Episode 36: Why AI Can’t Build Your Wedding Budget…But Real Data Can

Episode Summary

AI is changing the way we work, friends, and today I’m sharing how I’m using it in wedding planning—and where I think we still need to be careful. From creating a quick visual mock-up for a client to checking information about venues and costs, the tool can help, but it doesn’t replace expertise or verification. I’m also giving you a peek at a budget tool we’re developing using real event data, so couples can begin exploring categories and costs. The technology is evolving quickly, and I’m excited to see where it takes us.

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Hello friends and welcome back to Mind Over Matrimony. Along with the rest of the world we're going to talk today about AI Because I feel like this is a conversation that keeps coming up again and again I used it this morning literally in a meeting at a stationer with a client who had to miss their meeting this morning Because of the crazy rain and their gate Would not open because they lost electricity. So they couldn't be present at the meeting. What are we gonna do? How are we gonna make it work in the past?

I would have taken nine hundred pictures of everything and tried to cobble it together in the collage and show them and be like, okay, this is kind of what we're thinking but instead this morning I used my little friend Chat and I Took some pictures of what we were talking about I Uploaded them in chat and I was able to create a little mock-up and send it to her and help her visualize it and then it she's gonna send some feedback back and we just keep on going down the road and What I love about where we are in This journey with AI is that it is constantly changing right it can do today what it couldn't do three weeks ago what it couldn't do yesterday frankly and so people are using it in a lot of different ways in our space and I don't think that it's a thing that we should be afraid of frankly I think it is a thing that enhances our business it in it can be used as a tool to run our businesses in better ways and it can be used as a tool to help generate a concept and and paint a picture for people that we've never been able to do without a team of graphic designers that we paid a lot of money to in the past and I do know that piece of things is scary and dangerous and people are having to relearn skills and Figure out how to use this and have a good understanding of it and what that's going to look like but I don't think that Overall, it's a bad thing for us.

I think on the creative side Inputs still have to be entered, right? We have to still gather information We have to still understand what it is that you as a couple want to know and see and Are inspired by and so we can use that on the visual side of this business in kind of the coolest way that that I've ever seen I'm pretty honestly blown away daily by what it can do.

I think there is some danger in it in terms of using AI as a tool for informational purposes in terms of budgeting or what's something costs or what's available or what the rules at a certain place might be Right because the thing that is interesting about AI and Google really frankly, too I think what's interesting is that AI is getting a bad rap about this but really this problem has persisted for a long time that there's inaccurate information in the universe and on the web about weddings and what I would like to say to that is friends a quick reminder that weddings are a piece of art a very hyper unique Special piece of art that is one of a kind that is going to only live for a certain number of hours in the world. It's like experiential art to the extreme, right?

Because unlike even art it is literally destroyed it is like a phoenix in so many ways you literally live within it you are embodied by it and then it's gone. It vanishes. there's sometimes just two things that remain at the end of all of this and that is the video and the photo and sometimes it's only photo and So there's no way that your friend Claude is going to build you a wedding budget that is in any way accurate to what it is that's in your brain because there's no way to know what choices you're going to make as you go down the road, right and What I find fascinating about all of this is it really does come back to the money Weirdly AI and the dollars.

That's where the The juxtaposition has been I think the most inaccurate right when it comes to AI and how we're using it And so I'm excited.

I'm just going to give you the little snippet here friends because it's coming soon but we are really working on a tool that pulls from like a large compilation of budgets that We have worked with over the let's say it's going to be the past three years That will allow you to actually plug in your number of guests and see actual pricing and actual percentages of each category from real budgets from Real budgets of people that have gotten married in whatever location you're looking at or as a whole If you're looking at the Julian Leaver Events work This is what it would look like and so we're building this budget tracker to give some transparency to the wedding industry Right and to help you at least begin to look at the different categories that you're going to look at because I think even AI doesn't really understand those categories well and it misses out on things and it makes mistakes and It's not an expert in the field.

It hasn't been doing this every single year We do 15 to 20 events a year I know what things cost because we are literally doing the reps to be able to give you real time data About what it costs today versus what it costs six months ago I can tell you exactly what it's cost today and that gives me a good reasonable Without any major political factors being shoved in there somewhere View of what this is actually going to cost.

So we're building a tool with AI, which is so cool to be able to give you the ability to actually project and forecast and make some really informed decisions and That's what I've loved about talking to people that Reach out to us even if they're not the right fit for us I love being able to give the rubrics that we use to build budgets to people to be able to get actual Realistic numbers and so what's cool about this is that now I've built a tool We're gonna release it and you'll be able to just go to a website and do it right You'll be able to inform yourself using real numbers About what that actually looks like we don't have to even get on a call and and me walk you through that whole thing Right because maybe it won't be a good fit or maybe it'll be a waste of your time But I want there to be an ability to have some information out there in the universe to To be able to be used and so AI is working for things like that for all of us right being able to pull all of this information together not in a manual way and Not have someone just have to sit there and enter all of this information to be able to provide that transparency to the greater wedding world so Come back soon.

It'll be launched probably by the end of the year and We'll let you know of course here and and in all the places, but Don't be afraid of AI friends. It's it's a cool tool It's a tool that should be used with care. It should also be fact checked right just like we all were taught to We were all taught deductive reasoning in school right you have to look at this piece of information here and then you need to go and speak to someone and verify this piece of information so verify and It can be a good starting point and then get some more information and get educated But don't be afraid of it. It's it's gonna be in it's gonna be an interesting ride and it's continuing to evolve So what we say here today about all of this could change in three weeks. Who knows?

But it's a wild it's the wild west of AI

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