Let's Plan Your Wedding!

Episódios

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  Episode 8: Preparing For Your Wedding Weekend 03.10.2026 20min

  In the Let's Plan Your Wedding finale, Abby and Tamar go week by week through the last 2 months leading up to your wedding and open the episode with the ultimate secret on how to ensure your wedding is a huge success! They cover managing RSVP stragglers, seating assignments, final fittings, pack-ups, vendor confirmations and all of the little details you'll need to cover a few weeks beforehand to make your wedding weekend is stress free. Their final game is Ready or Not, a game they pla...
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  Episode 7: Menu Planning & Tenting 20.09.2026 33min

  Fish as your entrée - does it stink or is it great? Buffet because it's cheaper - wait, is it? To floor or not to floor a tent... Episode 7 is everything you need to know about menu planning and tenting your wedding. We start with a deep on menu planning — where to actually start when you're building a menu, how to talk to your catering manager so you get their best work instead of their standard PDF, and the fees that automatically add 30%+ to your bill before you've changed a th...
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  Episode 6: Wedding Design 20.09.2026 28min

  This episode is all about how to bring your wedding vision to life! In Episode 6 we show you how to discover your own original design direction, how to execute on it, and why we hate scrolling on Instagram for wedding inspo... but don’t forget to follow us @letsplanpodcast ;) We will walk you through how to find your design direction, starting with a Pinterest board and no filter at all! We will take you through floor planning, scale, and talk about the design decisions that are m...
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  Episode 5: Wedding Invitations & Printed Materials 20.09.2026 35min

  Did you know that saying “please rsvp” is grammatically incorrect?! And what does “black tie optional” even mean? In episode five, we get into all things invitations - wording, timing, postage, and the etiquette mistakes most don’t even know they’re making! Special guest Lisa Wyatt from Mark Harris Stationers has been designing wedding invitations for decades and she’s in our podcast office today to help you design yours. The paper and ink color are the easy parts. Lisa is here with us to wal...
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  Episode 4: Ceremony & Flow of Events 20.09.2026 24min

  Do you know what makes a good wedding great? We do, and by the end of this episode you will too! (Psst! It's the flow of events!) In this episode, we break down the flow of events: the minute-by-minute run of show that separates a wedding people talk about for years from one that quietly loses steam. We start with ceremony planning: who can legally marry you if you're not in a place of worship, the core elements of a ceremony if you're designing it yourself, how to use readings and traditions...
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  Episode 3: Timeline & Choosing Your Wedding Date 20.09.2026 24min

  You don’t pick the date, the date picks you! Most couples pick a date and then find out which vendors are available. We do it the other way around — and this episode tells you why. In this episode we walk you through why we create a wedding ‘date matrix’ to help our clients find the perfect wedding date. Then we get into your timeline and checklist of what to do weekly and monthly, whether you’re planning for 14 weeks or 14 months. We’ll talk about the common threads about p...
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  Episode 2: Let's Plan Your Budget! 18.09.2026 33min

  Let’s plan YOUR budget! Everyone has a number in their head that they want to spend on their wedding. And we bet you have already had some stressful moments thinking about budget. Whatever your budget is, in this episode we walk you through the full allocation of your budget, line by line: what is allocated to food and beverage, entertainment, design, photographer, etc., and what happens to those ratios when your budget runs smaller or much larger. We also get into the things nobo...
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  Episode 1: You’re Engaged! Now What? 17.09.2026 31min

  In our first meeting together, we will share the things you need to do before you can even get started with planning. We will share the critical conversations you need to have with your significant other and “stakeholders” before you make any initial decisions. Then, we will tell you how to build a guest list across two families, how to land on a bottom line budget, and why you shouldn't book a venue or a single vendor until both numbers have been established! Plus, the Rules of Engagem...
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  Introduction: Let's Plan Your Wedding with Abby and Tamar 17.09.2026

  Welcome to Let's Plan Your Wedding, the podcast where we are YOUR wedding planners, and every episode is a planning meeting just between us. Over the last 25 years, Abby Gordon and Tamar Frieze have planned New England's most celebrated weddings through their acclaimed company, Two Eight Four Weddings & Events. From intimate gatherings at private estates to elaborate seven-figure weddings in tents, museums, ballrooms and beyond, Abby and Tamar (and Abby’s mother, wedding plann...