Nina and Vik: A Dubai Real Wedding Story

Welcome to Yes! exclusive weddings & events blog entry, I’m Elfi Bösinger, CEO of our Dubai branch with other offices in Germany and South Africa. We are the wedding styling and coordinating company that will make a difference in your life as a bride and groom.

Working with clients from different cultural backgrounds, we like to understand each couple’s story and what matters to them. Planning a wedding is personal. Trust and a shared understanding help the couple and planning team work together.

Nina and Vik came to us four weeks before the wedding. Both were working full time, and coordinating the remaining details alongside family and social commitments had become difficult. Nina was well organised and had already completed many tasks, but the final coordination still needed support.

It’s completely ok to arrange your own wedding as a bride or ask as many of your friends and family members to contribute their time and resources, but make sure you have the time to coordinate them. It’s also ok to ask a planner to take care of only some portions of the planning, as long as it is clear what has to be done.

Wedding planning works best when each supplier understands their responsibility and timing. Couples who find the final coordination difficult can ask a professional planner to complete a defined part of the work. The scope should be clear so the couple knows which decisions and tasks remain with them.

Some couples want a planner to compare suppliers and manage the project from the beginning. Others, like Nina and Vik, prefer to complete much of the planning themselves and ask for help later. Either approach can work when the planner’s responsibility, the couple’s decisions and the available budget are clear.

The final weeks can involve supplier confirmations, guest changes, payments, schedules and practical decisions at the same time. An honest review of the remaining workload helps a couple decide whether they need coordination support.

If you know that planning takes about 100-250 hours then you know the pressure that we are under when clients come to us at short notice. The advice I can give to any couple is to start planning as early as possible to save the date, the venue, needs to read and of course inform to make sure this event is shared with as many loved ones you want to have around you on that day as possible.

Generally, I can see a huge difference in the planning behavior e.g. in Europe and in the Middle East. The pace of life is much faster in Dubai, than in another European city, which also results in the inquiries typically reaching us with less lead time than in our German branch, where couples start approaching us up to 1,5 years prior to their wedding.

Coming back to our lovely couple Nina and Vik from Dubai, they both grew up in the UK, but only met in 2012 celebrating the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, where they were chatting away the afternoon and went on the first date to the One and Only, The Palm. This venue is the anchor in their relationship and a very special location indeed, as the proposal in 2015 was also arranged by Vik at the Prive 101at the One and Only, The Palm. Vik was so confident that Ninan would say yes, that he invited all their friends and family to unforgettable engagement right after the proposal!

No wonder the wedding had to take place at this beautiful, intimate hotel, offering an almost private outdoor garden for about 70 guests for the black tie dinner and within walking distance a charming ballroom with a terrace for the after dinner reception with a dance floor.

We were planning three days of celebration for the couple. The colours for the consular wedding were crisp white and blue, the evening reception at the One and Only was keep in elegant gold and red and the party on a yacht was also keep in red, the colour of love.

We have organized the following items to make this wedding affair truly memorable and to keep it in line with what has been arranged by the couple:

• wedding floral arrangements for all 3 days
• stationary
• candy bar
• photographer
• videographer
• sound and light
• DJ for the reception and on the yacht
• guest favours
• coordination of the yacht
• guest transportation and limousine service
• wedding coordination on the day of the events

The bride later shared this feedback: “Elfi and Sylvia were very methodical and well organised. They took the pressure away from us and helped us to relax and enjoy our big day. They came up with some great ideas to add special touches to our special day, which were well remembered by all our guests!”

Click Here to know more about Yes! Exclusive Wedding & Events.