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Karen Tran Royal Wedding Inspiration
Throughout the years I have been privileged to attend some stunning soirees, and the Karen Tran Royal Gala at the Lanesborough was no exception. World renowned florist Karen Tran chose London to host one of her 3 day masterclasses with students attending from all across the globe. During the 3 days they received tuition from…
Read MoreWedding industry speaker, expert and trainer
I have been a wedding planner for 16 years now and the owner of the UKAWP for 14 years. So as you can imagine I’ve acuminated rather a lot of knowledge in that time. Not only do I have immense experience in organising weddings I have trained and coached hundreds of wedding planners since 2004. I…
Read MoreWedding Planning Excellence Seminar 2015
I am so very excited that the UKAWP are bringing back Wedding Planning Excellence (WPE) 2015, 27th – 28th November. This two day seminar is aimed at supporting new and experienced wedding planners providing practical, educational sessions for their business growth and development. The very first WPE was in 2009. There were no other wedding…
Read More10 Things You Never Knew About Being a Wedding Planner
Whenever people ask me what my job is they get incredibly curious about what a wedding planner does, after all planning someones wedding is a privilege and such a happy occasion to organise. So I try to give realistic snippets into my working life when I can as I’m sure this is a dream job…
Read MoreSandals WeddingMoons® FAM Trip To Jamaica – Part 2
Continuing my report of the Sandals Familiarisation trip here is part 2: Day 3 – 29th June On Saturday we were up early for a seminar hosted by Marsha-Ann Brown. She is a very inspirational presenter and a pleasure to listen to. She took us through the process of organising a wedding at Sandals and…
Read MoreAs seen on Channel Five’s The Hotel Inspector
I’m delighted to share with you a little secret, in the middle of May I was filmed for the Hotel Inspector giving my opinion on the Oakland Hotel in Essex and whether there is a market for them with events. It was a lot of fun filming, took me back to when I used…
Read MorePhoto Shoot with Dominique (Stylish Events)
At the start of April I had the joy of a photo shoot with Dominique for our “Wedding Planning for Dummies” Co-Authors press portrait. Dominique has a lovely bright and airy apartment in London so it was decided this was the best location. As well as our joint photos we had some individually and Dominique…
Read MoreWedding Planning for Dummies
Breaking News I am delighted to let you into a little secret, 2013 was an incredibly busy year with lots of parties and weddings. My season started in April and didn’t finish till 23 December. Only 2 weddings were held at venues, the rest were marquees and tipis thus many hours spent on the logistics…
Read MoreWhimsical Wonderland Weddings
I’m delighted to tell you one of my June weddings is now up on the Whimsical Wonderland Wedding blog. I plan to show you this wedding further on my blog as soon as I find the time to write my blog post and upload the images, but until then here is a sneak peak . I…
Read MoreThe Wedding Sanctuary: an innovative wedding show
I am delighted to tell you about an amazing wedding show called The Wedding Sanctuary. If you are bored of *countless trestle tables and suppliers looking desperate and unenthusiastic, then this is definitely the show for you. Conceived by wedding planners of the UKAWP and hosted at the prestigious RSA House, The Wedding Sanctuary is an innovative wedding…
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