The 12-month wedding planning timeline: Does it work in Nigeria?

I do not know about you but in the time that I have spent planning weddings, the 12 month planning timeline has not worked for me, especially not in Nigeria.  People just don't seem to understand how to start planning a year before their wedding date. Yet, at wedding seminars and trainings, it is been taught to follow the 12 months...

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My White Wedding Budget Breakdown

In my previous post, I broke down my Traditional Wedding Budget. In this post, I will be breaking down my White Wedding Budget. THE BUDGET Our Budget was Two Million Naira for both the white wedding and the traditional ceremony. But we decided to work with a 1.5 Million naira Budget, keeping the five hundred thousand naira as our...

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My Wedding Budget Breakdown (detailed)

Like I had promised in my last post, I have come to pay my debt. Lol. The Wedding Budget Our Budget was Two Million Naira for both the white wedding and the traditional ceremony. And we were working with a 1.5 Million naira Budget. The five hundred thousand naira was going to be our extra. Now let me say this, I was a different...

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Having a budget wedding is nothing to be ashamed of

I often wonder why many couples often find it difficult to accept that they had a wedding on a budget. Budget weddings can be explained in two ways: 1. Small guestlist and a small wedding budget. 2. Small guestlist and a large wedding budget.  Either ways, it is a budget wedding because of the limited number of guests....

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Should Wedding Planners Force Clients Into Using Certain Vendors?

This has been a sensitive topic for me to talk about. For one reason, I am a wedding planner and I wouldn't want to put other planners on blast. After much thought, I have decided to damn the consequences. If you didn't know, the same way clients have expectations is the same way planners have expectations. I have talked about Client's Budget...

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It is NOT OKAY to Owe Your Weddding Vendors

I have decided to talk on the issue of owing vendors after their services have been delivered because I have personally been a victim of this. It is sad to know that some clients feel owing vendors is the right way to go. Like I always advise, plan according to your budget. Don't plan your wedding thinking that one uncle or aunty somewhere...

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The Importance of Having A Vendors Meeting

I don't know if this happens to just me or to other event planners as well. I was speaking with a couple of colleagues recently and they all had a thing or two to say about some vendors who feel the need not to attend a vendors meeting and then come on the event day to create a scene.  If planners can make out time to fix a date for...

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Did you know?

Did you know? Queen Victoria started the Western world's white wedding dress trend in 1840. Before then, brides simply wore their best dress.I often wonder how trends start but somehow i believed that someone somewhere must have started it. For me, it simply means that a trend can be started by anybody. The bottomline is, don't kill yourself...

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My Wedding Diary

Wedding planners are not perfect. Many a times, i hear brides say all sorts about a planner who forgot to do this or that on their wedding day and as compelled as I feel the urge to reply, i don't. And this is my reason: No matter how I choose to reply, it can only bear a double perspective. One, i will be chastising them and praising...

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