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Most people don't know how to choose excellent wedding vendors, let me tell you

I've heard a number stories, received complaints, witnessed events, featuring fellow wedding vendors over the last few weeks about my fellow wedding creators, creatives, and vendors.

Most people don't know how to choose excellent wedding vendors, let me tell you

People that identify as good, professional, popular, expensive, talented, skilled.

That’s what most of us think is required of a good wedding vendor.

That a good wedding photographer would be good at photography, a good wedding celebrant would be a good public speaker, and so forth.

Being good at your trade actually doesn’t make you good at weddings.

Being good, great, let’s aim for excellent, at weddings is about being really good at your scope, but whilst being so good that you’re the coolest, calmest, confident cat in the room.

The best wedding creators aren’t jsut skilled and talented people, but in that big day with everyone’s expectations - yours, your family’s, your guest’s - and all the moving parts, the weather, the things that change, the run sheet that is more of a dream than a reality, that amongst all those storms they are cool calm and collected.

They are bringing value, not also running around with their hands in the air.

I wish I could send this to the vendors I’ve been thinking about, but I don’t have permission to tell them how to live their life, so instead I’ll encourage everyone to either hire these cool cats to be at your wedding, or if you are a wedding creative, to be so good at your trade that you can be the coolest cat at the wedding.

Also, it’s the season for specials, discounts, and offers. If you’re still to book your celebrant or elopement, hit reply and I’ll let you know what Britt and I have on offer this month for weddings and elopements and Black Friday/Cyber Monday.

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