It’s time to hear from the wedding experts!

In a series of special guest interviews over the next month, we’re going to feed your ears all the expert insight you need from people in the alternative wedding bracket. Today’s guest, Kate Beavis, is founder of Magpie Wedding: the ultimate go-to guide for non-traditional and vintage weddings. We discuss how to find inspiration for a non-traditional wedding, what do you do if your period lands on your wedding day and where the wedding industry still needs to pick up the pace a bit on its awareness of LGBTQ+ marriages and non-heteronormative couples.

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Guest Special 1 length: 40 mins 03 seconds

Introducing Kate Beavis (00:48)

• Owner of Magpie Wedding, a wedding resource for brides seeking an alternative luxury wedding or a more eco-friendly wedding.
• Previous vintage shop owner and runs the first Vintage Wedding Fair in the UK.

Where to go for inspiration on non-traditional weddings (06:18)

Heteronormative weddings / straight weddings (08:30)

• In these kinds of weddings, there is still a tendency towards the female doing more planning and having more marketing aimed at her.
• How can we make wedding planning more of a joint venture?

Wedding taboos (11:35)

• What to do when you’ve got your period on your wedding day?
• Why don’t we talk about wedding periods?

Love is Love (13:37)

• How can the industry be more LGBTQ+ conscious
• The one dimensional image of the bride denies disabled brides, black brides, bigger brides, mature brides

Wellbeing over weight loss (19:51)

• Can we encourage a healthier body image in wedding marketing?

Financial implications of weddings (23:30)

• Tips on a pulling together a great budget wedding
• Picnic hampers, pot luck dinners and cut the DJ
• It’s your day!

Ethical / eco-conscious weddings (27:25)

• Hiring, making, borrowing wedding paraphernalia
• Macrame at your wedding!
• "Something borrowed, something blue”

Corona effect on wedding industry (30:20)

• How to diversify your income and spread your workload.
• Tips on how to forge more working time as a parent during the holidays: outsourcing.

And you can find Kate Beavis and Magpie Wedding at:

www.magpiewedding.com

@magpiewedding

Thank you for listening!