Weddings
Rose & Smith is an elegantly restored teahouse, surrounded by lush Wairarapa bush and landscapes. The venue itself offers a blank canvas of rustic style with a relaxed intimate ambience. Whether you’re dreaming of a relaxed outdoor ceremony under the trees, candlelit family style dining experience, or dancing the night away under the stars, Rose & Smith offers it all.
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“The whole experience was really easy and seamless. There was a storm on our wedding day, so a few changes had to be made at the last minute. Paula was there to make all of those changes and manage all the things that we didn’t have time to manage.”
Alana & Cal
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Paula Bevege
Owner & wedding planner
Booking Rose & Smith ensures a stress-free, actually enjoyable planning experience.
Owner / Director / Wedding planner Paula provides all Rose & Smith couples with a personalised, in-depth planning experience to ensure their day turns out exactly as they’ve dreamt it. Her couples have donned her the “wedding fairy god-mother” for her wealth of industry knowledge, trusted relationships with the best NZ vendors and ability to solve any issue or question thrown her way.
Paula took everything she learnt from over 20 years of planning weddings all over New Zealand to create her own perfect venue that is set up to be aesthetically, a blank canvas for all of your styling dreams and functionally, an organised down to every last detail planning journey to ensure a seamless, fun, and memorable wedding day for each of her couples.
The Planning Process
Budgets
Start with a wrong foot here and it’s hard to create the perfect event. Paula will work with you both to put together a comprehensive budget using her inside industry knowledge and contacts. This will eliminate surprises and costly mistakes. This is the first and most important step to ensure your dream wedding day.
Timeline and Planning
At the start of your journey Paula will create a plan with monthly goals to ensure everything is organised when it needs to be, and you’ll always know you’re on track.
Supplier Recommendations
A major key to a successful wedding is working with people that will work well with you. Paula is an expert in selecting the right vendor for you. Paula also runs the annual Wellington Wedding Show so has a personal connection to almost all of Wellington’s wedding industry vendors (and many of NZ’s).
Styling
Twenty years of creating NZ’s most stylish weddings, and sourcing the products to do so, means Paula had some storage issues at home!
You are invited to use any of Paula’s styling items free of charge to create the look for your day. The onsite styling storage room is a favourite of our brides filled with silver, brass, crystal, glass, pottery, vases, candelabras, baskets, blackboards, the list goes on…
Etiquette and Advice
Paula’s vast experience will ensure the planning process is stress free and enjoyable. Wedding involve a large circle of people, family and friends and this can create some tricky questions and dilemmas. Paula is here to help and offer some objective advice based on years of experience.
The Runsheet
Paula is famous for her runsheets. It sounds counter intuitive but to create a relaxed wedding day that just flows effortlessly, you must have an extremely organised and detailed runsheet. The runsheet is shared with all vendors, family and bridal parties so everyone is on the same page.
Wedding Day and Rehearsal Management
Paula will not only oversee all of the set-up so you know everything’s perfect, she will co-ordinate the rehearsal and be on hand to event manage your wedding day keeping everything running as planned. Paula’s favourite part of the day is helping our brides out of the car and checking everyone is perfect before they walk down the aisle.
“Embarking on a wedding journey as a queer couple was a slightly daunting process, and not necessarily a straightforward one. Paula and the team made us feel welcome from day one, and we are so grateful for their love and support. We can’t thank them enough.”
Connor & Kevin
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