The Perfect Wedding: Leave the details to us

Award-winning American photographer Anne Almasy recently wrote an article for the Huffington Post about the emphasis that the wedding media put on featuring the decorative details of real wedding features, rather than the narrative and emotion of the couple’s day. This gives a false impression of the priorities brides and grooms have when planning their wedding, making them think that they must have a wealth of décor and quirks in order to have the perfect wedding.

Needless to say, the article has been circulating widely within the wedding industry and many colleagues have, quite rightly, supported Anne’s assertion that we do what we do because we love the whole celebration of the event, rather than focusing on the details.

It’s a really interesting point to raise, particularly for us as luxury wedding planners because, by default, the majority of clients employ our services in order to have someone take care of the details. In today’s frantic world, you might not have the time to invest in prolonged discussion about moodboards, wedding favours or aisle runners and that might be why you ask us to help manage your day.

And whilst it is true that we take great pride in our attention to detail, making sure that your guests have the absolute best experience they can – from the first sight of your wedding venue to the final moment they retrieve their jackets from the cloak room – we do all this because we know that if every tiny instance throughout the day is perfect, our clients will be fully submerged in their celebration.

We want to give you the memories to look back on that in years to come will allow you to say with hindsight that you wouldn’t have done anything differently. We know it’s unlikely that you’re going to remember the flowers in your centrepieces or the delicious fragrance of the scented candles dotted along your aisle, but we also know that the sum of all these parts is what makes the difference between the best day of your life and any old wedding.

Leave the details to us and focus simply on having the most amazing time.