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 Hello and welcome back to this week's episode of the Wedding Lounge podcast.

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 Now this week we are talking about seasonality and how to be seasonal and intentional with your

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 decisions when planning your wedding. I think it's one of those things that over the years with

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 people trying to be more sustainable and economical and just owning what we've got.

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 More aware of things. I think it makes huge - I mean the biggest one is obviously flowers.

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 Flowers only bloom at a certain time of the year don't they? So essentially if a certain type of flower

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 is important to you you need to get married at a certain time of year. Yes, it's so many times

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 people come at the wrong season say I want this and you're like well it's all gone. I remember

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 there was a wedding venue in Sussex that I worked at a few times and they had the most gorgeous

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 lavender borders everywhere and if you didn't, if you were married in like May the lavender wasn't out

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 yet and by the end of the summer it was almost going and so you really had to pick that window

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 for the gardens to get their best. If it's not the flowers that you're physically picking for bouquets

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 and deck or it's surroundings as well. Yeah, hundreds and I mean there is always alternatives out there

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 and that is the thing is you need to speak with someone who's knowledgeable and they will be able

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 to point you in the direction of like if it's peonies that you love they'll find another blousey loose

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 flower that's something similar. Similar but isn't going to be the same but it's if you want that

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 specific flower or if you want that aesthetic that's what you need to determine. And it's the same for

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 food food. Yeah, I think nowadays we're really really looking at the provenance of food and having

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 local seasonal I mean yes you can import things from over the world much of the year but it's just

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 making sure that sort of thinking about the food miles as well. Yeah, yeah, 100%. And like the

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 the kind of food that you want to eat at certain times of the year like I don't know about you

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 but I love a stew in the winter. Yeah, like that cozy warm those kind of vegetables and that

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 ruined vegetable vegetables. That is more suited to that time of year whereas obviously you've

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 got your spring greens in June you've got asparagus things like that like it's contemplating those

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 decisions carefully if they're important to you. And not just thinking about the food in terms of

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 season for sort of what produces around but also as you say for like what your guests will want.

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 Yes, they're not going to want to eat a hot stew with parsnips and Sweden like in July on a

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 baking hot day. Yeah, like you need to think about your menus for guest enjoyment and for what is

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 available in that season. Well, one of my couples we had really big discussions over meat choices

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 and the other interesting one is fish. Yes, yeah, fish is a really light lovely thing to eat but

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 in the middle of summer it's really quite hot. Yeah, I mean, is that what you want to be serving me?

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 I mean, I can eat meat, whatever the weather. Fish. Oh, not me. Not good. Oh, right. I don't like fish

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 with it. I've also gone from one extreme to the other. I'm not a big fish fan.

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 So I think that fish is quite tricky one to do because people don't like it for a star like you.

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 Yeah, I mean, they just moaned about fish. But it's the same can be said for

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 wed meat. Yes, they read me in the height of summer is quite a hard thing. Whereas, you know,

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 spring lamb I think is really lovely. Yeah, for that spring time meal.

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 And also with flush thinking about seafood as well. So I've had a few people recently have oyster

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 sugars and obviously there are seasons like really specific seasons about when it is actually

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 safe to eat oyster and when it isn't. Yeah, so there's no point deciding you want an oyster

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 sugar when it's not season because it's just not even safe like you need to do your research first

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 and if that is something that's really important to you then plan your wedding date around it.

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 Yeah, exactly. And I think hullas are quite big one as well. Like we know we do.

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 We would love to give me the color spring summer. Yeah, but I think you should

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 enjoy the colors of the season that you are choosing to get married in.

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 Yeah. And again, if it works by first or when you're quite specific about the colors that you want

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 pick a season or a time of year that's going to suit those colors. I have an example and it's my

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 brother-in-law. We got married in June. I think you've said. I think I've said that before.

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 They got married on the 22nd of June. It was one day either side of like the longest day in the

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 year. And they had everyone in black tie for a midday ceremony. Oh, which black tie is an evening

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 dress code. But I think in the winter you could possibly get away black tie slightly earlier on

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 because it's just darker and it's hot as well. Yeah, hot. And then the bridesmaids were in like

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 crushed green velvet. Not to me velvet in like dark green isn't summer light of June color.

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 And they have like simple white bokehs which I mean black tie crushed green velvet beautiful,

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 but I'm thinking that's December. That's the height of summer in June for me like those colors.

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 So I think you really do have to think about what time of year you'll get to marry. Like Jamie,

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 and when we got married he was we rocked over wedding and he was wearing tweed and chinos and tweed

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 but actually a tweed jacket in a July wedding in the sveltering heat. That's right. I've kind of

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 gone on to the clothing a bit here but you know even just like the style of the look of the tweed

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 as well that's like a bit of a wintry kind of. I mean lots of colors. Do you find lots of lots

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 of my clients wear morning coat? Yes, yes. And I have had a few quite interesting ones that in the

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 summer they've worn morning coat for the ceremony and then they've gone home and got changed into a linen

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 suit. Oh nice. But I really like. I think that's quite a good way to do it. But I don't have all this

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 summer who he's just wearing a linen like linen suit. Yeah, in the height of summer. Yes, that's

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 why I didn't know it's a July wedding so yeah it's perfect. Have you got a spare jacket? I don't know if

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 he does that. Interestingly because it wrinkles quite quickly. Oh I think we're sweat. Oh no,

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 sweat patches. I always tell people to have to share. Yeah, maybe or maybe if he can take it off for

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 a period after he's steamed in the middle of the day. Just give you more work. No, but you've also got

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 to think about it. We've kind of gone from colors to fabrics here but it makes an impact. You don't

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 want to wear the wrong fabrics in the wrong season. Mm-hmm. You're likewise with you know it's

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 rides choosing her gown. Like I do think some fabrics lend themselves to a wintry event. Didn't

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 your sister-in-law or your brother-in-law's wife have a fur? Yeah, in May. That's another one. Oh that's

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 another one. In the other one. Not the same. Not the same brother-in-law. Yes, another brother-in-law.

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 I think your family's just in the wrong year. Oh Jamie's family. Sorry. Yeah and she had a

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 thirst all to cover on a rough tattoo I believe. I didn't actually know Jamie then but yeah

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 in May I just think she's doing it with fur in May. You can always put something lighter on. You say

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 that. I mean it hailed on our wedding day in May. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my goodness. Like a lawn halted it down.

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 We got stuck inside the church doors and everyone else that's going to shelter under a giant tree

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 outside. Oh my goodness. We're horrendous for about ten minutes. Yeah. Just Gloucestown was the

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 most bizarre thing ever but it might be good luck. Yeah, it runged a lot as well. But yes, yeah, yeah.

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 You're doing a whole episode on seasonality but with the British weather if you're getting married in

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 England. Yes. It is one of those things factor into it so much. And you choose your wedding date

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 for a reason. You want everything to blend with what you're doing. So it's all well and good. It's

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 sustainable to choosing seasonally. Yeah. But it also it marries, it ties up marries hard. Yeah.

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 Marries everything together. Yeah. Effortlessly. Yeah. I think I just you saying that I think I chose

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 October because it was also our anniversary of our first date. But I do love like I am actually like

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 an autumn colour. You are. And I like the autumn. I like the sort of warmth of it with the lighting

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 and not the like brightness of the sun so much. So everything got my food choices as well. Yeah.

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 Whole roast and everything went with that season like even for the reception drinks we had bubbles

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 but the other option was like a sparkling apple with cinnamon in like with it was a sparkling

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 apple gin with like cinnamon like trying to do like a winter you know not a pins as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

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 I went for like sort of a wintery spice kind of for the for the drink. So even you know you can

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 bring seasonality into everything. I mean the other thing that is a massive point of the seasons

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 is the daylight. Yes. Yeah. And I it fascinates me and I try and bring it up quite early on with my

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 couples when we're talking about marquees especially like in a venue it's easier to in the lighting.

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 In the height of summer it doesn't get dark till about ten o'clock at night so you will be dancing

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 in the daylight like us in our black tie. Yeah. Ten o'clock at night still. Yeah. And it's just

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 it's marrying those things together and it's using those to your advantage. Yeah. And thinking

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 about them rather than it being like an afterthought and yeah. And if you think about it everything

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 then we'll just you'll have to put less effort in for the he said yeah which is if you're thinking

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 about what's in season and the colours and everything then half the work of like choosing your design

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 is kind of already done so and like your menu and stuff you're not going to choose yeah like a light

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 chicken dish in the middle of winter you will go for something so thinking about it actually should

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 help you guide your and just make it slightly more effortless really because it can be a stressful

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 thing as we've said in the past like you want to try and make it as fun and enjoyable as you

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 possibly can planning something so lean into what you've got definitely but it I think it depends

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 doesn't it like you need to kind of go into it and be like right I want my wedding to be this style

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 with these kind of colours what time of year is going to suit that's yeah or you need to go into it

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 and go I want to get married in May what works well with me yeah yeah what yeah what's more important to

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 the the actual season or the date kind of and then yeah bring because even just thinking like about

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 what we had a bath and I just think like the woods fairy lights that worked in the autumn they got dark

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 yeah sooner or as it's cozy yeah whereas I've done bar weddings before on the height of summer

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 and they're so dark in cycling and outside yeah yeah and everyone wants to spend the time outside

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 it was black tie yeah and they ran an ice company oh wow so they had these amazing ice sculptures with

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 mowers inside then ice bar yeah I'm remembering that correctly yeah so the bar was made of ice

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 and they they had used it was just so different and so lovely and so magical in comparison to

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 everything else that I'd seen and it was because her sister got married in the height of summer and

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 she was like I want to be totally different on the other interesting thing they said and I think

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 you know whether it's such a huge thing that people worry about is she said well it's December

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 the weather's going to be bad so we plan for it and if it's good it's a brucey bonus that's literally

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 like my thoughts over the pessimist over here but we forget my day in October I was expecting rain

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 miserable cold and in the end we actually had a beautiful like really balmy October

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 you can't guarantee it no but I think so many people in their hopes on July beautiful sunshine

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 gee yeah and then obviously hailed in May yeah hailed in May I think April's a lovely time to get

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 married that is my personal view on things I think there's some really lovely flowers around

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 stocks sweet peas tulips yeah hard to work with but and unusual things as well like I feel like

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 it's really early on in the typical wedding season but there is so much beauty in that time of year

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 it's not too hot yes but the weather's got more potential to be nice at that point of the year than

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 it does into March I mean for me I think it's an ideal time yeah to get married that summer can be

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 one extreme or the other yeah you just don't know what you're getting nowadays and I actually are in a

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 you know in a space somewhere where the weather is a bit more predictable and you know you're going

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 to have a broader yeah it's not in the UK you're where there's probably more products yeah but I

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 think you need to lean into that it's a big consideration but it's one of those considerations that

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 conform part of the early planning when you're kind of discussing your mood boards your colors

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 your style your aesthetic the season should play a huge role within that definitely you've just

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 stolen the top tip oh I was going to ask for the top tip for the week but you have actually already

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 said it think about it for your date yeah think about the seasons and what impact that will have

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 before you book your date as you said either the season is important to you think about it

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 until you feel and vibe and foods and textures and colors from that season and date then or if

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 the date is more important then lean into the season yeah it's exactly so hopefully that's giving you

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 a few ideas on how to sort of think about seasonality when designing your wedding and next week we're

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 going on a school trip yeah yeah we're taking ourselves off to the lovely only nature reserve I know

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 I'm so excited I'm so excited about that it's such a beautiful place we look forward to speaking with

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 you then bye