Fearon May Events is an expert when it comes to backyard and estate weddings. When you are planning backyard weddings you need the wedding to run like a wedding venue. You don’t want your wedding to turn into another family backyard BBQ. Bringing in a wedding planner that is well educated in event facilities is a great way to help assure that your wedding functions like a wedding and not like a social gathering. Depending on who’s backyard it is, whether your parents, your home or a friends house who ever the homeowner is will always end up like they are the host and will be worrying about everything, leaving them missing out on the party. That’s why if you bring in Fearon May Events we can help you plan a smooth event that will allow the home owner and all guests to have a great time, stress free.
Fearon started her career as a banquet server, then banquet captain, then event coordinator, working from the bottom up. Working at a country club she got to experience over 1,000 weddings. She then started managing the wedding facility where she managed a staff of 30 people. We know how many staff members you need, where the bar should go, how many glasses you need for the bar, table sizes, rental items, how the wedding should be set and so much more. When it comes to backyard weddings you don’t need someone to come in and just make it pretty, you need a planner that can come in and make the backyard function like an event facility. We also excel at flipping a backyard wedding. For example the wedding pictured below we had setup for the ceremony, we then moved the guests to the front yard for cocktail hour while we turned over the entire space to reception tables with ambiance lighting. It’s like magic!
We will even be there to remind you to turn your sprinklers off the day before! Or show you how to get ride of all those mosquitos!
Why should you hire Fearon May Events to help you plan your Backyard Wedding?
We can help you create a custom floor plan based on the backyard layout. This will help you with the over all planning and seating chart. Having both the ceremony and reception space might not always seem possible in your backyard. We specialize in turning a space with in an hour and can help you create both the ceremony and reception space. It takes a team of people but we have accomplished changing a ceremony of 150 into a fabulous reception while the guests enjoyed cocktail hour in the front yard. Anything is possible with Fearon May Events.
We can educate you on the right questions to ask when meeting with Caterers. There are so many things to ask when meeting with a caterer to make sure they can handle what you are needing for your wedding. We have catering question forms especially for backyard weddings.
Parking at backyard weddings can be difficult. We will work with your neighbors and valet companies to figure out the best options for parking at your wedding.
Cleaning up is something most weddings don’t think about. Everyone always thinks about the setup but they also don’t realize how much clean up is involved in a backyard wedding. At the end of the night when everyone has had a great time and a few drinks the last thing you want your family doing is cleaning up and breaking down. However items like linens, chair pads and other items can’t be left out over night in the dew. Which means they all need to be broken down that night. We work with the staff and help to make sure everything is broken down for you. We help to make sure all your personal items are boxed up and put inside as well as your gifts.
We can help you with vendor referrals that specialize in backyard weddings. There are even vendors that you might not think of like portable restrooms or trash removal services.
We also are experts in design. When planning a backyard wedding you have a blank canvas and you don’t have other wedding pictures from the venue to go off of. That is why we can offer you a full design package that will help you with the over all design of your wedding. We have the resources to find the rental items you need to create the look. We also can help you arrange a mock up table design or visual concept for you to see what the design will look like. We also create powerful storyboards that will help you visualize the over all look. Our brides love this. It really gives them a chance to see all aspects of the wedding through a story board. Everyone is visual and loves to see pictures!
Have a pool in your backyard? We specialize in covering up pools with awesome dance floors or staging. We can help you create more space and work with the professionals to make sure everything is installed correctly so it doesn’t damage your pool.
We are always on the computer, IPhone or Ipad and make it very easy to get a hold of us with in twenty four hours. We are text friendly. We text a lot of pictures while out shopping or ideas that we see to our clients so they can be involved as much as possible in the planning process.
We have a large inventory of items exclusively for our clients. Why buy a card box when we have 5 different ones to choose from. We offer card boxes, ring pillows or ring lanterns, flower girl baskets and other small items complimentary for our backyard weddings. Our inventory will save you money in the long run and help you from having to buy so many items.
We create a Pinterest Board for each one of our clients that we share with you. This a great way for your post pictures of things you like and for us to get a good idea of what you are wanting for your wedding. We call it a dream board! Pin away on everything you dream about having at your wedding.