The Knot - The TV show
"The Knot" - world famous for its advice to Brides & Grooms on the planning of their Wedding Day has a TV program that continues their education in style and elegance for all to see.
Sunday afternoon while still recuperating from Saturday night’s wonderful wedding reception, I came across a show entitled "My Celebrity Wedding with The Knot."
The concept of this program is that "The Knot" helps a Bridal Couple create a beautiful Wedding Day in the style of a celebrity Wedding Day that the couple wishes to duplicate.
The show I viewed, a couple wanted to have a wedding day in the style of Christina Aguilera and her music producer husbands.
"The Knot" went all out to give this couple a beautiful event that was very similar to the Reception that Christina and her husband had. The hired the best flouriest, room decorator, caterer, and the best cake designer to recreate the perfect reception.
The program was one hour long where they went into great dept to what it takes to pull together this event for the couple except when it came to the Entertainment portion of the night.
They didn't show anything of how they picked the Entertainment or the importance of choosing the best Entertainment to also help create special moments during the reception.
At any event like this the Entertainment, be it a DJ or a Band is one of the most important portions to creating and enjoying a elegant, sophisticated, romantic, memorable and successful celebration.
It won’t matter how beautiful the room looks, or how delicious the menu or the cake was if the entertainment is less then desirable.
Your Entertainment is really in control of approximately eighty percent of the entire day. They create a schedule for the event that will dictate the flow, atmosphere and elegance of the event. They will make very important introductions, announcements and of course playing the appropriate music to inspire all your guests to laugh, dance and really have a fun time.
“The Knot”, like most Bridal magazines, TV shows and other periodicals designed for Bridal couples focus on the importance of the food, cake, flowers and decorations which for the most part have very little to do with the over all success of the event.
Here is an example from the show I was watching. They went to great lengths to plan the “Look” and “Feel” of the room for the event to make it a duplicate of Christina Aguilera’s but they didn’t even plan to have the Bride and Groom arrive to the Ceremony/Reception in style.
They showed the Bride in her beautiful, very expensive dress get into a New York City cab to go to the Ceremony/Reception. If you have ever been in a cab, it is the last place you want to be sitting while wearing a $10,000 Wedding Dress.
In one year from the reception will anyone really remember the flowers or the decorations? Probably not, but they will remember the Entertainment be it good or bad.
A wedding reception by nature is a “party” and the guests expect to have fun and dance the night away. You need to choose the best qualified entertainer that you can. This may require reorganizing your budget to allocate more of the budget funds to the entertainment and less to the items that are important but not as important to the success of your event as the Entertainment is.
I hope that in the future “The Knot” will take into consideration the importance of the Entertainment to the true success of a joyous occasion.
Jeff Richards: Party Time Productions