Wedding Planning: Keeping it Real – M&D
16 October 2024When you gel with a couple right away you just know that you’re all going to enjoy the wedding planning process. In business terms they become your Ideal Customer, and everything seems so easy – even the bits that aren’t entirely plain sailing. Working with M & D was one of those times. Here’s how it went.
M & D were the happiest, most smiley couple I’d met to talk to about their wedding plans. Many couples are really nervous. This is understandable, as they may not know what we’re going to be doing. It’s an exciting time and it can be ‘too much’ too. Nothing was overwhelming to this couple. It certainly wasn’t that they didn’t care about their wedding. They knew they needed help in certain areas but also that some things are not worth stressing about.
From our first meeting, it was clear that they knew exactly what they wanted in terms of theme and entertainment, and they were happy with what I was offering them in terms of venue. We worked together on the menu; not being carnivores they needed me to taste test certain parts of their proposed menu to ensure that it would please their guests. One of the perks of this particular job!
Together, we chose suppliers to provide their décor … those bits they wouldn’t be creating and supplying themselves. And they had a cunning plan, a little something that they wanted to surprise their guests with. This was a first for me! I hadn’t come across the idea of singing waiters or other entertainment during or just after the wedding breakfast. I’d only known the traditional speeches or a magician. The couple opted for an incredible interactive, musical wedding entertainment where the guests became the performance! Great fun and so unusual!
Keeping secrets from guests has become a bit of a thing for me and this was going to be fun. Having meetings nearer the day of the wedding, you often find more people tagging along. The key is to have a code so that you all know what you’re talking about without letting the cat out of the bag. This particular entertainment came with a lot of bits and pieces (not least the unusual instruments!). We needed to get everything near to the reception room without guests spotting the people or equipment – no small feat when the reception room had a massive, windowed doorway!
The other surprise that day was the best man’s speech, which was hilarious with tonnes of visual props including a freestanding loo roll holder and a roll of toilet paper on which he’d written his speech. (I think you can guess the level of humour!) Very funny. And it didn’t stop at the end of his speech.
The whole day was a fantastic affair with buckets of love, awesome music from the groom’s band, lots of personal touches, and huge amounts of fun. X
