00:00:00 Speaker 1: On this episode, we are going to be chatting to Breathe from. 00:00:03 Speaker 2: Pop up event Co. 00:00:05 Speaker 1: She's got some amazing stories. Also amazing how much a wedding can vary in costs from a couple of thousand dollars all the way up to sell your first child. 00:00:17 Speaker 3: We're also going to talk about the color trends for leading into twenty twenty. 00:00:21 Speaker 1: Six and something that you should definitely not do her number one tip not to do at your wedding. 00:00:28 Speaker 4: All loved up and ready to propose, or maybe you're searching for the perfect wedding ring. My Jewelry Shop are your engagement and wedding ring experts at my jewelry Shop. It's your time to shine Gold Coast Highway. Nobby Beach and my Jewelry Shop dot com dot au, Moira Major and Nikki Amos. 00:00:52 Speaker 2: We Pronounced You Unfiltered. 00:00:57 Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of We Pronounce You You Unfiltered. We'd like to say hello to some of our new friends on socials, Philip and Morris, Auntie Jazz, Fifi, Paul Banda, Mandy Sean Montgomery as well. Make sure you give us a follow on inst to TikTok and you can also subscribe on YouTube watch all the fun moments of the show. 00:01:17 Speaker 2: Watch us as we fall apart. 00:01:19 Speaker 1: Laughing also got some comments as well, from Brenda Christy seventy six, saying the best idea ever was doing it the speeches at the very beginning of their reception. They said, it just made things so much easier. Those who are nervous don't have to think about doing the speech for half the night. 00:01:34 Speaker 2: Do it straight away. They can enjoy the rest of the wedding. Plus no drunk uncle telling stupid long story. 00:01:39 Speaker 3: I'm actually doing a wedding coming up this weekend where they've decided to open the mic at the very end of the ceremony or after giving getting. 00:01:47 Speaker 5: To the reception. 00:01:48 Speaker 2: I love, yes, very cool. 00:01:50 Speaker 5: Yeah, that way it's over and done with. 00:01:52 Speaker 2: I don't have to worry about it. 00:01:54 Speaker 3: I've got another one, she said to the best photos. You know, get some hot chips on the beach with the seagulls. 00:02:00 Speaker 2: Hilarious. 00:02:01 Speaker 5: So they come sweeping in space and I love that. I love that, and nothing to clean up. 00:02:05 Speaker 2: Another up at the end. It's just all about and who doesn't love hot chips? 00:02:08 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Right. On today's episode, we are going to have a chat with Breen Nichols, who is from pop Up event Co. Now, I've none brief for a number of years. Started here on the Gold Coast as an event planning business and pretty much wedding so one stop shop, Brie. Thank you very much for joining us. Now tell us all about pop Up event Co. 00:02:29 Speaker 6: Well, it started off actually as Gold Coast pop up Weddings many many years ago. Yep, probably showing my age. 00:02:37 Speaker 2: Younger than me, so shut up. 00:02:43 Speaker 6: Yeah, it started off as a as a pop up wedding company. It was about my daughter's twelve, so it was just you know, prior to that, I was on attorney to leave actually right from working in hotels, and I thought I'd give this concept to go because I actually saw a lot of it happening in the US. You remember the Las Vegas weddings, but it was becoming a little bit more than just a quick wedding in the chapel, and they were doing a lot over there, and nothing was really happening, you know. In Australia it happened a little bit like in Perth and I think South Australia. So I started off just doing pop up weddings and that evolved. I was a celebrant at the time, so I was putting my celebrant hat on, and you know, then it came to outsourcing furniture and styling and florals and photographers and it kind of all came together. And then it grew to also service Brisbane and then I'm from Newcastle originally, so then I decided why don't I try so and that just kind of very organically grew down there. So I had the three going and then I thought, well, they're very segregated, these regions would be good to kind of bring it together. Also, it was very hard managing all these different instagram I don't want to I don't want to do much in social media, so I created the pop Up Eventco brand and so now that's the umbrella brand of the company and we have Brisbane pop up Weddings, Gold Coast pop up Weddings, Newcastle pop up Weddings, and then I do run another company called wed Meat as well. So but it's evolved over the years. We started off doing obviously small elopements and pop up weddings, which are really just an all inclusive ceremony with you know, celebrant some ceremony and styling, daycare, photography, laurels, a cake. And it used to be a champagne toast and that was it. Two hours in and out, go and have lunch or dinner, do something easy afterwards. But it's evolved a little bit where we, you know, now tap into receptions that follow more style and higher I've got a full warehouse of everything and everything florists and cake makers and. 00:05:07 Speaker 2: So what's the thing. 00:05:08 Speaker 6: So that's what's turning into what would the. 00:05:09 Speaker 1: Average cost of a non pop up wedding? So it's called a stationary wedding. But what's the difference between an alignment you mean or no, like like an average wedding where people would do the say traditional traditional, what's the price difference between that and a pop up wedding? 00:05:30 Speaker 6: Well, it can be anything, but our pop up weddings start from about five thousand dollars. 00:05:34 Speaker 1: It's amazing. When I first started working with bree it was amazing. I always thought a wedding would cost well, I think we've discussed it before. What was the average thirty thousand dollars? And with Breeze business, it's simple and it's quick, and it's easy and that's what some people really want. 00:05:52 Speaker 2: They want the ceremony to go for fifteen minutes. 00:05:54 Speaker 1: They don't want to be but they also want to use that money to travel, for the house anything else. 00:06:00 Speaker 2: So there's a massive change. 00:06:01 Speaker 1: And I remember the first time I saw you this before we started working together. 00:06:05 Speaker 2: First time I saw he was on the Today Show. 00:06:06 Speaker 1: Oh yes, because I was like, my god, that and we went to the same school. 00:06:11 Speaker 2: So I was like, Okay, that's great. 00:06:12 Speaker 1: But then I went that is so smart because you don't need all of the big stuff that we've discussed. I mean, if you want it, it's available, but if you don't five thousand dollars. 00:06:25 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's amazing, and you can still do something really beautiful for it. Absolutely, you don't have to be in a venue either. You can be in a park or a beach. You know, people still love coming to the Old Coast into state people getting married on the beach. Yep, we don't do as many anymore, but it's still still a market. So and you can be in a venue if you want to be in a venue. So you can be out in a state, you can be in a hotel, you can be wherever you want to be. Kind of pops up anywhere. 00:06:50 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's only can I ask then, is it primarily just the ceremony or is it the reception as well? 00:06:56 Speaker 5: Like do you get caterers and is that you know that sort of Yes, it. 00:07:01 Speaker 6: Can be, but in the traditional sense, now that we've it's been around for some time, we can kind of say what a pop up wedding is for us. We classify it as a ceremony only with those inclusions, and then people if they wish to, can put a reception on it as well. But it's also I guess yes, people that are you know, want affordability, ease stress, but it's also for people who love that everything's together. 00:07:30 Speaker 5: It's easy. 00:07:32 Speaker 6: Yeah, you have it's one invoice. You don't have to go around and shop for all your different venues. So you can have a bigger budget, but you can still have a pop up wedding with a reception attach. It's just that it makes it so simple. 00:07:43 Speaker 1: Yes, And so you have a bunch of people who are sort of on your books as celebrants as are you doing floral yourself? 00:07:50 Speaker 6: We do have any plus flor us now and then. 00:07:52 Speaker 1: So also you've got photographers and you've got the same people reliable, you know them, you've worked with them for years, so you know that they're going to be. 00:08:00 Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's good that we've got like say five celebrants, five or six different photographers, videographers, you. 00:08:08 Speaker 5: Do, musicians to yes, absolutely, hair and makeup. 00:08:12 Speaker 6: We can organize transport. But then we say to our clients and we direct them to like a web page and all of those people have profiles so they can actually look who they would like to have as a celebrant or a photographer. And because everyone's got a different style, but we can bring it together and they're all just bookable subject to their availability. 00:08:30 Speaker 2: So what is a micro wedding then? 00:08:33 Speaker 6: Okay, so go from the start elopements, Yes, elopements. Everyone's got a different take on alopement. I don't think there's like a dictionary definition, like people say it used to be oh, shotgun wedding, like no one else involved two people, But I don't think that's what it is anymore. It's changed. So for us, it's up to twenty five people. Okay, so ceremony only up to twenty five, and then a pop up wedding is usually for twenty or more because you're having more inclusions, more seating, you know, the photography is a little bit venue, a little bit different. And then a micro wedding for us is under fifty okay, and then we would sell our traditional weddings as fifty plus okay okay, So anything under fifty it can be the standard timeline, so still three o'clock wedding, you know, with a dinner for dinner to follow, or it can be something shorter, so you did like an eleven o'clock ceremony and then you've got like a little lunch and a four hour reception and it's finished. So that can be more micro style as well, say anything like that. Anything. And we've got lots of packages. We work with different venues to create these micro wedding packages. And then it's so simple because you've got all the catering, you know, all your styling for your reception tables, your entertainment, and if you want that to go that far, it's so easy because you can stop where you want to stop. Yeah, yeah, that's what it's about. 00:09:58 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:09:59 Speaker 6: But thing that's really I think great in this space is that you can have everything on one invoice. Yeah, that's that's that's huge actually when you think about it. 00:10:10 Speaker 5: Oh, it is, and you know did you pay that? 00:10:12 Speaker 2: Yeah? 00:10:13 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't want to forget we've got to pay this, and then this person hasn't been paid this. 00:10:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. 00:10:18 Speaker 6: Schedules like you know, yeah, it's and contracts and if anything goes wrong, you've got a point of contact. 00:10:24 Speaker 5: Point of contact. 00:10:25 Speaker 6: Yeah, like if somebody's sick, if your musicians. 00:10:27 Speaker 5: Sick, you could then pull from the compan Yeah, exactly. 00:10:33 Speaker 6: So that's what it's all about. 00:10:34 Speaker 1: So what is the most Now, we've worked together in some very interesting moments as celebrants, we have. 00:10:42 Speaker 2: We watched a bridesmaid after. 00:10:45 Speaker 1: The ceremony, yes, relieve herself behind some rocks and then just shake yourself off, which I. 00:10:51 Speaker 2: Still love so much. That was beautiful. 00:10:56 Speaker 1: What's one of the strangest thing you've seen at a wedding? Because you would have seen so many. 00:11:01 Speaker 6: But it's hard to think. I've had lots of not lots, but a few. Nanna's faint and ambulance, but faint you from being outside, Like I think I've had about three ambulances come and then also I've actually had a little junior groomsman faint like he was waiting. I was obviously really hot and he fainted, Like, yeah, I've seen though that. 00:11:35 Speaker 2: People, just my goodness, you are. 00:11:42 Speaker 6: I can't even think of any other. 00:11:46 Speaker 2: No stranger requests from brides and greens. 00:11:49 Speaker 5: Yes, I guess what's the stranger styling? Yes, you can think of one. 00:11:54 Speaker 6: We are pretty mainstream, I think, but you know there's like, you know, all black weddings. I've had one of my videographers this is a story like that. I wasn't at this wedding, but one of my videographers showed me this video and it was a very gothic wedding and ye black and anyway, she wore this the bride with this magnificent dress like it was black, you know black purple's got it's huge, and she had this crown and she walked down the aisle and it was on fire. But she walked down the arc was meant to be on fire. It was meant to be on fire, and like, but when she got down the end of the aisle, something happened and it blew up and like something happened, hair went on fire. Yes, and he caught it on film. I think saved the day. But I saw it it wasn't my wedding. 00:12:55 Speaker 5: Just the smell. 00:12:59 Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it was to this magical moment yet anyway, that was probably. 00:13:02 Speaker 2: Very hunger game moment that I like that. I think. 00:13:05 Speaker 5: What about themed weddings? How do you go about with the themed? Have you had one of those? 00:13:11 Speaker 6: Not many, to be honest, most people. 00:13:15 Speaker 3: Are very conservative inservity like, it's really hard. 00:13:19 Speaker 5: To I would love someone to do a themed wedding. 00:13:21 Speaker 6: I would love to go. 00:13:22 Speaker 5: Yes, I would love to get dressed up in that love that. 00:13:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon it'd be like a Star Wars one. You'd get Princess Princess beautiful, all the robes. 00:13:35 Speaker 3: Yes, I I just think that'd be I'm very partial to fancy dress. 00:13:41 Speaker 6: I don't have any stories on that front. It's really non eventful. Small things like that have happened to me. 00:13:47 Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the weirdest thing that's happened to you? 00:13:49 Speaker 6: The weirdest thing I've I remember this, I'll tell this funny story. I can't believe I'm telling a story. But when I did so many in my day, like when I was a celebrant, I'm not actually an active celebrant anymore, because are you not? I am. I do have my license, but I don't actively you don't em and no, I know it's better that my team does them. 00:14:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're done. Yeah, yeah, understandable. 00:14:15 Speaker 6: I've had a great time to do but because I'm so busy doing everything else and if I'm on site, if I'm setting up and whatnot. But I remember this one time I was the celebrant because quite often in the early days, I used to, you know, go and help a set up team and you know, be the celebrant packed down. 00:14:30 Speaker 2: I've watched she get changed a car. 00:14:31 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, well yeah, it happened many a time in public toilets. 00:14:35 Speaker 2: Everywhere, everywhere. 00:14:38 Speaker 6: So I remember I just turned forty and I was packing down. I didn't get changed. I was in my beautiful, nice dress and I was on the beach and everyone was standing around and I was doing something and I just went face first in the end like angel al sand Angel. It was all I got this new I phone watched the corner. I watched, and it was all in my eye watching and everyone turned around and I said, are you okay? And you know that most you know, you just think everyone's laughing at Yeah, And then I said right, and ford. 00:15:16 Speaker 2: I'm done. 00:15:17 Speaker 6: I'm not doing a set down. 00:15:19 Speaker 2: I'm done beach. 00:15:20 Speaker 6: Everyone else can do it, yes, but I have done. 00:15:23 Speaker 2: Of course, yes, of course you have. 00:15:26 Speaker 6: But yeah, so that's a little. 00:15:30 Speaker 5: So when you get up. And then I realized that's the. 00:15:32 Speaker 1: Actual celebrator head, that's the celebrating space plates. 00:15:36 Speaker 6: I don't know what I did in the sand, you know, that's so many people have done it. 00:15:41 Speaker 2: Sand weddings, They're they're fun, aren't they. 00:15:44 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think one of my first one was a sand wedding and I couldn't get it out of my shoes for weeks later. 00:15:52 Speaker 2: And then also because of the winds, I. 00:15:54 Speaker 5: Was going to say the wind. 00:15:55 Speaker 6: And the microphone, yeah as a cell top. 00:16:00 Speaker 2: Tip, yeah, absolutely, yes. 00:16:03 Speaker 5: And also just to that wind blasting. 00:16:05 Speaker 3: If it's really that windy, you know, you're getting whipped by the sand. 00:16:08 Speaker 2: And everything's happening. Everything's happening. 00:16:11 Speaker 1: And also because it's quite a public place as well, there's so many people who want a crowd. 00:16:15 Speaker 2: We want a crowd around the watch, yes, which. 00:16:17 Speaker 6: Is just strange. Yeah, it So that's why I guess a lot of people do prefer If you're local, you probably prefer a park or garden or in a stadian. 00:16:28 Speaker 3: Yeah, because even the beach wedding I did just recently and it was elopement, but we had to ask. 00:16:35 Speaker 5: People to get out of the pictures, you know, like they're just standing there in the bab they know when this couple ones. 00:16:44 Speaker 2: This is actually the pain for me. So you guys are your dts? Yeah, exactly, Oh my god, could you not bend down? That would be great? All right. 00:16:55 Speaker 1: You've also brought in some styling that you do, and we're going to talk about that as well in just a moment, so that suddenly we're current trends that are going on some of the new stuff as well that you're doing. So we're going to have a chat about that in a minute. 00:17:10 Speaker 2: Are you all loved up and ready to propose? 00:17:14 Speaker 3: Do you know, Moisy that finding a wedding ring as unique as your love it's really hard to do. 00:17:19 Speaker 5: But you know if you went down to my jury shop, they'd look after you. 00:17:22 Speaker 1: They've got matching wedding rings, I've got the stunning engagement rings. They've also got like a huge collection of rings locally designed and made perfectly cut diamonds source from all around the world and Also they are g A certified which is pretty cool. 00:17:37 Speaker 2: Australian Argyle Lab created diamonds. Pretty much if you want a ring, this is where you've got to go. 00:17:42 Speaker 5: Yep. 00:17:42 Speaker 3: Absolutely, and they definitely look after the gents well they do. 00:17:46 Speaker 2: Indeed some of the men are very clueless. Yes, and it as much help as possible. Absolutely. 00:17:51 Speaker 1: At my jury shop, it is your time to shine Gold Coast Highway, no be beat. 00:17:56 Speaker 2: At my jeuryshop dot com dot Are. 00:17:57 Speaker 4: You loved up and ready to propose? Or maybe you're searching for the perfect wedding ring. My jewelry shop are your engagement and wedding ring experts. At my jewelry shop, it's your time to shine Gold Coast Highway, Nobby Beach and my Jewelry Shop dot com dot at you. 00:18:20 Speaker 1: All right, Bree, you have brought in some beautiful stylings that we've got, so this is one of the ones that you would actually so we're have to describe it obviously as well for everybody in podcast land. 00:18:31 Speaker 2: So what have we got? 00:18:32 Speaker 6: This is what we call in florist world flower. 00:18:36 Speaker 2: Frogs, flower frogs. 00:18:38 Speaker 6: Frogs, froggies. Get your froggy ready? 00:18:42 Speaker 2: Okay? 00:18:45 Speaker 6: Well, the correct name is a ken zan. It's like a form of I banner, but it basically has a metal holder with spikes. 00:18:54 Speaker 1: Okay, and as opposed to that green stuff that they used to use. 00:18:58 Speaker 6: Yeah, this is more just for the delicate arrangements. And you might have say two or four stems and sit that little metal base in a nice shallow VARs. I've got one and a bit at about ten centimeter of VARs here, but you can nice shallow VARs and then they just sit along the table with a little bit of ribbon hanging off a rose. So we've got two roses in this one. And they're just so simplistic affordable and they can go down the down a table or even just as day care because we use a lot of plints now in ceremonies, not necessarily arbors, and they just have these kind of arrangements on plints, so we love them. 00:19:37 Speaker 5: And all the time the little metal piece at the bottom have water in it. 00:19:41 Speaker 6: They do have no you need to put water on top of it. So you make them with the frog and then you place that and it's nice and heavy so it holds and then the water goes. 00:19:51 Speaker 3: On top on top. So when it's when the stem is spiked. By the spikes, it allows the water. 00:19:56 Speaker 6: To yeah, very clear. Yeah, so they are like really affordable. We were doing like lots of obviously bud bars are really popular and they're affordable too because you're just having a couple of stems, but you have them all the way down the table and they look beautiful. And these are some Colombian roses in here. So that's that one. But the other one we have is just a table arrangement stunning but also a present for you ladies, So thinking the hydrangers hydrangers with some Colombian roses and just some greenery. So yeah, just little table arrangement and they don't need to be huge, especially on a table. You still want to be able to people. But we're using like if you could imagine this arrangement, but like huge more so in ceremonies. Now it's huge for ceremony styling. 00:20:48 Speaker 1: So you can see all the flowers are talking about too as well on our socials, so if you want to check out what these actually. I do really like the simplicity of the froggy. I think it's really cute and you could do that with all different types of flowers. And that's one thing I wish that we've done with our wedding was bringing more color. 00:21:05 Speaker 2: I would love to do. You know a wedding that. 00:21:08 Speaker 1: Is just all color, so just crazy, it would just because it's so I think it speaks volumes about your relationship, about life and all that kind of stuff. 00:21:17 Speaker 6: Vibrant florals and color. Yeah. 00:21:19 Speaker 3: Yeah, do you have color projections for twenty twenty six and what the trends are? 00:21:24 Speaker 6: Ah, it's very tail swift engagement. Yeah, that in a nutshell so, but lots of kind of European influencers, French, French vintage and style, but sophisticated lace is big. Wow, lace is coming back. Yeah, everything kind of very minimalistic, lots of greenery. But yeah, Taite's engagement is pretty good. 00:21:54 Speaker 5: Point. 00:21:55 Speaker 6: Yeah yeah yeah. 00:21:57 Speaker 1: When you saw that, you're probably just like sha yah. 00:22:01 Speaker 2: It was stunning. 00:22:02 Speaker 6: Yeah, gorgeous. 00:22:03 Speaker 2: Do you proposals as well? 00:22:04 Speaker 1: Sometimes so part of the business is organizing the proposal? 00:22:09 Speaker 2: Yes, funny story, don't where did we hear this story? Who told us this story? The other day? 00:22:14 Speaker 1: Someone had organized a proposal, had with a business and had done everything, so it was all in in in you know, in public. But they'd done it so that they'd got the flowers ready, they got the space ready, everything else. And then all of a sudden, another couple who didn't pay for it. 00:22:31 Speaker 6: Did you tell this story? 00:22:32 Speaker 5: Or no, I know what you're talking about? And then there was like. 00:22:35 Speaker 6: Four in a row. 00:22:36 Speaker 1: They actually jumped into the spot where someone had set it up and paid for it, and these other couples just went, oh, well, wow, we're here, we may as well do this, and they actually jumped. 00:22:47 Speaker 2: In on the proposal. 00:22:49 Speaker 1: Before that, actually the actual couple had done it. 00:22:52 Speaker 2: Isn't that bizarre? It is so cheeky, but budget, Wow. 00:23:01 Speaker 5: They set it up just for us. 00:23:03 Speaker 2: So we see the events as well. 00:23:05 Speaker 1: So not only you would have done the elopements, you would have also done things like christenings and things like that. 00:23:09 Speaker 6: Yeah, so lots of different things. And we're not just weddings with pop up evans we do. We're starting to do a few different things in corporates and christenings and birthday parties everything and funerals like wakes. Yes, yes, yes, so yeah, but you ladies are celebrants, would do more of those different. 00:23:31 Speaker 1: Hung up, Actually, what is some advice because you have been doing it for so long. 00:23:39 Speaker 2: What's some advice for. 00:23:40 Speaker 1: Celebrants who are starting out from you who've done so many weddings. 00:23:45 Speaker 6: It's good to make friends with other celebrants, I think, because one thing is celebrants. You would know. You go to a wedding and you meet a photographer, you meet whoever else is their videographer, and you meet so many different people, but you don't meet any other celebrants, and you don't get to see what other people are doing only if they put it on Instagram. So if you can tag along to it, if you're knew, and you can tag along to a few and you can watch and observe. I think that's a really good if you've got some friends or you get to know people, just say can I just come and watch you perform? 00:24:16 Speaker 3: And do not find though people are like I remember when I started out as a celebrant. You know, there wasn't anyone really willing to help or sort. 00:24:26 Speaker 2: Of did you find her? 00:24:27 Speaker 5: Well, I guess because I. 00:24:28 Speaker 3: Did mine just through COVID, like I got I got officiated or registered if you like, just in through COVID time. 00:24:37 Speaker 5: So I guess. 00:24:38 Speaker 3: Two weddings weren't happening very often, and then if they were, it was very closed, and so they could only have twenty people as well, so no opportunity to go, hey can I be an extra when you can only have twenty people? 00:24:51 Speaker 2: Yeah? 00:24:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, So I kind of just felt my way through. Looked online. 00:24:56 Speaker 6: I get to what other people which are just as good, I guess seeing videos, but seeing ceremony not just. 00:25:01 Speaker 1: A snipper, and start to finish, and I think with Instagram as well, like there's so many, so many amazing celebrants who are just out there, like as in, you know, it used to be used to feel very traditional, used to feel like you had to be the old churchy kind of lady. 00:25:16 Speaker 2: But now there's the guy with the whip. 00:25:18 Speaker 1: Have you seen this guy? Oh my god, Josh, I think it is. We'll have to find out what it is. But he's got to he whips it and he always get him wishould actually I will reach out? 00:25:29 Speaker 2: Okay. 00:25:30 Speaker 1: He also usually comes onto the grandmother, which is hilarious calling out all these It's just fantastic that. 00:25:35 Speaker 2: She wants to be whipped. 00:25:41 Speaker 6: That's all different kinds singing celebrants. There's you know, yeah, there's lots of lots of different times. 00:25:47 Speaker 1: So currently at the moment, what do you think people Obviously, trends come and go and Taylor's our next focus, but what is it that's changed that people are spending more money on when it comes to weddings. 00:26:00 Speaker 6: I think, you know, don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of big weddings, traditional wins, and people spending a lot of money. But if if in my world where we do a lot of micros, people are opting for yeah, the nicer aesthetic, the you know, they'll pay a little bit more for the venue, but for a short amount of time, they'll do their tablescapes really lovely instead of paying for one hundred people to have catering and drinks. So they're making it smaller, but then they're spending on the things that make the things that make the environment feel how they want it to be. 00:26:37 Speaker 3: You know they're right because your photos are forever you know, the people and we can't discuss this, aren't The people are not So. 00:26:45 Speaker 6: You'd rather have a nice long table of like thirty people or twenty people. 00:26:48 Speaker 5: You know, your solids. 00:26:49 Speaker 6: I find like my wedding again, I will totally do that. I would totally get a restaurant home restaurant and just have a beautiful table, you know, restaurant food and just so that's what I do. 00:27:00 Speaker 3: A lot of too, these micro weddings or not even micro, because you suggested that elopement was up to twenty, So I do a lot of those weddings that are up to twenty that just do a beautiful ceremony in the park and then they go off and I. 00:27:12 Speaker 2: Have clean you know, and somewhere else and de the restaurant out. 00:27:16 Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, and a lot of you know, these days, a lot of couples have kids. Yeah, so like over fifty percent of the weddings we do would have children involved. So they don't want to go and party, so they want to have they do, but. 00:27:30 Speaker 2: They do, Yes, I guess give us some tips to celebrants. 00:27:35 Speaker 1: What about tips for bride and groom planning their wedding? Say that, let's think about them as a typical young couple, maybe late twenties, first marriages for both of them, no kids. 00:27:46 Speaker 2: What's a really important. 00:27:47 Speaker 1: Tip that you could give them when they're planning their wedding. 00:27:53 Speaker 6: I don't know. I think we hear a lot of people, just vendor shopping is difficult. So you know, I think you can look on Instagram and go, oh my god, I want this kind of wedding, you know, but often they're just way out of budget. You can say you want to it's amazing and you want to have this, but I think if they vendor shopping is hard, you know, like speaking to different people, trying to get the person that you gel with in your budget that's available, you know, all that's really hard. So I think for us, if you can find a place like us, give myself a plug. But like I mean, it's just the just the someone that can advise you in the right direction. You know, a lot of planners work in that way too, Like if you're going somewhere that you maybe need a coordinator, a planner, they have so many different contacts and just can get recommendations and bring it together. So you're not you know, you're shopping around for such a so much time, so much time. Yeah, yeah, energy put into that. And there's so many vendors out there too. This is the thing. There's just so many. 00:29:04 Speaker 1: The amount of brides who I speak to leading up to the wedding, and I don't know if this is the same. I'm so stressed. I'm so stressed. It's like, what are you stressed about? You don't like That's why I think putting it all together like Papa even co works because it's all just done. 00:29:21 Speaker 2: It's easy. It makes things simple. 00:29:23 Speaker 1: Because the last thing you want to be doing is dreading and hating that time before you're getting married. 00:29:28 Speaker 6: It's supposed to be a nice, easy it's supposed to be about. 00:29:33 Speaker 5: Enjoyable. 00:29:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's supposed to be that. 00:29:35 Speaker 1: It's not supposed to be stressing the week before about flowers or this or anything like that. 00:29:41 Speaker 6: So don't diy a your wedding. Oh god, like that is just my number one tip. Yes, please don't diy your wedding. It's so it's so stressful, it really is. 00:29:51 Speaker 5: I actually did. 00:29:53 Speaker 1: I did some diy was mine too, but that's only because we my husband and I are very creative people who really enjoyed it. 00:29:59 Speaker 6: But on the day, I mean, you are you know what I mean you're going to do? Why allocate somebody to be there to help set up to do their things. You don't want to be doing that on your the day before either, like to have someone take care of That is my number one tip. And we've seen it or we've had that. We did a wedding in Mount Tambourine earlier this week and they did hire our services for coordination, but it was just way more than anybody expected and they needed two or three. Oh wow, it was that big. So and then that makes the bride stressed or the couple getting married, and it's everybody's edge and it's it's hard, but having people to help you. And I always used to say to people, even when I was a celebrant, when you're choosing your vendors, make sure someone you trust and just do that. Just trust them. Just don't worry about it if you're trusting it. If you trust them, let them do their job and trust that they will do it. Yes, that's my tip. 00:31:00 Speaker 3: If you're going to give one piece of advice to a couple, like what is a must have styling piece or a part of the styling that is a must have for them? 00:31:13 Speaker 5: Flowers, y. 00:31:16 Speaker 2: Photos? 00:31:17 Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so our flowers everything to me now, like, yeah, you can do other things like it can be you know, you know, draping ribbons or bringing in a color or something. But just even if you have something simple and it's a lotment and if you've got two beautiful ground arrangements next to you, that's what you need. Nothing else. Yeah, So I just I love I've grown to love flowers a lot. I love flowers around them all the time now and I just think that. 00:31:45 Speaker 2: It's Yeah, it's just lovely, it's beautiful. 00:31:48 Speaker 6: Yeah, you can do so many different creative things, and yeah that may it really does give it a different, different feel, a vibe and can change anything. But it can be so simple whatever you like it to be. Any celebrate, Yeah, celebrate. 00:32:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always a good start. 00:32:04 Speaker 5: Get married. 00:32:10 Speaker 1: Bring you from pop up event COO, thank you so much for joining us. That's been fantastic, some great tips there. Thank you for bringing in the flowers too. They're beautiful and and all the best. 00:32:19 Speaker 2: We look forward. 00:32:20 Speaker 1: We'll chat to you again next Okay, season sure done, excellent. 00:32:25 Speaker 4: All loved up and ready to propose? Or maybe you're searching for the perfect wedding ring. My jewelry shop are your engagement and wedding ring experts at my jewelry shop. It's your time to shine Gold Coast Highway, Nobby Beach and my jewelry shop dot com dot au, Good work podcasts,