North East Wedding Planners

Name: North East Wedding Planners
Address: Durham, GB
Telephone: +447960243534
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05/08/2026

Canapés & Cocktails.   This year my couples are ramping up the personalisation for canapés and cocktails.
Monogrammed ice cubes. Personalised stirrers. A signature cocktail with your names on it, served the moment guests arrive.  
Because when the drinks are considered and the styling matches, cocktail hour stops being an interval between ceremony and reception. It becomes part of the day itself.
This season, it’s been Hugos, Moscow Mules and V***e Clicquot.  
What’s your favourite cocktail?

21/07/2026

Controversial…

My enquiries have gone up. Genuinely, significantly up in the past few weeks. Zoom calls booked, confirmed, sometimes with a hundred per cent uptake. That should be a good problem to have.

Here’s the part I’m struggling with. A couple fills in the enquiry form. We arrange a Zoom call. I send a gentle reminder the day before. They confirm, yes, still on, looking forward to it, sometimes only hours before the call itself.

And then, nothing. No call. No message. No reply to the follow-up. Just gone.

Before anyone messages me thinking I’m having a go, I’m not. Life happens, plans change, work gets in the way, and that’s completely understandable. When that happens, couples message me, we reschedule, and it’s genuinely fine. That’s not what this is about.
What I’m talking about is the couples who confirm, and then simply disappear. No apology. No explanation. Nothing.

What most people don’t see is the preparation that goes into every single call, long before it happens. I look into your possible location. I go through everything you’ve sent me. I make sure I’m properly ready for you, specifically, not just ready in general. More than once, that’s meant turning down time with friends, or missing part of a family gathering, to be fully prepared and on time for a call that never happens.

So, the honest question. Is this happening to you too? And if anyone has actually found a way to stop it, genuinely, tell me how.

26/05/2026

SIMPLY AT HOME…..

I adore this image from a wee while back, for me it’s the essence of a family wedding with guests celebrating within the grooms family home. Okay it’s a large castle, but still home….. Come the wedding day the family welcomed everyone into their home for the champagne and canapé reception, the chilled vibe was simply incredible, guests milling from the snug, library, to the more formal rooms and out onto the extensive lawn with THE most beautiful view of the Whitby coastline. No matter the scale or style of the celebration, I place a huge emphasis upon the guest experience and this image says it all, they felt perfectly at home, which exactly what the couple wanted.

22/05/2026

Let’s be honest most of us live half our lives on our phones. Scroll, tap, post, repeat. But your wedding day? That’s the one day I recommend pulling the plug…The stories, the laughter, the memories they’ll last far longer than any phone battery.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a bit of social media and running a business means I need to post stories and reels etc but I draw the line at dancing on screen (That’s a no no)... but I also try to approach social media with a timeless vibe. (I mean without marketing , how on earth would you have found me?) but I don’t feel the need to share every element of my life or yours.

04/05/2026

BEHIND THE SCENES

Behind the scenes, I’ve been a little quieter than usual. Many of you know I’m not the biggest fan of social media, but after someone in the industry asked if everything was ok, I realised it’s probably worth saying yes, I’m absolutely fine.

The quiet has been a conscious decision. After a few years of running at what felt like 150% following the pandemic, I chose to take on fewer weddings in 2026. Not an easy decision, but one I knew I needed to make.

I’ve everything to build NEWP over the years. Time, energy, and every emotion… myself. And I wouldn’t change that. I love what I do.

But last season, as incredible as it was, made me stop and really look at the pace I’ve been keeping. Starting a build midweek, finishing on a Monday, then straight into the next one it’s a lot. Physically, mentally, emotionally.

And the reality is, working at that level, on the kind of weddings I do, isn’t for the faint of heart. When you care as much as I do, it can very quickly tip the balance and up until now, I’ve not been great at saying no.

So this year, I’m choosing to do things a little differently.
A little more space. A slightly slower pace. Time to think, to breathe, and to realign without being forced into it by burnout.

The weddings I’m part of this year are still very much what you’d expect from me, with some new locations, some familiar ones, all thoughtfully chosen.

I’m still very much here. NEWP is still very much moving forward.
Just with a bit more cautious intention behind it and a pace that allows me to enjoy it all properly again.

Donna x

06/04/2026

WHEN A CHAIR IS MORE THAN A CHAIR….

The conversations I have weekly about choosing the correct furniture for each space in my couple's weddings….. I must sound boring, but believe me comfort totally outweighs aesthetics and style.

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