Ok, with a bit of prompting from my good friend Nick, thought I had better get back into this blogging thing.
Ever notice how time just runs away? Ever been at an event (a wedding maybe) were time couldn’t go fast enough?
Timing of entertainment at an event is very important and often overlooked. I was once told that the average attention span of an adult is 20 minutes, sometimes I wonder if it is that long. Sure, you can sit through a whole movie and not get bored, but the content is changing often within seconds, not minutes or hours. If you are planning an event like a wedding you need to be considering how to keep the guests involved from the time they arrive for the ceremony till they leave at the end of the night. In New Zealand this could span upto 10-12 hours so 1 or 2 entertainment highpoints are not likely to be sufficient to outweigh the extended periods of potential boredom.
Over the next few posts I will introduce some of the things we do to keep people involved and change the mood or feeling at various points throughout the ceremony and reception.