Do you do a rehearsal?
Yes, but not in the traditional way. We do what I call a ‘final run through’ session, online, in the fortnight prior to your ceremony.
By this stage of our ceremony planning I've got to know you, written your ceremony, and finalised most of what’s going to happen on the day. So during our final run through chat, we jump online together and we talk through how everything is going to flow on the day. Everything from where I'm going to see you before the ceremony starts, through to your staging and entrance, cueing music, where you’re standing, pronunciation of names, how you’ll maybe hold a mic, read your vows, hold hands, put rings on - whatever’s applicable to your ceremony.
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It sounds quite detailed because it is, but the good news is you don't actually have to remember anything we talk about!! I'm listening to all your preferences so I can prompt you throughout your ceremony. There's never a point where you are left standing up the front there wondering what's happening next? Am I standing in the right place? What's she going to say next? Am I meant to be saying something?
If you are having a wedding party, they are most welcome to be part of that final run through chat as well. I’ll see them on the day before the ceremony to brief them, but some people like to meet and have a chat, put a face to a name, and have any questions answered beforehand too.
When your wedding party are joining us we have a chat first, just the three of us. We talk through the things that are applicable just to you as a couple at that point. Then we get your wedding party online and I'll talk through the things that are applicable to them, which is mainly those entrance and staging elements, and anything else that they're involved with in the ceremony.
The final run through chat is a really important part of our preparation together, and it can be as simple as the two of you on the couch and me having a chat. It can be your wedding party in whatever location they're in at the time, jumping online and we're all there together talking it through.
Some people like to get their wedding party together and actually be all in the one place, talk everything through with me and then have a dinner, or whatever else afterwards, to talk through other elements of the rest of your day.
Some people will be having a venue visit in the week beforehand too. If this is the case I recommend we have our final run through chat before you go and visit your venue for that final visit. That means that when you go to that visit, we've already talked through all the things that are going be happening up the front in your ceremony and how that's all going work. So it means you can just be in the space and go, oh yeah, I know how that's all going to flow.
Having our final run-through chat means you can go into your ceremony feeling confident and comfortable, able to just be in the moment, and enjoy every moment as it happens!!