Rose and Smith

Wedding & Events venue at The Tauherenikau Racecourse, Wairarapa, NZ

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Rose and Smith

Rose & Smith is more than an amazing venue; it’s more than fine food and authentic hospitality. Rose & Smith is the culmination of 20+ years’ experience in the wedding industry, 20 years of fine tuning what works and what doesn’t.

Rose & Smith was created to be the perfect wedding venue.

PAULA BEVEGE – OWNER & WEDDING PLANNER

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When booking Rose & Smith as your dream wedding venue, you can relax and really enjoy the wedding planning journey. This is only because booking Rose & Smith means you get Paula Bevege as your personal wedding planning guide. Paula is one of New Zealand’s most experienced and well-regarded wedding planners. Her vast knowledge and experience will ensure your day is stress free and enjoyable.

Paula Bevege

Paula@pbevents.co.nz
027 449 0025

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.

“Thank you for your patience. I honestly don't know what I would have done if I wasn't able to just flick you an email when I wasn't sure or needed some help.”

Olivia & Jack

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).

“Your recommendations for vendors were spot on! Phil made an incredible, personalised effort with our ceremony. Suzette, well I can’t even put into words how ridiculously talented she is! Sarah McEvoy, the photos speak for themselves! Sarah from Finom, just wow, she is such a talented baker!”

Dayna & Regan

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…

“Paula, you have been incredibly easy to work with and went above and beyond to bring our ideas to life. Thank you!”

Dayna & Regan

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.

“Your calming energy helped keep things under control and nothing was a problem, you made us both feel so comfortable and really made sure the day was about us and our friends and family.”

Tara-Lee & Luke

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.

“Thank you again so much for everything you did to help make our day exactly what we hoped it would be; joyful, relaxed, all about our friends, family and love”

Hannah & Charlie

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.

“We just want to relive the day over and over again. We now know why people renew their vows in the years to come! It's no exaggeration to say that it was the best day of our lives - we couldn't have asked for a better celebration of us as a couple.”

Ash & Kewa

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