Thank You's

I received this lovely thank you from Denny and Louise for the wedding in Essex that I planned in the Summer.

Hi Louise,
             Denny and i can not thank you enough for making our wedding day so special, everything you done was so organised and professional and most of all stress free, we could not have done this with out your help. myself Denny and all of our guests, family and friends had a fantastic day and were commenting what a brilliant wedding it was and the best wedding they have ever been too and this was all down to all your hard work.
We feel you were so calming and very organised, you addressed things i never even thought about! and most of all keeping our costs within budget. I will be highly recommending your services to everyone i know that is getting married.                                                                                                                                                                                              Brilliant work and a massive big thank you again.

Louise and Denny Nash

Recommended Live Music

I mentioned last time about going to wedding fayres. If you are looking for some perfect live music for your drinks reception and or wedding breakfast. Then I highly recommend Essex wedding duo, Unforgettable. The duo combines saxophone and female vocals and is perfect to create a lovely relaxed atmosphere during your drinks reception.

Playing a variety of music from swing, jazz, pop and soul, the jazz duo in Essex will be playing live at the following fayre:

The Reid Rooms on Sunday 28th October also form 11am until 3.30pm

If you are looking for something different but elegant do go along and check them out. They play a selection of perfect background music, from jazz to current pop, all suitable to create a lovely atmosphere. They offer FREE live music for your civil ceremony if you are having one at the same venue as your reception. This is a great deal for a couple looking to have some lovely live music without it costing them a fortune.
For further details check out their website www.unforgettable-musicduo.co.uk

Essex Wedding Awards

The inaugural Essex Wedding Awards are being held at The Crown Plaza Resort 5 Lakes on November 29th. This is the very first time suppliers in Essex have been recognised for their hard work. As a wedding planner in Essex I am very excited to see who has been honoured for all of their hard work and I am very interested to see if Essex wedding band, One Foot in the Groove are winners.
Foe those of you that don't know, I manage the band and have done for the last nine years and in that time they have gone from strength to strength.
Last year they were shortlisted for The Wedding Industry awards. The only live band in the East of England to make it on the shortlist and they have been nominated again this year. They also won The Wedding Experts Award 2012. It really has been a brilliant year for them. Fingers crossed for the 29th November.

Company Rebrand

I'm very excited as EC Wedding Design is having a complete rebrand to reflect the style of both the weddings I plan and the clients I work with. I have also decided to work under my own name, Louise Perry as I feel that with over ten years experience working in the wedding industry my name gave my couples total confidence in what I do. Afterall when you hire me to plan any aspect of your wedding, you are hiring me.

Louise and Denny's Essex Wedding

I had the pleasure of planning the Summer wedding of Louise and Denny Nash earlier this year. The couple had chosen to marry in the local church and to follow with a reception in the garden of the groom's family home.
Louise wanted elegant with a little bit of bling, afterall this was an Essex wedding, the colour scheme chosen was champagne and cream. There are a lot of logistics involved with planning a marquee wedding, is the ground level? where is the power coming from? where will guests park? how do suppliers get to the marquee with equipment? and the list goes on. What I absolutely love about a marquee weddings is that it is a blank canvas to do exactly what you want with.
We were working to quite a tight budget and you would be wrong to think that because we weren't hiring a venue it would be cheaper. Marquee's can work out very expensive and you have to start out by setting a strict budget.
I recommended some suppliers that I thought would fit it with both the style and budget of the wedding but Louise was great at sourcing some of her own suppliers. Many I hadn't worked with before including the photographer, videoographer and the DJ and all of whom I would happily recommend to any future client. In fact Steve, from SImply Wedding Movies provided me with all of the video footage which I have edited into a short clip for you here.
I will tell you more about the problems with the weather, boggy fields, changing locations, broken toilets and how we remedied everything in another post but enjoy the pictures and video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J63NRTuWKKQ&feature=share&list=UU13jlp9SOcI4NkSfVKUvCQg