About Wedding Pros who are ready to grow - with Becca Pountney
Are you a wedding business owner that wants to grow your business for success?
You are in the right place as you tune into the UK's leading Wedding Industry podcast - winner of the 2025 best business category of the British Podcast Awards.
If you want to take your creative passion and turn it into a successful, profitable business doing what you love, you are in the right place.
In the Wedding Pros who are ready to grow Podcast wedding business consultant and speaker Becca Pountney will share her expert tips and practical advice to help you find success.
In this podcast you will find a mixture of actionable steps, guest experts and other wedding pros who want to share their journey with you. Get ready to laugh, cry and most of all get inspired to grow your dream wedding business.
Lessons from a disabled bride to be. With Charlotte Rowe
Show notes:
What does accessibility really look like in the wedding industry?
This week, I’m chatting to Charlotte Rowe, founder of The Unseen Weddings, about her experience of planning her own wedding as a disabled bride and the lack of accessibility and representation she has encountered along the way.
From struggling to find genuinely accessible venues to seeing very little representation at wedding shows, Charlotte shares some of the experiences that inspired her to start The Unseen Weddings project.
We talk about why simply describing somewhere as “wheelchair accessible” isn’t always enough, why asking couples what they actually need is so important, and how accessibility can look completely different from person to person.
And it isn’t just about venues. We explore what photographers, florists, DJs, planners and other wedding professionals can do to make their businesses more inclusive; from asking better questions during consultations to thinking about sensory needs, mobility aids, photography and representation.
Charlotte also shares some of the positive experiences she’s had, including a wonderfully accessible engagement experience at the Sea Life Centre, and explains her plans to create a directory of wedding suppliers who are committed to learning, listening and doing better.
If you’re a wedding professional, I hope this episode makes you stop and think about your own business and the small changes you could make to create a more accessible experience.
Unseen Weddings Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/theunseenweddings/)
Time stamps:
00:57 - Charlotte Rowe — Founder of Unseen Weddings
08:45 - Sea Life Center: Accessibility Done Right
13:31 - Directories and Accessibility: Finding Accessible Wedding Venues
22:28 - When Wedding Planning Doesn't Reflect You: Realising You're Unseen
26:00 - Turning Frustration into Action — Starting Unseen Weddings
32:10 - Creating an Inclusive Supplier Directory and Accessible Events
39:34 - Asking About Accessibility: How Suppliers Should Start the Conversation
45:26 - A Word of Caution: Who Should Get Involved
24 Sept 2026
Breaking down barriers and finding success. With Lianne Cole
Show notes:
In this episode, I’m chatting to Lianne Cole, a female wedding DJ, live vocalist and entertainer who is right at the beginning of her journey in the wedding industry.
Lianne’s route into weddings hasn’t exactly been a straightforward one. With a Master’s in opera performance behind her, she’s worked across a whole mix of different industries and businesses before finding her way into DJing and entertainment. She now brings together her love of performing and her passion for music through LMC, combining live vocals with high-energy DJ sets.
We talk about what it’s actually like trying to establish yourself when you’re new to the wedding industry, particularly as a female DJ in what has traditionally been a very male-dominated space.
Lianne shares some of the challenges she’s come up against, from seeing the same male DJs repeatedly recommended in local wedding groups to feeling like female DJs can sometimes be brought in simply to tick a box. We also talk about why visibility matters, the importance of having more women represented in the industry and how venues and suppliers could help create more opportunities for people who are newer to the wedding world.
Lianne's TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@elemcidj)
Time stamps:
01:37 - Leanne's Background & Opera Journey
13:57 - Gender and the DJ Industry: Women in Opera, Weddings, and Beyond
19:41 - Confronting Sexual Harassment in the Industry
27:34 - Unearthing the Gender Gap: Getting On Venue Supplier Lists
35:16 - Marketing on a Shoestring: Visibility Strategies for New DJs
17 Sept 2026
Balancing a full time career with your business. With Ade Tokan
Show notes:
This week, I'm chatting to Ade, a wedding MC and celebrant based in London and working worldwide, about exactly that. Ade has built a hugely successful wedding business, with 50 weddings this year, while continuing to work full time as a management consultant. His journey into the wedding industry was almost accidental, starting when friends asked him to MC their wedding in Athens. Five years later, he's worked on weddings around the world and has even been featured in publications including The New York Times and Vogue Weddings.
If you're currently juggling a wedding business alongside another job, wondering whether you're ready to go full time, or simply trying to figure out what makes your business different, I think you're going to get a lot from this episode.
New York Times article (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/fashion/weddings/wedding-receptions-games-trivia-night.html)
Time stamps:
09:55 - Benefits to Couples: Guest Experience & Value
19:37 - Breaking Down 50 Weddings: Where Clients Come From
28:20 - When Time Becomes Precious: Balancing a 9-to-5 and a Wedding Business
40:00 - The Pipeline: When to Quit and Go Full-Time
51:52 - What I Wish I'd Known Sooner — Essential Business Advice
Who has been a guest on Wedding Pros who are ready to grow - with Becca Pountney
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Stephanie Betts
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