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Cut the Cake
Welcome to the Cut The Cake Podcast, where we are here to help you navigate the wonderful, yet sometimes overwhelming, world of wedding planning.
In this podcast you'll go behind the scenes on the wedding industry with us, Melanie and Tania, two wedding-obsessed girls from Melbourne, Australia. With over 20 years of combined experience in the wedding and events industry, we bring you no-nonsense advice, industry secrets, and plenty of laughs along the way.
Melanie, the coffee-loving, fun-obsessed wedding planner, stylist, and coordinator, will be your go-to for all things weddings. While Tania, the creative director and expert in design, will bring your wedding day vision to life through beautiful stationery and signage.
Together, we'll tackle hot wedding topics, have informal and fun chats with leading wedding vendors, and share insights and answers to all your burning wedding questions. No BS, just real talk about planning and enjoying your special day.
So, if you're feeling overwhelmed, elbow deep in a tub of ice cream, and in need of some wedding intel, subscribe to Cut the Cake on your favourited streaming platform. And don't forget to slide into our DMs on Instagram @cutthecakepodcast or email us at hello@cutthecake.com.au with all your burning wedding questions.
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How to Enquire with Wedding Vendors from The Beginning So You Don’t Get Ghosted.
We know a lot of couples get engaged over the Xmas and New Year holidays and with that, comes the start of planning your wedding. When you start planning your wedding, you’ll start getting in contact with vendors.
And here’s the truth bomb. Ghosting is not just prevalent in the dating world, it’s also very common in the wedding industry. We're talking about couples ghosting vendors. And even vendors ghosting couples. We see both sides of this and why this happens. Sometimes it’s because of simple laziness. But most times it’s because couples are not contacting vendors the correct way, and when they do, they’re not providing vendors what they need to quote accurately.
In this episode of Cut The Cake we talk through how to proactively engage with your vendors from the beginning, so there’s no ghosting and you, the couple, essentially get an accurate quote. And us, the vendors, are essentially not wasting time with lots of back and forth with potential clients. So with all of that said, we have broken it down into 4 steps for couples on what you need to be telling your vendors from the get go, and how to communicate with them so everyone is happy.
About Melanie
Mellyrain Creative is a wedding planning and styling company and we specialize in designing luxe countryside weddings across regional Victoria. As the head wedding planner and stylist at Mellyrain Creative, her team continues to grow and assist in styling design as well as wedding day coordination and execution of styling set ups at weddings all over Victoria. Prior to weddings Mel worked in sport and entertainment events in Melbourne and she is obsessed with her golden retriever pup Duncan who you’ll see on the gram from time to time. Mel love's to call country Victoria her happy place so when she's not working, you’ll still find me exploring new places, mostly something with mountains as a backdrop.
instagram.com/mellyraincreative
Contact Mel: mellyrain.com.au/contact
About Tania
Tania is an award nominated, coffee obsessed lover of love, and all round stationery nerd... & that is why she started the Event Wanderer Co. After years wrangling Ballkids at the Australian Open, she stepped into the world of weddings and turned her hand to design, combining a love of stationery with today's modern design and printing techniques to bring her biz baby to life. Tania's speciality is all things stationery and signage and also understanding the stress that event and wedding planning can bring and she's here to help you navigate the chaos of the journey.
instagram.com/eventwandererco/