Climbing a Mountain
Last week I climbed a mountain. Literally, I, along with some friends, climbed Yr Wyddfa (it used to be known as Snowdon) in North Wales, the highest mountain in England and Wales at 1,085 metres. It got me thinking…
Wedding Planning
I’ve heard it said before that planning a wedding is like climbing a mountain and I can see why some would think that.
Let’s work backwards, a technique I often use with Wedding planning…
The summit – The Big day
Why? What? Why do you want to claim the mountain? What do you want to achieve?
Why are you getting married?
You are getting married because you have found the one person that you want to spend the rest of your life with. This person is your everything, and you want to share your life, hopes and dreams with them. Your marriage is a sign of commitment to that one person.
What do you want to achieve with your wedding day?
It’s probably quite a strange question, but if I’m chatting to a couple who are having problems planning what they want from their wedding day, I’ll often ask them to think about the very end of the day, everyone is leaving and as they make their way to their cars or taxis, what is that they are saying to each other?
“That was AMAZING”
“Oh my feet hurt so much from all that dancing”
“What a fantastic place”
“I feel absolutely stuffed, the food was to die for”
“I think that was the perfect wedding, it was so Kate and Steve”
“When we get married, I want it to be just like today”
My summit
It was a long day. I won’t tell you it was easy, it wasn’t, it’s a long old slog and the weather as we neared the top wasn’t good with wind-driven rain and minimal view. But, I was with a group of friends and we helped and encouraged each other along the way – that made it a whole lot easier.
Your Wedding Planning
As an all-day Wedding DJ and Master of Ceremonies, I have the privilege of seeing people’s. entire wedding day. I am in a unique place to help you (and I really want to) have the best, most amazing wedding day. By discussing how you want your friends and family to feel at the end of your wedding day, we can work backwards, together, to plan how we can achieve that.
Whether your priorities are for a fantastic venue that everyone will talk about for years to come, from woodland settings, to riversides, quiet village halls or stately homes, I’ve worked at so many different types of venues. I can advise you as to the pros and cons that you may not have thought of, and help you to get what you want.
Or, maybe it’s the food that you want your guest to remember, that feeling of being well cared for and satisfied. From a pig roast to a five-course banquet, I can help you make the most of your day.
Dancing – It goes without saying that I know exactly how to get people up on their feet dancing and if that’s what you want, we can plan to do this from the ceremony all the way through to the very end of the night – literally dancing in the aisles!
One of my favourite feelings from any wedding is that one that is totally you. You have your “style” and your friends and family know what that is. Reflecting this throughout your wedding day will personalise your day to you and leave your guests in no doubt as to whose wedding they have just been to – it will be totally you.
Finals thoughts
The greatest thrill for me is helping you understand what makes a great wedding day and working with you to help you achieve that. Get in touch and let me be your guide – I won’t take you up Yr Wyddfa, but I will do absolutely everything I can to help you reach your summit and have the best wedding day ever”
One of my many reviews from clients:
Alan presented us with a planning pack, where we was able to choose each song for ever sentimental moment of the day, not just entrance and the first dances but also signing the register, entrance in to the dinner area ect. Being able to be involved in those decisions made our entire day feel like magic, especially as two people who have a real connection to music. You can have a song that is significant to you both that none of the guests necessarily know the story behind, but both of you know the sentiment and story behind that song. It just elevates the affection in each of those moments.
In our services we choose to include the grand entrance for our wedding party and the true and false game which are services Alan provides. These added so much fun and laughter to the day, sometimes wedding can feel really really formal, these are the perfect things that relaxed our guests and got everyone laughing together. And to top it off a lighthearted way for everyone to get to know our special people more, and to add more nostalgia and playfulness around everyone getting to know us as a couple.
Alan also wrote our love story, where we both sent him indepth but very separate details from our first moments to our most recent moments as a couple and he merged them both together beautifully and read our love story out to all our guests and to us! it was funny, unique and sentimental. The absolute highlight of all the wonderful things he has to offer. Something our guests continue to bring up.
We had so many people say to us that they have never been to a wedding like ours where they felt so much love in the room, and how the day was so revolved around our story and relationship with each other and I think a very large amount of that was down to Alan. So many of our guests raved about him after the event and are still talking about him a month later.
On your wedding day, you have every single person you love on earth in one room, that is a very rare moment that you will likely not experience many times again. They are all there to celebrate you and your love for one another. It’s an even rarer of a moment that you get to celebrate finding the person you want to spend all your days with (That’s BIG). I could not recommend any one more to assist you in making this monumental milestone celebration it deserves to be. We felt Alan was providing much more than a service, we felt genuine care and affection. I really can’t put into words the impact of what he does, you do have to see it to understand the full grandness of it. All I can say is, If your thinking of booking him, don’t think twice you will most definitely not regret it.
