Q&As are back!Our annual season of educational programming to make the wedding industry less gross is back! Our first Q&A is from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. PT Sunday 12/15/24 with queer feminist wedding planner and officiant Cindy Savage of Aisle Less Traveled in Seattle, Washington. We’ll be discussing: How to show up for yourself and your LGBTQ+ clients before and on a wedding day
The pros and cons of offering a discount or other incentive to LGBTQ+ clients
Options for giving a portion of your business revenue to a nonprofit that serves LGBTQ+ clients
Advice on using your platform — including Instagram and TikTok — to weigh in on current events including those specific to LGBTQ+ rights
The Q&A is pay-what-you-can with all revenue going toward paying the Educator and keeping the lights on here at Altared. Here’s how to register for December’s Q&A. Want to plan even further out? Get details on January’s Q&A. Fellow vendors to supportBramble & Blossom’s new flower shop is officially open! If you’re in the Pittsburgh area, stop by (311 S Trenton Ave., Pittsburgh) with online ordering available, too. Follow along @BrambleAndBlossomFlowerShop. (Fun fact: Many of you may know Bramble & Blossom's lead designer, Jessica Stewart, as the creator of the Vaccinated Vendor graphic.) If you’re in the Eugene, Oregon, area and in need of an end-of-year party destination, Mount Tom House will be decked out for the holidays this month. They can comfortably host up to 25 guests indoors for a seated dinner. Catering and private chef options available. Welcome in to Kerstin Street in Portland, Oregon! Kerstin is an experienced project manager with more than 10 years of experience in event coordination. They’re looking to learn more about weddings so if you’re a wedding planner or coordinator in Oregon who’s hiring, Kerstin would love to hear from you: street.kerstin22@gmail.com. Resume available upon request! Oregon’s Jaime Ta Creative is officially going full-time in wedding planning for 2025! Jaime is interested in doing one or two styled shoots in March or April 2025. If you’d like to collaborate, email her (jaimeta07@gmail.com) with subject line "Let's collaborate" and a vision/mood board. Reminder: Now through Wednesday 1/15/24, get 25 percent off in-studio hair and makeup sessions with The Wildeflower Collective in Portland, Oregon. Mention this newsletter when you contact them. Vendor lists to amplify and/or joinBelow are two lists of vendors who are offering discounts to support people getting married before next year’s U.S. presidential inauguration because of the uncertainty brought about by the re-election of Donald Trump.
This one is from Seattle-based wedding publication Offbeat Wed, and this one is specific to the New England area. Vendor conference, show, and webinar to considerJoin this free webinar on Wednesday 12/11/24 about prepping your wedding business marketing and systems for the new year. If you attend, you could win a free audit of your website, social media, and services. If you don’t attend but sign up, you’ll get a recording of the webinars. How do wedding vendors take action against climate change while also creating meaningful, beautiful, and fun weddings and celebrations? The Kinder Weddings Conference in Victoria, B.C. on Saturday 2/8/25 is a half-day conference all about how we can create a wedding industry built around sustainability, innovation, and intention. Grab an early bird ticket for $50 before the end of 2024. SMOOCH is accepting applications for vendor booths for their wedding showcase on Saturday 4/5/25 at Abernethy Center in Oregon City, Oregon. Learn more. Last reminder: Free promo code to useStanding reminder: The Budget Savvy Bride is offering readers of this newsletter a free year in their new vendor directory. Use code ALTAREDESSENTIALS at checkout when you select the Essentials plan to redeem your free year.
You can cancel without penalty anytime before the one-year renewal. There's no expiration date on the code. They just want to beef up the directory for their readership! Check it out. Articles to readA gentle reminder that Beneficial Ownership Reports are due for most of us by Tuesday 12/31/24. What the heck is this? Doing a wedding show? This article by wedding coordinator and consultant Beth Kramer is for clients but has a few good tidbits for us vendors, too. Services to considerHave you heard of The Annual Wedding Pro Gift Exchange? A bunch of businesses that serve wedding vendors get together to bundle together their services and share them for free. Learn more from the host, website designer Emily Lee of By Emily Jane. Offer opens Friday (12/4/24) and closes Tuesday 12/10/24. If you’re looking to do some work on aligning your values with your business, consider an offer from former Altared Educator and inclusive branding consultant Crystal Whiteaker. Get her branding and leadership guided workbook, a mini-course on core values-related messaging, and a digital copy of her book, Brave Leadership Is a Choice, for $49 (usually, $135). Enter “BRAVE” at checkout. Empress Rules Equity Consulting in Portland, Oregon, is offering a referral bonus. Share their DEI consulting services and once the contract is booked, you’ll get $250 to $700 depending on the contract size. Sign up. (Note: Altared is not participating in this referral program; we’re simply sharing this offer.) Events to attendSeattle and Portland, let’s hang out! We’ve got a meet-up in Seattle this month and two meet-ups next month. Here’s the line-up. Want to host a meet-up near you? Tell us! We’ll help (altaredpdx@gmail.com). Folks in Portland, we recently learned about a fellow wedding and events vendor organization called PDXperts. Perhaps you’d like to go to their holiday party? It’s tomorrow (Thursday 12/5/24) from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Sentinel Hotel. RSVP here. Reminder: Portland, Oregon, venue The Victorian Belle has a whole slew of shows and events planned for this month. Read the full line-up. Enjoy a festive evening in Carlton, Oregon, at Abbey Road Farm’s Holiday Lights Wine Walk, running now through Sunday 12/22/24 every Friday through Sunday from 5 to 8 p.m. Each week supports a different charity! This month, Rational Unicorn Legal Services’ has upcoming virtual, pay-what-you-can educational options: Reminder: The World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon, is having an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday 1/12/25. It’s free!
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