Events | The Academy for Planners & Designers

The Academy for Planners + Designers is a boutique-style conference tailored specifically for wedding planners, wedding designers, and floral designers, hosted by Wedding 360. Limited to only 180 attendees, this is an excellent opportunity to get up close and personal to leaders in the industry. I've recently joined the Wedding 360 team as their media liason/local ambassador and I couldn't be more excited to attend this conference and welcome all the amazing speakers, sponsors and attendees that will be joining us in March for this conference.
















Sean Low and Rebecca Grinnals will be teaching us real-life, applicable tools to help our planning and design business grow and thrive. Tara Guerard will teach all about spatial planning, and will be designing a southern-inspired vignette for our Design Showcase. Designers Todd Fiscus and David Beahm will be teaching their individual approaches to design, as well as deliverables to clients, operations, and production. Media leader Grace Ormonde of Wedding Style Magazine, will be presenting as a part of a panel that discusses the important relationship between a designer, photographer, and an editor. If you are interested in learning how to create amazing weddings and photo shoots that are worthy of publication, you will surely get the best insight from this panel. In addition, our 'Forward Thinking' class will have the masterminds behind 'Two Bright Lights' and 'Style Me Pretty', to talk about the next best thing in the wedding industry, involving wedding planners and designers!

























Other classes include a panel of 4 amazing designers who will reveal their design process for their individual vignettes in the Design Showcase, food and wine expert to teach us the newest culinary trends, and a mixologist to share incredible cocktail recipes!

As icing on the cake, all attendees will be invited to experience a number of perks on top of the education! Be prepared to be wow'd and dazzled by two over-the-top social parties at the luxurious St. Regis San Francisco -the 'Emerald Underworld' welcome cocktail party, and the 'Museum of Petals' dinner, both designed by the incredibly talented Gloria Wong of Gloria Wong Design. Enjoy having a complimentary professional portrait shot taken by the stellar team at Orange Photography. Get your copy of some of the newest wedding books autographed by their respective authors, including Grace Ormonde, Tara Guerard, and Leila Khalil. Be totally awe-inspired by our Design Showcase, featuring four distinctive designers - Linnae Asiel, Grant Rector, Nancy Liu Chin, and Tara Guerard.


If you are serious and passionate about taking your wedding planning/design business to the next level, and you are interested in meeting and learning from top industry experts, you do not want to miss this!