Project Engaged

We're super excited to be chatting to a wedding supplier with many talents. Zee Scott is a celebrant, MC and cake maker, and all round legend!

She's got an unmatched energy and we're always excited when we get to work with her on a wedding. She's always up for a boogie, which we obviously love!

Here's what some of her clients say about her:

"Zee was one of the absolute highlights of our wedding. We had so much fun planning the ceremony with her and couldn't have been happier with the result on the day. So many friends and family commented on how fantastic she was. Hot tip - she also makes a great MC and having her do both the ceremony and reception made everything seamless!"

"We had the best day ever with Zee being our celebrant and baker! Everyone had a good old belly laugh with the personal touches to our story and commented on how amazing she was as a person and a gem in her field! If I were to get married again, I would 100% get Zee to do it all over again!"

On this episode, we chat about the process of making her VERY stylish retro buttercream cakes, her celebranting style and why you should book a professional MC for your wedding. Oh, and her experience of being on Bake Off!

On Episode 5 of our wedding planning podcast, Project Engaged, we chat to the one and only Nikki McCrone, Melbourne wedding photographer extraordinaire!

We speak to Nikki about wedding trends we're seeing this year, how couples can find a photographer that fits their vibe, what to consider when picking a venue and some tips to inject fun into your wedding photography!

PS - if you want to understand Nikki's vibe, check out these snippets from her client Google reviews:

"It's okay, you can stop looking for your wedding photographer, because Nikki is THE ONE. Nikki was not just a photographer to us - in fact, we want to adopt her so we can have her infectious energy and enthusiasm with us always. We will now be hiring her for all future life events that require a photographer."

"We received the wedding photos a week before the proposed delivery date, and cried with joy at how beautiful they are, and how they so perfectly captured the beauty and atmosphere of the day!"

"If you are considering Nikki McCrone as your photographer, if these wonderful Google reviews or a quick stalk of her Instagram doesn't convince you....then all it will take is your first phone call with her and you will be well and truly sold. Nikki is the absolute dream."

We hope you enjoy this episode and get as much out of it as we did!

In this episode Eddy and Aleks discuss how to find a great wedding DJ for an epic party!

If you're a couple who loves music and wants a great party for their wedding, you'll want to make sure you find an experienced wedding DJ who knows how to help you achieve the dance floor of your dreams (and build up to it throughout the night)!

You can check out the blog for this podcast here.

In Episode 3, we chat to one of our fave wedding suppliers, Sarah Borg, the genius behind Bangin Hangins.

We're pretty obsessed with these super colourful streamer installations. You'll recognise them as soon as you see them. They instantly add personality to any space and just scream PARTY.

And you'll recognise Sarah right away too. She is the embodiment of the Bangin Hangins brand - a colourful firecracker with an infectious energy who even has her own dancing GIFs! We're lucky enough to work with Sarah on many weddings and we know as soon as we see those colourful streamers adorn a ceiling, we are in for one fun night. On this episode, we get the lowdown on the epic installs, backdrops and arches Bangin Hangins offers for weddings, and some practical and helpful tips for couples thinking about adding them to their big day!

On this episode, we chat to Jen and Caitlin who are the Event Managers at Post Office Hotel Events in Coburg, Melbourne. The venue right up the road from us and there are so many things we love about it!

Let's start with the fact that the venue is attached to a pub and you basically get your own private beer garden. Other things to mention are the food is delicious, the staff is wonderful, the space is super versatile and most importantly - it's just such a relaxed party vibe, which is what we're all about!

In this podcast, we chat all things weddings with Jen and Caitlin including how the venue works, the types of couples it attracts and they also provide some pearls of wisdom on planning a relaxed and fun wedding!

Post Office Hotel is holding an open day this Sunday, the 18th of September, which we're super excited to be a part of. You can get free tickets through their website (google Post Office Hotel Weddings) or via their Instagram account (@pohevents).

We are pumped to have our first guest for this new season and what a cracker of a guest we have lined up!

On this episode, we chat to celebrant Nat Sproal, a self-confessed no-BS melbourne celebrant who's all about the heart and soul, rather than the frills and tradition.

Nat loves good tunes and is ALWAYS first on the dance floor!

Her style of delivering weddings is relaxed, natural and a little bit cheeky.

She says that stiff, formal, overly traditional weddings aren't really her jam. Nat is so aligned with the types of weddings we love being involved in!

We've worked with Nat many times and always know it's going to be a fun time when she's officiating.

We chat to Nat about...

• Her celebranting style (in three words!).
• The sorts of couples Nat loves working with.
• The types of advice she provides to couples about how to choose awesome wedding suppliers.
• How she works with couples from first enquiry through to pronouncing them officially married.
• Some of her tips for keeping the ceremony fun and light.
• The role music plays at the ceremony.
• Nat's number one piece of advice is for dealing with nerves on the big day!

Phew!

We hope you enjoy listening to this one as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Eddy + Aleks xx

We are back for Season 3 of Project Engaged! And we have a brand new focus! We are shifting our focus towards helping fun-loving couples plan their non-traditional wedding and find superstar suppliers!

We'll interview married couples for their insights as well as awesome suppliers, and, of course, share our own wedding experiences.

Thank you to all of our listeners for supporting us so far. The podcast will still definitely be relevant to wedding vendors so we hope you hang around!

In this episode we chat about a very important topic - how to write copy for your business that will attract your ideal clients!

In Episode 7, we chat to Hayley Maxwell, a brand clarity and messaging coach, copywriter, ferocious ice cream eater, and leopard print lover… (and not necessarily in that order). She's been honing her skills since the early 2000s. She's helped Government entities, charities, global corporations and small businesses master their message, and then bring it to rip-roaring life with compelling, respectful copywriting that inspires action.

Her mission is to help her clients become memorable, meaningful, and the only real choice for the people they really want to help. Hayley is also the host of the Fierce Impact podcast and creator of the Website Copy Accelerator course.

In this ep, we focus on really practical tips to help you banish boring copy, as Hayley would say!

We bet quite a few of you fall into the category of "burnt-out wedding professionals". What a couple of years it's been! If this is you and you're ready to make a change and be taken out of your comfort zone, boy, have we got an episode for you!

In Episode 6, we chat to the absolute legend that is Yarra Valley based photographer Rick Liston. Rick is also a workflow fanatic and the man behind Wedding Workflows, a business that helps burnt out wedding professionals with automation and outsourcing to help buy you more time, serve your couples better and scale your dream business! Umm, sign us up!

We could have talked to Rick for hours. His whole outlook will both challenge and inspire you. Forever obsessed with exploring innovative ways to work with purpose, his business Wedding Workflows is about preserving your time and creative energy for the breadwinning areas while automating and outsourcing the laborious tasks that prevent you from doing so.

In this episode, we chat to Rick about his story, all things workflows, automation and some of his tips for introducing better workflows in your wedding business today. And more importantly, we talk a lot about WHY you should do it!

How are you feeling about your wedding business brand? Are you proud of it? Excited to share it with the world? Or is it feeling a bit stale and just not... you? In our latest episode we chat to Michelle Newell from The Storytelling Business about when and how to refresh your brand! Michelle is a brand strategist and storyteller who specialises in rebranding small and medium businesses. She believes in rebranding 'from the inside out', which means starting with your vision, values and people before you even think about tweaking your logo or website! As we've shared on the podcast before, we have seen first hand the power of a rebrand (or brand refresh!) with our business One More Song. We talk a bit about this on the episode and Michelle explains the different levels of rebranding, what's involved, tips on a DIY rebrand and on the other end of the spectrum, how a team of professionals can help you if you're looking to do undergo the full shebang! For our Victoria based listeners who are thinking about sprucing up their brand, Michelle is also running a Shoot & Tell Day in Footscray next Thursday, where you can book in an hour personal branding session to have new pics taken by a professional photographer and be interviewed by Michelle, with 10 photos and a shiny new bio (About page) + in-person elevator pitch delivered to you in two weeks. Head to @thestorytellingbiz on Instagram for the deets and to book! PS - check out the show notes on our website for a link to the article Michelle mentions where she provides tips on gathering client testimonials.

Enjoy and as always, we'd love to hear your feedback!