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Speaker 1: Lise, I've got to say this. We need a bit more, Frank.

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Speaker 1: I reckon being a bit more of the wedding planner.

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Speaker 2: I sud you.

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Speaker 3: So we should let the cac first, a cat for

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Speaker 3: after the term and that kind of one thing that

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Speaker 4: So let's just choose a cat.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, choose the way. It's the cake. Daddy, so

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Speaker 1: saying we've been talking about this. My daughter is getting

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Speaker 1: married next year and all the rest of it. We

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Speaker 1: got some tips from people yesterday. He has to you know,

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Speaker 1: my father of the bride speech. We got a bit

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Speaker 4: Very ordinary chat gepret.

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Speaker 2: Very planned speech. Yeah, pretty generic.

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Speaker 4: She didn't put anything personal in there.

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Speaker 2: No, we need to work on that. Yeah, I say

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Speaker 2: Dad's nudist or something. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It'll come up with something weird. But we thought we'd

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Speaker 1: catch up with a real wedding planner, not Frank. This

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Speaker 1: morning from White Events, Laura White, good morning and welcome,

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: Good minding me, Thanks for coming in. When did you

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Speaker 5: get into the wedding planning biz?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 4: So long ago.

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Speaker 6: I've been joining events.

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Speaker 3: It's nineteen ninety nine, which makes me feel like a dinosaur.

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Speaker 3: But one event started in two thousand and five, so

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Speaker 3: this is its twentieth year a wedding.

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Speaker 6: So we've seen a lot over twenty way around it that.

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Speaker 2: You hair just a bit. Yeah, but you've seen the

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Speaker 3: Sure has rather unfortunate definitely.

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Speaker 1: Time and what are some of the things that you

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Speaker 1: have seen? You know, people king to hear some story,

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Speaker 3: I've always said I could write a book with the

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Speaker 4: Oh, you should.

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Speaker 3: Probably One of the ones that comes to mine straight

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Speaker 3: away is a bit of over indulgence by a bride

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Speaker 3: straight after the ceremony, which by the bride, which left

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Speaker 4: I know, Melbourne about thirty.

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Speaker 2: In the after No is this before photos?

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Speaker 5: This was midfholto you say, on her knees, someone holdingesmaid

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Speaker 6: A little bit of over indulgence. But that's one of

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Speaker 3: You can do that any any other day, sober on

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Speaker 4: Not a lot sort of hope for.

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Speaker 2: Coming back from that.

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Speaker 6: Coming back from that.

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Speaker 2: Find you some interesting photos.

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Speaker 3: Definitely some interest. If we've seen them, they're very interested.

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Speaker 5: What would you say the biggest regular day to day

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Speaker 3: Oh, I would say definitely managing expectations is huge.

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Speaker 6: Budget.

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Speaker 3: You know, budget is always a nightmare, people wanting more

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Speaker 6: Everything budget you're not going.

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Speaker 5: Do you think of a time you've had to say

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Speaker 4: Do that, it's not going to happen.

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Speaker 3: We were very big on making sure that the budget

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Speaker 6: And we have a few of those.

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Speaker 3: Extra things like guest gifts, that kind of thing. Leave

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Speaker 1: Okay, something wrong? Yeah, what about those extraordinary ones I

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Speaker 7: Okay, no, not really. She's quite attractive, does she look like?

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me? Even with all your experience. What

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I say not just mail, so also the clients.

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Speaker 3: So much opinion from outside so you know, bridal party, family,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, just all the outside opinion and the you know,

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Speaker 2: And the instant world, online world doesn't help, does it.

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Speaker 3: Everyone has everyone has an opinion, and everyone's got an

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Speaker 4: What are the current trends that people are leaning towards.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the traditional long routine, so you're not going

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it could always be think because there were

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Speaker 3: It's nice to be able to sit in. It also

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Speaker 3: Does vary and you can definitely do it for less.

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Speaker 3: say where our clients probably average eighty to one hundred thousand,

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Speaker 6: All of the things that, Yeah, it's a it's.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, its so quick.

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Speaker 5: Have you ever had anything go? I'm sure you have

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Speaker 5: had things go wrong, but what what's the biggest thing

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Speaker 3: The thing that comes to mind straightaway is we had

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Speaker 4: Because the alternative would have been to lose it all.

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Speaker 5: And there would have been twenty five thousand a few dollars.

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Speaker 1: How about those no shows, you know, like one of

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Speaker 3: Actually, we've been pretty lucky. We haven't had any major

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Speaker 3: we've had his guests that turn up that have RSVP.

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Speaker 3: And we usually don't figure that out until it's time

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Speaker 2: And in the business, how the hell did you survive COVID?

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Speaker 6: Look, it was pretty awful. To be honest, we were.

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Speaker 3: Kind of lucky in that we probably only needed to

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Speaker 3: move about four weddings, but those poor four weddings they

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Speaker 3: had to move multiple times due to all the shutdowns.

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Speaker 3: And then I think the whole industry was a bit

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Speaker 3: so the same as international weddings. So I think the

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Speaker 3: last wedding season we just had a lot of international

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Speaker 3: travel happened for weddings because people could finally do that again.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's an amazing job you do, Lara.

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Speaker 5: You're a you're a planner, you're a wrangler, you're a psychiatrist,

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Speaker 5: you're a psychologist.

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Speaker 4: The country for your service.

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Speaker 5: Thank you being involved in you know what hopefully is

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Speaker 5: the happiest day of a lot of people's lives.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for coming in. How are you feeling You're going

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Speaker 2: Just an apologize Clara for falling on the floor. Thanks Lara,