I recently spoke with Tanya and Steve from Triple M, Newcastle about what post-Covid weddings will look like, and if 2022 weddings are going to be bigger than ever.

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Tanya: Hey, weddings. I feel sorry for all the brides that have had to postpone a million times-

Steve: I Feel sorry for the grooms that realise it’s still on.

Tanya: Well, it has been a weird, wacky ride as far as wedding businesses go over the last 18 months. Almost two years now.
Steve: Yeah.

Tanya: But we thought we’d find out because I know you’ve got an invite, Steve. So have I. The weddings coming up next year, we’ve already saved dates.

Steve: Literally, long weekend next year. And you know how I laugh at anything beyond Thursday. Right. I’m going when when’s yours? Didn’t you get a one for ’23?

Tanya: I have got one for 2023 locked in.

Steve: My goodness.

Tanya: And I have one for May next year locked in.

Steve: Okay.

Tanya: But Kerryn Tippet, she’s a mate of ours, but she’s also a celebrant and she owns Wed by Kez, we thought we’d find out from her how wacky the wedding world is get a Kez.

Kez: The wedding world is wacky at the best of times.

Steve: True. I can’t imagine, as we just said then Kez. The difference between you and I, where I think when Thursday? I’m not sure what I’m doing. You would be one of these in your bookings be so far in advance.

Kez: We have weddings normally booked up to two years in advance.

Tanya: Wow. Incredible. Well, we can-

Steve: You have to look after your health, wouldn’t you?

Tanya: Yeah. And-

Kez: You’ve got to have plans.

Tanya: Cause what we’re seeing too, with some of the invites we’ve been looking through is that the traditional Saturday wedding that’s… It could be Monday. It could be Thursday. It could be all over the shop now.

Kez: If COVID has taught us anything, its flexibility is the new buzzword of 2022 and 2023. Because what’s happened over the past two years is weddings have bottle necked. So we’ve still got couples from 2019 who have yet to be married because they postponed to 2020, 2021. And now they’re getting married in 2022.

Steve: Was that of the attitude, Kez, If we can’t have the one we want, let’s not have it. Let’s wait until we can.

Kez: Look. There’s both sides. There’s some people who just want stuff that we’re getting married and went ahead with the five people because it all got too hard. Got too stressful. Mental health was just, through the floor. Yeah. And then the others that went, no, we absolutely want our family there. We want this to be a celebration. We deserve a party and they’ve waited and they’ve waited and they’ve waited and And re booked and shuffled and changed. And so now 2020 to is going to be the year that all those weddings happen. But at the same time, people who’ve just got engaged now or will get engaged over Christmas. Cause Christmas day is the big day for engagements.

Tanya: I did not know that did.

Steve: Neither did I?

Kez: Yeah. Christmas day is huge.

Tanya: Is it?

Kez: Under the tree little ring. Yeah.

Steve: I suppose a little double present.

Tanya: Yeah.

Kez: Christmas day and new year’s day. All the big days through.

Tanya: Did not know that.

Kez: Saying I do. I know. And then what we’ll see next year is people wanting to slot in and they’re going well everything seems okay with COVID. Maybe we’re better off trying to organize this wedding in a couple of months rather than two years. Right. So they’re going to have to be flexible because Saturdays are going to be gone. They’re not going to be able to have the venue that they want or the photographer that they want. If they come in and go, we want a Saturday in October at 3:00 PM. So they’re going to have to go, well, maybe we do this on a Tuesday after a long weekend and give everyone an extra day or maybe we just find out when the venues available and we pick our date based on what they’ve got.

Tanya: Can you, I know you officiate, but are you privy to how much some of the weddings costs run to? I’m still blown away by the telephone numbers people spend on weddings.

Kez: Yes. So an average wedding is somewhere on the 50K mark. In the hunter valley and with a hundred guests. You can do it for cheap as a thousand bucks. If you just have a celebrate and you’d get married around your kitchen table. Yeah, sure. And then I have heard weddings upwards of a hundred to 120K.

Tanya: Oh my gosh.

Steve: Well, that’s enough about EP Nicky. So, well the one that I realize now as, just as we’re talking kids that I hadn’t thought about gone are, Hey, come to Fiji for our weddings at the moment in the last couple of years. Which would then increase the local, in your area. Wouldn’t it?

Kez: So, no one’s really confident about overseas travel. Rightly so, because you’re never really sure. Yes. You’re sure at the moment you can go, but you’re not really sure that you can come back.

Steve: Mm. Hallelujahs to the guests.

Kez: So in those instances though, where people have got their heart set on a destination kind of ceremony, what often they’re doing is getting married quietly and locally and just doing it around the kitchen table and then planning that wedding for two years in advances and saying, oh, we’re going to get married in Fiji. But when you arrive at Fiji, something you find out they’ve been married for two years, just a big postponed party.

Tanya: Oh well, it’s, it’s an interesting, expensive world that you work in.

Kez: I see. I see all sorts.

Tanya: I’m sure you do. Yeah. Well, thanks Kez. Really appreciate your time as always.

Kez: My pleasure.

Tanya: There’s Kerryn Tippett, Wed by Kez.

Steve: She’s great, but also all that branch that she’s with, they’re all great celebrate up there. They really do live the day.

Tanya: You find the right celebrants. I know.

Ryzy: Good celebrant makes that ceremony perfect doesn’t it?

Steve: See, when we were growing up, if you got a celebrant, she had to have blue hair and it was always a bright red dress wasn’t it?

Tanya: Yeah.

Ryzy: But a bit wacky kind of thing.

Steve: Yeah.

Ryzy: Yeah. Right.

Tanya: I’m curious to know though, Kez nailed it when she said people because of mental health and the uncertainty just went, forget the big wedding. let’s just do it.

Ryzy: I reckon a lot of people would’ve.

Tanya: Well, did you do that or was there someone in your group that just did that? Just went ahead… because remember there was a restriction of five people at one point through this COVID.

Steve: Yeah. Right.

Tanya:So were you part of that “let’s just get it done” group? Give us a call, we’d love to know.

Ryzy: Yeah. We’d love to hear from you 1-333-53 and how did you do it?

Tanya: Yeah. Wacky weddings during wovid.

Steve: Ryzy?

Ryzy: Yes. Steve.

Steve: Is it too late to hit the dump button?

Ryzy: It’s not actually I’ll leave you hanging on that one. That one though. 1-333-53 if you just gave up on the big wedding over COVID we’d love to talk to you and find out how you did your wedding. Tanya and Steve at TripleM.

A wedding is about celebrating the love you have for your partner and the icing on that sweet-tasting wedding cake is having your loved ones join in that celebration.

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