February 2023
(Hint: Your secret weapon is your Charleston Wedding Planner!)
They say that rain on your wedding day is good luck, but what about a hurricane? Fall weddings parallel hurricane season here in Charleston, SC. Weather is a risk you must consider when picking a date and venue for your special day. Luckily, there are preventative steps that we can take in planning process to avoid an event emergency. Having wedding insurance and a rain plan in place is vital, but having a Charleston wedding planner with connections can be equally important!
Photo by Shore and Summit Photography
For example, the last weekend of September Hurricane Ian decided to join the party and the whole city shut down for the night of The Phillips Wedding. After receiving the stressful news that Middleton Place would be closed for safety reasons on their wedding night, we sat down with the bride and groom to make a plan. A few tears and glasses of prosecco later, the hopeful couple and Engaging Events team had come up with a solution! We realized that all the guests would be arriving a day early for the Welcome Party, so why not get married sooner rather than later? We pulled out our phones and began to call caterers, band members, photographers, bakers and drivers to see if they could make the date! Cindy, the owner of Engaging Events, has been in the Charleston Wedding industry for over 20 years and has a fantastic reputation in the city. Fortunately, she was able to coordinate every single vendor to show up pre-hurricane for the Phillips magical moment.
Photos by Shore and Summit Photography
The Phillips’ Wedding Day was perfect, maybe even more so with the added element of surprise. The couple was already happily married as Hurricane Ian brushed the South Carolina coast on their original wedding date. The historic downtown restaurant Poogan’s Porch, allowed the couple to push back their rehearsal dinner a night and stayed open for family and friends to experience a truly local event, a Hurricane Party!
Photos by Shore and Summit Photography
A special thanks to all of our vendors who helped make the Phillips’ Charleston wedding a dream come true!!