If you take a close look at your wedding coordination business, are you doing your best to cater to everyone. Language has the power to create connection and build relationships. Still, it also has the power to put up barriers & generate disconnection. Using inclusive language in your businesses is the most effective way to build connection and create a sense of belonging with all clients. It allows all audiences to be heard, seen, and recognized.

If you're like us, the wedding boom of 2022 has your schedule bursting at the seams… and the inquiries just keep coming. One of the worst feelings is turning away new business because you're simply too busy.

But what if you could expand your team? What if you could train trustworthy coordinators so you could finally take on more weddings without worrying?

From Bronwyn E. Spain and Cecily Hunter of internationally-recognized Spain Ranch, there's FINALLY a comprehensive day-of wedding coordination course available. Together, with our 12 years of wedding coordination (and venue experience), we’ve trained countless day-of wedding coordinators to work at our home venue—something we have never taken lightly as those coordinators are always an extension of our venue and of us. Some of the coordinator’s we’ve trained have even gone on to launch their own successful wedding planning businesses. Today, we’re sharing it ALL with you.

Are you seeing more clients who aren't interested in a "traditional" wedding or uninterested in keeping some of the "traditional" aspects of a wedding day? Here's the good news: No one has to have a traditional wedding. Yep, we said it. Traditions are only special if they are meaningful to the couple

Want to know one of the key ingredients to a successful wedding day? That one area that truly has the power to make or break a wedding reception? It’s the wedding catering team. Here’s how to work with them, not against them, and ensure the day runs smooth.

Picture this: it's 9pm, and you're settling in for the night. You check your phone and see a text from a wedding coordination client who wants something super simple from you; you know you could do it before you go to bed.

I still vividly recall three weddings I coordinated that solidified my thinking on tradition. The first was an old friend who dressed up to get married at the courthouse, and hired a professional photographer to capture it. I wept at the photos of she and her new husband because their love was unmistakable. They had no guests. They had no reception. Just the two of them dressed in formalwear at the courthouse. In that instant, it clicked.

We’ve officially hit low stock on B.E AWAY magazine thanks to YOU.

What were each of your thoughts when you met for the first time?

Kameshia: I was nervous but he was so sweet and funny and made those nerves go away quickly.

Jordan: I was excited to meet her because we had been talking for about 2 months before meeting each other. I knew there would be a connection.

Meet Gail and Jeff. The pair have been married for 37 years and I just knew they would be Issue Three’s anniversary couple after Gail, owner of Weddings by Gail, submitted their 35th wedding anniversary celebration to us for publication consideration. I was so smitten with their chemistry and thrilled to see that she was a fellow wedding professional, I was sold on telling their love story.

From B.E Wed Oklahoma Issue 3: Our Anniversary Couple Huma and Arfan on planning a Pakistani wedding in Oklahoma.

Many small businesses are in danger of closing for good. Sound like an exaggeration? I wish it were. The majority of small businesses worldwide have been hit hard by COVID-19, and Oklahoma is no different. As we are not simply a wedding magazine but a celebration of Oklahoma and small businesses, we have put together a gift guide for you to help support local this season. This is just a small example of businesses you can support. Now, more than ever, please support local and shop small this holiday season. Small businesses need you.

Medicine Park, Wildlife, and an odd little place called the holy city. This mountainous area would be the perfect spot to mini-moon or elope in oklahoma.

Micah knew Cingza was to be in his life forever 7 months after meeting her, he just had to convince her of that. Five months into dating, Micah wanted his marriage proposal to be a complete surprise.

I’m glad it’s not just me—

the only one who feels this heaviness—

this compacted grief,

this sense of hopelessness

“Planning the big day with these two was some of the most fun that I have ever had. They didn’t have a huge budget but that didn’t matter. It came out beautifully because they were willing to add to the day what needed to be added and go without what shouldn’t be there. It was about them and their people. Isn’t that what life is about?”