Thanks to our Wedding coordinator Alice being struck down by some illness or other on Sunday, I was drafted in to represent Sternberg Clarke at the UKAWP’s Wedding Sanctuary bridal show at Somerset House. There’s a reason we hired a someone to do these sorts of things; Alice is just better at them – not that I didn’t enjoy spending time with the always pleasant wedding planners and the soon-to-be-brides in attendance, I even got a chance to meet Andy from men’s wedding blog Staggered – it’s just that Wedding entertainment requires a different approach from Corporate Events.  My thoughts have turned to weddings recently, partly because I spent Sunday in the company of people whose big day was looming in the near future, also because our own Hayley Hannam has recently caught a nasty case of ‘One Hand Heavier Than The Other’-Syndrome. Weddings make up a huge part of our business and no doubt the same is true of many readers of event magazine. 

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