Leanne and Daragh contacted us early last year and had already started their planning process. They had visited Malaga city and were trying to settle on their venue but couldn´t communicate sufficiently with the hotel due to language difficulties, and had visited three churches but had no idea how to check availability or reserve the church.
On the face of it, we were asked for a part package which happens a lot when people want to do some of the arrangements themseleves. Where we offer decoration services separately, we never offer tailor made planning packages as after years of experience we know that this never works. As it turned out, they needed flowers, a make up artist, a photohrapher, wedding cars, guest coaches, church music and entertainment, and also an event manager on the wedding day.
They came to visit our Marbella office where we had a meeting and phoned churches and the hotel there and then. They left with all the information they were missing from the venue, and with the church booking secured provisionally.
Our next step was to visit the church in Malaga. This can be very difficult as office hours in churches can change from one month to the other and we were only guessing. Three visits to Malaga later we found the person we needed and secured the church once and for all. That wasnt before we sat through a long lecture from the parish office about the particular rules for that church which must be followed at all times. They also insisted on giving us a history lesson about the church which houses the patron saint of Malaga in the most amazing hand crafted plaster worked dome situated behind the altar. Then they showed us the "hell" part which was the scariest tomb like dungeon which housed the bodies of the old heads of the parish and was decorated in white and black plaster with images of skulls, bones and skeletons throughout. We didnt mention this bit to Leanne and Daragh!
The next step was for us to decide on timetables, suppliers and organise the church paperwork. We also scheduled in a second trip for Leanne and Daragh in Feburary where we set up their menu tasting, meeting with their photographer Kris, and oranised a make up trial which all went well.
There was no time to visit the florist so we worked with images from magazines provided by the bride which our florist interpreted wonderfully and the pinks and purples worked very well against the castle background.
In the lead up to the wedding we helped them to arrange a get together in a nearby restaurant, and put together their final budget and we handled all payments on the day so the bride simply had to get up and look pretty.
On the day the church gave us a heartattack, opening only fifteen minutes before the ceremony was due to start. Two candles for the altar had melted in the heat but we had back ups so all was well in the end.
Leanne and Daragh were a pleasure to work with and we wish them and their families all the best in the future.
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