Insights
Wedding planning tips, photography advice, and industry insights for couples, planners, and photographers.
For Planners
If your venue team plans the wedding, you need planner tools: a client portal, questionnaires, a task board, preferred vendors, and one record per event. Here is how to set that up.
Editorial Team · September 16, 2026
Wedding Business
What belongs in a wedding venue contract, which questions to ask before the tour, and how to collect answers in one questionnaire instead of five follow-up emails.
Editorial Team · September 16, 2026
Wedding Business
A wedding venue CRM has two jobs: booking the date and running the wedding. This guide shows when to use the sales CRM and when the in-house team should sign up as Planner.
Editorial Team · September 16, 2026
Wedding Business
A wedding CRM and QuickBooks answer two different questions. Here is which one owns your invoices, which one owns your tax return, and how to connect them so you only enter a payment once.
Editorial Team · September 5, 2026
Wedding Business
An honest comparison of spreadsheets and wedding CRMs, including costs, warning signs, migration steps, and a practical decision scorecard.
Editorial Team · September 4, 2026
Wedding Business
A practical wedding CRM setup checklist covering pipeline stages, contact fields, templates, automations, migration, and the first weekly review.
Editorial Team · September 4, 2026
Wedding Business
A practical eight-stage CRM pipeline for wedding planners, photographers, venues, florists, and other wedding businesses—with the actions, fields, and follow-ups each stage needs.
Editorial Team · September 4, 2026
For Planners
What transfers from Dubsado, what needs to be rebuilt, and how wedding planners and photographers can move into a free CRM without risking active client work.
Editorial Team · September 4, 2026
For Photographers
Comparing the real 17hats alternatives for wedding pros in 2026: where the generalist tool falls short for weddings, and what photographers and planners switch to.
Colara · August 11, 2026
For Planners
Comparing the real Planning Pod alternatives in 2026: what each platform does well for planners versus venues, and how per-event pricing changes the decision.
Editorial Team · August 11, 2026
For Photographers
What second shooters actually do, the unwritten etiquette rules, what to charge, gear that matters, and how second shooting becomes a path to your own bookings.
Colara · August 11, 2026
For Photographers
The questions wedding photographers should ask at booking, at timeline planning, and in the final month, organized into three questionnaires you can reuse for every couple.
Colara · August 11, 2026
For Photographers
A practical system for booking wedding photography clients in 2026: referral engines, local SEO, vendor relationships, and the response-time habits that actually convert inquiries.
Colara · August 11, 2026
For Planners
Comparing the real Aisle Planner alternatives for professional wedding planners in 2026: what each one does well, where each falls short, and how per-event pricing changes the math.
Colara · August 11, 2026
For Planners
What a wedding planner contract needs beyond names and dates: scope boundaries, payment structure, cancellation tiers, force majeure, and the clauses planners learn about the hard way.
Colara · August 11, 2026
Wedding Planning
A realistic 12-month wedding planning checklist: what to book and decide each month, which deadlines actually matter, and what can safely wait.
Colara · August 11, 2026
Wedding Planning
Set the right deadline, pick a tracking method that updates itself, chase stragglers gracefully, and hand the caterer clean counts. A practical RSVP system.
Colara · August 11, 2026
For Photographers
A practical wedding photography pricing method: cost per wedding, true hourly math, package structure, and when to raise your rates, with 2026 market context.
Colara · August 11, 2026
For Photographers
A wedding photography shot list organized the way the day actually runs: getting ready, first look, ceremony, family formals, portraits, reception, and exit, plus the detail shots couples ask for later.
Colara · August 11, 2026
Wedding Planning
Formal titles, families and children, plus-ones, and modern couples. The etiquette rules for addressing wedding invitations, and how AI can draft every envelope for you.
Colara · August 11, 2026
For Planners
A repeatable wedding planner onboarding process for the first days after booking, including the welcome email, portal setup, questionnaire, kickoff call, and next milestones.
Colara · July 31, 2026
For Planners
Map every wedding from inquiry through post-event follow-up with a repeatable workflow, clear stage exits, useful automations, and fewer details living in your head.
Colara · July 31, 2026
For Planners
A planner-first wedding day timeline template built around hard anchors, realistic transitions, vendor responsibilities, approval rounds, and live wedding-day changes.
Colara · July 31, 2026
For Planners
Twelve practical wedding planner automations for leads, booking, onboarding, payments, planning milestones, vendor confirmations, reviews, and internal tasks.
Colara · July 31, 2026
For Planners
A portfolio-level system for wedding planners managing multiple clients, with weekly triage, standardized templates, capacity limits, and a calm wedding-week handoff.
Colara · July 31, 2026
Product Updates
AI envelope addressing, a full wedding menu workspace, a one-link Wedding Day Portal, Google Meet bookings, per-client profitability, and email open tracking. Here is everything that shipped in July.
Colara · July 31, 2026
For Planners
A practical vendor communication timeline for wedding planners, including what to confirm 90, 60, 30, and 7 days before the event and what to share on the wedding day.
Colara · July 31, 2026
For Photographers
The clauses every wedding photography contract needs, the ones photographers forget until they need them, and why the retainer sentence matters more than any other.
Colara · July 23, 2026
For Planners
A professional planner's guide to wedding planning software in 2026: Aisle Planner, Planning Pod, HoneyBook, Dubsado, Timeline Genius, and Colara, honestly compared.
Colara · July 23, 2026
Wedding Planning
When to start your seating chart, how many guests fit per table, how to handle divorced parents and late RSVPs, and the order professional planners actually work in.
Colara · July 23, 2026
Wedding Planning
A realistic wedding budget breakdown by category, with the percentages planners actually use, the traps that blow budgets, and the line items almost everyone forgets.
Colara · July 23, 2026
For Photographers
A working photographer's honest guide to choosing a wedding photography CRM in 2026: Studio Ninja, Tave, Sprout Studio, Pixieset, HoneyBook, Dubsado, and Colara compared.
Colara · July 23, 2026
For Planners
Timeline Genius does one thing. Here is what wedding planners use instead in 2026, from free templates to AI timeline generators that build the schedule for you.
Colara · July 23, 2026
For Planners
An honest look at the top Dubsado alternatives for wedding planners and photographers in 2026, from simpler CRMs to platforms built around the wedding itself.
Colara · July 23, 2026
Wedding Planning
The times are not the template; the durations are. Real blocks for hair and makeup, formals, dinner, and toasts, plus the three rules that keep any schedule intact.
Jennie Tewell · July 6, 2026
Wedding Planning
The first look is neither magic nor sacrilege. What it buys you, what it costs, the myths both sides sell, and a third option nobody mentions.
Jennie Tewell · July 6, 2026
Wedding Planning
Two venues, long ceremonies, photo heavy mornings, and late exits: the four conditions that justify ten hours, with a full sample timeline.
Jennie Tewell · July 6, 2026
Wedding Planning
Six hours of coverage looks identical to eight when it starts and ends in the right places. A full sample schedule and the one reception change that makes it work.
Jennie Tewell · July 6, 2026
For Planners
No certification required, but reps, contracts, insurance, and pricing are. The realistic path from assisting to your first three paying clients.
Colara · July 6, 2026
For Photographers
Check HoneyBook's monthly and annual Starter pricing, calculate your own renewal increase, and weigh staying against switching without losing data.
Colara · July 6, 2026
For Planners
Most HoneyBook alternatives are just another CRM. Here is an honest map of the options in 2026 and the four things to compare before you switch.
Colara · July 6, 2026
Wedding Planning
What day-of coordination really covers, organized the way working coordinators run it: four to six weeks out, wedding week, morning of, ceremony, and reception.
Colara · July 6, 2026
For Planners
Most planner pricing starts as a guess. Here is what planners actually charge in 2026, the three pricing models, and the cost math that tells you your floor.
Colara · July 6, 2026
Wedding Planning
A working 8-hour wedding photography timeline from a photographer who has shot hundreds of weddings, with first look and no first look versions, and the buffers most couples forget.
Jennie Tewell · July 6, 2026
Product Updates
A brand-new Inbox for every client conversation, contract signing with counter-signatures and official PDFs, autopay for installments, and a complete permissions overhaul. June was a big one.
Colara · June 30, 2026
For Photographers
HoneyBook works fine — until it doesn't. If you're a wedding photographer or planner ready to switch to a CRM built specifically for weddings, here's exactly what comes with you and how the migration actually works.
Jennie Tewell · May 27, 2026
Wedding Industry
Running a wedding business shouldn't mean juggling scattered PDFs, spreadsheets, and email threads. Here's why all-in-one wedding business management software saves planners and photographers up to 5 hours a week — and how Colara was built to fix the chaos.
Colara · April 21, 2026
Wedding Planning
Most wedding timelines look great on paper, then fall apart on the day. Here is what actually makes a timeline work — and the connected approach that takes the stress out of running it.
Colara · April 20, 2026
Wedding Industry
Wondering if Colara is just another HoneyBook or Dubsado? It is not. CRMs handle the business side. Colara handles the wedding day itself. Here is the difference, with a side by side comparison and what to use when.
Colara · April 17, 2026
Wedding Planning
Every wedding photographer has a moment during family photos where they think: "I wish someone had planned this." Here's what they actually wish couples knew.
Colara · March 22, 2026
Wedding Planning
96% of couples experience wedding planning stress. Timeline creation is one of the biggest pain points. Here is how a tool built from hundreds of real weddings generates a complete, professional timeline in 30 seconds flat.
Colara Team · March 5, 2026