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The Wedding Scene

Name: The Wedding Scene
Address: Christchurch, 7604, NZ
Telephone: +64273085036

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Wedding Planning & Coordination solutions to make your wedding planning easy and stress free! Vendor coaching to help wedding pros thrive.

Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, available NZ wide.

03/09/2026

Wedding season is nearly here, and I want you to take a moment to look beyond how full your calendar is.

Because bookings are only one measure of how your business is doing.

You might recognise some of these thoughts:

I'm not sure I'm getting enough enquiries...
I'm busy but am I actually making enough money...
I am not sure my sustems are going to cope when it gets really busy...
My season is looking busy, I hope I can keep up...

On 29 September, I'm hosting The Wedding Business Health Check, a free live webinar for wedding professionals.

We'll look at four key areas of your business to help you identify your biggest bottleneck and where your attention needs to go before taking a deeper dive into the enquiry-to-booking process.

This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately, particularly after conversations with other wedding professionals about couples taking longer to make decisions and the changing enquiry landscape.

📅 Tuesday 29 September
🕙 10am NZST
💻 Online
🎟 Free

Registration is now open, book your spot here: https://events.humanitix.com/the-wedding-business-health-check

01/09/2026

One thing I'm spending a lot of time thinking about at the moment...

What does my business need from me before the next wedding season?

Not just how do we book more weddings?

But things like:

✨ Where does my team need more support?
✨ What systems are slowing us down?
✨ What processes only exist in my head?
✨ What training will help us deliver an even better experience?
✨ Where are the bottlenecks?

The quieter months are such a valuable opportunity to ask these questions and then actually start to implement some changes.

Because once wedding season arrives, there's very little time to stop and redesign how your business operates.

29/08/2026

Am I right or am I right?

Who else does a little happy dance when they see the email saying a new 5-star review has been left? 😍

26/08/2026

A conversation I had with a coaching client recently really stuck with me.

They said "I hate following up enquiries, it just feels a bit icky."

I think it's pretty fair to say most of us have felt that. We don't want to come across as pushy. We don't want people to think we're desperate for the booking.

So we don't follow up at all.

But sometimes it's about changing our perspective.

The couple who enquired with you are planning one of the biggest days of their lives. They're juggling budgets, guest lists, family opinions, venues, photographers and a million other decisions as well as an incredibly busy inbox.

Sometimes they haven't replied because life simply got busy (as it does for us all!). But there are ways to follow up that don't just ask the couple if they've read your information or had a chance to review your proposal. Because that doesn't really generate much excitement right?

Do you follow up your enquiries, or does it make you feel uncomfortable too?

23/08/2026

💭 A question I've been thinking about this week...

What do you do that fills you up outside of your business?

This was something that came up in a networking group I attended awhile ago and it's stuck with me.

If I'm honest, I'm not very good at hobbies.

I genuinely love what I do. I love talking business, helping people build stronger businesses and working in the wedding industry. But I also know that's not the whole picture.

As business owners, especially in the wedding industry, it's so easy for our work to become our identity.

There's always something else we could be doing.

So I've been wondering if I need to get better at having a hobby, something I really enjoy doing.

I'm not quite sure what that hobby looks like yet, but it's likely something creative.

💬 So I'll ask you...

What do you do that's completely unrelated to your business?

17/08/2026

When I first had the idea for Coffee & Catch Ups, I really wasn't sure how it was going to go.

I just knew there was something I'd been craving in our industry for a long time. A space where wedding professionals could get together, chat honestly about business, share ideas, celebrate wins, work through challenges, and simply connect.

When all 8 spaces got snapped up in a matter of days, I was genuinely blown away.

It's a reminder that our industry wants connection and we're stronger when we collaborate. It can only be a good thing when we learn and grow from those in our industry.

Behind every wedding business is a person navigating challenges, asking similar questions and wanting to build a business they love.

I can't wait to sit around the table with everyone later this month and see where the conversations take us.

And if you missed out this time, don't worry. The response to this has definitely made me realise Coffee & Catch Up's is not a one off event, it needs to be a regular occurance!

Thank you to everyone who booked a spot and to everyone who's been cheering this idea on. It means more than you know.

14/08/2026

Another big mistake I made in my cake business?

I said yes to everything. I'd squeeze in another order, work late into the night, absorb extra work without charging for it.

At the time, I thought that was being me being a flexible business owner for my clients, providing a service.

Looking back, it was one of the biggest things that contributed to that business failing. I had very few boundaries and any that existed got pushed pretty easily.

The thing is, I was not the first to do this, and definitely not the last. I see so many wedding professionals doing exactly the same thing.

Saying yes because they don't want to disappoint people. Working crazy hours because that's just what they think the business requires.

Building businesses that rely on them always putting clients and their needs above anything else. And while some might argue that it has to be that way to build a solid business, it should never be at the expense of the business owner.

If I could go back and give myself some advice, it would be: every time you say yes to someone else, you're saying no to something else.

That could be your family, your health, or even just the chance to have a day off.

Your clients deserve your best, but so do you. You deserve a business that works for your life and how you want to live.

What's one boundary you've learnt to set in your business?

08/08/2026

One thing I wish I'd known before turning my hobby into a business:

Just because people are willing to pay you for something, doesn't mean you're ready to turn it into a business.

Many years ago, I had a cake business. It started exactly as so many businesses do.

I loved making cakes. Friends started asking me to make theirs. Then friends of friends. And I thought "hey, this is pretty cool, I'm going to set up a proper business".

So I did all the things, registered my kitchen, set up the business properly.

What I didn't realise was that loving the work and running a business are two completely different things.

I didn't understand anything about pricing, boundaries or capacity. In fact, at the time I had 3 small children and probably had less energy than ever. But I just thought I needed to push through the tiredness and I thought if I worked hard enough, everything else would fall into place.

Spoiler alert: It didn't. It had me almost burnt out, feeling resentful and beginning to not love my work much anymore.

I don't regret the cake business for a second. It taught me so much, lessons that I draw on to this day.

Many of the things I coach wedding professionals on now are things I learnt the hard way. So I'm going to keep sharing some of those lessons because we've all made mistakes along the way!

Did your business start as a hobby too?

05/08/2026

Confessions of a Wedding Vendor 🤍

💫 I check the weather forecast far more often than is probably necessary
💫 I get nervous before weddings
💫 I notice every little detail when I walk in, and try to fix them all!

What about other wedding vendors? What would you add to the list?

03/08/2026

I'm creating the kind of event I wish existed a few years ago.

For a number of years now I've been keen for more connection and collaboration in the wedding industry. Not just a quick catch up here and there, but an actual opportunity for vendors to connect and learn from each other.

A chance for wedding professionals to have real conversations. The ones where people realise they're not the only ones navigating pricing, staffing, client challenges, boundaries, cash flow, or trying to build a business that supports the life they want to live.

The value of sitting down with people who truly understand and know the indsutry you're in and can relate to the challenges.

So... I'm giving it a go.

✨ The Wedding Scene Coffee & Catch Ups ✨

A relaxed gathering for local wedding professionals to connect over coffee, share ideas and have real conversations about running a wedding business.

No presentations, sales pitches or awkward networking. Just real conversations, meaningful connections and better businesses.

I've intentionally limited this first one to 8 people so everyone has the opportunity to be part of the conversation.

If you're a wedding professional in Canterbury and this sounds like your kind of morning, I'd love to have you there.

🎟️ Grab your free ticket via the link in my bio.

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