Brown Paper Packages Tied up With String - A few of my LEAST favourite things!

Who doesn't love a package?  Well, obviously nobody - we all like to receive a package, but I feel a little rant coming on about packages in the wedding industry!

Disco Packages

Gold package, Silver package, premium package... why sell a range of levels of service?  Why offer a service (package) that is deliberately inferior?  In my opinion your disco offering should be the best that it can be - you shouldn't be charged extra to make the disco look a bit better, to carry more music, or (and I've seen this!) to allow more requests?  

Then there are the add ons that aren't really add ons.  Pay for early set up, pay to use a radio mic, pay a DJ to play background music (seriously?  For mealtime you literally just need a playlist, you don't need a £50 per hour DJ!)  Suddenly your cheap price DJ isn't so cheap after all!

Of course this is just my opinion - but I don't sell packages, I sell the best that I can be.  I don't add on extra costs, I tell you the price from the outset.  Sure, we offer optional extra services - three to be precise:

Mood lighting

Giant Games

Event Management

That's it! No gimmicks, just honest prices

That's something we all like to receive! 

Package Discos

Ok, this may sound like sour grapes, but bear with me!  So many times at wedding fairs when we speak to couples we are told "The disco comes as part of the package with the venue"

I can't speak for all venues, all discos and maybe this is how you want to book your wedding reception, but look at it this way...

You are planning the biggest day of your life, a true one off event and you want it to be perfect.  You've chosen a beautiful venue, looked at dozens of dresses until you found "the one"  The cars suit your personalities, your photographer offers amazing pictures, great albums.  The flowers, the colour scheme, the cake - oh! The cake will be magnificent.  Every single detail of your day has been handpicked by you to suit your perfect day.

Except one.

And its not a little detail.  Its the party to celebrate your wedding, its the cake cutting, the first dance, the last dance, its the dancing with your friends, its the waltz with your Dad, its one of the parts of your day that everyone will remember and talk about.

And its the one part you haven't chosen.

Its the one part that's been chosen for you.

And as an events professional that worries me.

Its your day.  Have it your way.