S1 E22 - Wedding Day Flow: How Real Planners Time It Perfectly

I've actually had quite a few people when we've just started planning, we're very much at the beginning stages. Okay, so when are we doing our timeline? Like, when are we gonna start? Like, when a speech is happening? When's the first dance happening? I'm like—

As a Barley Brides client, that is the very last thing that we work on.

That is the very last thing. But the amount of times I get on a call, they're like, okay, so when are we doing this? I'm like, not till the end, babe. Like, relax.

So if you want your ceremony earlier, one, It's too frickin' hot. Oh, it's so hot. Two, if you do your ceremony, let's say 2 PM, it only lasts for half an hour, what do you do with your guests all day? So anyway, I've sent Robbie over there. I'm standing watching the first dance. It's beautiful, like waiting for this like running moment, and then the pyro just start going off randomly, and I'm like, what the?

You have a video of it as well, and you're in the background, no, no, no, no.

So my last wedding, well not my last one, I've had quite a few in the last couple of weeks, but one of them went over budget by $16,000. Yeah. Now for some people, that's a lot of money. Whole wedding, they'd be like, oh my God. But for her, she was like, eh. And like, I feel bad because we try to keep them in budget, but at the end of the day, guys, it's your wedding. You make the decisions. Don't blame me if you go over budget because you've selected the most expensive supplies. It's not my job to be your mom and tell you, no, you can't have that. I've just froze to the spot and I'm like looking around, and then I've burst into tears and I'm like physically unable to move because I don't know where they are. I'm in the middle. There's only one way in and out of that restaurant.

Hi, and welcome back to another episode of Bali Weddings Unveiled. My name is Britta.

And I'm Tristan.

Today we are going to be discussing wedding timelines and extra entertainment.

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Do you know how many times I said that before we actually started rolling? But this is episode 22. 22. So we have officially passed our We're not gonna crash and burn.

We're many episodes coming to you.

Yeah, so wedding day timelines. Let's kind of start off, who builds it, I guess? And who, I think it's really important to really know exactly what you want included in your wedding. Not exactly, but really starting to get information on who's doing speeches and how long are they gonna go for? And if there's any cultural performances and, Yeah.

I think this kind of goes off our last episode of what your wedding planner is going to do for you, because some will do your timeline in full, some won't. And I just had a client, fucking love them. However, she sent me this whole run sheet she had done for the wedding day, but it was her run sheet of, I'm going to have breakfast at this time and yoga at this time and this at this time. And she had a couple of key things on there like, this is the time we want to walk down the aisle, but it wasn't nearly it wasn't what we need. Our run sheets are so detailed with every aspect of the day. So I then had to take her run sheet, make my own, and then cross-check it, make sure it was, which was a lot of work for me. So if you are a Barley Brides client, we will make your run sheet and your timeline.

We will do all of it.

Okay, because we need to know, and we need to tell people what time they're loading in, what time we want your photographer to arrive, what time the band needs to arrive to soundcheck, What time our team's gonna be there? The furniture company, when they arrive, what are they doing first? Are they putting out your ceremony chairs or your dinner tables? So we're gonna build a run sheet for you. One thing to note, we can't do it until your wedding's finalized. Because there's so many aspects that go into a wedding day, so many suppliers, it needs to run seamlessly with not one supplier, you know, like the dance floor can't set up at the same time as the lighting because one of them needs to be done first so the other one can work. We do need your wedding finalized. So we have the final numbers, final tables, and we know exactly what is going into your wedding logistically for us to build that run sheet out. So if you're one of these last-minute brides that leave everything to the last minute, you're not gonna get your run sheet till the last minute.

[Speaker] Yeah. I think it's really important to note, I've actually had quite a few people when we've just started planning, we're very much at the beginning stages. Okay, so when are we doing our timeline? Like, when are we gonna start? Like when a speech is happening, when's the first dance happening? I'm like—

As a Barley Brides client, that is the very last thing that we work on.

That is the very last thing. But the amount of times I get on a call, they're like, "Okay, so when are we doing this?" I'm like, "Not till the end, babe. Like relax." Yeah.

"We don't need to do it now." So when you onboard with us, we do tell you what our step-by-step process is. Step 1, key suppliers.

Yeah.

Step 2, catering, anything to do with catering, drinks, food, cakes. Step 3, florals and decor. That's gonna take us a good 4 to 5 months to fine tune, get it perfect. And then we move on to your formalities timeline and all your additional items. The very last thing that we will be doing is getting your final numbers, then your invoice, then your timeline. That is the last thing that happens because we need every bit of information. So we do tell you the step-by-step process. Another thing to note as well, that just as you were saying that, not every wedding planner is going to do your timeline for you. Some, like if you're in a hotel, for example, they're going to tell you what time to walk down the aisle and what time dinner's served. They might not do everything else. So you need to talk to your planner and find out. We also give our clients an example guideline. So when you book in with us, it's not your run sheet, but here's an example of how your day's gonna play out. We also need to pull your brain apart and find out exactly what's happening and when you wanna do things, because different cultures, different times of the day for events. Some cultures cut the cake straight after they do the ceremony. Some do it after grand entry. For us personally, we like to do it before dessert time so we can use that for dessert. So everyone's gonna do these things differently, and that's a big part of the wedding planning process. And it's one of our final steps is pulling apart your brain of how you envision it going. I mean, I had a final call with a client last night and that's what we were up to, it's her final call timeline. And we have like a multi-choice questionnaire after each activity. It's like, after the ceremony, do you A, wanna go straight into congratulations, B, straight into group photos, or C, do you wanna go away and have a private moment, just the two of you in the bridal suite? We'll send you some drinks and you come back out once you've kind of taken in those first moments as husband and wife. And we do that for a lot of us.

[Speaker] It can be very overwhelming straight after ceremony. It's like you just wanna take a breather because everyone wants to come up and congratulate you straight away, but it's like you don't actually get a moment with just your groom or your bride, you know?

So it is a very personal thing, but it's something that we will do at the end when we have a better vision of what your day's gonna play out like, how many suppliers we're dealing with, how many speeches you're gonna have. So typically in most weddings, and this is just a very typical guideline, ceremony, what time?

At the moment, I would say around 4:00 PM.

So what that means is we need to do arrival of guests 30 minutes before. Not an hour, not 2 hours, please, because you've got to keep in mind that as soon as your guests arrive, you're gonna be responsible for basically drinks and things.

The amount of times that we have sent guests away, especially at Wonderland.

I was gonna say, only at particular venues. If you're getting married at a hotel and your guests show up 2 hours late, not a big deal. They can go to the bar and they can chill. When you're at a private villa, Wonderland, Puree Bhagawan, Taman Bhagawan, where you have a fixed bar package, that starts at 3:00 PM and runs until a certain time, unless we're paying that bar company to open up early by the hour or paying for drinks, they're not open. So at Wonderland, we have it quite a lot. We had people the other day show up 2 hours early. And I was like, one, we're doing first look photos in the venue, so you can't come in. You have to wait in the lobby, which is fine, but I'll put a photo of the lobby here. It's fricking hot.

It is so hot in there. Is it because of the concrete?

Well, the concrete, there's no ventilation. There's like that skylighty type thing. So all the heat just traps in there. There's no air circulation. We can't let you wander around the venue because we're still doing first look photos and the bar's closed. So you're going to be sitting here in the heat with no drinks. I'm really sorry, but I think you better come back at the time.

Go down the road, there's a great cafe.

Yeah, so in regards to guest arrival, we always say 30 minutes before the ceremony, not an hour, not 2 hours, unless you're prepared to pay and open up the bar and have somewhere for them to wait. So ceremony 4:00 PM. Ceremonies only typically last like 20 to 30 minutes max.

Yep.

Even with a legal ceremony, if you're doing the whole church thing, they don't last that long. So that gives about half an hour. Then what happens from, let's say, 4:30 onwards?

4:30 onwards, um, so straight after ceremony, we would be going into photos. And then straight after photos, typically— well, it really depends on the bride and groom. Again, there's a few different options here. You could do— go straight into cocktail hour. You can join your guests, wait for golden hour to set in a little bit and then go for photos, private photos with your bridal party, or if it's just you two, or you could do all of your personal photos straight after the group photo session.

Or you could do a first look and do them all then. Yeah, all the options.

You can do first look as well.

Yeah, so it's very heavily up to you, but we're so deep in the planning process of, you know, getting all your supplies and things locked in that that is one of the last things we come back to. Yep. So when you're in your final stages of wedding planning, that's where we really go into the nitty-gritty of exactly how you want your day to play out.

Yeah, we're very detailed when it comes to that.

Yep, and then let's say we do the cocktail hour. The cocktail hour is for about an hour to an hour and a half. Now a lot of people ask us, "Hey, can we do a 2:00 PM ceremony or 3:00 PM ceremony?" 90% of the time my answer is no. And actually, let me just read this to you. I haven't replied to this yet. This was a message I got when I was in Sydney. So as some of you now know, I co-own My Bali Celebrant with Heather. And obviously we've got a group chat for all of our celebrants and all of our admin team and everything along those lines. And here we go. Hi everyone, I'm sending love and strength during peak wedding season. Just a heads up, I've had two groomsmen fainting three times during the ceremony in the past three days. Please make sure your bridal party to stay hydrated when you're checking in. Side note, it was hectic. Everyone was safe and I kept things calm and proper assistance for the faintees. 'But wow, I'm hoping there's not another instance like this for any of us. Let's bring back the energy, focus on the imperative to move on and ensure our bride and grooms are in the moment and ready to vibe again.' And then someone wrote back, 'Wow, was it that hot? Great advice. Couples insisting on ceremonies earlier than 4 PM, no shade, and they're from colder climates plus bridal parties have a big week on the bintang.' And then someone else has said, 'The first groomsman fainted twice during my ceremony. He was stubborn and proud and insisted he was standing after the first one.' "I had another wedding where the groomsmen fainted, but stitches were required." Coincidentally, both of them were groomsmen number 4 and were standing next to the signing tables and I saw them go down. It felt like it happened in slow motion. So Yandy had a wedding, was it this year or last year? And it was 3:00 PM. It was so fricking hot. I dead set thought someone was going to pass out. So seeing that this is actually happening at other weddings is quite scary for me.

[Speaker] I think that's a really important note to add just from one of those messages is a lot of people are not climatized to Bali.

They're not.

And a lot of people, they're coming from, say, our Aussie clients, they're coming from winter right now. Well, what is, yeah, it is winter.

It is winter. I just got back from Sydney. I froze to death.

It is freezing. People aren't used to the heat here where we would be able to handle it 'cause we're climatized.

And we're out in that heat all day. So we've got time. When you're arriving and drinking straight away in some instances, Yeah, it's not good. And as a bride and groom, if you're walking down the aisle, so let's say we seat the guests 10 minutes before the bride walks down the aisle, and then for whatever reason, the bride's running late. Let's be honest. So we see the guests, they're all sitting out there in the heat. They're not getting bar service at this time because we don't want the bar staff wandering around. Then the ceremony goes for 20 minutes, another 10 minutes photos. Like, it's hot. It's an hour out in the heat with— and if you've got no shade, a very tough situation. So if you want your ceremony earlier, one, it's too fricking hot. Oh, it's so hot. Two, if you do your ceremony, let's say 2:00 PM, it only lasts for half an hour, what do you do with your guests all day? We're not in Australia where the guests can wander off, go back to their accommodation and come back for your reception dinner 4 or 5 hours later. We've got to entertain them, we've got to feed them, we're going to give them drinks. They're going to be wasted by your wedding party. You know?

Yeah.

I literally had a wedding, what day was, oh, It was last week. I had a wedding and we ran an hour and a half late, Bali timing. Wasn't our fault. It was obviously the couple's fault. No issues. We don't care. We're like, it's your day, boo. You do whatever you need to do. And a lot of the guests were drunk by the time it was dinner. And the reason they were drunk is because we were running so late, we opened the bar. So then by cocktail hour, I'm walking up to the bar staff going, cut that person off, start watering their drinks down. That person's wasted too. So you also have to keep in mind that if you have an early ceremony, we've got to entertain your guests for a couple hours, and that's normally alcohol.

Yep.

So earlier ceremonies we don't recommend. And then also, like, you're not sitting down for dinner here at 4 o'clock. You want to sit down for dinner at like, honestly, 6:30 at the earliest, because golden hour for photos here is your prime time to get your photos.

Oh yeah.

So ceremony 4 to 4:30, cocktail hour, let's say 5 till 10, 6:00, 6:15, 6:30. And again, like, run sheets are not set in stone.

It is very much a guideline.

It's like, we're roughly doing things at this time, but as your wedding planner, we're going to push things forward, we're going to move things back, we're going to go, hey, catering, we're running 20 minutes late. Oh, we've caught up on time, we're now sitting people. So take the running, yeah, run sheet as a grain of salt. Like, it's basically a guideline on what the day is going to look like.

Yep.

Then we do dinner.

The other day, I pushed some speeches around, I was like, "All right, what we're gonna do, you wanna get into party time early, right?" And she was like, "Yes." I was like, "Okay, we're gonna do 4 speeches in a row then, because I feel like we're wasting time now, like having to do all these different areas." She was like, "Great, I trust you, whatever you wanna do." Trust, my biggest thing.

And I think that's so important to have because there's gonna be things that are gonna happen on a wedding day. And I was just talking about this the other day, we had a wedding that was running behind. And with fireworks, in most venues we have a curfew time. So if you want to do your fireworks at a particular moment in the day, they must be let off by a certain time. If we're running late, things need to move. And we were at a wedding a month and a half ago, beautiful client, and yeah, and she was the head planner, and we were running late. We were running so late because speeches that should have gone for 5 minutes went for 20 minutes.

Yeah.

And there was a couple of them, so the speeches went for an hour. Like, everything was behind. And we moved into the last round of speeches and the auntie says to me, Tristan, please go to them. I don't know how to hurry them up. We're gonna lose the fireworks. We have to let them off by 9:00 PM or we're not allowed to let them off. And the speech is still going. So I literally just went to the bride and groom and she wanted to duck off and change and first dance and then fireworks. And then as the speech finished, I said, get back up. We're doing your fireworks now. This is happening. And she was like, oh, but change. I said, you don't have time, babe. We're doing your fireworks now. And she was like, okay. She had left 5 minutes for decision, we would have lost our fireworks. Like, you need to have full trust in your wedding planner. And she said to me later, like, oh my God, thank you so much. Like, and poor little Yanti. Yanti's a phenomenal planner, don't get me wrong. Being Indonesian, she's not great with the confrontation thing. So having to be forceful with someone and be like, no, this is what we're doing. Yeah. Yeah, we were just very lucky on that one. So trust your planner and keep in mind things like curfews. The other thing that's really important when doing your timeline, we need to know, like, we're not mind readers. We need to know, are you doing a first dance? A father-daughter dance? Who's doing speeches? Are there surprise dances, performances? You can't just throw things at us on the day. Well, you can, but it messes up your whole guideline of how we've like done dinner and stuff. Like I've sent out cold entrees before on set menus because it's like, well, we've got 3 surprise speeches that we didn't tell you about. And I'm like, dinner is ready because I was told there were 2 speeches. And once the first speech started, I called for entrees knowing that we were 10 minutes away. It's ready, everything's cold. So you gotta tell your wedding planner about everything. And if things happen on the day, you also need to be a little bit flexible. Like I had an instance last weekend, oh my gosh, you know the weddings that are like, you feel like it's gonna be the most simplest thing and then it just on the day turns into chaos. And it's not like bad chaos, it's just like, what the hell just happened chaos. And it was really funny. We're going through the process and it's like, you know, we sometimes split speeches up. Sometimes we'll go all at once, sometimes we'll split them up throughout the evening. And they were split up, but these guests were quite intoxicated and so was the bride and groom. And we finished the last round of speeches and I had previously gone to the bride and groom and reminded them, this is happening, this, this, this dessert, this, this, this. Yep, great. Anyway, so we moved into the next thing, we do two speeches and then the bride and groom come off the dance floor and they say, great, we're doing the first dance now. And I'm like, One, we have fireworks going off during the first dance. Oh. Two, the band is singing the first dance and they're currently on break because what's meant to be happening right now is dessert. Then we were gonna do the bouquet toss after dessert. Then we were gonna do a father-daughter dance. Father-daughter dance went into first dance and then fireworks were lit off. So I'm like, okay guys, but what about father-daughter dance? And she goes, oh yeah, father-daughter dance, Dad. And I said, no, no, wait, the fireworks aren't ready. Like I need to prep them. Like we were supposed to be doing dessert. Can we do dessert first? We really wanna do it now. Okay, great. Give me 5 minutes. And as I've said that, in her beautiful intoxicated state, she's grabbed Dad and gone straight to the dance floor. So I'm like, and then they're looking at me and I'm like, and I'm like literally on the walkie like, Robbie, run and get the band. Someone go to fireworks, see if we can get them ready. So her and Dad are already dancing to no music.

Oh my God.

They start dancing. And so then I'm reminding the groom because with the fireworks, you either let them off whenever we time it, like it's going to be on the dip or the kiss or whatever it's going to be. 30 seconds when the chorus starts. So we find out when you want them let off. And they had choreographed a dance and they said the fireworks go off when we kiss. I was like, perfect. So I reminded him, do not kiss her when you get in and just take over because I'll let the fireworks off. Like, make sure you do it the proper moment. No problems. So anyway, the band comes running out, they start singing. By then he's already taken over, so we're already on to the second part of the song. And then they invite all the guests up to join them. So they're just calling everyone to the dance floor. Now there's 150 people. I can't see Oh no. So I'm literally ducking and diving. The lady from the venue came up to me after and she's got a video of me and she was laughing. She's like, look at you. And it's literally like me trying to like crawl on the ground, get a good position so I can keep eyes on them so I can see the kiss. But they don't kiss. The song's finishing and then the band goes, come on everybody, let's party. And I'm still like, fuck, let the fireworks off.

Pew, pew, pew.

And then they're like, yay. And I'm like, And I'm like, I've just gone to the side and I'm like, I don't know what the hell just happened. I don't know if that was the right moment. They were fine. They were just too drunk. They completely forgot to kiss. They forgot the whole dance.

Actually, same thing happened at one of my last ones with the fireworks. And they danced to a song that I don't know. It was a song that I'd never heard of. But they'd organized it with the band. I was like, great, you guys have it all sorted. The bride told me that the song was gonna be played all throughout and let the fireworks off towards the end of the song. I was like, great. So, oops, band started singing. I'm just letting them know. I'm like, just let me know when you're heading towards like the end of the song. And then he's like, okay, okay, now. And I'm like, but you've only played like 30 seconds of the song. And then he's like, Yeah, but they told me to only play like 20 seconds, 20, 30 seconds of the song. And then everyone just up onto the dance floor. I'm like, and then change the song after 30 seconds.

I'm like, why are you doing, no one told me this.

Like, when did they tell you this? They're like, oh, this afternoon. I'm like, so no one's communicated that with me. So I'm like—

Please communicate with your wedding planner. Everything, every change, every detail. We need to know about it, guys.

So I'm like, in front of the band and then he's like, "Okay, now." And I'm like, "Fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire, fire." Yeah, it like, she loved it.

I was just like, "Oh my God, no one communicated this with me." From a wedding planning point of view, they're like, "Yeah, you're drunk and you're loving it." But we're like, "Oh my God, was that the right move?" I know. And I'd been quite traumatized because the week before, again, one of my absolutely favorite couples of the year, like I just like have the biggest girl crush on both of them. They'd coordinated their first dance and we had pyro shots. Yeah. And they'd said, we're gonna do a running lift, like not Dirty Dancing style, but running lift. Great, we're gonna do the, the pyro on that thing. And they start the dance and then I've sent— because we always have a staff member on standby with the person that's in charge of pyro to tell them when to let it off. We call for it, we say now, now is the time to push the button. So anyway, I've sent Robbie over there, I'm standing watching the first dance, it's beautiful, like waiting for this like running moment. And then the pyro just start going off randomly. And I'm like, what the?

You have a video of it as well. And you're in the background, no, no, no, no.

Because I want that day to be fucking perfect.

I know.

And then the worst part is, is the groom looks at me, we make eyes and he's staring at me and I'm like, oh my God, he's so angry. And so I go running over there and there's no, this is what I love about our team. If we fuck up, we say sorry, we fix it. There was no accountability. The person there is like, I'm like, And so I'm yelling, and I don't yell often. No. But if you fuck up my person's wedding, I'm gonna yell at you.

Oh my God, I sounded so Australian then.

No, no, no. So I'm over there and I'm like, so Robbie and the pyro guy stood up and I'm like, Robbie, what the fuck happened? And he's looking at the pyro guy, looking at me, and like Indonesians don't like confrontation, so he's not gonna dob him in when he's standing right there. And I'm like, what happened? And then the boss of that company is like, he didn't know when to let it off. And I'm like, They never know when to let it off. I know when to let it off. I tell him, he tells him, why the fuck did he push the button? And they're both looking at me and goes, well, he didn't know. And then I'm like, hang on a second. It's on the freaking run sheet. Pyro to go off on running jump. Tristan to tell you. Did you see a running jump? And they're both just staring at me and their blank faces. And then the boss starts laughing and I'm like, I'm seeing red. The first dance is still going by the way. And this is all happening and whispered swearing in the corner. And I'm like, it is not effing funny. You just ruined their first dance. I think it also doesn't help that they have stuffed up recently as well.

So it was like very much a, there was levels to that. And then that was like the final straw.

That was the breaking point. And meanwhile, I'm messing around, this company is blacklisted.

I'm not using you for weddings. I was at a wedding down the road.

So if you wanna know how you get blacklisted, that's how. You laugh at me when I tell you've messed up something. So anyway, this is all happening in hush, like, rah. And then Robbie's like, so Robbie's still not dubbing this guy in because I'm blaming Robbie at this point. I'm like, you're accountable. You were sitting there, you should have fucking told him. And so anyway, First dance finishes, now the bride and groom are meant to go get changed into the party outfits. So they walk away and in my head, I'm like, the groom's so angry at me. He was staring at me. So I'm like telling him, you will refund me for the pyro shots and giving the boss a lecture. And then I'm messaging the boss's boss, like it's unacceptable. They were laughing at me. Like you've just ruined their first dance. Like I'm being dramatic. And then I pull Robbie away. I'm like, what the fuck happened? And he's like, I'm so sorry, Tristan. He just pushed the button. And I was like, but you were there. Why would he push? He goes, I don't know. I didn't even know what was going off because he's ducked off and out of view until you started going, no, no, no, no, no.

What I find wild about that situation, we've used them for years. Like, they know that we always call the shots.

Yeah, we always announce when things have been done. So like I'm fuming. So then I, of course, I'm like in my brain, I'm like, oh my God. And like, I don't often go to a wedding and be like, I'm gonna sit in the corner and have an alcoholic beverage because I'm working. But the venue we're working at all day, she's like, do you want a wine? 'Cause they stock my favorite wine. I don't even know what it is. They just know it's my favorite. And I was like, no, I don't want a wine. I'm working and working and working. And so I'm like stressing out. I'm going up to apologize to the bride and groom, thinking about what I'm going to say, because you don't want to throw another company under the bus. Even though it was their fault, I'm in charge. It's my fault. Like, I'm accountable for that. So I'm like practicing in my head what I'm going to go say. I walk past, she's like, you okay? I was like, no, I'm not okay. Can I have a wine when I get back? And then I go into the room and I was like, hey guys. They're like, oh my God, like, did you see it? And then the groom goes, did you see I messed up the dance moves? And I was like, no. And he goes, I looked at you, I thought you realized. And I was like, I was looking at you because we pushed the pyro button too early and I'm so sorry. He goes, oh, did you? And I was like, yeah, it was meant to go off on your thing and he let it off. And he goes, oh, I didn't even notice. I was too worried I stuffed up the dance moves. And they just like, were so blasé about it. But in my head, I'd turned it into this big thing. So like when that fireworks thing happened, I was like, oh my God, not again, not again. But they were fine.

Yeah. So yeah. I feel like most of the couples are always fine and they don't actually notice. but it's, it's us who notice because I am such a perfectionist.

But also, if my team are not perfectionists, I don't want them on my team. You should be aiming for perfection. And yes, things are going to go wrong, but it's how you deal with it and your accountability afterwards. And I've always said to all of you, if you guys mess up but you own it and you apologize, I will protect you to the ends of the earth. Yeah, because you're taking accountability. But if you fuck up and don't tell me about it and I get a complaint, like, that's when you're in the big trouble. Yeah. So I think timing-wise, it's very important. You must communicate with your wedding planner. I had again a client the other day, and she— we gave her the contact details, the 'cause she wanted to chat to him. On the day, his music was completely different to the music she'd given me. Not only was it different, she'd confirmed all of the music with me on that final call. I'd sent her the run sheet with that music and she was like, "Yep, that's correct." And then he's telling me it's different. And I'm like, I'm trying to talk to her about it. And she's like, "Oh, I don't know." And I'm like, "If those songs are wrong, like I take no responsibility 'cause I confirmed them with you." DJ, apparently it's what you've got. But if you make changes, it's really important that we know 'cause we're the ones calling the shots. So timelines, other things that we need to account for. So surprises, speeches, dances.

It's been, that's a point that we've been making in one of our final meetings, like probably the last year.

How do you feel about surprises?

Yeah, how do you feel about surprises? Do you want them? If Auntie Anne is gonna come up and she's a little bit drunk, like do you want her to make a speech if it's a surprise? And I actually asked one of my brides last night, she was like, no, no surprises. I was like, okay.

And it's funny because I literally, we say to our clients, she was like, shut it down, Brit.

I was like, I will shut it down.

Like, they're like, oh, well, it doesn't happen often. I say this, but like nearly every second wedding I get someone come up to me and it might not be a speech. It might be, we're gonna do a dance. Or I did have that one wedding where the brother of the bride approached me and he'd made this whole video montage of all his guests around the world singing this one song the bride loved. And we had to hire a projector and it was a whole thing. So what we ask on one of our final calls is, how do you feel about surprises? If a family or friend member approaches us in the lead-up to the wedding or on the day and they have a surprise, A, a surprise is completely okay. B, are they okay if I decide they're okay at my discretion? Or C, do you want me to come to you and tell you it's going to ruin the surprise, but at least I can run it by you? And we get your input because it's still your wedding day. Yeah. So I think that's really important. And I did have one a couple of weeks ago and they said surprises at Tristan's discretion, but we already have lots of speeches. So There was a surprise haka. I said, absolutely, yes, you can do your surprise haka, no problems. Then someone came to me and said, Auntie wants to speak. And I was like, absolutely not. So you also have to put a lot of trust in your wedding planner to make the decisions on your behalf. So when you're picking out your formalities, well, we also need to know how long they run for. So if dad's doing a speech and you tell me 5 minutes and he goes for 20 minutes, like not much we can do about it, but please give your family and friends a guideline. Who should be doing speeches, Britta?

Like traditionally. Traditionally family on both sides, say that be mom and dad together or just dad or mom or whoever. I would actually say I like doing them first. Even getting your MC to welcome everyone to the wedding. Then you've got your grand entry and then going to first round of speeches. Getting them out of the way. Parents, they usually like to get them done early. After dinner, I like doing best man, maid of honor, or if it being like the group bridesmaids, maids, the groomsmen, and then yeah, bride and groom. I like keeping it short and sweet.

So traditionally, let's say father of the bride, someone from the groom's side of the family, whether it's dad or mom or both of them, best man, maid of honor, couple. If you want to add more in, that's completely at your discretion, but those are the traditional ones from a Western culture point of view for Australia and New Zealand, kind of the main countries we deal with. What about grand entry? Who does that?

Like who's involved?

Yeah, because different cultures, different people.

Well, traditionally from my side, bridal party. Typically I like having the groomsmen and the bridesmaids getting announced in, name, names.

By names.

By names and—

Together or do you like it separately when it's like the bridesmaids are coming and the girls come in together?

No, I like it together when the girls and boys are linked.

It's very traditional.

Because sometimes they do a dance on the dance floor and they've got a whole choreographed thing, like it's fun. But yeah, we've had just all the bridesmaids and then all the groomsmen and then the couple at the end.

So with more Asian cultures, it's traditional for the family to be announced in as well, like moms, dads, siblings, grandparents. Like we had that big, was it Tongan, Samoan wedding?

That's right.

And we announced all the family and I actually freaking loved that. Like it was so emotional and the parents did the best dance moves on the dance floor as they came in. So yeah, the formalities you're gonna have throughout the evening, first up is always gonna be your grand entry. Then speeches, depends whether we do them all at once or do we split them up, you know, some after grand entry, some after dinner. Or do we put them all together? First dance, if you're doing one, I just had a couple the other day and they argued on the phone call in front of me about the first dance and they were both like, we have to do it. And I was like, why? It's your wedding. You don't have to do it. So we established we're gonna do 20 seconds and then we're gonna invite everyone up, but you don't have to do a first dance. They're not doing a grand entry 'cause they don't like the spotlight on them. So even though there's traditions, it's still your day. We will ask you what you want. Traditionally there is father-daughter dance as well. If you're more on the traditional side, Occasionally we might throw a mother-son dance in there as well. If you've got kids, sometimes you dance with the kids, but it's all up to our couple.

Yeah. You can make it, it's your wedding day. Like there's no rules.

There's no right or wrong.

Yeah, there's no right or wrong. You make it however you want it to be.

I love it on like a wedding day where someone comes up to me and they're like, Tristan, we've changed our mind, is this okay? And I'm like, babe, it's your wedding, not mine, whatever you want. Yes, tick, done, easy. So traditionally there'll be the dances and then like if you're doing a cake, we'll do a cake cutting. Now cake at the moment I feel is getting less and less common because it was just really for the photo moment, but a lot more champagne towers are happening now.

Yep, definitely. I've got a wedding coming up, they're doing the cake cutting straight after the ceremony. Like they're walking down the aisle, flower shower, cake.

Yeah. I've done an espresso martini tower too, that was fun. Me too, I've done that. Champagne towers with triplets, typically recommend them before a round of speeches or after grand entry so everyone has a glass in hand. But the one thing that I need to tell people, because I feel like couples don't think about this, when you do a champagne tower, you fill up the first glass, and then what happens? It overflows and it goes down all the glasses. Now the glasses aren't perfect, your tower's not going to be perfect, so some of them are going to be topping up, but you fill them to the brim.

Yeah.

So for us to hand them out to the guests, it's freaking messy. Oh yeah, because they're like— unless you're slurping off the top of them to try and get all the glasses down, it's a mess for the bartenders. That'll take us a good 10 minutes.

I will say, I will add this, I think that's what I'm loving about, say, the espresso martini tower, all the other ones are already done.

Yeah. And you're just doing the top. Yeah. And we do pre-fill a lot of the lower level champagnes, but the champagne goes everywhere.

It's a mess. It does. It is a complete mess.

Yeah. And then I guess that could—

But also the grooms like to shake it and explode it everywhere as well.

Yeah. And then I guess there's another thing that I will point out. If you're in a hotel, hotels have cleaners. If you're in a villa or Wonderland or Piribaguana or a private venue, and you make a mess of the dance floor, it's not like we have a cleaning crew to come clean that up. So just have a think about that as much as we will do it, it's not really my job, but our team will run away and try and find a mop and clean up after you. I think there's many photos of us sweeping and mopping and doing things that are definitely not our job.

No.

I'm like immigration, look away because—

Don't look at me.

Yeah, I know. Imagine if we got done for like, what did you get done by immigration for? I was mopping a dance floor. But it's not our job.

We will do it.

We're not meant to. And then I guess on timeline, so those are kind of the traditional things, but then when you throw in extra entertainment, which we're now gonna touch on, we need to factor that into your timeline as well. We do.

And I think number one, when it comes to that, if you're having fireworks, there is a curfew.

It's very strict at most venues, 9:00 PM at the latest. It doesn't matter if you're running late. If you do not let your fireworks off at 9:00 PM, you're not allowed to have them.

I was able to, well, I got Robbie to go out there and sweet talk the banjar at Wonderland.

This comes down to— How much have you sweet-talked your planner? Because if your wedding planner thinks you're the bane of their existence, which I've had clients in the past, and it's approaching curfew time, like, it's curfew time, we're bringing it forward. But if you were like the be-all and end-all and I fricking love you, and I can see that it's 8:30 and we're running late, I'm gonna take beers and like, I'm gonna steal some food from your buffet if you've got buffet. I'm gonna take that out front to the banjo and I'm gonna beg them to let us 15 minutes extra, is that okay?

And we did that and Robbie came back, he's like, It's okay, but I need to take them beers. Can I go get some beers? I was like, yes, get many beers. Take them all.

I even had that event last month and the banjar came in and tried to shut my music down an hour early. And I was like, boys, what can I help you with? And then like they're talking in Indo and I'm roughly talking back 'cause my Indonesian is not the best. And then in the meantime, I'm like, why don't go get me 6 beers 'cause there's 3 of them. And then one comes over, I was like, can I get you a beer? What do you need? And they're like, oh, the music's too loud. And I said, oh, just one hour more, then I'll turn it down a little bit now. And then one more hour and he's like, 'We're getting complaints.' I was like, 'Yeah, just a little bit. Here's some beers. You want a beer?' And then they're like, 'Okay, no problems.' Now I will point out this doesn't always work. So it's not a guarantee, but make sure you're wonderful to your wedding planner. 'Cause these are the things that we're gonna do if we love you.

Yeah. And I think we do have a lot of, we do have great relationships with a lot of the buyers, the banjos, everyone, because we do look after them. We work at these venues a lot.

Yeah. And I think that's key as well, is when you work at those venues a lot, I mean, there's some venues that we clash with massively because they're just, pains in our asses and not flexible and not understanding that, you know, your wedding's not just a number through the door, that it's a personal day. But the ones that we do work with and have that fantastic relationship with, like, they're normally pretty flexible with us if we need it.

Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Other entertainment, extra entertainment pieces, we've got fire dancers.

Fire dancers. I love fire dancers, but obviously it needs to be dark. Yes. And when is it dark? Do you want to do them during, I typically do them during dinner time.

Yeah. I do them probably when everyone's had a chance to eat food.

Yeah, so kind of towards the end of the eating, you walk around and you're like, everyone's pretty much done. And then we're moving to speeches shortly.

I find it a perfect transition to go into speeches or other formalities. Yeah.

So if you're wanting to do extra entertainment, so again, this is kind of towards the end. We can book you extra entertainment at the start. But what we tend to find is a lot of our couples, they go over budget. You know, we try to keep them in, but then what do one of your clients say to you? You say, ah, it's my wedding. I don't care if I've gone over budget. We try to keep you in range, but you know, at the end of the day, boo, it's your wedding.

It's funny 'cause I called her out a few months ago, not called her out, but I'd sent an updated running estimate. And she was like, I'm, oh, I think, what did she say? She was like 10 or 20 grand over budget and she was freaking out. And I'm like, you have booked a really nice florist and this is what you wanted. And she's like, okay, no problem. And then now we're booking into like other pieces and we're almost at the end of the wedding planning. She said to me last night, oh look, Britta, it's fine, it's my wedding, I'll do what I want. I'm like, okay.

Do you know what's funny about that actually? So my last wedding, well not my last one, I've had quite a few in the last couple of weeks, but one of them went over budget by $16,000. Now for some people, that's a lot of money, that's a whole wedding, they'll be like, oh my God. But for her, she was like, eh. And like, I feel bad 'cause we try to keep them in budget, but at the end of the day, guys, it's your wedding, you make the decisions. Don't blame me if you go over budget, because you've selected the most expensive supplies. It's not my job to be your mom and tell you, no, you can't have that. It's my job to book in the supplies.

'Cause I want all of this for you.

Yeah, but we do do our best to keep your budget, go, hey, if you pick that supply, you need to pick cheaper supplies here and here. And if you don't do it, that's on you. Just wanna say that.

And it's completely up to you what you want. But yeah, we are here. We will book in what you want. But obviously there's a price tag attached to that. You don't get stuff for free.

Free. It's really hard at the moment because Steph's getting a lot of inquiries, but she's getting a lot of inquiries that just— they have no idea what they're going to spend.

Yeah.

And she's like, how do I tell Tristan, like, this is roughly what it's going to cost? But then they're like, it's over my budget. And I'm like, but the thing is, we haven't planned their wedding yet.

Yeah.

You can't tell them how much it's going to cost because we've made zero decisions. It's all very estimate. What I want her to do is I want her to give them a good estimate for everything that they want so that it's not a shock to them at the end and they go, oh shit, I've spent 40 grand Instead, it's like, okay, my budget was $30,000, but you've quoted me $40,000. Maybe we get it down because you've helped steer me in. But it's probably one of the biggest problems we have in the inquiry stage because everyone has a figure in mind. But without you physically planning your entire wedding, we can't tell you what the whole thing's going to cost. So when clients come to me and go, Stephanie quoted me $1,000 on the lighting and it's cost me $3,000, why? And I'm like, well, because you wanted this particular lighting, which is incredibly heavy. So I needed to add rigging and I didn't know that at the start. Nope, that's something you've told me now. Or, you know, you've decided that you wanted to add on a photo booth and a gelato cart and that, and that's not something we really go through in the first inquiry stages. So when you add those things on, yes, they cost money, like you chose them.

Yep, yep.

So fire dance is always super fun. What other entertainment options do you kind of add on at the last minute? Because these are the things we add on last minute because we're like, okay, great. Now, you know, roughly now they've got all your final details, this is how much your wedding is. Do we want to add extras? Do we have money up our sleeve?

Well, I just added on finances for a wedding that's happening in 2 weeks.

I added on a gelato cart 3 days before one of my last weddings.

I did that as well.

Yeah. And it's because you now get your final bill and you go, great, we've actually stayed under our budget. Or mom and dad gave us some money, let's add on the things that we maybe wanted. So always have a wishlist of things that you want if money permits.

And I'm probably like the worst person to talk to. Like if you want fireworks, I'm gonna girl math that shit for you.

You're only getting married once.

'Cause I want you to have those fireworks and I just think they're the most special moment.

Christine and Chris still.

I look at them. I stood there and looked at them at the wedding at Wonderland on the weekend before you flew out to Sydney. And I'm just standing there and I've got tears running down my face.

It never gets old. If you want fireworks, don't try and get me to look at them.

Because I think just internally I'm like, this is what I do. This is my job. Like how lucky am I to live in Bali and have this job? And I know it's very much like, this is for you clients. Like if you want the fireworks, please get the fireworks. But for me, it is such a moment where it's like, we're kicking into party time now. Oh my God. Like today's been great.

Today's been perfect. Today was French kiss. French kiss, chef's kiss. French kiss. Yeah.

But yeah, the fireworks is just one of those moments where it's like, oh my God. Like this is so special.

And if you want to know what girl maths is, right, Christina and Percy, freaking love them. From day one, she wanted fireworks.

I did it for Kim and Darren as well.

He wasn't sold. And then on one of the last calls, he's like, Tristan, what do you think about fireworks? And I was like, guys, you're only gonna get married once, right? And he's like, yep. And I was like, how old are you now? And they told me their ages. And I was like, okay, so right, really you could have got married 10 years ago, but you didn't. Let's say you stay married for another 40 years, 50 years, whatever. So that's 50 years. 'Your fireworks are $2,000. Divide that by 50 years. It's like $100 a year. It's like less than 50 cents a day. It's basically free.' And then he was like, 'Yeah, you're right. Let's get it.' And Christina's just in the corner laughing. So we will girl math things if you need to. Like if you have something that you want pushed over the line with, what did Brianna call her husband? The money police. If you need something pushed over the line with the money police, I will tell you how to girl math it to get it over the line. So fireworks, always super fun. I love the water drummers. They never get old for me.

They're fun.

We'll put photos up here of each thing.

Yeah, for sure.

Kind of see what they look like.

We've also got pyro shots.

Pyro shots are like the floor fireworks, some people call them. I've really been loving as well the live painting. However, it's hit and miss depending on the artist that you get.

Yeah. What artists, what company do we love? Well, there's a few now.

There's a couple, but the problem is that you don't know what artists you're going to get. I know. Yeah. And when you've got a massive wedding of like 60, 70 people, you don't have one artist. You've got like one made out of multiple. And then some of the photos are great and some of them are shit. Like I'd literally just been, one of the pictures we did at Latitude, we had live painters there.

Yeah.

And at the end of the night they had like, no one was going up to them. I think they had 10 pieces of paper left. So I gave them a picture of me and Tristan and said, can you do one for me and my son? And I looked at it again yesterday and I was like, what the hell is this? Like, there's no faces on us. Like, it's just a terrible painting. So it is hit and miss depending on the painter that you get. And there's no guarantee. Like, we'll know who the head one is, but if you need 6 painters because of the package, like, that's really tricky. And by the end of the night, they're fatigued, they're tired, the pictures aren't as good. I always love a photo booth.

Yep, photo booth. There's a couple of great companies that we use.

Who do we use?

Bali Island, Motu.

Yeah, Bali photo, literally it's called Bali photo booth. I was just talking to Alex this morning, 'cause one of my clients wants a traditional photo booth. We haven't done that in years. But I guess things with the photo booth time-wise.

I open that towards the end of the night.

Yeah, it's a great idea to have it in cocktail hour, but depending on the type of photo booth, once you set it up, you can't move it. And if you put it into cocktail hour and it's running for 4 hours and that's in a different area and then guests are going— No one's gonna go back. Well, also guests are going from cocktail hour to dinner and sitting down for 2 hours and eating and doing speeches. So they're not using it.

I don't like opening it too early if it's through dinner time because—

I like it at the end, like after everyone is on the dance floor or as that dance floor's opening, then open it. Tattoo studios.

Love a tattoo studio.

However, it will ruin your fricking dance floor.

It will.

So if you're not big party people, pop-up tattoo studios are great, but please get a reputable company.

Yeah. Oh my God. I feel like we can't really—

We can't talk about it. We'll talk about it in 2 years' time. All I will say is get a reputable company, one that we recommend. Recommending that we're booking and we're dealing with.

Has the right sanitary items. Like—

I have trauma. Like I actually have trauma.

Like flashcards, flashcards for them to actually copy off.

Let's just say Bali Brides has a certain level of standards. And if you wanna book your own suppliers, that's fine.

Yeah.

But if we ask all these questions and they say yes, yes, yes. And then show up with something completely different and you've booked them, that's completely out of my hands.

Tables and chairs.

Tables and chairs. Yeah, so pop-up tattoo booths. What did I— oh, we just had— I just worked on this massive wedding alongside Global Weddings last week. They had synchronized swimmers in their swimming pool.

No way.

Like this whole synchronized swimming show. And we had a brass band. So when it was time for grand entry, the brass band led them into the Saints go marching in. It was epic. And then we had one thing. Did I tell you I had a panic attack at that wedding? You?

What? So, oh yes, you did tell me.

Yeah, I'm terrified of snakes.

Yeah.

Absolutely terrified of snakes. I can't even watch them on TV. Like it's a real problem. And on the run sheet, I did see that we had snake charmers or whatever you call them throughout the evening. So I prepped the two girls from Global and said, I am petrified of snakes. Do not let them near me. That is my one request. Like I will cry, I will scream, I will cause a scene and like, Like it's a bad thing. You can't let them near me. So anyway, at some point we're running late. Of course we're running late. We're running late. I'm wandering around the reception. I've just come from the DJ booth to tell them we're running late. And then someone comes across the walkie, Tristan, where are you right now? And I'm just walking through the reception. Stay there, I'm coming to get you. And I'm like, why? The snake people are in the reception. And I've just froze to the spot. And I'm like looking around and then I've burst into tears. And I'm like physically unable to move because I don't know where they are. I'm in the middle. There's only one way in and out of that restaurant. And I'm standing there when beautiful Brittany comes up next to me. She's like, I've got you, I've got you. And she leads me through the side door into the kitchen and they're making espresso martinis. She's like, do you want an espresso martini? You okay? I'm like, I'm okay. And she's like, are you okay? And I'm like, uh-huh. And I just, I can't talk because I've just had the biggest panic attack that these snakes are coming in and I don't know where they are and they're gonna eat me, obviously. Obviously. So yeah, we can get snake people, please none of my weddings, I won't be there.

I think there was like a horse there, wasn't there?

Yeah, they had a horse as well.

They had a horse.

They had a horse. Like, I think we had about—

We can get magicians.

Magicians? I just, yeah, I got a magician for Christian's birthday party tomorrow because the magicians for the kids' birthday parties do the scene and Christian knows all the tricks. So I booked a wedding magician 'cause I'm like, I've seen him 5,000 times and I'm still like, how did you do that? Oh my God. They're actually really good magicians.

I just took out some of my clients.

You had blow in the dark puppies? Glow painters. Oh yeah, I did too. Painters to paint people for party time. That was epic.

Glow in the dark painters. That was fun. I think I— who was that through? Orange?

Orange Entertainment, probably. So they provided a lot of the stances and things the other day. They provided the synchronized. We also had, get this, girls dressed up as a lampshade at this massive wedding. And they literally had lampshades and they were just like dancing in the corner as the light.

The penguin dance?

Almost, yeah. It was pretty epic. So there's so many like, Midgets, I've had midgets in an event.

I was actually just about to say that. So my clients that I took out for a venue tasting and site visit on Tuesday. Yeah.

I don't know if that's like even ethically allowed, but like they— We book midgets for weddings to be door people.

They were like, we were talking about all these like entertainment things. And I was like, we can get midgets or dwarves. I don't know what you're allowed to call like—

Well, this is the funny thing. So the first time we booked them—

I feel horrible. I'm like, what are we?

I think the PC term would be like little people or dwarfs. I'm not really sure. So I was kind of talking to Yanti about this because we booked them. We had an event years ago. We did the opening of a tattoo studio and she wanted like dwarves on the doors to take tickets. And there's like this rule, like you can't stand up for too long, this, that. And I said to Yanti, what's gonna be on the invoice when it comes through? And it literally just said 4 times midgets. So I don't feel bad because that was what was on the invoice and that's what they Yeah, that's what they are. Yeah, so I mean, the sky's the limit. You know what else I really love? I haven't done it.

They also wanted pole dancers. I don't know. I was like, I don't know how we'll set them up, but let me find out for you.

Look, it's Bali. I'm sure we can find a way.

I'm sure we can.

You'd have to have like a static pole rather than one attached to a roof.

And then I think they were like, I think I said, I was like, do you want like a stripper?

We can't have strippers here. It's Bali. There's rules. You could probably have like, no, but remember that ladyboy?

Was it a ladyboy that came for my birthday?

I don't know if that was entirely above board, Britta. It was a go-go boy. He was just in his underwear. You can't have strippers.

Like you can't have strippers, but oh my God, that was so, but I was just like rattling off all these ideas. 'Cause they were like that crazy. They were like, We want all the crazy stuff.

And I was like, just rattling off ideas. You know what you can get? We went once, remember with Amanda, we went to that bar with the dancers. What was it called? It wasn't burlesque dancers, it was—

Oh, it was like a steampunk.

Yeah. They coordinate shows. I was actually gonna get them to do one for the Bali Brides party. So they can do like full burlesque style dances, which is pretty fun. Years ago, I worked with Soiree Society on a birthday party. We had girls in skirts and the skirts had champagne glasses in them. Oh, that was super fun. Yeah, so there's so many different entertainment things. But again, if they are timed entertainment, we need to factor that into your rundown.

Yeah.

Anything else entertainment-wise? Sparklers. Sparklers, I mean Balinese dancers, the gamelan, gamelan, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. You know that hotel lobby music you hear? We can get them playing live. Again, we had that the other day at that massive production of a wedding. So if there's any extra entertainment you want, like just tell us what your vibe is. We can give you some recommendations.

There's so many choices.

Oh, that's the other thing I really like, the fire letters. So, you know, when they light up and they like spell out your name. I mean, not really entertainment, but we've also got things like light-up letters and neon signs, champagne walls, shot walls, champagne walls, like so many different things. We've got Phone a Friend. Oh yeah, the audio guestbook. So you can do that through Phone a Friend or you can do that through Barley Brides if you're a client of ours.

Amazing.

Any other entertainment things?

I think that's it.

That's it. So moral of the story is like to sing on the day. I can't, but Britt can.

I'm not gonna sing on your wedding.

Look, you'll probably catch me and Britt in the corner dancing along to certain songs if we're vibing it. Although that wedding that I had the other week at Stone, it went till 2:00 AM and their party list was Cantonese party songs. And one of the guests comes over at one time, he's like, yeah, Tristan, you having fun? I was like, yeah, I love the song. He's like, oh, you know Cantonese music? I was like, no, I got no idea. I'm just in the corner trying not to fall asleep because I'm like, I don't know what this music is. Yeah, what is this? Yep. And then obviously we've got the traditional stuff like DJs, entertainment. Things to think about for timeline as well, which I think are really important. If you're doing a band and you've got 2 or 3 sets, when are they playing? Is it one set for cocktail hour? Is it one set for dinner? Do you want them to do party time? Because I've had an instance where clients are like, well, I want that band to play, you know, at 9 o'clock after my first dance. But I'm like, that's not a party band. That's an acoustic let's sing through dinner band. So there's all these different things that need to be factored in, but this is why you have a wedding planner. If you don't have a wedding planner, please look into our DIY course that runs through school where you can actually plan your wedding. We give you all the resources to do it as well.

Or hire us.

Or hire us. Shout out to the girl that was looking at the course and then booked her own wedding venue and then had a bit of a change of heart realizing how much work it was and booked in with us today.

Yeah. Shout out to you.

Shout out to you. Now, do you know what's funny? I said to you on the way here, someone asked me for a shout out on the podcast and I can't remember who it was. It'll come to me. It'll come to me. Anywho, I think—

start rattling off all my clients.

I don't think it was a client. I actually think it was like a supplier. Oh, and I was like, do you want me to give you a shout out? And they're like, oh my gosh, can you? Um, can't remember who it was. I'll think about it.

Yeah. Who have you worked with recently?

A lot of people. A lot of people. I'm like, I'm even like looking down at like my mani-pedi and like, what have I had done? I don't know.

Glow?

Glow Day, well, we love those people. I just love, I was like Scott and Lauren, but no, it's Lauren's the old one, Scott's the new one.

Shout out to you.

Shout out to you, shout out to Fickery. Woo!

Oh yeah, Fickery.

He fixed my hair the other day before I went to Sydney. Yeah, so I think that kind of sums up today's episode. So hopefully that gives you a little bit more insight into timings of your day and how things kind of run down. Other thing you need to factor in is just obviously a curfew, what time music has to be off. And some extra ideas for entertainment will pop up as well, some links so you can check it out. And yeah, that kind of sums up today's episode. Tune in 2 weeks. I don't know what the next topic is, but we've made it past 21, so we're just going to keep on annoying you until you get sick of us.

Yeah, basically.

I, I feel like, uh, monthly recap's going to be next. Would you—

we are definitely—

monthly recap. Gosh, there's going to be some tea.

So I feel like we'll almost be covering off 2 months by that stage.

So many things have gone wrong recently. There's been so many supplier issues. I mean, our couples, you would never know.

I feel like it, it— this happens during peak season because people— everyone's overworked.

No one is admitting.

We're so tired. No, yeah, no one's admitting.

What did you say to me? Not a single florist is getting back to me. I'm like, yeah, 'cause they're busy. They're all busy. So next month will be a monthly recap. We'll also be discussing some really exciting things that are coming up with Barley Brides just off the back of my Sydney conference and changes that we're implementing. And I'm hoping actually, maybe not the next episode, but we're gonna get our friends from Ungasan and Soul Content Creation on for one of our upcoming episodes as well as Soirée Society and Trunk and Love.

That'll be nice.

Um, so stay tuned, we got very exciting guests coming, and we'll see you in 2 weeks. Yay! Bye, peace out, peace out.