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Four to six months for a full wedding, and longer for a date in the month after Eid. Those weekends are usually gone by February because we take one wedding per date.

Day coordination needs four weeks, which is the minimum we will accept for it. With less than that we cannot fix anything we find, and standing there watching is not worth your money.

Full planning from 35,000 rufiyaa for about three hundred guests, day coordination at 8,500 for one function or 13,000 for two, catering coordination at 6,500 and venue searching at 4,500.

The fee moves with the guest count and the number of functions, never with your budget. A planner charging a percentage of what you spend has an interest in what you spend.

No. Every supplier is quoted at what they charge us and our fee sits on its own line on the quotation.

This sometimes makes our quotation look dearer than a rival's, and usually means it is not. If a planner's fee looks low, ask who else is paying them.

A third of our fee to hold the date, a third at six weeks and the rest on the week of the wedding. Supplier payments go to the suppliers directly, on their own terms, and we tell you when each one falls due.

We do not hold your supplier money. It is your money and it is safer where you can see it.

Two people, from the start of the build until the venue is clear. On a segregated function that is one coordinator on each side, and the ladies side is always a lady from this office.

You are given a number that is answered on the first ring, and it belongs to somebody standing in the building rather than in an office.

Every outdoor function is quoted with a wet option and a decision time, usually four hours before guests arrive. At that hour we ring you, we both look at the same forecast and somebody makes the call.

The important part is that the plan exists in writing before the day. A conversation about rain at five o'clock with no plan is how an evening is lost.