S1 E5 - 10 Years of Bali Brides: Celebrations and Reflecting on our journey to date

I don't think I really appreciated how fast a wedding day goes for a bride until the other night.

Because I think I really appreciated it because I was like, I had two canapes. I didn't eat.

I had two canapes. When the photo booth opened, I went in just to get a photo. I can't remember who the first photo was with. Us. I sat down and then there was a lineup and everyone was like, we want a photo with you, Tristan. I missed the entire set of the first van because I was stuck on that photo booth.

They just say yes to everything and you think it's okay, and then you rock up on the day. It's like, well, we spoke about this.

Oh, yeah.

But I didn't really understand. I'm like, you gotta tell me.

You were in tears, you were crying. How am I gonna tell her about the dj? Like, all of this has already gone wrong for her. And I said to you, like, the fact that you're crying shows me how much you care about your clients and how much you care about her wedding. And it's not like, oh, well, this has gone wrong. I'll just tell her. You were generally so concerned.

I think, looking back on it as well, because there was so much shit that was going wrong. It was just like, well, this is all my fault. Like, I can't believe I've done this. But now looking back on, like, that.

Was like, it wasn't your fault, though.

Like, none of you didn't know that.

The DJ was going to do that. And I think this is one of the things that I just love about you, is you're so passionate about your work. You are so dedicated to those clients. And yes, sometimes you might get a little bit emotional if things are going wrong, but that's because you genuinely care.

Yeah.

Good morning and welcome back to another episode of Bali Weddings Unveiled. My name is Tristan.

My name is Britta, and we are.

Going to be your hosts. Now, today's episode is going to be super special to us because we just celebrated 10 years of Bali Brides. It was our birthday a couple of days, so we're going to pop the champagne and we're going to dive into a little bit more about us as the hosts of this podcast, as well as a little bit about us as planners, I guess.

Bit of background where we came from.

Bit of background. But first, I do want to pop the Champagne and celebrate 10 years of Bali Brides.

Woohoo.

Which is very exciting.

Massive milestone.

Massive milestone. I'd also like to thank whoever sent this to us. Or if this is one of our own. Because honestly, on our anniversary day we got so many gifts.

Yeah.

And I wasn't expecting that. We threw a big party. You know, we invited all of our suppliers we've worked with for the last 10 years and everyone came bearing presents, flowers and champagne and bowl of gin. Thank you, Stone Villas. So first of all.

Would you like to try first, madam?

Yes, I would love some.

Oh, thank you. Let me just have a little sippy whippy. Oh, yes, delicious.

That will do.

That will do. That will do. So let's pour ourselves a drink. If you're listening at home, grab a drink and settle in because today's episode is going to be juicy woosie.

Glug, glug, glug. Delicious. Cheers.

Cheers. Congratulations.

Thank you. 10 years of barley brides.

So the party, Britta.

Yeah.

Let's do a little recap on the party because we're sharing a lot of photos and videos from our socials at the moment. What was your favorite part of the party?

Oh, favorite part. I really love the photo booth. Yeah, that was great. I think just the way that was all dressed up with our neon sign and everything is super cool. But I actually really loved having two dresses.

It was definitely a princess moment. So I had two dresses. Well, actually had a third that I changed into for the after after party. But both me and you, we did order a few too many dresses because the dress code was black and white, or black or white. Originally. Remember, we were going to do the other theme, or was it burlesque?

Gatsby.

Gatsby. We were going to do a Gatsby theme and that was always the plan. But then as we started thinking about who was going to attend the party, you know, we wanted our suppliers to be with us, our lighting company, our photographers, our catering companies.

We're very well aware that they don't have quite the wardrobe that we have.

And they probably also didn't have the budget as well, a lot of the smaller suppliers to go out and buy those outfits. So we did make it black and white theme. So that was, you know, we know everyone has black. We wear it to weddings. So that was super easy. There were some fine looking people there though. Like special shout out Ari from Bali Florist Concept, who actually did our flowers and decor together with Mary, me and Bali. He was in a full tuxedo. He looked amazing.

Sexy.

So sexy.

I loved what Fikkery wore as well.

Oh, my gosh.

He was like. Who was he dressing up as? Adam Lambert.

Oh, beautiful. Even Al. Like our very own Al. Yeah. I loved his makeup.

Oh, my God. And he had three different dress changes.

The Barley Rides team. You gotta say we when we know how to throw a party.

Yeah.

So I think my favorite moment of night was probably the grand entry.

Yes.

And I know that's like cheesy, but I'm like all of our couples, they do a grand entry. We line them up, we send them in at such a special shots. They have pyro shots. So for the party we had Helmi emcee and she did such a fantastic job. So we came out and we mingled. So we basically went straight into cocktail hour party. We had our VIP arrivals from 6pm onwards and everyone was early and on time. Yeah. Which is completely not like Bali whatsoever. I was expecting people to be late and start rocking up at 8, but I think by 7pm we had almost 100 people there. And by 8pm there was almost 200 people there. So how we put everyone downstairs and we lined up and we did a grand entry for each section of the staff. The office staff, the on the day wedding help the remote planners.

You girls.

And we let pyro off for the wedding planners. As they walked in, we all had our own song. It was super fun.

And what was your song again?

My song was Brittany, you gotta work, bitch.

It was.

It was so vibey. And the amount of times I've been tagged on social media, just the last couple of days of just the grand entry and the photo booth, I think those were definitely the highlights.

So epic. Actually. No.

Yeah. I know what you're going to say.

I got to say.

You got to say the tattoo studio studio. We had a pop up tattoo studio by Loyalty Inc. Who we use for a lot of weddings.

I may now be branded with barley brides.

I also got the Barley brides tattoo on my ankle.

I'm not going to show anyone who's watching that tattoo.

Booth was full all night from the moment they opened. So many people came up to me throughout the evening. They're like, oh, my gosh, I just got my first tattoo. And I was like, don't regret it in the morning. Yeah. And the sign that we put at the tattoo studio said something like that hangovers are only for a day, but these tattoos are not. Choose wisely.

They're forever.

They're forever. So that was super fun. So the party was so much fun. I think we had about 200 people there. Actually. I think it was more.

Because I think so. I think more people showed up that we weren't expecting.

Yeah.

And Indonesian mentality. Most people don't really rsvp. And we actually did. We get a lot. We got a lot of RSVPs, but, you know, there's always some that don't and they show up anyway.

I think we got about 180 RSVPs in. And I think for the VIP list, we had about 50. Yeah. And I want to say there was close to 300 people there at the. At the peak, which was wild. I don't. I don't think I really appreciated how fast a wedding day goes for a bride until the other night, because I.

Think I really appreciated it because I was like, I had two canapes. I didn't eat.

I had two canapes. When the photo booth opened, I went in just to get a photo. I can't even remember who the first photo was with. I sat down and then there was a lineup and everyone was like, we want a photo with you, Tristan. I missed the entire set of the first band because I was stuck in that photo booth. And when I managed to escape, it was speech time. So we went straight to speeches. I completely missed the buffet. I didn't even. Natasha showed me when they were setting up. It looked absolutely beautiful, but I completely missed the buffet because by the time I had kind of said hello to a lot of people, was getting pulled this way, that way, the buffet was done.

It was already like 10:30, 11:00'. Clock. Once we kind of just stopped, I guess.

But I'm so appreciative, like, in hindsight, that we did arrange the after party. So we had. We turned one of the restaurants in the venue into a speakeasy bar. We put a big curtain around it. We closed it off, and we booked the silent disco company, which is brand new to Bali. And we moved our team. And, you know, anyone that was left at 11:30 from our VIPs, we moved into the after party room. And that was like the funnest part of my night.

It was so much fun.

There was only a few of us left, and we were partying until one o' clock with these.

You got a video of me just like on my knees in this room, head banging. And no one else is listening to the same song as me and it's just me screaming and head banging.

I think the videos are great because, like, we were there, we could hear the music. It was so much fun. But then when you watch the video back, it just like, you're a loser on the floor dancing to no music.

What the heck are you doing? Pull it together.

Yeah. So best night of my life. I don't know what I'm gonna do now now that that's over, but I guess now we've got a podcast.

What do we do now?

What do we do now? I'm gonna miss you all so much. I do want to take a moment, though, to, like, massively thank a few people.

Yeah.

The venue, first of all, Opia Peoria Temple Hill, one of our favorite wedding venues of all time.

It just feels like home.

It's a fantastic place to throw a party. And you know what makes it feel like home? So, being a party planner, I planned, you know, most of this event in secret. And I didn't tell any of the team because I wanted it to be a surprise. But I went and set it up and I hired a freelance staff member to help me who actually used to work with us and said, can you help me set up so the team can relax when we got there in the morning? Normally you walk into a venue and all the staff are there and, you know they're helping.

Yeah.

There was no one there. They literally opened up the venue and said, go for gold, Tristan. So we were there at 10am and then I think, who was it? Muddebin did it. And she was like, where are the venue stuff? I was like, oh, they're not here. This is my. Basically my venue. So it's fine. They'll be here later. And they didn't show up until they needed to be there, which was great. So that just shows how much trust.

They have in us.

So, first of all, Puri Temple Hill. I just can't thank them enough for everything they did. It's a great place to throw a party. They've got a later curfew of, like, 11:30 midnight, which is fantastic. Our furniture sponsors, Bali Event Hire, Bali Sewa Sewa Aisle Company. Honestly, that venue's never looked better with furniture. Every piece of furniture that we ordered for the party was just incredible. The teams were amazing.

It was perfect.

It was. And the whole team, all day were just singing me happy birthday. Happy birthday. Ballet rides. It was the cutest.

So cute. Our flowers and decor obviously came from florist Concepta. Marry me and Barley. They did a wonderful job. Like, I walked through that venue and I was like, oh, my gosh.

That wall down the bottom with all.

The flowers, even the hanging flowers, the entry and the candles down the stairs. It was absolutely incredible. Moto photo booth. Who did our photo booth? We had Flip Max on photography, just one of their associates, because we Wanted the team to attend and then the social content creator as well. I haven't seen the video yet. I'm so nervous and excited.

Can't wait to see.

I'm hoping that comes today because normally, you know, it's two to three days, that sort of stuff. So was there anyone else or. Tipsy Taps.

Tipsy Taps.

Tipsy Taps. Loyalty.

Loyalty.

Yeah. Amazing.

Last minute alcohol orders.

Smells like barley for the alcohol orders. So just everyone that was involved in the party, you know their top suppliers when we're using them for hours. And roll Ro Entertainment. Oh, my gosh.

The lighting and lighting.

Maddie the band and then hair and makeup by Fikri. The queen. Yeah, the king.

The queen. Queen.

Like, the whole team just looks stunning thanks to his hair and makeup. So massive thank you to everyone that was involved in that party. I will never forget. I think that was probably going to be one of the best days of my life. And massive thank you as well to our behind the scenes team from Bali Brides who did, you know, the neon sign and all of the stationary and the. They decorated one of the photo booths like black.

Beautiful shot wall.

Oh, my gosh. Our shot wall said shots. Because it's our turn to get drunk. Like, I think that was a real hit as well as people were walking down like, yes, it's out.

And yeah.

And drunk we did get. And like there was such a good turnout as well. From suppliers to other wedding planning companies that came and showed their support. Our house currently looks like a florist. I don't even know where this came from because I reckon we've got about 30, 40 bunches of flowers.

So funny. I'm just like walking behind you as you enter your villa yesterday. I'm like, just wait for the reaction. Just absolutely everywhere.

We don't have a dining room table. We don't have a kitchen bench. That's flowers.

We have to have dinner on the couch.

Yeah. So just. Yeah. Massive thank you to everyone that was involved in that. I don't know how we're going to move on from that, but now we've got this podcast to focus on. Now we've covered off. What episode are we on? Now we're on episode five.

Yep.

Yep. So I feel like we're semi getting good at this talking thing on camera. Still learning, but yeah, still learning. Today we're kind of going to deep dive and just to ask, like, who are we? Why are we qualified to be talking about weddings? So let's start with you, Britta. You've been with us now, for how long?

I think maybe coming up to four years or four years. I don't know. It's a bit weird because Covid was in the middle of that.

So it's a gray area.

It's a gray area.

And how did you, like, what inspired you to reach out and apply for a job with Bali Brides?

I was in a job that I just was not liking at all. And I, in Bali, I was working at a beach club. Wasn't the best. We won't go into the details, but, yeah, I had a mutual friend that her husband worked at beach club as well as the videographer. And, yeah, she said, I know you're not enjoying this.

I am working in the same office as Tristan from Bali Brides. Do you want me to see if I can get you in? Basically, yeah. So I was like, yes, that would be amazing. So I sent through my cv.

I think it was within maybe an hour of you receiving that I was at work. You tried calling me on WhatsApp, messaging me, emailing me, all of these different areas.

You have to understand, finding good staff in Bali is very hard.

Yeah.

And we already had, at that stage, Yanti. We had Hayley, I believe, or did Hayley come afterwards? And we had Meta.

Yeah.

And we were looking for another planner. But the problem is all the planners applications that we get, they don't have the experience.

Yeah.

They think it's gonna be a really easy job. But most importantly for the Westerners that apply, like, I want someone that's lived here for a minimum of a year because Bali is not an easy place to live and I don't want you to come in in three months and I've booked your weddings for next year and you go home.

I feel like that was a bit of a leap for you as well, though, because I'd only been in Bali for six months. Yeah. So it was like typically, I think back then, you were looking at someone who had been here for a minimum of two years. And I hadn't really hit that benchmark, but I was so adamant to stay.

Yeah.

It was like, if I wasn't going to make this work, then I have to go home. So Bali Brides is like my last resort.

Do you know what I think on your resume, what the kind of thing for me was? It was very similar to my resume at your age. But you had an advanced diploma in hospitality. Meta has the same thing.

Yeah.

Hospitality workers going into wedding planning is so good because you're already used to customer service. You're always already Used to like making the people happy. You already got that bubbly personality from working in hospitality. It's just like such an easy transition once you're, you know, because you do want to make people happy and making a bride happy is very important.

And I think working at the beach club it was so customer facing and you're dealing with so many drunk people every day, you're 10 hours in the sun on your feet every day. However, yes, it's similar to a wedding, however, I don't have to do that every day.

And people are a lot more grateful little wedding than they are at a beach club. Exactly, yeah. So what were you doing before Bali? What's your background?

Where are you from before Bali? I'm from Brisbane originally, so live there my whole life. I kind of, it was a bit of a stepping stone. I straight outta school, went straight into tafe, got my diploma in hospitality. And then during that I got a job at the glen Hotel in 8 mile planes. I'd be there and I started in events there functions and I was just wait staff, food and beverage, loved it. And then a job came available at the hotel in accommodation. So I was working both jobs for a little bit. Food and beverage attendant in functions and front office staff just at the hotel, check in, check out, et cetera. And then a job came available as a duty manager at the accommodation side of things. So I said goodbye to functions and moved into the manager position. I was probably there in total at the Glen, maybe about three years I think. And then.

Suddenly my job wasn't available to me anymore. I got made redundant.

Wow.

I was absolutely devastated. I was 21, I was going to.

Say at that age as well, been made redundant. Something you think of like.

Yeah, I thought it was like the downhill spiral of my life. I thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to me.

And also dramatic.

I'm never going to recover from, from this like because I thought it was all my fault. You don't quite understand what redundancy means, like getting let go. And I.

Rewind to probably a few months before that happening. I was actually in Bali for the first time for a week for one of my mum's friends. 40th I think it was. And we went to this beach club. The owner is friends with my mum.

Yep.

And basically interviewed me on the spot.

Sounds like what I do when I meet people.

Yeah, exactly, exactly the same. And yeah, he was talking to my mum the week I got made redundant saying, oh, how's Britta going? What's she doing and she said, well, she's actually just got made redundant. Like, she's devastated. She's in bed right now. He was like, do you think Britta would ever move to Bali? I was like, yeah, probably. Mum comes into my room, she's like, so, would you move? I was like, yes, get me out of this country. Yeah, it was that fast. So within two weeks of that happening, I was in Bali.

That's wild. And then you started work straight away?

Yeah, started work straight away. I was all alone.

Culture shock. Seen as you'd only been to Bali once before, like, what was the hardest part about moving to Bali, do you think?

I think just knowing no one, it's very lonely. Yeah. It's really hard to make friends.

Especially back then.

Yeah, especially back then. Canggu was dead quiet compared to.

It was non existent. It wasn't really a thing.

So. It was gorgeous. I loved it. But, yeah, definitely, it was a very big culture shock. And just. Just trying to get. Because when you're in Australia, you have a routine.

Yeah.

Bali, it's not great for routine.

I've been here 10 years and I still don't have a good routine. Yeah.

Us trying to get to the gym on a weekly basis, it's like, yeah, I'm going to go to the gym in the morning and then something comes up.

And I was like, I worked a wedding last night, I get home to 1:30, my feet are sore.

Yeah. I'm tired, I'm tired. Want to lay on the couch?

Yeah.

Just want to go for a swim in the pool. Yeah, yeah. So I think it's just. It's a very big. I don't know, what's the word for it?

It's a change.

It's a change.

Yeah.

So I worked there for six months. I made lots of friends. I had my group of girlfriends, expats, all from Australia, which was really handy, or from the Gold coast, actually.

Wow.

And, yeah, that was my life for six months. And then I found you. So, Yep.

Thank God you came for an interview and I took you to an industry party and I think you started the next month. You went back and, you know, actually.

You were like, I'll get back to you by Friday.

And I was busy.

She did not get back to me by Friday. And I went to Uluwatu with my friend for the weekend and I'm like, do you reckon. Should I just email her? Like, I haven't heard anything. I need. I need this. Like, I'm about to leave, like.

Yeah, email her. There's no Such thing as ChatGPT back then as well. So me trying to type up an email, like, what? Sounds pushy, but not pushy.

Make this less pushy. And I basically said, hi, it was so nice to meet you and come to the industry event the other night. Yeah. Can I basically have the job? I would love to work for you.

And. Yeah. I think you got back to me the next day and. Yeah, the rest is history.

And that was that.

Yeah.

And so what would you say has been your favorite part of the job so far?

I love the flexibility of it. I love working in an office, but I also love being on my feet. Yeah. So.

Not being constrained to an office is a dream.

Yeah.

I am also very. I like to be creative. So bringing that into the weddings and helping clients create their mood boards and, oh, my God, what table decor are.

You going to have?

What are your flowers going to look like? And kind of piecing all those puzzles together, it's like, yeah. In my brain.

Your brain is very satisfied with that situation. And what would you say the biggest challenges you have?

Challenges? I feel like.

The communication with suppliers. Yeah.

Which is none of our fault. It's just what it is. And you got to adapt and overcome.

Yeah.

Which it's easy to do. You just got to have a lot of patience in this industry, you've got to have a lot of patience when it comes to Bali, I think you.

Also need to have the understanding of the culture and that sometimes not everyone but Indonesian mentality is if they don't know something, they won't admit to it. They'll just agree and say yes.

Exactly.

Which can lead to a lot of mistakes, especially, you know, in the wedding industry.

Yep. They just say yes to everything and you think it's okay. And then you rock up on the day. It's like, well, we spoke about this. Oh, yeah. But I didn't really understand. I'm like, you gotta tell me.

Well, this even happened for the party. So I had, obviously multiple conversations with the styling decor companies that we were onboarding, and I had a very specific vision. You know what I'm like, ocd. Like, it has to be that. And then I reconfirmed details the day before the party, and we had a final meeting. And we get to the final meeting, we're going through things, and there was one particular thing I was like, my most biggest things was the speakeasy bar and hiding that. And then having the downstairs quarry area. It's always got lights. I wanted to do something different, so I wanted it all Draped with black material. So it kind of gave a roof starlight effect. And we went down and I said, you know, and then the material go there. And they were like, what material? I'm like, the material for the quarry. Like, the black thing. She goes, isn't that just up there? I said, no, we literally.

It's.

It's on the brief. And I confirmed this with you yesterday. I said, is the material for the quarry included as well? And you said, yes. And she goes, oh, I didn't know what quarry meant. Okay, well, this area needs to be covered. Can it be done? She's like, yes, but it'll cost structure. I'm like, that's fine. That's absolutely fine. But, like, it just shows that you have to be so particular. And that's our job because, yeah, our clients aren't here.

Yeah. So that's why they hire us.

Yeah.

They can't speak the language. We can to a certain extent. And we've got so many locals around us to help us. Yeah.

Well, with a lot of the companies as well, we do, you know, we get Yanti or me to one of the locals side by side, and we explain it in English and then we're like, right, now translate that to Indonesian. Exactly what I want.

I think I touched on that in one of the other episodes. It was like I had to sit down with one of the florists and go through a meeting four times.

Yeah.

And then I ended up having to get Yanti to help me, like, and it eventually got there.

But, yeah. So I think that's massively frustrating. And also, I guess the timeline of people getting back to you.

Yeah.

And I think that kind of maybe impacts you quite a bit more than me. Because people reply to me because I'm the boss. Yeah. They don't always reply to you straight away. You might have to follow up two, three times. And in the meantime, your client's like, what is going on? Why haven't you come back to me? This.

Sometimes it's even the clients that they don't respond to us. And then it's like, as soon as you email them. Oh, so sorry.

Your client for tomorrow, your wedding, she ghosted us for, like, five months.

Yeah.

Completely ignored all emails until I emailed and was like, are you actually getting married? Because we need to start doing things and you're not refined. She's like, oh, my God, yes. So sorry.

But then there's some that just ghost you and they. You don't hear from them, I think, ever.

I think that's only happened once. We've only ever had that happen once. And like, literally phone calls and messages and emails and like, we got the.

Whole team to call them.

Like, every single one of us tried calling. They just never replied to us whatsoever. And then after, I think it was like a week before the wedding, the venue is like, oh, they've gone with another plan. I'm like, well, they've already paid us. Why? And we didn't find out until they went and left us a one star Google review. And I'm like, you literally ghosted us.

Ghosted us.

Like, we tried calling you, we emailed you.

I put all your suppliers on hold. Some, well, most of the suppliers you didn't even choose. Because I was just stressed. Your wedding was a month out and.

We didn't have anything booked.

I just need to get all these suppliers together just in case. Just in case. I don't know what you want, but I got them ready.

I think that's probably the most bizarre client story. Yeah, Like I, I would get, you know, we're not for everyone. Everyone's not fast. Like, there's been a couple of clients I've actually gone to and said, you know, I don't think this is the best relationship and you should find another planner. Like, we'll give you a refund. We'll hand over to another planner. And you know, it can happen the other way sometimes. We're very lucky because we have a big team. So it might be like, you know, I'm not getting along with my planner or they're not seeing my vision and we're like, great, let's, yeah, let's meet you with another couple of planners and we'll swap you over.

Yeah.

But you know, even for the clients, like, tell us.

Yeah, like they were not mind readers.

No. And to be fair, they were a completely different culture to what we're used to dealing with. And maybe there was some communication breakdown because I think three or four times they said, can we have a call? And we're like, yes, here's our calendar link. Please book in.

It was more than three or four times.

It was like 25 times.

It was a ridiculous amount. But, you know, we sent them the calendar so many times so they could book a convenient time because we're busy, you know, we have set working hours and other clients, you know, like, there's a lot going on and that's the first time ever that someone's just completely not replied and they're like, well, it was so hard to book a call.

With you.

Like, what is hard about clicking a link?

You just got to find a time. And I think that's the biggest thing when clients are like, oh, so are you available tomorrow for a call? Or can we do a call in half an hour? No, like, here's my link to booking a call. Yeah, it's a time that suits me. It's a time that suits you. You can't just be like, hey, let's have a call now. We're busy.

Yeah. And I think a lot of people don't realize the amount of work that goes into it behind the scenes of wedding planning as well.

And I think in the last 12 months, we've got so many good processes into place that we've got our whole day scheduled out. Yeah, I know who I'm working on that day. And we've got our clients who are set out to each particular date.

And we've got a day off completely from client call. So we can focus on the admin side of things. Unless we've got site visits and other stuff, which gets scheduled on that day.

Exactly. So it's having some understanding of our workload, because I don't think a lot of people understand the workload.

I feel like. Yeah. Like, if I was to take you through in the Day of Life Wedding Planner, like, for me, for example, my schedule's a lot different because I obviously run the company.

Yeah.

I'm doing it.

And you've got, like, three other businesses.

Yeah, yeah. I don't manage a lot of them, so that's not too bad. But even today, podcasting, we're here nine to one. So we're going to film a couple of episodes today. So we got this one, another episode. We'll film episode with the team, and then we're doing a staff training day because the party was this week. Every single one of our staff members, apart from Steph, is in town.

Exactly. All of our remote planners.

All of our remote planners are here, so it's a good opportunity for us to do a training day.

This is the first time we have all been together. Yeah. Ever.

I think it is, actually.

Yeah.

Because Alyssa's obviously based in New Zealand, Leah's based in Australia. I'm devastated. We couldn't get Stefan, but she's on maternity leave, a little baby, so that's fine. But, you know, I'm going to take advantage of that. So for the rest of the day, I'm training. I don't have time for calls. And then next week we go on our staff trip. But then let's just say, you know, earlier this week, my day starts like 10am, phone call with a client. At the moment, I'm doing Steph's job, so it's client call admin for maybe an hour.

I know for a fact that you're up way earlier than that working. Yeah, I sometimes. I sometimes get. See, I check my emails in the morning. There's some emails from Tristan at like 6:30am yeah.

So. So, like, my schedule is a lot hectic. Hectica. Is that a word? A lot more hectic. It's a little bit more hectic because Steph is on maternity leave and it's my own fault. I've known for a while she's gonna be on maternity leave, but I thought I could handle both jobs. Forgetting about the party and our upcoming holiday and, you know, that was just. Yeah, I was like, we can have a general manager by then. Like, my workload won't be so much. Forgetting that I had to train the general manager as well. So my day literally at the moment, I get up in the morning, I get my son ready for school and then I'm straight on the computer and I go through Steph's emails first. Then I go start going through mine and I just kind of pencil out what my day is going to look like and then what my week's going to look like and where my space is. Then, you know, we get into the office. By 10, I'm on my first phone call. After the phone call, takes me about an hour, give or take, to get all the notes compiled, do all the research, you know, check supplier availability, post call, admin. Post call, admin. So that goes for an hour because.

We don't do that when we're on the phone.

Yeah. And then, you know, we might have a quick team meeting and then I've got my next phone call.

Yeah.

And then, you know, an hour after that and then by the afternoon, I'm then like, okay, let's go through my emails, which ones are important? Let's go through those first. And then I've still got emails up until, you know, 10 o' clock at night.

Yeah.

And the back.

That's why you'll find us sitting on the couch working.

And the backwards and forwards, you know, we've got suppliers that we'll contact. And then. I'm bad at this. I don't know how good you are, but I will contact them. Let's say today. Yeah. Hey, can I please check your availability for this wedding? And then a week and a half Might go by and I'm like, oh, crap, I haven't heard back from that supplier. And then I have to go back and email them again. Hey, just following up on the below. And then that might happen two, three times before we actually get a reply.

Oh, that happens all the time. Yep.

So that's like a big part of our day. And then if you, you know, I get a client that just message and say, hey, can we have a call? Well, no, because my whole day scheduled out.

Yeah.

You know, these are the times that I dedicate to calls. Because it's not just the call, it's the admin after the call.

Even just getting a random call throughout the day when you're so focused and you're working, you're so.

You'Re onto it. Like, oh, I got this. And then someone rings or someone tries to get your attention in the office.

I hate that.

Oh, it's just it. I lose everything.

So I have like two work modes and it's not anything outside of that. And it's like I very casually do everything, but then I'm like talking to that person. I'm talking to Anwar. I'm getting bills paid and I can do everything at once. And I do everything at once. Half ass, let's be honest. Like, it gets done, but it takes me an hour to do something. It should take me 10 minutes because I'm doing everything at once. Or I'm hyper focused and that's probably the ADHD going. And if you interrupt me while I'm hyp, I'm like, don't talk to me. Yeah, no, no. And I'm like, head down.

I feel like I'm really good at that. I know when not to disturb you. Yeah. And I just sit there and I wait and like, if I do need you, I message you. I'm like, hey, can I just have like two minutes? Yeah. And then you will get back to me when you can.

I cannot be interrupted. But I'm hyper focused because I'm like on such a mission. It might be something simple like doing a rundown or a wedding break, which can take, you know, two, three hours.

To get it perfect.

So long. And people don't realize the amount of hours. Like I would say that I spend at least 70 hours on every single wedding on admin.

Yeah.

And that's just the backwards and forwards and the emails and the revisions on the mood boards. And this invoice is wrong. Can you please fix it? We wanted seven hours, not eight hours or whatever. It's going to Be there's so much backwards and forwards and then transferring that all onto our very detailed wedding brief to make sure that all the details are perfect. So there is a lot of, you know, things that go in behind the scenes and the supplier issues. What would you say your biggest challenge to date has been?

Actually, I think it was landing in Bali last year.

I think that's been my biggest challenge. I think it was landing back. I was so excited to be back. Still am, thank God. But it was just. I came in, I think we. We had a few days to settle in. I think we went to a beach club and we went out to dinner.

You had two days, you landed Friday. I put you to work Monday.

Yeah. And went straight to work Monday. And you told the whole team that you were going to be offline for, I think it was like three days while we did full handover. And I got lumped with 30 clients. 25 for the next two years.

It was 25.

It was like 30.

It was 25. And I know because I counted them, because what happened is we obviously offered you the job back because Covid hit, Britta went home. You were supposed to be gone three months.

Yeah.

Three years later, the job offer came back through. We're ready to have you back, Britta. And I basically said to you, because originally you couldn't come, you had commitment, I think, up until May. So you went here until May. So I was like, look, we'll give you five or six weddings for the first year and then the following year, you know, we'll start you back again. You know, you can get into it. And then we got smashed, like, as soon as the borders open, like, bookings were coming in left, right and center. And I at the time had employed a salesperson to help us to just, you know, do the bookings. Because that was a lot of admin. And yeah, before I know it, I was like, oh, but you've got four weddings. You've got five. Oh, you've actually got 10 now.

I'm at like dance training and I keep getting these pings on my phone. Oh, I put you another one. I'm like, woo. I'm like, how many is this now?

Yeah, well, also, you didn't end up going away, so you actually landed a lot earlier than.

Yeah, two months earlier.

You came in. In like March or something.

Yeah.

So when we knew you were coming back in March, we're like, great, we can give you some, you know, wedding in April. And before we know it, you had 25 weddings and you landed And I was like, I am so sorry. Because the salesperson, like, just was. Yep. Sign up, sign up, sign up. He wasn't thinking that. Oh, we actually can't do that many weddings in a year. And you can't give someone back to back weddings because they can't finish at 1am and start again at 10am like, that's not okay.

And that's exactly what happened.

Yeah, sorry. We learned from that, though. We don't do that anymore. We don't do that. And so just touching on that. You said you landed back. What did you do during COVID During.

COVID.

Landed back to Bali. I was on the last flight back to Brisbane. Literally the last one didn't work for maybe four months. Maybe because nothing was open. Yeah. Lockdowns were horrific. Melbourne and Perth, I think were a lot worse. But for Queensland, I think you. We weren't allowed to travel more than 50 kilometres. I couldn't even go to the Gold Coast.

Yeah.

To see my Bali friends. So, yeah. Going back, I worked at a barbecue. American barbecue. Low and slow shop. I think I was there for maybe two or three months.

Yeah. That was just like a quick, let's get me a job and make some money.

Yeah. Pretty much. That was cash in hand, $15 an hour. And yeah, I did that for, yeah, two or three months. And because I was a girl that had kitchen experience, they put me in the kitchen and the smoke and I was like, cutting all the brisket. Like, I was pretty good at it, I'm not gonna lie.

Why aren't you cooking?

Me?

I was like, cooking the food.

It was like I was barbecue. You're up. You know, it's your time to shine.

The smoke that comes out of those, like, machines. Machines, low and slow ovens. It was making my skin fall off. Oh, yeah. And then I think I was messaging you. I'm like, my skin is falling off. I'm so sore. I need to get out of here. And then that's when tsa, When TSA happened.

I made my. Made a couple of calls and got you in. At my old employment place before I moved to Bali was like, they can take you until you find something better. It's an office job.

Exactly. So worked there for a year. It was on the phones every day from telemarketing. Telemarketing. The first kind of contract I had was Yellow pages.

Yep.

Which was just. That was the weirdest thing ever because no one. Well, everyone used to know what Yellow Pages was.

I'm like, who uses a phone book?

Exactly. And they were trying to sell like these online tools and I'm like, I don't even quite understand it myself. How am I meant to sell it to people? And then they moved us into business at Telstra. Business.

Yeah.

And then. Yeah, it was. And it was so devastating that time because so many people were closing their businesses.

Yeah.

So people would call up, they want to disconnect their phone lines or whatever.

Save the money, and you're trying to.

Sell them things, which was.

You know.

Ethically, you were working inbound, were you?

Yeah. And it was just ethically, like.

What do you say to these people? It's like, oh, well, I'll sell you like a phone or I'll sell you a data plan. I'm like, they don't want that, they just want to cancel their lines.

Yeah.

So I worked there for a year and then I needed to get back into events.

Yeah.

I needed to get back into wedding planning. So ended up finding a job at Royal on the park in Brisbane. And yeah, I was an in house planner for probably a year and a half. I would like to say.

I remember when the email came through for a reference check on you.

Yeah.

And I sent them back one of the weddings you'd fully planned. And I was like, you know, I could tell you all about Brita, but here's a video. This wedding she planned in full, everything. And they were like, oh, my God, yes.

And you know what's so funny? At the time of the interview, I was on my way, I was running early and suddenly there's a crash on the motorway and I ended up being half an hour late because I was just in standstill traffic. And I'm like, I was so desperate to get this job.

Yeah.

So I called because I didn't have their number and you can't pick up your phone while you're driving. And I called mom on hands free and I'm like, mom, you need to call Royal in the Park. I'm running late. I've been stuck in traffic, there's been a crash. And she called Royal in the park, my old manager, Tammy, and she said, hi, I'm calling on behalf of Britta Peterson. And she is just running late. She didn't say that she was my mum or anything, but Tammy knew it was my mum and she thought it was the cutest thing in the world.

I can only imagine how flustered you would be because I see you get flustered over, like, where were we going? Oh, the concert. When we went to the Coldplay concert, you were like, Looking at the clock every five minutes because we're in traffic, I'm like, it's not going to get us there faster. Brett, stop winking, stop looking at your clock. So post Covid, what do you think the biggest changes were in the industry when you came back? Planning weddings before COVID to planning weddings after, was there much better changed for you?

I don't think much has changed. However, I think Barley bride's perspective. Yes, we have evolved, we've adapted. There's so much better processes and just the team environment that you've built, it's changed astronomically.

Suppliers, you know, we get new ones in. Yeah, they're all the same lovely people that we've always worked with. So, yeah, nothing really has changed. I think we just have a lot more choice now and there's a lot more freedom I feel with suppliers and. Because there is so much choice. Yeah. But yeah, it's just, it's easy. I feel like wedding planning is easy if you want it to be.

Yeah. I feel like wedding planning is easy if you know what you're doing.

Yeah.

And we're very blessed because we obviously live here, we're based here, we've been doing it for a long time. I think what a lot of people don't understand is we have a full time job. Wedding planning.

Yeah.

I don't understand how people think they can work their full time job and then plan their wedding as well on top of that by themselves. Because it's so much work.

Yeah.

And you know, you might be able to book it a few things by yourself. Super easy. Like, yes, I'll book my hair and makeup photo video. But then, you know, you hit all the snags of coordination. Who's going to do your wedding brief?

Who's going to run it on the day? How do you, how are you going to make sure your lighting is how you want it to be? I can't even count how many weddings I've showed up to where the lighting is wrong.

Literally my last wedding at Bali beach, clamping. I took Alyssa, it was Alyssa's wedding. I coordinated, they, I sent them a floor plan. That's where I want it. They rung me in the morning and I said, I want the lighting set up this way, not that way. I know, like if you can't play along at home, you can't see my hands. But I wanted a specific way facing the ocean and when I, you know, and I wanted it to the side of the ceremony. But when I got there, they'd set it up all over the ceremony. I was like, no, take the poles down and put it over there where I want it. So I don't understand how couples think that they can plan their wedding and.

Yeah. Or even K resto. They set it all up on.

On the bus.

Public.

Public space.

Not public walkway to the beach. Yeah.

So it fascinates me that people think they can do this. You know what we're profession of full time.

Because that bride wasn't there.

No.

How was she meant to. That she. Is she just going to rock up.

And hope for the best?

Yeah. I think that's the biggest thing when it comes to wedding planning. Like. Yes. I feel like I use the term easy loosely because sometimes it's not. It's. It's hard just getting through to people. But I think the biggest thing is just trusting your plan.

On.

Yeah. I can't give anyone any more advice. But you just need to bloody trust us because we're the ones who live here. We know the suppliers, we know the people.

Yeah.

We know the language to a certain extent.

Do you know what I find funny when you say, like, trust your planner. I've just had someone come back to me and say, you know, we've. We've found our own band. We booked it directly. I'm like, that's great. That's fine. The only issues we ever have on wedding days, like, I feel like there's always issues. But the big issues are when couples book their own suppliers.

Yeah.

Because they're like, well, we haven't heard back yet. That's because the suppliers we work with, they're amazing.

Yeah.

So they're busy, they're out of office. For weddings, if a supplier answers me in five minutes, I don't know how trusting I'd be because I'm like, what are you doing that you just have time to sit on your phone all day and answer my messages, you know?

Exactly.

Like, if you get an answer straight away, it's because they're not busy. And they're not busy because maybe they're not good or maybe because they're new or for whatever reason. But every single major issue we've had at weddings is when couples book their own supplies. I've never had couples book their own supplies and not had issues with it. Whether it's they're showing up late to they've brought the wrong flowers or we've shown up at a wedding and, you know fake flowers. I'm like, you can spot that they're fake flowers from a mile away. They're disgusting. But that's, you know, the client didn't confirm with them.

Yeah.

These flowers, you'll see are beautiful. Little bit dead because they're a few days old. I've gone to weddings and the flowers are like this. I'm like, those aren't fresh because they reuse them to save money. Yeah. Like, I think that's the biggest thing for us. We're very picky with the suppliers we work with. And yes, they do take longer to answer, but they're amazing.

Yeah.

And that's why they're constantly getting work.

Because a lot of the suppliers, they're actually out on the road. They're actually doing the weddings and they're doing the admin.

Yeah.

They don't have just admin people sitting. Sitting around answering all the emails.

Yeah. You know, and even if you do have admin, like, we've got admin people.

Yeah.

But they're paying invoices. They're going shopping for hangover kits for us. They're making the stationery. They're not front lining with the clients. So even then they couldn't answer.

Well, you got to be the middle person.

Yeah.

We get all the information, we share it to the client and then vice versa.

Yeah. And do you think you're going to be in Bali long term? Yeah. Yeah. I reckon Bali's home now.

Yeah.

I mean, you've been here, what, two years post Covid two years before. Like, it's a good chunk of your working life.

Yeah. I went home for, I think, almost three months. 2.53 months over the Christmas break last year. This year, by the end of it, I came back with like $50 for my name.

Australia's expensive.

Australia's so expensive. I do given. I do have a car back home. So even just driving that around, I was paying $80 a week in fuel. Like, gross.

Yeah.

Whereas I fill up my scooter once every few months and it's $10. Yeah. Like, you just can't really compare those things.

I think the lifestyle here, you get a lot more money. Money. A lot more. More for your money. Because things aren't as expensive here.

I have seen so much more sunshine than I would have back home.

Even with the rain that we had last night.

I'm getting like a tan now.

Like, I'm 10, but I feel like that's because I work outside, like, a lot lately. In off season, my color will just pale right down. Because we're on office and admin work.

Yeah. It's just a really nice lifestyle. I Feel like we've built our own little family here.

Yeah.

And my parents, they love that I'm here.

Yeah.

They actually said to me a few months ago when I said, I just, I feel like I'm behind because, you know, you have that little mini freak out. You just. I said to them, I feel like I'm behind. I feel like I'm meant to own a house or an apartment or something.

You know, you're looking at what society expects.

I know. And I was like, what happens if I do come back to prison? I'm going to have nothing here. And mum's like, britta, you're not coming back. She said in the nicest way possible, like this, you're going to be traveling for the rest of your life. Brisbane. Like, it'll always be here and you'll always come home, but that's no longer your home. Yeah. It's not your base.

That's funny because my dad said something similar to me. You know, it must have been post Covid. We were just like, things were getting better. Yeah. And you know, I said to him, I want to, like, do a few things. And, you know, I've got a house in Australia in Perth. That's my base for me and Christian.

Yeah.

And the intention of buying that house was that eventually when he hits high school, we'll go home and he'll. I'll do fifo. I won't need to be here full time. I'll come in for my weddings. I'll look after the team. We'll have a manager in place. And, you know, I was talking to dad about the house and he was like, tristan, you'll never live in Australia again. And I was like, what do you mean? And he's like, your life is too good in Bali. Like, it's so affordable for you. Christian has a great life. You have a great life. You're always traveling because you can, because it's affordable, because, you know, you're living there. And I'm like, yeah. And I don't think I realized, like, I still in my head was like, I will go back to Australia one day and I'll live in Australia. And now it just doesn't hold that appeal for me. But I guess that's also good because it means, you know, I'm working in a job I love, which not a lot of people can say they love their job. I generally just love what I do.

Yeah. And I think I touched on that in my speech at the anniversary party. You're crying like a baby, but it was just like I said this in my speech. I was like, I wouldn't want to do this anywhere else with anyone else.

And I'm like, it was so sweet.

Yeah, you did.

You made me cry.

That was the goal.

That was go, well, you nailed it.

So Bali is going to be home for the long term.

Yeah.

That's good. That's my life. Well, good, because we've booked your weddings all the way through till 2026.

So for our 2026, 27 is coming up.

I've taken two inquiry calls for 2027. Absolutely wild. So that's good. That's a good long term thing. And that's one of the things we mainly look for. We want people that are here long term. Like one, you need to be. This is going to sound really weird coming from like a business, but you need to be family.

Yeah.

Because we work so closely together that we go through all the stresses together. Like we need to support everyone through their ups and downs because what we're doing is amazing. But it's a very high stress job.

It is.

There is a lot of pressure in planning somebody's wedding because that day has to be perfect. Yeah. It's not their birthday that they have every year. Like for most people, this is a once in a lifetime thing and they want their day to be perfect and the pressure on you to make sure that happens. And the things that clients don't realize is just how much goes wrong in the lead up to a wedding and that, you know, you're not like, oh, well, like it's their problem, like we're trying to fix it for them.

I think that's a perfect example of one of my. Well, it was meant to be my last wedding of the year last month and it was. We had the dj. No. Yeah, the DJ drop out. We had.

He didn't drop out, he was booked.

He was booked.

And then he basically said to you.

Two weeks out, two weeks out from.

The wedding, oh, sorry, my visa ran out so I'm not gonna be able to do the wedding anymore.

Like we've booked you. I confirmed with you multiple times as well.

And then in the over text and face to face and for the same wedding, I remember that our celebrant, not his fault at all, had a medical emergency. He's now out of action for the rest of the year. Yeah. We've had to replace him. And then there was one more thing that went wrong.

Tables.

The table. So I wouldn't say that that went wrong. I think there was just communication that the client thought they were getting. Yeah, like tables were included. And they are. For most catering companies they're included, but they're banquet tables. They're not, you know, beautiful wooden tables or black tables or white tables. They're just a table with a tablecloth. And she didn't want that. And so I think the biggest thing for me, which I said to you, you were in tears, you were crying. How am I going to tell her about the dj? Like, all of this has already gone wrong for her. And I said to you, like, the fact that you're crying shows me how much you care about your clients and how much you care about her wedding. And it's not like, oh, well, this has gone wrong. I'll just tell her. I think you were generally so concerned.

I think looking back on it as well, because there was so much shit that was going wrong. It was just like, well, this is all my fault. Like, I can't believe I've done this. And I'm like. But now looking back and I'm like, that was not my fault.

It wasn't your fault though. Like, none of that was. You didn't know that the DJ was gonna do that. Like, I personally rung the DJ and I let loose on him. You reamed him, like unacceptable. And for him, he was, he was just like, oh, sorry. Like, no, it's someone's wedding date. He was just say sorry.

Well, Britta didn't reconfirm with me or I haven't heard from her in months. And I'm like, I haven't heard from.

Her since she booked you.

You don't need to hear from us.

We've booked you. We don't.

You should be available. Yeah, we don't, we don't. It's not every month. Oh, hey, just making sure you're booked in. Like, do you know I'm not your mom.

What?

Waste of my time. That is. Yeah, but that's not normal.

Yeah. So, like, it is a very high stress job. And for you, I said, look, I'll call the client person out and I'll tell them about this. Because I think it's better coming from me. Because you were very emotionally invested. Yeah, but I also think that's a great trait because you know, if something goes wrong on the wedding day, you're not gonna get stressed right out about it. You're fix it. Because that wedding is your wedding.

And I think the biggest thing, as much as you could be having a shitty day, like, you've got to have a smile on your face. So every time I would go out to see those clients, like, I'd have a smile on my face. And I think it got towards the end of the night because, you know, you just do that so much throughout the year. And it was the end of the peak season, it was my last one, and I was like, tristan, I don't know how much more of this I can.

No, you know what happened? We say only three things happened, but then the icing on the cake, literally, the cake. The cake showed up and the cake was wrong. It was missing a tear.

Yeah.

And at that point, you messaged me, and I knew there's only certain things that you can handle.

Yeah.

And you can handle a lot. But that was like, you were at breaking point.

Yeah.

I was like, I'm on my way. I will come. I was done and I arrived. I had to take you outside, had to give you a cry and say, like, again, it's not your fault. Like, there was nothing you could have done that. That cake. Yeah. You know, and as much as, you know, we're all human, there is going to be human error. Yeah. And every company is entitled to human error. Like, you know, it's going to happen. Before, we ordered champagne glasses, and it came up, and it was actual champagne, but I just wanted glass classes. You know, like, human error happens.

Yeah.

And it's not your fault. It's how you handle it and how you fix it. And I think, you know, for you, that particular day, it was really heartbreaking because I'd already seen how stressed out you were.

Yeah.

And the clients will never know how stressed out you were. They just. They're going to blame you because, you know, that went wrong. And that went wrong. And that went wrong.

Exactly.

One, it wasn't your fault. And two, you did everything in your power to fix it. Like, before, you know, you'd even told them about the DJ. We already had replacement DJs on hold and pricing and ready to go before we told them about the celebrant. Like, you could have just gone, DJ is not available.

Yeah. Do you want me get a refund?

Yeah. Like, you know, you already went to them with solutions, but I think a lot of people don't realize how high pressure the job is to make sure everything's perfect. And if your wedding plan is not crying because things have gone wrong, like, do you really want them as your wedding planner?

Are they a real wedding planner?

Yeah. And we have had issues in the past where we've had, you know, wedding planners on board. With the team and they've messed things up. You know, again, human error. I'm pretty lenient as long as we can fix it.

Yeah.

But they haven't cared. They haven't cared that they've messed it up. And my biggest thing is, like, this is my business. It's my reputation as well. Like, you can't take the client pink flowers and they ordered red.

No.

But. No. And you can't just go, oh, whoops, like, no. You need to be more in it than that because this is somebody else's dream. Yeah. And I think this is one of the things that I just love about you, is you're so passionate about your work. You are so dedicated to those clients.

Yeah.

And yes, sometimes you might get a little bit emotional if things are going wrong, but that's because you genuinely care.

Yeah.

Thanks. You're welcome. Love you. I love you. So is there anything else you want to tell our viewers about you, Britta?

About me?

About you. You're amazing. You're now our team leader. Yeah.

I got promoted.

So Bruno's been with.

Us for a while now. She is now officially the team leader of all the other wedding planners because someone else needs to be there besides me or when I'm busy and out things. So you're now the person that everyone goes to for the team, which is great.

You can go on a holiday and you can not get disturbed. Yeah.

As much, you know, they. I think it's really good as well because the girls do really look up to you. And, you know, you've been with us quite a while now. Your weddings are great, your clients love you. You know, you're very good at problem solving now. So it's great that you've stepped into.

A position, I will say, like, Yanti would have that position in a heartbeat. But she doesn't.

She doesn't want it.

She doesn't want to be a wedding planner.

Yanti loves the planning. She doesn't like, not the admin. But she's not a.

She's not really a delegator. She just likes staying in her little.

She just loves what she does. She doesn't like. The amount of times I've tried to promote that girl is ridiculous. And she always says, I love you. You're the hardest worker I know, but I just love what I'm doing. I don't want anything else. I'm like, okay, that's completely fair. Like, you know, she's found her niche. That's exactly what she loves and she's killing it.

Yeah.

Like, why?

She's the best.

Why change something? It's not broken, I guess.

Yeah, she's freaking awesome.

She's so good.

But yeah, about me. Hi.

Hi.

I'm Britta.

I'm a wedding aholic.

I'm a workaholic. Weddingaholic. Yeah.

Yeah.

Wedding weddings is like, you have, what is it, five, six months of the year where you would just head down, bum up, but those other six months where you actually get to breathe. Breathe and enjoy life and Bali for what it is, I think that's the biggest gift of the job.

Yes. I mean, the last week has the team's been arriving. We've. We've done quite a few fun things, like, you know, crazy. We've done a beautiful brunch by the beach in Nusa Door the other day. And just like, you know, walking those guys into that venue, they're like, oh, my gosh, this is amazing.

See, I was privy to some of that. Most of that information because we live together and we sit on the couch and you're like, oh, Britta.

Yeah.

How about this? What do you think of this? Yeah. So I was like, it was just so much fun seeing everyone's like, what? Yeah, yeah, it was epic.

Yeah. So we get to do a lot of fun things. So that's a bit more about Britta and you know, why she's the perfect podcast co host, I guess because not only is she an amazing wedding planner, but she's also our team leader, which is why I've asked her to come on here and co host this with me, because I think she's going to be the most knowledgeable and the most talkative.

Talkative. Yeah, talkative, probably because we can talk a lot of crap.

We can talk a lot of crap. So I hope that gives everyone some more insight into, you know, a little bit more about our team and about us, Britta, and why, you know, we are hosting the show. What are we hoping to show the viewers in the upcoming episodes and, you know, the next year? What can they expect from us?

Well, we're going to be doing a lot of meet the teams.

Every five weeks we're going to do.

A meet the team. Yeah. And then monthly recaps. So the t. The ins and outs of. Of what's happening days. Yeah. Yeah. What's.

What's been happening, like how to plan your wedding in full. Really. Like, so once a month we'll cover off a topic and walk you through that.

There'll be good. Lots of little tips and tricks as well. That a Lot of people don't even realize. Yeah, that goes into it. But yeah, there's a lot coming up.

What's going to be your favorite thing to talk about on the podcast, do you think?

I can't wait to sit down after a wedding day and talk about the wedding day. Yeah.

And we've had a lot. I think that's the problem at the moment. Like, we've had so many weddings that, you know, not that they're mushing into one. I'm like, was that at that wedding or was that at that wedding? Whose wedding was last month? Like, because you do see a lot.

Yeah. And especially, especially the last few months where we've had three weddings in four days. It's like, wait, was that on Saturday or Friday?

I think by the end, you're so overtired as well.

You just want to lay down.

Wedding hangover. The wedding hangover is real.

Yeah.

Amazing. Well, thank you for telling us a bit more about you today, Britta. That's. It's been really good to kind of dive into a bit more about you personally. Personally, rather than just as a wedding planner and kind of suss out long term so our clients know what to expect from you moving forward on the next episode. What are we covering on the next episode? Have we decided? Actually, we have.

Have we?

We have. It's going to be. Why should you choose your wedding to be in Bali? First of all, why choose Bali as your destination?

Yeah.

And also we're going to be diving into our favorite venues.

Yeah.

And how to choose a venue in Bali? Because there are hundreds to choose from. So next.

And they've all got something special about.

Them or something special. So we will dive into that more on the next episode. But for now, if anyone is listening, if you're watching on YouTube, please remember to like subscribe and comment and tag two friends because we are doing a giveaway. It's going to be drawn on Valentine's Day. One very lucky listener is going to win a iPad.

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Sam.