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About the Serene Bride wedding planning service  The Serene Bride wedding planning team is managed by Lesley Munday, a well-qualified and experienced South African wedding planner.
Our service offers everything from honeymoon venues, accommodation & activities for guests to invitations and wedding toasts. We ensure your dream wedding becomes a reality.
We take care of the time consuming, stress-inducing details and generally help to make sure your wedding planning is an enjoyable experience.
When all eyes are on you, how comforting to know the details are in professional hands.
The benefits of using our wedding planning service
Most people who are planning a wedding have never before been responsible for coordinating such a large event. So many details, so many aspects to know, so much unfamiliar territory! A Bride can feel intimidated which is only natural. Planning a wedding can be a full-time job - a situation where experience can certainly come in handy.
As qualified wedding planners, we can offer advice and guidance as well as a wide variety of exclusive specialists and services relating to all aspects of weddings and receptions from:-
- Wedding and Bridal shower stationery
- Marriage officers
- Photographers & videographers
- Beauty therapists, hair stylists & make-up artists
- Wedding gown specialists
- Draping specialists
- Live musicians, music, DJ's
- Flowers / floral designer
- Transport
- Caterers
- Hiring company
- Cake specialists
- Décor specialists
- Guest & honeymoon accommodation
- Activities for guests
- Favours
We have the ability to plan weddings and co-ordinate the various vendors, thereby offering you a professional and individual wedding.
We ensure that every detail of your wedding planning is carefully handled, - you can relax and enjoy knowing that you only have to worry about making the decisions based on the options presented to you.
Wedding planning is time-consuming
 Planning a wedding is time consuming because of the endless research required in investigating the many options available. Looking at books, magazines and the Internet can end up by being confusing, and once one has found vendors who seem likely to fulfil the needs for your dream wedding, they may not be available on the required date, or their prices may not be within budget.
To ensure your engagement period is more enjoyable, a wedding coordinator can help you with all, a small part, or several specific aspects of planning a wedding. For example, a consultant can advise you on issues such as:
- Wedding etiquette and wedding traditions from the engagement to the reception, with particular emphasis on the ceremony
- Coordinating decorative themes and colours, from invitation to cake
- Spending within your wedding budget, wedding costs, deposits and final payment in respect of vendors and financial responsibility.
- Selection of and working with wedding photographers, videographers, floral designers and florists, musicians, transportation
- Keeping a wedding check-list
- Preparation of the wedding guest list and invitations. The complex wording of wedding invitations is affected by a number of factors. Wedding speeches.
- Setting up the Bridal Registry and advising on wedding gifts including those to be presented by the Bride and Groom.
- Recommend travel advisors for the honeymoon and accommodation for the wedding guests.
- Advise the main attendants on unique bridal shower themes, gifts and bridal shower games.
- Bridal gown designer, Wedding attendant dresses, Groom's wedding attire hire, wedding dress hire.
- Make-up artists and hair stylists.
- Wedding jewellery designers.
 Lighting, linen and wedding toasts
On a more in-depth basis our wedding planner services can include confirmation of the ceremony and reception venues, and deal with details such as photography, videographer, lighting, audio and electric restrictions. We will advise you as to when the planning may move into action such as placing of linen, decorations and stationery on the tables. Or maybe you need to know about a carpet, canopy and candles, which are not acceptable at some venues. Our wedding planner will even advise on the announcements and wedding toasts.
As part of our co-ordination services, our wedding coordinator will make all the bookings on your behalf, liaise fully with the ceremony and reception venue ensuring that all is in place, as well as with the wedding photographer, videographer, florist, car hire company.
Need a wedding day director?
 If you wish to have a wedding day director present at the ceremony and/or reception then we are able to provide that service too! You can be ensured that if you choose our full and comprehensive coordination service, which takes care of every detail in the planning of your wedding, you will be free to enjoy the months leading up to your marriage as well as the wedding day itself.
A consultant will be present at the reception venue to ensure that it is being set-up correctly, and will remain on site until the formalities are complete. In consultation with our clients' we also provide a full wedding day programme and consultation with the MC so that he/she is aware of how the reception formalities are to proceed.
Should you decide, however, to do the wedding organization yourself and only need us to provide you with the services of your choice, we will gladly assist you.
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