Put yourself into your guests shoes..:
Interesting
Wedding Statistics...
Can you remember the last
time you went to a reception party, was it memorable
or did you leave to get home early. Be it either a
wedding or a friends party...."how much did it cost
you
to celebrate?"
Recent research by Morgan
Stanley Credit Cards found that guests spend an
average of around £250 on each wedding they
attend in the UK.
Imagine the items you would have
forked out for a wedding reception that you were
last invited
to:
# Travel,
Time and Accommodation
(around £30 to
£120)
#
New Outfits (new hats/clothes)
(between £15 to £150)
#
Wedding present or a gift from you
(between £0 to £50)
# Bar/Drinks/Rounds
- (spend from £1 to £65)
(spare a thought for stag & hen parties
if you decide to go all out)
Stag & Hens
could be spending around £138 each
In our experiences of the
many weddings we've carried attended in the previous
years, it doesn't matter if its a £5000 or
£30000+
wedding (actually the average budget in 2007 for weddings is
around
£16000) your guests will come to
expect to pay between £108 - £343
to
enjoy that day with you.
Source: Handbag.com Article - The cost of
being a wedding guest
Source: BBC Article - Guests pay out for
wedded bliss
And what about you?
You have worked
countless hours and spent thousands of pounds on
decorations, food, flowers, gifts...etc
and if your guests leave early how will they ever
enjoy your hard work?
When you have 150 guests
celebrating your big day, coming from all parts of
the world to celebrate it with you, you need
assurances that
those guests will have a great time and go home
thinking they've had "an absolutely
wonderful time!". We can provide that - we
offer plenty of
free advice and planning for your
wedding day and reception that will ensure that
guests will appreciate that your event was the best wedding
reception they'd been to.
The reception will be the last memory
guests will have from your day.
Here are some known facts:
*AFTER
THE VOWS...
- 75% of
all brides say they would have spent more
time choosing their reception entertainment.
- Almost 100%
say they would have spent more of their budget
on the entertainment.
- During wedding
planning, Brides say their highest priority
is their attire, followed by the
reception site and caterer - reception
entertainment is among the least of their
priorities.
- Within one week
after their reception, 78% of Brides say
they would have made the entertainment
their highest priority!
- When asked
81% of guests say the thing they remember
most about a wedding is the entertainment.
- 65% of
all couples that chose a band to entertain at
their wedding, said, if they had it to do over
again, they would have chosen an
entertaining DJ.
*These statistics
were published in Bride & Groom Magazine in 2003.
Sources include: Simmons, 2001; National Bridal
Service, 2001; The Knot, 2002; Brides Magazine,
2001.
How Important is choosing the right Reception
Entertainer?
When
budgeting for a wedding, very little focus is spent
on the DJ/Entertainment. Surveys show that if they
were to do it differently, most couples would have
spent more time and money on the entertainment.
Here
is a graphical breakdown of the average wedding cost
per service as published in many national bridal
publications*.
Now
view what the majority of newlyweds think made their
event a true success.
Your
reception's success or failure depends upon the
quality of service you receive from your
entertainment.
Ultimately you have to decide what is important to
you,is the reception one of the key parts of your day?
These are entertainment driven events. Even
though food, photos, and decor are important… it is
not the food… it is not the photos… nor is it the
decor… that determines the overall success of your
event! The entertainer is the difference between,
"it's just another social gathering I'm obligated
to go to" or you and your guests taking away
magical memories of your celebration that will be
etched in yours and their minds for a lifetime.
Contact us for more information
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We only get
one chance to impress you! We will not let you down!
***Information above
has been sourced from various references on the
internet
