Case study · Event & Wedding Planners

Wildflower Weddings booked their 2026 season by December 2025

March 18, 20267 min readWildflower Weddings & Events — Sonoma County, CA · full-service planners

A style-and-package quiz plus a live availability checker turned Instagram DMs into signed contracts — and let the owner stop working nights. Contract volume follows the wedding calendar: late-spring and early-fall are the peaks, mid-summer heat and deep winter are quieter, and January picks up again as engagement season inquiries convert.

Qualified inquiries/mo
23
from 9 +156%
Consult-to-book
54%
from 38% +16 pts
Avg contract value
$9,700
from $8,200 +18%
Season booked by
Dec
from Feb 2 mo early

Signed contracts per month

6-month engagement · ±8% range

How we modeled thisContract counts are pulled from the planner's signed-contract log. The chart shows a typical 6-month window; wedding-industry seasonality (late-spring and early-fall peaks) is real seasonal demand, not a modeled uplift.

The challenge

Every inquiry started with 'are you available?' followed by 8 emails to figure out budget fit. The owner was answering DMs at 11pm from her couch.

What we built

  • Live date-availability checker gated behind a quick qualifier
  • Style-and-package AI quiz (garden, coastal, ranch, ballroom) with mood-board output
  • Vendor referral routing for out-of-scope inquiries (florals-only, elopements)
  • Automated post-event review capture wired to The Knot and WeddingWire

Results after 6 months

  • 2026 wedding season fully booked by Dec 15, 2025 (vs Feb historically)
  • Inquiry-to-consult qualified rate: 71%
  • Owner cut evening email time from ~14 hrs/wk to under 2

"I got my evenings back and booked earlier than I ever have. The math is embarrassing."

Rowan Beckett, Owner, Wildflower Weddings & Events
The investment
Package
Essential
Setup
$2,499
Monthly
$199/mo
Payback
≈ 4 weeks
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