Heaven Sent: The Angels Events

By combining understated elegance, timeless design, attention to detail, and the personalities of each and every couple, The Angels Events has got your perfect wedding day all wrapped up.

Eleanor Richardson is the founder and director of UNVEILED Network Member The Angels Events, a full-service luxury wedding and events planning agency based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

Eleanor has always enjoyed creating fun, interesting and beautiful settings where people can feel excited, happy, and relaxed. She loves playing host and being surrounded by her loved ones, so this career path was always going to be a natural one for her to pursue.

After attending an incredible 21^st birthday celebration event quite a number of years ago, she can still remember how utterly blown away she was by the excitement it created. She then put this passion to good use, planning vari

ous high-end events across London for a few years, but it wasn’t until she made the move back up north and spotted a gap in the market in our region that The Angels Events was born.

Here’s Eleanor to tell us more about her talent for ‘finding things’, and how her fabulous business delivers on your expectations – and so much more.

Images provided by The Angels Events with thanks to Jeff Ascough, Ryann Lindsey Photography, Sarah Taylor Photo & Film, Damien Bailey Photography, Dominic Wright Photography, Chris Hanley Photography and Avenue White Photography, in order of appearance.

BENEFITS OF HIRING A PLANNER

Eleanor says: You only get married once so how will you know if a caterer, florist, stylist, band, DJ, photographer, videographer, or marquee supplier is the one for you?

You can type ‘wedding catering’ into Google and be faced with hundreds of options. How do you narrow this down to just one? The simple answer is that you hire a planner to do the leg work for you.

We work with our suppliers day in day out, so we know what their natural style is, what their strengths are, and really what their parameters are to achieve their absolute best work.

For example, in the days of Pinterest it is easy for a couple to ask a florist to “recreate this please”, but if you ask a very traditional styled florist to copy a wild woodland arrangement, you aren’t going to get the best result.

With a planner working on your team we will book the best florist in the style that you are looking for. The same is true for caterers. Whether you want a 7-course tasting menu or a fun and interactive barbeque station, we will put the right company forward for the job.

Before we start the planning process, and throughout, we get to know each couple. We find out what they love and hate, their family heritage, and special things in their journey as a couple that we can nod to through the small details of their wedding. We then use this information to select and position all of the suppliers and elements that make up your wedding. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to wedding planning, and no one style. Everyone is different and it is so important to us that your wedding day reflects your personalities.

Also, as a newly engaged couple, knowing how to prioritise your budget is tough. As a starting point The Angels Events sit down with you and create a ‘summary budget’, to manage your expectations and assess how best to divide your budget between the key elements that make up your day. Once this is agreed, we source and present you with the suppliers that fit your budget and your dream wedding day.

When you hire The Angels Events, we are on hand throughout the entire process, from that initial enquiry call through to sending out Thank You notelets after the big day. There is no task too big or small, and we’re there to be as involved as you wish for us to be.

Come the week of, and even the day of, your wedding, the last thing you need is to be worrying about things like whether the celebrant has arrived yet, if the band has sound checked, or if the marquee is okay in the wind. Having a planner means you can simply wake up and enjoy every step of the day with your loved ones.

ASSISTING COUPLES

Simply put, we can translate your dreams into reality. We listen to your thoughts, we get to know you as individuals and as a couple, and quite often we get to know your family quite well too!

We give you new ideas that you may have never considered – we always say “you only know what you know” which might sound silly but if you’re getting married for the first time then you only have the experience of other weddings you’ve attended.

We have a wealth of knowledge and experience, and a passion for weddings that means we are fantastically positioned to guide you through the process with creative and innovative new ideas.

We also source, liaise with, contract and pay all of your suppliers, so you only have to deal with one point of contact – your dedicated wedding planner, who removes all of the headache and stress from the planning process for you.

A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS

Our couples can be as hands on, or hands off, as they wish to be. Each client is different – some have no spare time at all and want to hand the whole wedding over with only a few early design meetings. Others want a planner to chat with several times a week and bounce ideas off. Some couples want five choices per wedding element to choose from, others want the planner to make the best decision on their behalf. Whatever the level of involvement you want, we work and adapt to this.