How I made $44,753 in September by Planning Elopements
How I did in September, and how I want to help you start the business of your dreams.
I started an elopement planning business when I was at a very low point in my life, and I have had a grand adventure over the past 12 years. I’m ready to pay it forward.
September in the elopement planning business where I live is the stressful transition between the busy August email season and the beginning of our insanely busy fall wedding season.
It’s the month where last-minute couples, deciding they are done with the heat and want to escape to the mountains, clash with those who planned a little early for the fall colors and came up early to say their vows on mountaintops.
Luckily, this year’s fall colors started very early. I was seeing bright red colors during the last half of the second week of September. The fall colors is what sells next autumn’s weddings – an exceptionally long, vibrant year provides the most valuable social media content.
The September numbers:
- This month, we booked a respectable 37 weddings. This is down only slightly from our insanely record-breaking September 2020 year of 39 weddings, a 5.1% decrease in bookings. However, due to a very slight change in our pricing strategy this year, we brought in 8% more in revenue.
- The amount of sales we made this month was $49,328.
- The biggest cost for us each month is permit fees. We paid a total of $3,800 in permit costs.
- Our other two main expenses are to the florist and baker: $775 total in September.
- That brings our total expenses to $4575 (not taking into account fuel costs, on-the-road food, taxes, and other incidentals).
- Total profit in September comes to $44,753.
September: Not even that busy
September is one of our lighter months… at least at the very beginning.
There’s definitely a point in the second half of the month where the fall season “hits” and it’s balls-to-the-wall weddings until the second week of November.
That first half of September is spent doing emails. Unbelievable amounts of emails – with clients, with venue owners, with vendors. It’s not uncommon for me to send 75+ emails a day, every day, between mid-August to mid-October.
The biggest challenge this month is the email/wedding/work-life balance at home. I can’t tell you how difficult it is to spend 2–3 hours getting your inbox down to zero. You celebrate by going to make a cup of coffee and walk the dog down the road and back.
You then sit back down and there are 20 new emails you have to respond to.
The good news about this is that that your average elopement couple has low stress as one of their main priorities in planning a wedding. This isn’t email after email from bridezillas wondering about every single aspect of their wedding. This is a bride asking, “What’s a good hair person I can book for my wedding day?” Or it’s a groom: “I want a really great restaurant that is nice but not too terribly stuffy that also has a great beer list.”
I joke that I’m 1/3 a wedding planner, 1/3 a travel guide, and 1/3 an office secretary.
You, too, can do this. I believe in you!
After 12 years of planning elopements, I am pivoting my business plan from being the CEO of my elopement planning business to providing all of the tools you need to start your own business.
I’ve done so well with the business model I created. Really, really well.
I have started this exact model in 5 different locations in 2 different countries to make sure it works. Guess what! It does!
The next phase of my business isn’t growing an empire of elopement locations I have created. It’s helping others establish this business model I have perfected for themselves. I want to help you feel what I feel every day.
I want to guide you through every aspect of elopement planning so you can create your own successful business. I want you to have these numbers and experience what real success feels like.
You will get everything from one-on-one, face-to-face training, to website creation, to access to the best customer management suite software we have found.
I will closely guide and train you on every stage of your business so that by the time 12 months have passed, you will become an expert in elopement planning. After working countless late nights to build up this new life for myself as an elopement planner, I am ready to do what it takes again to help you discover how fun entrepreneurship feels!
Email me at info@elopementbiz.com to get the conversation started. I absolutely won’t sign your email up to daily, weekly, and monthly automated emails. You’ll be talking directly with me, and we’ll discuss your dreams, fears, and vision for the future.
I’m a real person who feels like I have been blessed. When one is blessed, I feel, they should pay it forward. It’s time for you, dear reader, to live the life you’ve imagined.
I can get you there.
