Chocolate Brown color themed wedding.

Today I'd like to look back and feature a wedding that I did in November two years ago. She was a lovely bride working with. In fact, her wedding was my first  encounter with choral pink. She was was calm from the months we started planning right up to the end. I met her and the groom in social media, Facebook to be precise (works wonders with certain clients.)

Looking for choral pink amongst suppliers wasn't a walk in the park then. The good thing that I had a sample from the bridesmaids dresses that could assist me in sourcing for the required color. By then few stocked it hence we had to change the decor color all together to burnt orange and chocolate brown. While the bridesmaids wore choral pink, the maid of honor stuck with chocolate brown.

I was skeptical meeting some of their wedding committee members. Nothing was wrong with them or I hadn't heard anything that would cause this but past experience with a few committee members who sat on different weddings has not always been a pleasant experience. More like walking to be interviewed by a panel a second time even after the bride and groom's approval. Sometimes, someone in the committee ends up changing what you have decided with the wedding couple as they are in a way "financing'' that particular wedding. On this particular wedding, that was not the case. Its the best wedding committee I have so far worked with from start to finish.

On the wedding day, the ceremony service was to start early and being a November, the rains too had their early start. This meant changing the original untented location for the ceremony as guests would have been rained on. The best part was that both ceremony and reception were on the same location. Interestingly enough, the rains ended half an hour to program start and we ended up with a sunny weather. The wedding team I worked with was excellent. The vendors all worked well and everything pulled together beautifully.

Frugal Bride

Ive been missing from my blog for 3 months. I considered it a necessary  break. i made time to look at my business from a different angle. My core business has always been wedding  planning and i have had many other support businesses on the side: catering, card business,  decor and sewing. Some are working out and some arent. i needed time to evaluate  what to keep and remove  from my list completely.  The former accountant side of me had to come in play. So within  the next 6 months, I'll have dropped some of my support  services and decided on a new business  strategy.

Now onto today's  article. I prefer to use the word frugal instead of budget bride. I still believe anyone can be on a budget. Even someone  with a million, five million or even five hundred thousand shillings  are all on  type of a budget irrespective of the amount  to spend. i had the opportunity to work with a frugal bride.  She was very economical in her spending and i must admit i can also refer to her as both a budget bride and DIY bride .

She had a budget like most would  but the goal was to lower it to almost  half the amount she had intended  to spend. She knew what she wanted and wouldn't  let last minute pressure change that. For a while the wedding dresses i have seen (not in terms of design), in quality of lace used to make hers was of really good one. She had taste but was very considered of how much she would spend while not compromising anything despite the pressure. Even when it came down to the food for her guests. she took time to select the best and had her caterer make and serve it.  She took the shortest time to plan a successful wedding. I work with all brides that are great and unique but this one left me with great lessons to learn from her.