I had a phone call last week from a very excited newly-wed, fresh from her honeymoon! Sarah and Michael hired Magic Dust to help with some of the planning for their July wedding and she was calling to say thank you!

The wedding took place in a beautiful villa in Tuscany and they asked Magic Dust to take responsibility for a number of tasks, one of which was the design and production of a table plan. The brief was broad and indicative of the trust they put in me and Magic Dust to produce something perfect for them.

Sarah told me she loved the table plan, and even more so my idea of displaying it in an oversized photo frame. This enabled her to hang it from the branches of an olive tree and create a real talking point on the day. When I was designing the table plan for this wedding I kept going back to the fact that it could be the most beautiful thing but if there was no thought put into displaying it, it wasn't going to work. That's where the photo frame idea came from. Propped up on a table, leaning on an easel, hanging on a wall, suspended on ribbon in the branches of an olive tree – a lot of thought and planning went into making sure that there were a number of ways in which it could be displayed to full effect. Given that the wedding was in Italy, precise details of the location weren't available, so flexibility was the key.

I always carry my digital camera with me and will happily snap things that inspire me. I take the time to get to know my clients really well, so that all creativity is considered and relevant, not wacky (unless that's what people want of course!). Experience has taught me what will, and won't, work well and I'm not afraid to share that experience with my clients. Planning a wedding is an enormous responsibility but it's one that we relish at Magic Dust. All the 'Thank You's" can't be wrong!

Until next time,

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