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THE SPEAKERS

SARAH

Kay Love

Creative Agency | Marketing Consultant | Brand Strategist

Sarah Kay Love is a creative agency, specializing in styling branding, killer content and smart digital marketing strategies devoted to helping companies build brands that differentiate themselves and increase business.

 

After working for InStyle magazine and “America’s Next Top Model”  photographer Nigel Barker, Sarah  became a lover of all things weddings and spent five years at The Knot magazine producing and curating visuals on a variety of media platforms from print to digital editorials, covers, advertising campaigns, and social media channels. She also spearheaded the real wedding and styled shoot submission process for the national and regional magazines.

  • Sarah Kay Love Website
  • Sarah Kay Love Instagram
  • Sarah Kay Love LinkedIn
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ANJA

Winikka

Founder of Editor in Chief Media

Anja Winikka combines her digital content, branding and audience development skills with more than a decade of wedding industry expertise to bring insights and education to creative wedding professionals around the globe. 

She is the former editor and digital marketing director of TheKnot.com in New York where she grew the site from 7 million to 11.8 million monthly unique visitors. As the brand spokesperson, Anja regularly appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America and in The New York Times, Ad Week, and The Washington Post. Anja founded Editor In Chief Media to help experienced wedding business owners better position their brands through site copy, seo and blogging services.

  • Editor in Chief Media
  • Anja Winikka Linkedin
  • Editor in Chief Media
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ANNIE

Lee

Founder of Plannie.com

Leading Wedding & Event Planner at Daughter of Design

Annie Lee is the principal planner of Daughter of Design, author of Learn to Speak Wedding: Flashcards for Beginners, and founder of Plannie.com, which is a global platform to hire an event planner by the hour.

 

Daughter of Design has been named as a top planner by Harper’s Bazaar, The Knot, Martha Stewart, Brides, and PartySlate.

  • Plannie Website
  • Plannie Instagram
  • Plannie Tiktok
  • Plannie LinkedIn
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MAGI

Fisher

Lawyer for Artists and Creatives

 

Magi is a lawyer, educator, photographer, storyteller, traveler, and entrepreneur. Her journey has taken her from photographing professional surfers while swimming in some of the world's most epic waves to receiving a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers Law. If she's not photographing a wedding with her husband, Scott, in a remote locale, managing her team of Associate Photographers, or providing legal counsel to creative business owners, she's probably eating an acai bowl, chasing her pup, Arti, around the beach, or watching SVU reruns in her bungalow.  

  • The Artist's Lawyer
  • Instagram
  • Magdalena Studios
  • Magi Fisher email
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CHANDA

Daniels

Creative Director at

Chanda Daniels Planning
+ Design and

Owner of A Monique Affair

Wedding industry veteran, Chanda Daniels is the Creative Director of Chanda Daniels Planning + Design and owner of A Monique Affair, one of the leading event planning companies in the San Francisco bay area. Chanda founded A Monique Affair in February of 1999. She is a huge advocate and speaker for marriage equality and has become a leader in planning LGBTQ+ weddings.

Chanda Daniels Planning and Design

  • Chanda Daniels Planning + Design Website
  • Chanda Daniels Instagram
  • Chanda Daniels LinkedIn

A Monique Affair

  • A Monique Affair Website
  • A Monique Affair Instagram
  • A Monique Affair Twitter
  • A Monique Affair Facebook
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Lauren

Grech

Entrepreneur | Founder of LLG Events & LLG Agency | EVY Planner | NYU Adjunct Professor

Named one of the top event professionals of her age, Lauren Grech is the founder, principal planner, and designer of LLG Events, a premier event planning and design firm based in New York City. What started as a NYC based company quickly expanded to executing international weddings for high-profile and high-net worth couples all over the world.

Working in incredible destinations like Bora Bora, Abu Dhabi, Greece, Italy, and more, Lauren quickly gained a reputation for her out-of-the-box event designs, her flawless execution, and her international network. In under 5 years she became a female founder of 2 - 6-figure companies, a contributing author, event and travel influencer, thought leader, and one of the youngest professors within New York University’s Tisch Center of Hospitality. 

  • LLG Events
  • LLG Events Instagram
  • Sobi Qazi Facebook
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PRAISE

Santos

Founder & Personal Brand Photographer at ComePlum

Praise Santos is the founder of the photography studio ComePlum and has a love for puns, pretty things, and people. She lives in San Francisco where she does silly dances to loosen up female entrepreneurs during their Personal Brand photoshoots, color-codes her locations to create eye-catching content for brands such as Lululemon, and leads creative workshops teaching others to to use their talents for social impact  Her photos have been featured in Vogue and Forbes. When she's not photographing, teaching, or playing with her pup Bubs, she tries to play Chance the Rapper songs on her ukulele. 

  • ComePlum Website
  • ComePlum Instagram
  • Praise Santos LinkedIn
  • ComePlum Email
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VALERIE

Gernhauser

Owner of Sapphire Events, Ruby & Pearl Events, and Minimal Matrimony

Valerie is a recovering attorney, Florida native, Yale grad, and pug lover. She started her wedding planning business when she found herself unemployed in the wake of the 2008 credit crisis, and has been making lemonade out of lemons since 2011. She has three wedding planning companies that she runs out of New Orleans: Sapphire Events, her high-production
value wedding planning and design firm, Ruby & Pearl Events, offering event management, design, and planning services to the “lovely” market, and Minimal Matrimony, her small weddings brand offering micro and mini weddings for 2020 and beyond.

Sapphire Events

  • Sapphire Events Website
  • Sapphire Events Instagram

Minimal Matrimony

  • Minimal Matrimony Website
  • Sobi Qazi Instagram

Ruby & Pearl Events

  • Ruby & Pear Events Website
  • Ruby & Pearl Events Instagram

Valerie Gernhauser Method

  • Valerie Gernhauser Method Website
  • Valerie Gernhauser Method Instagram
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TAYLER

Cusick-Hollman

Owner at TAYLRD Media | Founding Partner at Sourced Co.

Tayler is one of the Co-Founders of Sourced Co.—a stock photography company creating the wedding-specific images you need to complement your portfolio, build your brand, and market your business. With a background in marketing and copywriting, she has the pleasure of supporting pros not just with her work with the Sourced Co. team (you'll find her cranking out content on their blog and social media) but as a wedding industry marketing consultant and copywriter as well—where she loves nerding out on all things strategy.

  • Sourced Co Website
  • Sourced Co Instagram
  • Sourced Collective Facebook
  • Taylrd Designs Instagram
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TREVOR

Wessman-Lavelle

President at Aisle Planner

After nearly two decades working with some of the world's most iconic, global lifestyle brands including Reef, Too Faced, Taylormade and Adidas, Trevor joined the world of weddings and special events as Aisle Planner's Vice President of Marketing & Sales in 2018. 

Now President, he continues to empower his teams to drive brand awareness and engagement while working across all divisions to generate effective processes and organizational solutions to scale alongside the brand's rapid growth.

  • Aisle Planner Website
  • Aisle Planner Instagram
  • Aisle Planner Facebook
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DIGITAL PASS

An exclusive digital pass to our stay-at-home summit for wedding professionals, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and creatives looking to build, grow, and thrive in the wedding industry.

Regular Admission: $49

Hosted by:

 

PRIANKA

Dhir

Founder & CEO of BoothIQ

Creator of Booked Summit

Founder & CEO of BoothIQ, a San Francisco-based startup focused on reinventing exhibitor lead generation at trade shows through technology and analytics. Prianka has been featured on Inc.com and TechVibes for her work in trade show innovation, specializing in bridal shows. Prianka's most recent venture is titled Booked: The Digital Summit for Wedding Pros. Booked brings together bright minds to give talks that are idea-focused on a wide range of subjects to foster learning, inspiration and wonder for the wedding industry. 

BoothIQ 

  • BoothIQ Website
  • BoothIQ Instagram

Booked Summit

  • Booked Website
  • BoothIQ Instagram
  • Prianka Email
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DIGITAL PASS

An exclusive digital pass to our stay-at-home summit for wedding professionals, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and creatives looking to build, grow, and thrive in the wedding industry.

Regular Admission: $49

our 

EXCLUSIVE ONLINE content

Booked is bringing together the expert advice of wedding industry leaders specializing in - growth, sales, pricing, branding, marketing and more. Our online content portal will be available exclusively to all Booked attendees and includes:

  • Unlimited access to all Booked presentations

  • Brand-building worksheets 

  • Business toolkit to grow your client base

  • Go-to resources for sales and pricing

  • Exclusive perks - valued at over $2500!

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And so much more!

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DIGITAL PASS

An exclusive digital pass to our stay-at-home summit for wedding professionals, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and creatives looking to build, grow, and thrive in the wedding industry.

Regular Admission: $49

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