The Wedding Pros

We’ll be including an introduction of ourselves in our podcast as well, but for the time being we’re going to assume that not everyone who listens to the podcast also reads the blog and vice versa so some topics will get exposure on both. What podcast, you say? The one we’re launching in January and I do hope you come back to check it out. If you’re planning your wedding in the next year or helping someone who is, and I can’t imagine why you would be reading this if you weren’t, you will find a wealth of information here and on the podcast on every wedding-related topic. Not only that, but we’ll be covering topics as they specifically apply to the Southern Tier of New York and Central New York Finger Lakes regions, so you’ll hear from and about local wedding service providers and engaged couples and newlyweds from those areas. Ryan will tell you more about the specifics of his background, but we’re both wedding DJs entertainment professionals. My background includes banquet management which gives me some great insight into the food and beverage service and hospitality aspects of reception planning. I also have some experience in photography but only as an enthusiastic amateur. My main area of expertise lies with entertainment and specifically wedding entertainment. Weddings are much different from birthdays or graduation celebrations because there is so much more emotion attached to that one day, and the emotional involvement at a good wedding extends to the friends and family as well. Weddings are at their essence a celebration of love… your love. I can hardly think of a bigger or better reason to gather hundreds of people together in celebration, so no wonder weddings can involve literally years of planning. I’ve been working in the wedding industry for the better part of the last 14 years, with the last 12 dedicated to entertainment. In those years I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the areas top wedding service providers and some of the most amazing couples you’ll ever meet. Talk about job satisfaction, what a thrill it is each and every weekend to see the culmination of hundreds of hours of planning come to fruition at the event of a lifetime! So out of this love for what I do was born The Wedding Pros. I had wanted to do something to keep more active in the wedding community, and Ryan brought up the idea of doing a podcast which sealed the deal. It was the natural progression for me; a way to keep on top of the goings-on in our area’s wedding industry as well as a way to share my passion for weddings with the four or five of you that our audience will undoubtedly consist of. So I hope you continue to come back and see how we progress, and I hope you give us the feedback we’ll need to make this into a resource that is relevant to you.