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Cut the Cake

Written by: Melanie James & Tania Hall
  • Summary

  • Welcome to the Cut The Cake Podcast, where we are here to help you navigate the wonderful, yet sometimes overwhelming, world of wedding planning.

    In this podcast you'll go behind the scenes on the wedding industry with us, Melanie and Tania, two wedding-obsessed girls from Melbourne, Australia. With over 20 years of combined experience in the wedding and events industry, we bring you no-nonsense advice, industry secrets, and plenty of laughs along the way.

    Melanie, the coffee-loving, fun-obsessed wedding planner, stylist, and coordinator, will be your go-to for all things weddings. While Tania, the creative director and expert in design, will bring your wedding day vision to life through beautiful stationery and signage.

    Together, we'll tackle hot wedding topics, have informal and fun chats with leading wedding vendors, and share insights and answers to all your burning wedding questions. No BS, just real talk about planning and enjoying your special day.

    So, if you're feeling overwhelmed, elbow deep in a tub of ice cream, and in need of some wedding intel, subscribe to Cut the Cake on your favourited streaming platform. And don't forget to slide into our DMs on Instagram @cutthecakepodcast or email us at hello@cutthecake.com.au with all your burning wedding questions.

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Episodes
  • Swipe Your Way to the Perfect Wedding: A Conversation with The Best Wedding App
    May 13 2024

    With many couples finding love on dating apps, the concept of planning a wedding through a similar platform seems like a natural next step - yes? Enter The Best Wedding App! The Best Wedding App encourages couples to swipe right for their favored wedding vendors, just as they would for a prospective love match on a dating app. But it's not just about the swiping; it's about planning your wedding with ease, simplicity and convenience!

    In this episode of cut the cake, we have the fabulous Charis White, an experienced wedding celebrant joining us who is also one of the founders of The Best Wedding App. We discuss exactly what The Best Wedding App offers not only couples, but also wedding vendors. How the app works when couples are matched with their chosen vendors. And what makes this app truly unique in the area of wedding directories. So, here is Charis from the Best Wedding App.

    About The Best Wedding App + Charis White

    The Best Wedding App is made with love by Charis White. Charis is a Melbourne based celebrant and has been in the wedding industry for over 15 years. Throughout her time in the wedding industry, she have discovered a lot of things about the industry, advertising, and the way couples plan their weddings.

    With the Best Wedding App, Charis wanted to create a platform with a difference, so she hatched a plan to build a fun, modern and hassle-free app to streamline wedding planning for all budgets and help vendors grow their business without breaking the bank. After 3 years of working with top-notch developers to bring this dating style app to life, The Best Wedding App is finally here and it is the match-maker you never knew you needed.

    Get the Best Wedding App
    Website: https://www.thebestweddingapp.com/
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebestweddingapp/


    About Melanie
    Mel is a coffee-loving, too-loud laughing, Melbourne based wedding planner, stylist and coordinator bringing the #skillz approved by Sia to your open-air aisle, outside the city (yes sirly - she has worked with Sia!) Altering managing world-class events in sport and entertainment (think the Australian Open and Sir Paul McCartney), Melanie has rolled that experience in sunshine and hand-delivered it to couples for a personalised dream wedding experience *yes please* Mel's speciality is helping couples across Melbourne & Regional Victoria. She is a couples go-to and wedding day bestie so the whole wedding she-bang doesn’t become a second full-time job. #nothanks

    instagram.com/mellyrain_events/
    Contact Mel: mellyrain.com.au/contact

    About Tania
    Tania is an award nominated, coffee obsessed lover of love, and all round stationery nerd... & that is why she started the Event Wanderer Co. After years wrangling Ballkids at the Australian Open, she stepped into the world of weddings and turned her hand to design, combining a love of stationery with today's modern design and printing techniques to bring her biz baby to life. Tania's speciality is all things stationery and signage and also understanding the stress that event and wedding planning can bring and she's here to help you navigate the chaos of the journey.

    instagram.com/eventwandererco/
    Contact Tania: eventwandererco.com.au/pages/contact

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    31 mins
  • How to Be Savvy with Your Wedding Costs: Our Guide & Thoughts
    May 6 2024

    When you’re planning a wedding, it’s easy for the expenses to add up. At the end of the day, a wedding is a luxury and there are costs that come with having any type of event, big or small. But even so, whatever your budget is, there are ways to be savvy with you spend your money.

    What's more, we have been involved in planning and delivering countless weddings so we have tips galore when it comes to being a Savvy Sally/ Sam and we want to share these with you in this special episode.

    So hold on whilst we help you reflect on your biggest areas of expenditure, give you our thoughts on your must-haves and where not to scrimp & save and also, what you can potentially ditch as a whole! & some we know might surprise you!


    About Melanie
    Mel is a coffee-loving, too-loud laughing, Melbourne based wedding planner, stylist and coordinator bringing the #skillz approved by Sia to your open-air aisle, outside the city (yes sirly - she has worked with Sia!) Altering managing world-class events in sport and entertainment (think the Australian Open and Sir Paul McCartney), Melanie has rolled that experience in sunshine and hand-delivered it to couples for a personalised dream wedding experience *yes please* Mel's speciality is helping couples across Melbourne & Regional Victoria. She is a couples go-to and wedding day bestie so the whole wedding she-bang doesn’t become a second full-time job. #nothanks

    instagram.com/mellyrain_events/
    Contact Mel: mellyrain.com.au/contact

    About Tania
    Tania is an award nominated, coffee obsessed lover of love, and all round stationery nerd... & that is why she started the Event Wanderer Co. After years wrangling Ballkids at the Australian Open, she stepped into the world of weddings and turned her hand to design, combining a love of stationery with today's modern design and printing techniques to bring her biz baby to life. Tania's speciality is all things stationery and signage and also understanding the stress that event and wedding planning can bring and she's here to help you navigate the chaos of the journey.

    instagram.com/eventwandererco/
    Contact Tania: eventwandererco.com.au/pages/contact

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    32 mins
  • RSVP Chasing, Micro Weddings Explained & Band Vs DJ: Audience Q&A 6
    Apr 29 2024

    In this episode of Cut The Cake we delve deep into the intricacies of wedding planning by tackling an array of questions submitted by you, our loyal listeners. Questions like, how do I chase my RSVPs without being annoying. What exactly is a micro wedding? What's better, a band or DJ?

    And even the classic partner debate… Do we really have to navigate our wedding date around the AFL grand final? It’s another great round of questions so let’s not waste any time and get into today’s episode.


    About Melanie
    Mel is a coffee-loving, too-loud laughing, Melbourne based wedding planner, stylist and coordinator bringing the #skillz approved by Sia to your open-air aisle, outside the city (yes sirly - she has worked with Sia!) Altering managing world-class events in sport and entertainment (think the Australian Open and Sir Paul McCartney), Melanie has rolled that experience in sunshine and hand-delivered it to couples for a personalised dream wedding experience *yes please* Mel's speciality is helping couples across Melbourne & Regional Victoria. She is a couples go-to and wedding day bestie so the whole wedding she-bang doesn’t become a second full-time job. #nothanks

    instagram.com/mellyrain_events/
    Contact Mel: mellyrain.com.au/contact

    About Tania
    Tania is an award nominated, coffee obsessed lover of love, and all round stationery nerd... & that is why she started the Event Wanderer Co. After years wrangling Ballkids at the Australian Open, she stepped into the world of weddings and turned her hand to design, combining a love of stationery with today's modern design and printing techniques to bring her biz baby to life. Tania's speciality is all things stationery and signage and also understanding the stress that event and wedding planning can bring and she's here to help you navigate the chaos of the journey.

    instagram.com/eventwandererco/
    Contact Tania: eventwandererco.com.au/pages/contact

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    30 mins

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