving, long-lasting relationship and are willing to share your triumphs and tragedies, this business could end up making a difference.
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Become a Wedding Minister
Thanks to the destination wedding trend, this role is becoming more prominent. Also, as more interfaith marriages take place, non-denominational ministers are the obvious choice. If you're willing to travel, enjoy public speaking and have a knack for story-telling, this could be the fit for you.
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Design Personalized Favors
Brides and grooms are growing tired of typical favors and instead are looking for unique items that go along with their wedding theme. Some couples are choosing to forgo a favor altogether and are instead donating money to a charity. In that case, you could design an card for each place setting explaining where the donation is going.
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Start a Wedding Band
Couples with bigger budgets are springing for both a DJ and a band and having them alternate during the reception. For instance, they may want their first dance song to be played live, but prefer a DJ later in the evening. Or some may stick with the live band all night. Create a CD of your band's best jams and send it to wedding planners in your area.
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Recent Comments
filapublishing 05:01:13 PM Jun 26 2008
In these trying financial times there is strength in numbers. In most cases brides can still get discounts on expensive wedding usuals at seminars and conferences. If you try to go it alone sometimes you learn a little too late financial what you could have benefitted from other women. Go to www.filapublishing.com
ourlsa 11:18:38 AM Jun 26 2008
It's funny how all of these ideas are also ways to make sure a bride and groom spend way too much money on their wedding. If you want to save money on your wedding, check out www.recycleyourwedding.com!
johnswren 10:04:07 AM Jun 26 2008
In Denver and want to start a new business? Join us any Friday afternoon (except for holiday weekends, we won't meet July 4) for the Denver IDEA Cafe. More info and optional RSVP at http://ideacafe.meetup.com/1 I'd also like to help others around the country start similar groups, as many are doing. For more info contact me at John@JohnWren.com
filapublishing 09:44:19 AM Jun 26 2008
We work on the pre marriage end of the equation. But we do notice that at our, "Happily Ever After Conferences" there do appear to be more vendors showing up. Clearly on their behalf there can be a lot of money to be made but for myself I am interested in them staying in love.
westkofc 08:23:12 AM Jun 26 2008
Could be a booming business in states where ANYBODY can marry ANYBODY..
scottdinnerhouse 03:12:07 PM Jun 20 2008
I work in the wedding industry. It's hard work and the rewards are great, but again it is hard work. No matter how clever and creative you can get, brides tend to go with traditional or traditional with a small flare of personalization. The fairytale wedding will never go out of style!
smsdes 12:44:14 PM Jun 20 2008
As a Wedding Pro with over 25 years of experience, I cant see where many of the items listed would still be profitable. There are thousands of sites pushing every item shown.
Of all of the items, the only one we see a shortage of in our area are the Ministers, That is GOOD wedding Officiants that speak well and have personality.
I work in the decor floral end of the business, and with fuel and economy people are pinching pennies. Cant blame them. But they have to realize that we are all effected by the rising costs, and NO we wont sponsor their weddings, or give free delivery.
