Sumitomo Forestry takes half of Wisdom Homes. Japan's home builders are continuing to push into the Australian market, this time with Sumitomo Forestry Co acquiring a controlling 51 per cent stake in Wisdom Properties Group, which builds home and land packages. Wisdom Homes builds about 400 houses annually, with more than 150 employees and 500 construction contractors.
Wedding Planner Salary: How Top Planners Earn $120,000+/Year. The wedding industry in the United States is a gigantic one, with over 2 million weddings taking place across the country every year and over 80 billion dollars spent annually.
Wedding planners offer hourly rates, flat fees, charge a percentage of a wedding's budget or charge for each service they execute. For example, wedding planners may charge a rate of $50 an hour if they are only working with a couple at certain stages of the wedding-planning process.Or, they may charge a flat fee of $2,000 if they are working with a couple throughout the entire wedding-planning process. professional wedding planner's job is to serve as a researcher, coordinator, financial planner, supervisor and more for a wedding. Since wedding coordinators tend to offer so much insight to a couple when planning their wedding, they generally charge about 10 to 15 percent of a wedding budget.