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Pick + Mix Wedding Planning | Multi Award Winning Blog

Bespoke services, flexible help, pick + mix planning!

I offer pick + mix wedding planning helping cool couples to plan their wedding in a more flexible way.

Bespoke services, flexible help, pick + mix planning!

HELLO! I’m Laura…

I’m a wedding planner and run a multi award winning blog as the backbone to my website offering planning tips, advice and inspiration to those planning a wedding. My planning services are bespoke and flexible, so my tag line is ‘pick + mix wedding planning’. Couples can pick and choose which elements they need help with and we’ll take it from there.

I offer creative ‘pick + mix’ solutions to planning, budgeting, and coordinating weddings. And I’m obsessively organised. The experience has to be easy, yet unique, innovative, and personal for my clients. Above all, it should be stress free and fun. It’s a celebration after all!

I have personally planned and worked on some 170 + weddings and events to date (under Devine Bride and as a consultant at a handful of wedding venues), and I know what’s worked, what’s not, and what’s fun!

From planning power hours to partial planning, help on the day to hire a bridesmaid, and everything in between! My speciality is difficult dry hire venues. I’ve planned and styled a goth wedding in an industrial metal works warehouse but also an ex fashion editor’s pretty Chiswick marquee wedding too. I’ve planned a wedding at the Love Actually church followed by the most elegant Christmas reception, but also many a warehouse party wedding.

I tend to help couples who know what they want and what they are doing, who are generally quite creative and non-traditional, but just need a hand to bring their vision to life, hone in on the finer details of the planning, and make it all happen on the day.

I am based in East London but, due to popular demand, I also have a Glasgow based team for venue dressing, set up and styling (in addition to my London based planning team – which is me and a few wedmin helpers, plus a few trusted freelancers for wedding day help as needed).


Good to Know

-I try to chat with couples on Facetime or Skype for their initial consultation, but also love meeting for drinks anywhere we can make it work around my crazy self employed weekday schedule, and around seeing my husband.
-I love working with fun couples on bespoke weddings.
-I only take on a few full planning and partial planning packages a year to be able to focus on them fully, and give them plenty of planning time.
-The rest of my bookings are made up from a mixture of my pick + mix services.
-I don’t work on commission. Ever. Working on a commission basis promotes favouritism, and my aim is always to match the right supplier to the right client – for the client’s needs and wants only.
-I’m not a fan of traditions, hierarchy’s, or anything that doesn’t promote equality.
-I’m also not fond of chair covers.
-I don’t wear black at weddings as guests usually think I’m the caterer!
-I usually wear a smart colour so I’m easily found and identifiable, by guests and staff alike, however my aim is to blend in as if I were a guest (dress code wise).
-I hate clipboards and headsets and don’t use them at weddings!

For peace of mind, I am also:

💪🏼 Fully insured
💪🏼 Level 2 Emergency First Aid trained
💪🏼 Level 2 Fire Safety & Fire Warden trained


My Working Week Consists of…

3 days a week I’m either at my desk in my (pink) home office in Walthamstow or working from The Wing in Fitzrovia
2 days a week I freelance at a wedding venue in Islington (usually Wednesdays and Fridays)
My weekends are usually spent wedding-ing Mar-Oct
…I sometimes see my husband on a Sunday!
At Christmas time I work on a lot of corporate Christmas parties and events (usually Oct-Jan)