This month, we were delighted to catch up with Emma from 'The Wedding Daze'. We work with many suppliers and we're very happy to recommend these very talented bespoke wedding planners to all our wedding stationery customers. Your RSVP wedding stationery, fired five questions at them - read on to find out what makes a UK wedding planner tick!What made you become a wedding planner and describe the most creative wedding you have been lucky enough to put together.
Whilst looking for suppliers for our own 2010 wedding and visiting numerous wedding fayres, my partner Vincent and I saw a gap for a male/female planning duo in the wedding planning industry. With our backgrounds being in event management and marketing, we studied for a diploma in wedding planning and established www.theweddingdaze.com.
In 2008 we were lucky enough to organise a friend’s Caribbean style wedding. After getting married in Jamaica, they wanted a wedding reception back in the UK, with a Caribbean theme. We were able to get involved and advise on music, catering & venue decorations to give the evening a reggae twist with lots of colour and excitement.
What top 5 planning tips would you give for 2010 / 2011 couples getting hitched?
Start planning your wedding early, in our experience it is never too soon to source and book your suppliers. We have a feeling that 2010/2011 will be a boom year for weddings. With suppliers such as photographers or wedding cars only take one wedding per day; you don’t want your favorite photographer to have already been booked by another couple.
Hire a wedding planner such as www.theweddingdaze.com. We have negotiated discounts with trusted and reliable wedding suppliers which we pass directly onto the bride and groom. This saves the couple time and stress as we source the suppliers for them. Look for alternative and unique wedding ideas when planning your wedding day. This will make your day stand out from the crowd and be remembered by friends and family. Delegate tasks to your friends and family, they will appreciate been involved in your wedding day, and it will take the stress and time away from yourself. Don’t get stressed and lose sight of your special day and the reason why you are getting married, remember this is the most important day of your life, let the little things in life go.How has the recession hit your couples and how has this affected your planning?We feel the recession has made couples more budget conscious, they are wanting their wedding budget to stretch further with out compromising the over all wow factor of the wedding day. This has made us as wedding planners become more creative when planning their wedding day. We look to make savings without compromising the special feel for the wedding day. For example asking family and friends to all contribute with catering or having your wedding cake as desert all helps to cut costs. A wedding planner can help you save money, as they pass discounts onto the couple from wedding suppliers, this can save couples up to 20% on each wedding supplier they use. 
Many couples think that wedding planners need to be involved every step of the way (which could eat away at their budget), what are the other options?
Wedding planners are here to help you plan your wedding day, not to take over and control it. A good wedding planner will work with the couple to ensure their input and personalities are in every stage of the planning process. We know that not every couple will want or need every step to be planned for them, so we offer individual services such wedding day co-ordination or guest organisation. These are great, as you get to work with an experienced wedding planner in aspects of your wedding and the cost does not eat into your budget. And finally...if budget was limitless describe how you would plan the perfect wedding day.
The perfect question, but so difficult to answer! If budget was limitless we would splash out on entertainment to give the wedding day an ultimate wow factor. Hiring a live soul singer such as Beverly Knight would be an ideal way to bring a unique factor to the couples wedding day, making it truly unforgettable.
A huge thanks to The Wedding Daze for all of your answers. For more information on The Wedding Daze, contact:
T: 07921235252
E: emma@theweddingdaze.com
W: http://www.theweddingdaze.com/
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