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My Brand New Workshops for Wedding Vendors

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Wedding vendors, I have exciting news for you! For the first time ever I am presenting the expertise that I normally reserve solely for my 1:1 clients and sharing it with you in two interactive FUN workshops for wedding vendors.

If you’re looking to increase enquiries from Jewish couples, and turn those enquiries into sales, read on, my workshops have been created especially for for you!

WORKSHOP ONE: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT JEWISH WEDDINGS

In this 2-hour workshop we’ll cover:

  • Family dynamics
  • Understanding the client
  • Key differences between a Jewish and non-Jewish wedding
  • What you need to know about Jewish wedding traditions
  • Typical Jewish wedding timeline
  • The correct processional order for a Jewish wedding
  • Jewish wedding music
  • Live Q&A

WORKSHOP TWO: SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY + SALES

In this 2-hour workshop we’ll cover:

  • How to grow your audience of brides on Instagram and Facebook
  • How to turn your audience into customers and raving fans
  • Social media strategy and closing sales for wedding vendors
  • Live Q&A

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Smashing The Glass Featured in Today’s New York Times!

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Karen Cinnamon
What an exciting day! I have been published in the New York Times — a publication with global influence and readership that I hold in very high regard.

The New York Times journalist, Hilary Sheinbaum, first got in touch with me about the story a few months ago and to see it finally in print today is a dream come true!

If you’re reading this in the USA you can read all about it in today’s New York Times ‘Sunday Styles’ section. If you’re not, click here to see the online version, and find out what I have to say about chuppahs, getting creative with yours, and how budget has absolutely nothing to do with it.

The chuppah symbolises the home you and your partner will build together during your marriage, but as well as using the chuppah to symbolize your home, I’m a big advocate of letting your personality shine through too!

Today The New York Times; tomorrow, the world!

Love,

‘Q&A with Karen Cinnamon’ – a return interview with the Save The Date wedding podcast

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I had so much fun when I was interviewed last  December for the Save The Date Podcast that I jumped at the chance to meet  Aleisha, the head honcho of  Save The Date, for a sequel.

Aleisha came to  my London home last week to record a special Wedding Q&A episode and I answered everything ranging from  what’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen at a wedding, to my favourite affordable wedding dress designers, to helping a Jew-ish bride-to-be who felt under pressure from her mother to include too many Jewish traditions in her upcoming wedding.

You can listen to the podcast here or here, or by pressing the play button below.  I hope you find it useful and if you’d like me to answer any  other questions, feel free to leave a comment below, or email me at karen@smashingtheglass.com

Thanks for having me Aleisha!

 

‘Meet The Blogger’ – my interview for the Save The Date wedding podcast

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Last week I was interviewed by  Aleisha from the  Save The Date Wedding Podcast  and it was so much  fun!  We laughed a lot whilst discussing everything from how to avoid a ‘cookie cutter’ Jewish wedding-by-numbers, to planning a fabulous Jewish (or Jew-ish!) wedding on a budget, to tailoring traditions to your tastes and beliefs and so much more. There’s also snippets from Charlotte York’s Sex and the City Jewish journey,  some  very unusual versions of Hava Nagila, and  lots more goodies.

If you’d like to listen to it, you can do so here  or here.

And yes, that is me pregnant in the picture above! It was taken last week by the phenomenal Laura Babb, and I’ll be reporting on that shoot very soon.

I hope you enjoy the podcast – let me know your thoughts! And  thanks so much for having me Aleisha!

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