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The bride, Dami, had reached out to us from the UK to refer another bride to us.

We were thrilled to be contracted for the job, and to our surprise, we received another call from her expressing interest in having us plan her own wedding as well.

Dami and Morakinyo graciously invited us to the beautiful city of Abeokuta, and our experience there was nothing short of amazing.

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At La' Heiress, we do everything we can to make your day perfect:

Part of what we do on the wedding day:
- Providing support and guidance to the couple throughout the day.
- Ensure Bridal party & parents' are having fun and well taken care of.
- Overseeing setup and decor arrangements
- Guide guests & address queries
- Ensure that guests are well taken care of
- Resolving any last-minute issues or emergencies
- Coordinating vendor schedules and timelines, ensuring that they stick to the plan.
- Coordinate grand entrances
- Managing any unexpected situations calmly and efficiently.
- Plus many more tasks! It's always a long but fulfilling day!


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The bride, Dami, had reached out to us from the UK to refer another bride to us.

We were thrilled to be contracted for the job, and to our surprise, we received another call from her expressing interest in having us plan her own wedding as well.

Dami and Morakinyo graciously invited us to the beautiful city of Abeokuta, and our experience there was nothing short of amazing. #EmDee23

Wedding planned and packaged by yours truly, La' Heiress Weddings

Want an amazing wedding too? Get in touch with us today: +234 708 766 8124

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Did you know that a whopping 70% of your wedding's success is directly influenced by the vendors you choose?


Yes, as your wedding planner, I'm there to guide, plan, and ensure everything runs smoothly, but the real magic happens when you choose vendors who resonate with your wedding dreams.


Don't choose vendors based on sentiments or cheaper options, look into their work on their business pages.. does it align with your vision?

Do NOT assume that they are good, Ensure that they're perfect for YOUR dream wedding!


La' Heiress Weddings is your go-to planner, ensuring your vendors match your budget and expectations seemlessly.

Contact Olamide on +234 708 766 8124 and let's craft your dream wedding together!
#TheAffordableluxuryWay #NigerianWedding

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When it comes to choosing wedding hymns to personalised your church wedding, there are some guiding principles you can follow to help you make the selection process easier…

But first, let me explain what a hymn is and why churches sing hymns at weddings.

1. What Are Hymns?
Hymns are religious songs or poems of praise to God or a god.

2. Why Are Hymns Sung At Weddings?

It is no surprise hymns are sung at weddings, as the songs are religious in nature and as a result, it seems perfect for a religious setting, especially weddings.

Singing hymns at a wedding is a traditional part of a religious ceremony…

Hymns are a fantastic way to break the wedding programme up, get your guests joining in, and personalising your ceremony.

HERE ARE SOME GUIDING PRINCIPLES TO HELP YOU PICK THE PERFECT HYMNS FOR YOUR WEDDING

3.  How Many Hymns Can Be Sung At A Nigerian Church/Joining Wedding Ceremony?

This is a personal choice. But it is preferable to limit the number to at most 3 or 4 hymns, especially if you don’t want the service prolonged. Plus you definitely don’t want to keep your guests for longer than necessary.

There are usually two to three hymns sung during Nigerian Church ceremonies.
– 1 Processional hymns
– 1, 2 or 3 Congregational hymns
– 1 Recessional hymns

1. The processional Hymn: This is the first hymn which comes at the beginning after the minister’s welcome.

2. The Congregational Hymn: This is the second hymn which is sung during or after the signing of the register. 2 or more hymns can be sung during the ceremony.

3. The Recessional Hymn: This is the last hymn right after the final blessing. In Nigeria, it is normally sung to usher the couple out of the church or ceremony.

Joining ceremonies are usually a shorter time duration than church ceremonies and it is advisable to keep the hymns to two or three at most.

TOP WEDDING HYMNS
1. GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS
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2. TO GOD BE THE GLORY
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3. BLESSED ASSURANCE
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4. GOD GIVE US CHRISTIAN HOMES
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5. SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS
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6. ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL
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7. IN CHRIST ALONE
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8. LOVE DIVINE, ALL THINGS EXCELLING
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Read the complete article and other educational wedding articles on my Nigerian Wedding Blog



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X.O.X.O Your Integrity Planner
Olamide~ The Heiress
Head Planner,
La' Heiress Weddings
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In as much as this is your wedding, you should understand that this is also a business.

As you plan your wedding, you will be faced with numerous decisions and working with different wedding professionals.

You will have some expectations of your wedding vendors and expect a level of Professionalism from your vendors, as they would of you as well.

To ensure a wedding day success, be sure to have a detailed contracts drafted out with each wedding professional.

Wedding professionals should offer wedding contracts, as they not only protect the bride, but they also protect the vendor.

Click link to read the full article posted by me on my Nigerian wedding blog.

Everything you should know about Wedding Contracts in Nigeria

8 REASONS WHY A NIGERIAN WEDDING VENDOR MAY DISAPPOINT YOU ON YOUR WEDDING DAY

1. Social Media Deception
There is no doubt that social media has helped a lot of vendors when it comes to letting people know what they do.

Social media can be a blessing to business owners, especially when it comes to visibility for vendors and helping clients with sourcing for the right vendors for their event.

While Instagram can be an easy platform to source for your Nigerian wedding vendors... you also need to remember that social media is also a make believe platform, where people basically post only what they want other people to perceive of them or their businesses.

What this means is that, a picture you see online, may not be what it truly is in real life. Same goes for some wedding vendors. They post beautiful professionally edited pictures for the gram, but it may not be what it is in real life. This may lead you to having a false impression of what their services truly is.

Like this isn't bad enough, some vendors go the extra mile to post images and videos of services that are not theirs to create a false representation of what they can actually do.

When a client falls victim of these vendors, they get disappointed and dissatisfied with their services, because what they were expecting wasn't what was delivered by the vendor.

2. Over- booked
Sometimes wedding vendors get multiple bookings for a particular date and may not have the necessary team to handle the multiple events booked for. So one event may suffer lapses. You can only pray and hope that it is not your event at the bottom of the line.

The best thing to do, is to continuously ask your vendor if they will be handling other jobs apart from yours for your said date.

If the answer is yes, ensure that they are convinced that they can handle the multiple jobs. You may even get them to sign a contract to this effect. If they do not sound convincing enough for you, then you may want to change that vendor.

3. Not experienced in the field
For instance, to become a planner in Nigeria, one does not necessarily need to train to become one. The impression is that once you have a client and can source for vendors online and bring them together, then you are good to go and we all know that planning an event is way more than just bringing vendors together...

Imagine a planner who just landed her first event... as a first timer with no training or experience whatsoever, she is bound to make some mistakes. These mistakes are not as a result of her wanting to disappoint her client, but from the fact that she has no experience whatsoever about what she is doing.


4. Not professional
Some Nigerian Wedding Vendors are just not professional and that is just what it is. They don't have any reputable work ethics and disappointment is in their blood. Some are just plain rude, while some may just have a lackadaisical attitude towards their business and just don't take their jobs seriously.


5. Too professional
These set of vendors act like they know more than the client. So instead of listening and accepting what the client wants, they do what they think is best for the client.

I once worked with a decorator who felt that what he was proposing was better than what the client wanted. Unknown to me (the planner), he had decided not to work with the moodboard that was created and given to him and worked with one that he had created in his head.

He did something completely different from what the client had wanted and different from the moodboard that was sent to him.

Needless to say, that it was a disaster, the decor looked beautiful but the fact remained that it wasn't what the client had wanted. Plus it disrupted all other things, like the colours altered with the caterers table settings etc...


6. Client's budget vs Client's expectations
Some clients tend to forget that negotiating with a vendor is not the same as pricing tomato in the grocery store. You don't price to the barest minimum. You ask for the lowest they are willing to go and beat it down a little more. Or just tell the vendor the budget you are working with and see if they are willing to work with the budget. The good thing is that there are lots of other vendors who offer the same services.

Some vendors may accept low prices from clients, just because they want to add another job to their portfolio. So they sometimes end up accepting whatever offer thrown at them and end up disappointing the client, because the amount paid cannot deliver on the client's expectations.


7. You don't listen to your wedding planner. Trust me, nobody wants a successful event more than your wedding planner. Some clients hire wedding planners to act as figure heads. They don't communicate necessary details with their planners, they book for vendors without communicating with their planner or they simply don't listen when their planners are trying to warn them about a particular vendor. They see these warnings as a personal attack on their choice of vendors.


8. Murphy's law
Murpy's law states that whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Which means that some things are just bound to happen and will happen anyway, despite the all the preparations. It may be that the traffic was particularly terrible on your big day or some other form of disappointment from the vendor's staff or even a car breakdown.

For more relatable wedding articles, visit our website https://www.la-heiress.com/blog

You Know I Love You
X.O.X.O Your Integrity Planner
Olamide~ The Heiress

8 REASONS WHY A NIGERIAN WEDDING VENDOR MAY DISAPPOINT YOU ON YOUR WEDDING DAY

1. Social media deception
There is no doubt that social media has helped a lot of vendors when it comes to letting people know what they do.

Social media can be a blessing to business owners, especially especially it comes to visibility for vendors and helping clients with sourcing for the right vendors for their event.

While Instagram can be an easy platform to source for your Nigerian wedding vendors... you also need to remember that social media is also a make believe platform, where people basically post only what they want other people to perceive of them or their businesses.

What this means is that, a picture you see online, may not be what it truly is in real life. Same goes for some wedding vendors. They post beautiful professionally edited pictures for the gram, but it may not be what it is in real life. This may lead you to having a false impression of what their services truly is.

Like this isn't bad enough, some vendors go the extra mile to post images and videos of services that are not theirs to create a false representation of what they can actually do.

When a client falls victim of these vendors, they get disappointed and dissatisfied with their services, because what they were expecting wasn't what was delivered by the vendor.

2. Over- booked
Sometimes wedding vendors get multiple bookings for a particular date and may not have the necessary team to handle the multiple events booked for. So one event may suffer lapses. You can only pray and hope that it is not your event at the bottom of the line.

The best thing to do, is to continuously ask your vendor if they will be handling other jobs apart from yours for your said date.

If the answer is yes, ensure that they are convinced that they can handle the multiple jobs. If they do not sound convincing enough, you may want to change that vendor. You may even sign a contract to this effect

3. Not experienced in the field
For instance, to become a planner in Nigeria, one does not necessarily need to train to become one. The impression is that once you have a client and can source for vendors online and bring them together, then you are good to go and we all know that planning an event is way more than just bringing vendors together...

Imagine a planner who just landed her first client... as a first timer with no training or experience whatsoever, she is bound to make some mistakes. This mistake is not as a result of her wanting to disappoint her client, but from the fact that she has no experience whatsoever about what she is doing.


4. Not professional
Some Nigerian Wedding Vendors are just not professional and that is just what it is. They don't have any reputable work ethics and disappointment is in their blood. Some are just plain rude, while some may just have a lackadaisical attitude towards their business and just not take their jobs seriously.


5. Too professional
These set of vendors act like they know more than the client. So instead of listening and accepting what the client wants, they do what they think is best for the client ���‍♀️

I once worked with a decorator who felt that what he was proposing was better than what the client wanted. Unknown to me (the planner), he had decided not to work with the moodboard that was created and given to him and worked with one that he had created in his head.��

He did something completely different from what the client had wanted ��‍♀️� and different from the moodboard that was sent to him.

Needless to say, that it was a disaster, the decor looked beautiful but the fact remained that it wasn't what the client had wanted. Plus it disrupted all other things, like the colours altered with the caterers table settings etc...


6. Client's budget vs Client's expectations
Some clients tend to forget that pricing a vendor is not the same as pricing tomato in the grocery store. You don't price to the barest minimum. You ask for the lowest they are willing to go and beat it down a little more. Or just tell the vendor the budget you are working with and see if they are willing to work with the budget.

Some vendors may accept low prices from clients, just because they want to add something to their portfolio. So they sometimes end up accepting whatever offer thrown at them and end up disappointing the client, because the amount paid cannot deliver on the client's expectations.


7. You don't listen to your wedding planner. Trust me, nobody wants a successful event more than your wedding planner. Some clients hire wedding planners to act as figure heads. They don't communicate necessary details with their planners, they book for vendors without communicating with their planner or they simply don't listen when their planners are trying to warn them about a particular vendor. They see these warnings as a personal attack on their choice of vendors.


8. Murphy's law
Murpy's law states that whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Which means that some things are just bound to happen and will happen anyway, despite the all the preparations. It may be that the traffic was particularly terrible on your big day or some other form of disappointment from the vendor's staff or even a car breakdown.

For more relatable wedding articles, visit our website https://www.la-heiress.com/blog

You Know I Love You
X.O.X.O Your Integrity Planner
Olamide~ The Heiress
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Our wedding made it here! La' Heiress weddings for the win. When you have a badass DJ, this will be the outcome!

@laheiress

Just Budget Weddings is devoted to making the dream weddings of our small budget couples come true. It is a diffusion brand of La' Heiress Hospitality Services. This was where the passion for planning weddings stemmed from.

Tell a friend to tell a friend!

Contact us today!
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Pittbaby:
I am surprised at the number of posts stating "get a wedding planner" if you can afford it fine, but let us be realistic most people can not. besides unless you are really trying to have an over the top wedding all wedding planners do is utilize a list of vendors . Coordination, budgeting and on the day supervising of activities can be done by a reliable friend or family member. Please prove me wrong and quote one tried and tested wedding planner who charges less than 200K and I will be the first to give her/him a call

You can call us. Check us out on IG: @laheiress @justbudgetweddings We would be glad to handle your big day without you stressing. I can assure you that it will be worth it.

Whatsapp: 08187003137

Please add @ebeneerruth on whatsapp 08023817225. He creates the most amazing logos. You wont be disappointed.

#GloriaInFizzoLand

#chossy16

More feedbacks!

What's a movie premiere without some popcorn, we had to make branded popcorn wraps for our couple! #TeamLaHeiressForTheWin


This is what we do! We are wedding planners with a passion for excellence, be it luxury or budget weddings, we have got our clients covered!

Enjoy...


If you like what you see, contact us today and lets turn your wedding dreams into a one time reality you will never forget!

We are the best at what we do!


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More....

We even gave our hostesses names of famous actors in the world... Custom made plate numbers, nollywood walk of fame, to our guestbook corner (where guests can write their best wishes for the couple... Endless ideas from the stables of La' Heiress Hospitality Services.


We are the beat at what we do, we dont just say it, our works prove it!

We requested for some of their favourite movies of all time and added touches here and their with their favourite movies...

From toppers for small chops to table numbers to their wedding programmes. We even created their own movie cover using their prewedding pictures.


Lets create the wedding of your dreams.


Contact us today!

08187003137 (WhatsApp Only)
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When a client tells us they want a themed wedding, we are always super excited because it allows us explore our creative minds and bring out the very best and superceeding their expectations.

That was the case with one of our september couples. We came up with their wedding hashtag #GloriaInFizzoLand, we created a wedding logo for them to fit the wedding theme. We added lots of complimentary services. And yes, we do this to make our clients have the wedding of their dreams.

We looked for a cinema house for our couple to take their prewedding pictures. It was a fantastic experience and we loved every bit of it!

Enjoy the details as we present #GloriaInFizzoLand

We love doing what we do best.... Putting a smile on our clients face.

More feedbacks from our satisfied clients...

We love when our clients/customers sends us feedbacks. It helps us to know where to improve and it also makes us happy, knowing that we were able to make another bride's wedding dreams come true.


We are wedding planners and we are passionate!


Let's Plan your day the La' Heiress way!

Contact:
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More pictures from the archive of Osogom and Charles. A wedding planned by yours truly. La' Heiress Hospitality Services.

We sincerely apologise to our nairaland supporters, we have been super swamped with work for over a couple of months now.

We are back and we are about to flood your timelines with what we have been up to.

In the meantime, you can check our our social media pages...


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Website: www.laheiress.com
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This wedding was in October. Osogom and Charles. She wanted a glamorous wedding and we gave her just that.


Selected the right vendors, as well as sticking to her wedding budget so she doesnt run into debts afterwards.

We are glad we gave her the wedding of her dreams.

You can also add us up on whatsApp for further enquiries.

08187003137

Hello, we are wedding planners. And we are affordable too. You can check out our social media pages.

IG: @laheiress
Facebook: www.facebook.com/laheiress hospitality services
Website: www.laheiress.com
www.justbudgetweddings.com


We would love to be a part of your big day.

Thank you very much. Please add me up on whatsapp. 08187003137. Or you can check on his instagram page for his contact details.

CircleOfWilis:
Lovely...that part where u said it's strictly by I.V , how were u able to handle the overbearing in-laws

Yes, it was a strictly by invitation wedding. We had bouncers and at some point, they did not allow some friends to come in until we told our coordinator to tell them to let them in.

It is also important that family and friends are fully aware so they don't feel the urge to bring a partner before asking. I had friends call me to ask whether it was okay to bring a friend or if they could get an extra IV.

We printed just 200 invitation cards and each invitation card had the guests names on it.

sinegy:
Love! Love!! Love this lady
This breakdown would go a long way to help intending couples
God bless your home

Thank you very much and Amen. I really hope it does because the struggle to have a wedding above their means is really real. I deal with this almost everyday as a Wedding Planner.

fendorf:
Lovely ...God bless your union

Thank you very much