March 10, 2025 • 10 mins
Clairsy’s daughter is getting married in a year and as the Father of the Bride he needs some help so this morning Wedding Planner Lara White joined the guys in the studio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lise, I've got to say this. We need a bit more, Frank.
I reckon being a bit more of the wedding planner.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I sud you.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
So we should let the cac first, a cat for
after the term and that kind of one thing that
you end up having.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
So let's just choose a cat.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Okay, okay, choose the way. It's the cake. Daddy, so
saying we've been talking about this. My daughter is getting
married next year and all the rest of it. We
got some tips from people yesterday. He has to you know,
my father of the bride speech. We got a bit
of al I work on it.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Very ordinary chat gepret.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Very planned speech. Yeah, pretty generic.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
She didn't put anything personal in there.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
No, we need to work on that. Yeah, I say
Dad's nudist or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It'll come up with something weird. But we thought we'd
catch up with a real wedding planner, not Frank. This
morning from White Events, Laura White, good morning and welcome,
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Good minding me, Thanks for coming in. When did you
get into the wedding planning biz?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
So long ago.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
I've been joining events.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It's nineteen ninety nine, which makes me feel like a dinosaur.
But one event started in two thousand and five, so
this is its twentieth year a wedding.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
So we've seen a lot over twenty way around it that.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You hair just a bit. Yeah, but you've seen the
good bad name.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Sure has rather unfortunate definitely.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Time and what are some of the things that you
have seen? You know, people king to hear some story,
so many things.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I've always said I could write a book with the
stories I could tell.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Oh, you should.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Probably One of the ones that comes to mine straight
away is a bit of over indulgence by a bride
straight after the ceremony, which by the bride, which left
her on her knees in her wedding dress.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I know, Melbourne about thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
In the after No is this before photos?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
This was midfholto you say, on her knees, someone holdingesmaid
holding back her hair.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
A little bit of over indulgence. But that's one of
the main ones. Mind, I know, so silly.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You can do that any any other day, sober on
your wedding day, just believe it till after speech.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Not a lot sort of hope for.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Coming back from that.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Coming back from that.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Find you some interesting photos.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Definitely some interest. If we've seen them, they're very interested.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
What would you say the biggest regular day to day
challenges in your line of business?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh, I would say definitely managing expectations is huge.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Budget.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You know, budget is always a nightmare, people wanting more
than they can afford and trying to stretch a budget
to get everything in when realistically.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Everything budget you're not going.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
To No, exactly exactly, I'd say those abably. Our major
challenges is just client expectation versus what they can actually afford.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Do you think of a time you've had to say
look no so often you can't.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Do that, it's not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
We were very big on making sure that the budget
you make the most of it, so rather than stretch
it and try and fit absolutely everything in, make the
most of it with the things that you really want.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
And we have a few of those.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Extra things like guest gifts, that kind of thing. Leave
them out if you don't really need the.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Okay, something wrong? Yeah, what about those extraordinary ones I
went to? Yeah, I went to an Italian wedding at
Phrases at King's partyers and that was so over the top.
Not many people can do that or afford that. But
you must have seen some extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, we've seen some pretty extravagant weddings over our time, definitely.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Yeah, we have a bit of a mix.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
We go from you know, a fairly sort of standard
wedding right up to the sky's look limits. So yeah,
we've seen some things over the years.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Have you sorry, please, you're the father want you to
make are you taking notes? Have you ever had to
deal with animal requests like I want to ride in
on an elephant?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I want the dog and we have lots of pups
come to the wedding. That happens really regularly. Now there's
actually companies that will bring will go and pick up
the pup from home and bring them in for exactly
that rings in and then take them home, So that's
really common.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Now.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I haven't had anyone ride on a horse yet.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Have I have had someone ask for an artificial life
size horse that they could have photos with? Really that
was an odd one as well. Want to know, but no,
no one's ridden in on a horse yet. That's still
to be done.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Okay, no, not really. She's quite attractive, does she look like?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Can you tell me? Even with all your experience. What
on the wedding day gives you a headache or in
the lead up?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Oh gosh, I say not just mail, so also the clients.
So much opinion from outside so you know, bridal party, family,
et cetera.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Bless um.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, just all the outside opinion and the you know,
the people are very well meaning in the things telling
to the bride and groom, but it can also lead
to a lot of extra stress.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And the instant world, online world doesn't help, does it.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Everyone has everyone has an opinion, and everyone's got an
idea of how things should be done. And I think
it is one of those things. It is hard as
a bride, you do, you know, you're on social so
often and that kind of thing. It's hard to switch
off and know when to sort of go. No, I'm
happy with the decisions I've made and I'm comfortable in
the wedding plan that I've got.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
What are the current trends that people are leaning towards.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, Look, I'm seeing a lot of guest experience being
a very big thing. So a lot of food stations
and interactive things that entertain the guests, which is kind
of great. I think, giving the guests and experience is
really important in the overall scheme of the day. So yeah,
lots of food stations, lots of cocktail stations, things that
(06:19):
entertain them. In from a styling point of view, we
are seeing a lot of jewel tones, draping, unusual table
configurations like curve tables and things like that, just making
it a little bit more interesting than the stock standard
and bridle tables to be started to take a bit
of a back seat and having guests sit the bridal
(06:40):
party sit in with the guests because it's more social cool.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Yeah, yeah, the traditional long routine, so you're not going
to get to lauded over the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, and it could always be think because there were
so many families. Now that we see it a Christmas
with people going to laugh with breakups, so that's always
a problem, especially with seating.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
On wedding days.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
It's nice to be able to sit in. It also
means that guests feel like and speak to the bridle
party rather than the bridle table force field.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
They feel like they can't go up to the bridle table.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
All that's good because I get on very well with
the mother the So what kind of money are people
spending Look, it.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Does vary and you can definitely do it for less.
I would say our average spend on our wedding, I'd
say where our clients probably average eighty to one hundred thousand,
probably about they sit and that's the average. Sorry about
(07:45):
that once you factor in.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
All of the things that, Yeah, it's a it's.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
A commitments like dress and rings and you know all
of those things as well.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Yeah, its so quick.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
In alls, there's two a very organized good love that
love that.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Have you ever had anything go? I'm sure you have
had things go wrong, but what what's the biggest thing
you've had go? What didn't you flung the chairs for
the marquis?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Probably no, I.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Would say probably.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
The thing that comes to mind straightaway is we had
a big floral installation go up into one of the
roofs in one of the old hotels in Perth, and
they're not really equipped for that.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Luckily, we had a great rigger with.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Us on the day and about probably an hour before
guests were due to arrive, we just heard this bizarre
noise and then suddenly it just jumped down in a
few stages and it was suddenly at head height.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
So luckily we had a great rear with us who
was able to.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Rig it in many different places to get it back
to where it was safely.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
But yeah, that's probably one of my.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Because the alternative would have been to lose it all.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
To take it out the only thing, because obviously we
can't leave it up.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
And there would have been twenty five thousand a few dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
How about those no shows, you know, like one of
the main players on the day or I mean, like
the Drew.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Have had that happen yet either cross.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
We haven't.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Actually, we've been pretty lucky. We haven't had any major
no shows or anything like that. Probably the only ones
we've had his guests that turn up that have RSVP.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Oh, that's a.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Real fun one.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
And we usually don't figure that out until it's time
for everyone to take their seats, and then suddenly we're
having a scramble to find new seating or they can't
find their name on the seating chart and it's actually
because they haven't forgotten to RSVP.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And in the business, how the hell did you survive COVID?
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Look, it was pretty awful. To be honest, we were.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Kind of lucky in that we probably only needed to
move about four weddings, but those poor four weddings they
had to move multiple times due to all the shutdowns.
And then I think the whole industry was a bit
rattled by it, and it's taken us probably this long
to feel like we've all recovered from it because of
just the same as when the regional borders shut. When
(10:13):
they opened, I had ten regional weddings book that week,
so the same as international weddings. So I think the
last wedding season we just had a lot of international
travel happened for weddings because people could finally do that again.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Well, it's an amazing job you do, Lara.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
You're a you're a planner, you're a wrangler, you're a psychiatrist,
you're a psychologist.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
The country for your service.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Thank you being involved in you know what hopefully is
the happiest day of a lot of people's lives.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Thanks for coming in. How are you feeling You're going
to go?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Just an apologize Clara for falling on the floor. Thanks Lara,
Lise, I've got to say this. We need a bit more, Frank.
I reckon being a bit more of the wedding planner.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I sud you.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
So we should let the cac first, a cat for
after the term and that kind of one thing that
you end up having.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
So let's just choose a cat.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Okay, okay, choose the way. It's the cake. Daddy, so
saying we've been talking about this. My daughter is getting
married next year and all the rest of it. We
got some tips from people yesterday. He has to you know,
my father of the bride speech. We got a bit
of al I work on it.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Very ordinary chat gepret.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Very planned speech. Yeah, pretty generic.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
She didn't put anything personal in there.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
No, we need to work on that. Yeah, I say
Dad's nudist or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It'll come up with something weird. But we thought we'd
catch up with a real wedding planner, not Frank. This
morning from White Events, Laura White, good morning and welcome,
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
Good minding me, Thanks for coming in. When did you
get into the wedding planning biz?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
So long ago.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
I've been joining events.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It's nineteen ninety nine, which makes me feel like a dinosaur.
But one event started in two thousand and five, so
this is its twentieth year a wedding.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
So we've seen a lot over twenty way around it that.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You hair just a bit. Yeah, but you've seen the
good bad name.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Sure has rather unfortunate definitely.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Time and what are some of the things that you
have seen? You know, people king to hear some story,
so many things.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I've always said I could write a book with the
stories I could tell.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Oh, you should.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Probably One of the ones that comes to mine straight
away is a bit of over indulgence by a bride
straight after the ceremony, which by the bride, which left
her on her knees in her wedding dress.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I know, Melbourne about thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
In the after No is this before photos?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
This was midfholto you say, on her knees, someone holdingesmaid
holding back her hair.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
A little bit of over indulgence. But that's one of
the main ones. Mind, I know, so silly.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You can do that any any other day, sober on
your wedding day, just believe it till after speech.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Not a lot sort of hope for.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Coming back from that.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Coming back from that.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Find you some interesting photos.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Definitely some interest. If we've seen them, they're very interested.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
What would you say the biggest regular day to day
challenges in your line of business?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh, I would say definitely managing expectations is huge.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Budget.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You know, budget is always a nightmare, people wanting more
than they can afford and trying to stretch a budget
to get everything in when realistically.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Everything budget you're not going.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
To No, exactly exactly, I'd say those abably. Our major
challenges is just client expectation versus what they can actually afford.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Do you think of a time you've had to say
look no so often you can't.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Do that, it's not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
We were very big on making sure that the budget
you make the most of it, so rather than stretch
it and try and fit absolutely everything in, make the
most of it with the things that you really want.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
And we have a few of those.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Extra things like guest gifts, that kind of thing. Leave
them out if you don't really need the.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Okay, something wrong? Yeah, what about those extraordinary ones I
went to? Yeah, I went to an Italian wedding at
Phrases at King's partyers and that was so over the top.
Not many people can do that or afford that. But
you must have seen some extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, we've seen some pretty extravagant weddings over our time, definitely.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Yeah, we have a bit of a mix.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
We go from you know, a fairly sort of standard
wedding right up to the sky's look limits. So yeah,
we've seen some things over the years.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Have you sorry, please, you're the father want you to
make are you taking notes? Have you ever had to
deal with animal requests like I want to ride in
on an elephant?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I want the dog and we have lots of pups
come to the wedding. That happens really regularly. Now there's
actually companies that will bring will go and pick up
the pup from home and bring them in for exactly
that rings in and then take them home, So that's
really common.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Now.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I haven't had anyone ride on a horse yet.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Have I have had someone ask for an artificial life
size horse that they could have photos with? Really that
was an odd one as well. Want to know, but no,
no one's ridden in on a horse yet. That's still
to be done.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Okay, no, not really. She's quite attractive, does she look like?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Can you tell me? Even with all your experience. What
on the wedding day gives you a headache or in
the lead up?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Oh gosh, I say not just mail, so also the clients.
So much opinion from outside so you know, bridal party, family,
et cetera.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Bless um.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, just all the outside opinion and the you know,
the people are very well meaning in the things telling
to the bride and groom, but it can also lead
to a lot of extra stress.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And the instant world, online world doesn't help, does it.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Everyone has everyone has an opinion, and everyone's got an
idea of how things should be done. And I think
it is one of those things. It is hard as
a bride, you do, you know, you're on social so
often and that kind of thing. It's hard to switch
off and know when to sort of go. No, I'm
happy with the decisions I've made and I'm comfortable in
the wedding plan that I've got.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
What are the current trends that people are leaning towards.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, Look, I'm seeing a lot of guest experience being
a very big thing. So a lot of food stations
and interactive things that entertain the guests, which is kind
of great. I think, giving the guests and experience is
really important in the overall scheme of the day. So yeah,
lots of food stations, lots of cocktail stations, things that
(06:19):
entertain them. In from a styling point of view, we
are seeing a lot of jewel tones, draping, unusual table
configurations like curve tables and things like that, just making
it a little bit more interesting than the stock standard
and bridle tables to be started to take a bit
of a back seat and having guests sit the bridal
(06:40):
party sit in with the guests because it's more social cool.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Yeah, yeah, the traditional long routine, so you're not going
to get to lauded over the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, and it could always be think because there were
so many families. Now that we see it a Christmas
with people going to laugh with breakups, so that's always
a problem, especially with seating.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
On wedding days.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
It's nice to be able to sit in. It also
means that guests feel like and speak to the bridle
party rather than the bridle table force field.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
They feel like they can't go up to the bridle table.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
All that's good because I get on very well with
the mother the So what kind of money are people
spending Look, it.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Does vary and you can definitely do it for less.
I would say our average spend on our wedding, I'd
say where our clients probably average eighty to one hundred thousand,
probably about they sit and that's the average. Sorry about
(07:45):
that once you factor in.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
All of the things that, Yeah, it's a it's.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
A commitments like dress and rings and you know all
of those things as well.
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Yeah, its so quick.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
In alls, there's two a very organized good love that
love that.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Have you ever had anything go? I'm sure you have
had things go wrong, but what what's the biggest thing
you've had go? What didn't you flung the chairs for
the marquis?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Probably no, I.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Would say probably.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
The thing that comes to mind straightaway is we had
a big floral installation go up into one of the
roofs in one of the old hotels in Perth, and
they're not really equipped for that.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Luckily, we had a great rigger with.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Us on the day and about probably an hour before
guests were due to arrive, we just heard this bizarre
noise and then suddenly it just jumped down in a
few stages and it was suddenly at head height.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
So luckily we had a great rear with us who
was able to.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Rig it in many different places to get it back
to where it was safely.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
But yeah, that's probably one of my.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Because the alternative would have been to lose it all.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
To take it out the only thing, because obviously we
can't leave it up.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
And there would have been twenty five thousand a few dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
How about those no shows, you know, like one of
the main players on the day or I mean, like
the Drew.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Have had that happen yet either cross.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
We haven't.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Actually, we've been pretty lucky. We haven't had any major
no shows or anything like that. Probably the only ones
we've had his guests that turn up that have RSVP.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Oh, that's a.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Real fun one.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
And we usually don't figure that out until it's time
for everyone to take their seats, and then suddenly we're
having a scramble to find new seating or they can't
find their name on the seating chart and it's actually
because they haven't forgotten to RSVP.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And in the business, how the hell did you survive COVID?
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Look, it was pretty awful. To be honest, we were.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Kind of lucky in that we probably only needed to
move about four weddings, but those poor four weddings they
had to move multiple times due to all the shutdowns.
And then I think the whole industry was a bit
rattled by it, and it's taken us probably this long
to feel like we've all recovered from it because of
just the same as when the regional borders shut. When
(10:13):
they opened, I had ten regional weddings book that week,
so the same as international weddings. So I think the
last wedding season we just had a lot of international
travel happened for weddings because people could finally do that again.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Well, it's an amazing job you do, Lara.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
You're a you're a planner, you're a wrangler, you're a psychiatrist,
you're a psychologist.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
The country for your service.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Thank you being involved in you know what hopefully is
the happiest day of a lot of people's lives.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Thanks for coming in. How are you feeling You're going
to go?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Just an apologize Clara for falling on the floor. Thanks Lara,
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