Events by Evi Greene
WEDDING IDEAS & TIPS
Friday 5 July 2013
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Friday 28 June 2013
3 THINGS YOU MUST NEVER DO DURING THE WEDDING PLANS
DON’T go extreme with a theme.
Theme weddings such as "Black & White" are fine. However, avoid "Star Wars", Costume, and "Renaissance" weddings. Don’t expect guests to come in costumes. They are observers, not participants.
DON’T freak out if you’re invited solo.
For guests......if the couple is watching costs, it may mean that you are invited "without" a guest. Don't assume it's ok to bring one. Also, if you have children and they are not specifically listed on the invite, don't bring them.
Theme weddings such as "Black & White" are fine. However, avoid "Star Wars", Costume, and "Renaissance" weddings. Don’t expect guests to come in costumes. They are observers, not participants.
DON’T freak out if you’re invited solo.
For guests......if the couple is watching costs, it may mean that you are invited "without" a guest. Don't assume it's ok to bring one. Also, if you have children and they are not specifically listed on the invite, don't bring them.
DON’T blow your budget.
Starting a new life together is difficult enough; don't add the pressure of overspending. There are only two things you shouldn't skimp on, the food and drink. Make sure your guests are well fed and satisfied.
Starting a new life together is difficult enough; don't add the pressure of overspending. There are only two things you shouldn't skimp on, the food and drink. Make sure your guests are well fed and satisfied.
IMPORTANCE OF WEDDING WEBSITES
Most individuals make use of the wedding website in a creative manner. Some of them consist of the enjoy story and the way in which the marriage proposal was produced and the preparation plans. A single can add the photos, movies and occasion details to give a personalized appearance to the website. It would help communicate the right theme to the invitees and help them strategy accordingly for the wedding.
It is really essential to style a wedding website for your marriage as it permits to talk the wedding options well in advance in a very innovative manner, develop visitor list and track the invitation distribution method, assists getting appropriate feedback, suggestion and tips to make the event even much more unique, help the invitees to program for the wedding nicely in advance, budget tracking is also feasible via the wedding website.
The wedding website with images, videos will assist your guests get a comfortable setting before the wedding day. It offers perfect particulars about the time, place and date of wedding. It can also consist of links or details of hotels and accommodations to offer flexibility and comfort to the out station guests.
Make the wedding website interactive in nature wherein you would be ready to accept the suggestions of the visitor to make the event even much more unique and memorable. Make use of the advantageous functions of the wedding website to make the one time occasion an extended lasting memory.
HOW MY MOTHER CRASHED MY WEDDING
Sometimes, wedding crashers come from
within the family. It might be unintentional or most times intentional;
whatever. I had a case where the mother of the bride insisted on the cake for
her daughter’s wedding to be baked by her sister. I was so amazed and
dumb-founded as I had never heard of the so-called aunt’s cake baking firm
before and I immediately got to find out that she was just a petty pastry
maker.
As the wedding planner of the wedding,
I tried to talk the mother of the bride out of it but she insisted that the
aunt was the favorite of the daughter and wanted to give her a wedding cake as
a gift. I decided to lay low so I would not get involved in a tussle with her.
On the faithful day, the cake did not
come out as expected and what followed it was not a funny tale. The bride got
so bitter with the cake and refused to use it for her reception. It made her so
angry and she began exchanging words with her mum leading to steams of tears
flowing down her cheek; this was not what she dreamt her wedding would look
like.
She took some time outside the
reception hall to cry her anger out and I took that as an opportunity to calm
her down with the assistance of the chief bride’s-maid as there was no
alternative at that time. She was so mad at her mum and everything but I
consoled her telling her that her mum never meant bad for her but probably over
estimated the confidence in her aunt. I also told her that she could decide to
give room to people to crash her big day or just ignore; I advised her to
ignore them and carry on with the cake. It was not an easy situation as it is
usually difficult to calm the bride down when she is in such raised temper.
We were finally able to calm her down
and everything continued smoothly. At the end of the day, I breathed a heavy
sigh of relief as I knew that this issue as minor as it may seem could spoil
the whole event.
HOW TO WEAR BRIGHT PANTS
If
you do it right, you can pull off pants in just about any color – yes even pink
jeans – and look stylish, masculine and appropriate.
The
first trick to pulling off bright colors is making sure you’re doing it on the
right day. It should be sunny, when the sun should be shining.
After
that, it is important to tone down the rest of your outfit. Your pants will
handle the color, so keep your shirt, jacket, shoes, accessories, etc. in muted
neutral colors like white, navy, brown, etc and avoid bold patterns.
MR CHAIRMAN SIR, WHY? (WHEN THE MC GETS CHANGED)
The master of ceremony isn’t just one who knows how to talk or one who yabs people. Truth is, a wedding master
of ceremony shouldn’t be caught yabbing
anyone as it doesn’t go well in a wedding setting. Also note, that fact that
when he talks people laughs doesn’t just qualify him to run you wedding
ceremony. Wedding comperes have guidelines; some which includes knowing the
right pronunciations of the high note names, know how to manage time
effectively, they must be entertaining and able to hold your guest all through
and many more.
I got a call form an unknown number and caller, who wanted to contract
me as the master of ceremony for his wedding reception. The deal was made and I
forwarded my account details. Days after, I got alerted by my bank that the
client had made payments. I was excited about it because the pay was good and
judging from the names of the couple, it was going to be a big wedding so I saw
it as an opportunity to advertise my skills on the microphone to the prominent
guests that will be attending the ceremony.
Unlike myself, I got into work more than ever, days before the wedding
date, I was brainstorming of many rib crackers to dish out to the guests on
that day, I did some research on the internet and so on, after all they say “to
whom much is given, much is expected”.
So on that fateful Saturday, I got ready, well dressed and was early at
the venue. As the solemnization ended, guest gushed into the classy reception
venue. I took notice of the parents of couple marching in with their relatives
and several prominent guests were stepping into the venue in their numbers. I
felt really good and told myself, “I will display my best here”. I got the
reception ceremony started, and everything was going on smoothly; I dished out
some lovely wedding jokes from my arsenal of rib crackers and guest were all
laughing and having a swell time. This was going on well until I gave room for
the chairman was made to give his opening speech as the usual costume demands.
To start with, he presented an unnecessarily long and boring speech. As
if that wasn’t enough, he suddenly took over my job and became the master of
ceremony. Before I could say anything or introduce the next segment, he would
call me up, (excuse me mc) take the
microphone and proceed with the next agenda. It soon became annoying, but he
was the chairman, a senior Uncle to the father of the groom and of course a
famous wealthy business man. It but should have thought that a person in such
status should know better. (Well, he didn’t). Mr. Chairman did the chairman’s
speech, welcomed the newly wedded couple into the hall, made introduction of
refreshments, blessed the refreshment, introduce the cutting of the cake and
surprisingly did the toast.
To make it more embarrassing, he said to the groom; “in one minute, say
a word of appreciation, not more than one minute”. It wasn’t funny at all to me
and most of the guests, even though one of them said to me, not to worry myself as long as I have been paid,
that didn’t change my mood as couldn’t remember holding that microphone for up
to twenty minutes. Shai!!! Mr. Chairman Sir, what did I do to you?
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