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Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 00:04
Hello, folks, and welcome again to another episode of the Supplier Spotlight Podcast. My name is Liam Ball, I’m your magical wedding host. Also known as the Gentleman Magician. And as I always say, this podcast exists to shine the light on some of the very best people in the wedding industry, people who really can make an enormous difference to your wedding day. Now as always, if you’re enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, follow and share, especially with people who are planning a wedding. It really will help them to make better and informed decisions for their wedding day. Now today’s guest works in the world of venue transformation. Somebody who goes into a venue as a blank canvas and turns it into the dream setting for your wedding day. Now that’s going to include things like lighting, which plays a huge role, but we’re also talking about draping, backdrops, image projection, flower walls, and the list goes on. which will turn your venue into something absolutely extraordinary. When it comes to creating an atmosphere, you want something that’s going to give you an a wow factor. And therefore, it’s a huge pleasure to welcome from Wedding Venue Lighting Matt Butcher. Hi, Matt, how you doing?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 01:19
Good thank you Liam. I sound like you’re a magician there, that I sneak in and magically transform everything.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 01:24
Well, do you know what? It’s funny, right? Because I think it does look like that, doesn’t it? I think that most people have well, I mean, most people have been to more weddings than they’ve planned. That’s the truth. And I think many people will walk into a place they’ve never been before and think, gosh, this place looks amazing. What a wonderful venue But actually in some instances it might be that the couple have just hired this hall with whitewashed walls and a big open space and gone, Matt, come and do your thing and make it look like a wedding wonderland and that’s exactly what you do, isn’t it?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 01:55
Exactly, yeah. I don’t think people realise the hours that goes into it. We have actually been called the ninjas that sneak in and out before by a bride.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 02:01
Yeah.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 02:02
I suppose it’s young.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 02:05
Yeah. That’s it. I mean, there there are so many things at a wedding that that are evident and clear that people can see. Like suits and dresses and photographers and cakes and food and all of that sort of stuff. But of course, all of that is happening in this environment, which people create because that’s how they want their wedding to look and feel and be remembered. And of course, that’s not always just down to the venue, is it?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 02:29
It’s completely normal. No, we’re there to enhance the venues in many cases as well. Make certain areas stand out.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 02:36
Well, I’ll tell you what, let’s start from the beginning. How I mean It seems as as I think about it now, it seems like a really interesting area to get into. How did you get into it? And more importantly, how would you describe what you do?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 02:51
So initially wedding menu writing was started 40 years ago now, so it’s been quite a long time. Believe it or not, I actually started out as a wedding DJ before that. I was starting to offer up lighting as part of my services with the wedding discords and things like that. Very quickly realized that people just wanted To hire the uplight team on its own, so I was putting up lighting out in the morning, or we’ve given a wedding disc on the evening somewhere else with another set of uplight team, collecting it all through the night. I think people was asking to backdrops and then Starlit Dance Wars came along and I was one of the first in the area to buy the Dance Wars. I’d say within about two years I’d stopped E Jing ’cause I was that busy transforming venue. Quite amazing how quickly Clins can develop.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 03:35
It kind of sounds like that you thought, and I get this because I’ve definitely done this. You thought to yourself, right. Wedding DJ. That’s my track. That’s where I’m going to be. I’m going to do these little things, but DJ. And it’s like the the people that you worked for went, no, no, no, no, no. I’m like, DJ DJ’s great, but actually You’ve done this wonderful thing here, and we’d like more of that. And suddenly, yeah, suddenly it’s you’ve found that you’re, you’re, you’ve got more of a, I guess, what, a style and a talent for transforming venues?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 04:08
I’ve always like had the interest in the lighting side more than the sounds. I was always I was one of the few that had the laptop controlling the lights from the filter dance and things like that. So it was obviously kind of a natural possession anyway.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 04:20
Yeah. I think lighting design specifically is something that so many people don’t even comprehend as a thing, right? Because like you know, you’ve got light design, sound design, and to a lot of people it’s like, hang on, that well, that that that Those two words going together, they don’t make a lot of sense. But of course, you’ve really capitalized on that, haven’t you?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 04:39
Yeah, I’ve literally diversified completely off to the lighting side. We have brought other products in as we’ve gone along over the years, but the dominant lighting and the stylic dance floors, it’s got a ridiculous amount of stock in the warehouse now.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 04:52
Yep. So, I mean, let’s let’s kinda think about it then from a couple of perspectives. So, there’s somebody out there who’s thinking, right, I’ve got this venue, but but it’s it’s it’s just it’s four walls and a roof, right? And sure, they’re going to provide food, but I’ve got this space. And I’ve got budget now to really turn it into transform it into something. How do they how well first off? How do they how do they work with you? How do you realize what is best for them and what do you look for when you’re planning a wedding like this to make your installations?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 05:26
I mean, a lot of people these days tend to find us on the internet as things have moved along, which I appreciate. Generally, if it’s a venue we’ve not been to before, I ask him to send some pictures through first so we can have a look, see what’s possible. Yeah. Because sometimes people’s got a vision and the hotel, the village hall, it’s not really feasible for what they want to achieve. And we need to try and guide them down the right directions with that. Yeah. Obviously, over thirteen years, I’ve built up a massive selection for autographs from different venues, so I’ve got lots of options I can show people how we’ve transformed in parts, what we’ve done at Sambur and Hall before Yeah. And I can bring a lot of inspiration along from what we’ve done at other people’s weddings as well. So go on. From from there we’ll then possibly do an online meeting, maybe meet up at the venue. and start pulling an idea together what they’re looking for and obviously build the quotation from there for them.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 06:19
Okay. So so I mean, what what kind of things would you say are possible in in most venues versus special circumstances?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 06:29
Um nothing’s impossible then, is it? We all try to make things work one way or another.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 06:34
It’s true.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 06:36
Obviously different venues benefit from different things. You know, if it’s a rustic barn, you want to be looking at fairy lights or stoom lights I wouldn’t particularly advise the styleic dance floors too much, although we have gone them ’cause they’re just not that f as could please in that So I prevent you. Yeah. We do have wooden dance walls as well. Okay. And then obviously you’ve got your hotel rooms where you can simply colour wash the walls of the opplytener with starters, map drops, stop tables. Clever walls as I’ve got in my office as well behind.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 07:07
That’s that’s a nice one, yeah.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 07:09
Yeah. So we have them which are quite good for photo backdrops. You know, if it’s a bad day, web we’ve got somewhere else to stand. Yeah. This one happened here on and as well, making memories in the office. So options we can do.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 07:23
I was going to say, so it’s not just about saying, right, I want lights and canvas and dance floors and it’s all about saying, well, hang on, the venue that you’ve picked has this kind of feel to it. And therefore, we’d recommend these kinds of things.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 07:39
Yes, it’s the feel of the venue and the theme of the wedding as well, because some people don’t know what’s theme, others go for black and white themes And obviously we can tailor around that theme they’ve got in mind.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 07:50
I mean, I suppose you’ve probably encountered all sorts over the years you’ve been doing it. Has there ever been a moment when somebody said, Hey, we’re getting married, this is the location, this is the venue, this is the theme of the wedding, and this is the idea that we’ve got and at first glance you’ve thought I’m not sure about this, but then when you’ve looked at it more, you’ve thought, yeah, I can make it work, and then it’s been amazing. Anything jumped to mind? That comes most weeks, does that? Okay.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 08:15
That’s how all of it starts. Yeah, to be fair, I do prefer the inquiry coming through the email, so we’ve got the pictures. Give me s time to sit back and look at it and have a think what can we achieve, what can we do We did a first birthday party for an Asian family we’ve done a lot of work for recently. And th we had the swimming pool boarded over. It was drained and boarded over. Wow. Cat it laid down in the room. And then we got a downs flooring, up lightings, and a short throw projector on the wall so they could have the pictures on from the birth upwards to the first year old and then did a fest round walk away up the driveway.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 08:51
So so in in a pool house at the back of somebody’s house then? This is the back of somebody’s house, yeah. Wow. So so more then in that case than just putting some lights and and sound and and videos in, you you literally transformed a venue from what it was into something entirely different.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 09:09
Yeah, something completely different. So it’s like I’d gone from one extreme to the other.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 09:17
Yeah. Okay. Wow. That that sounds brilliant. I can I’m I’m trying to imagine it, and I’m sure that my imagination probably isn’t doing it credit, but Thinking about all the different logistics that, because I mean, there’s an awful lot there, isn’t there, that’s that you’re bringing into that.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 09:35
I made the client here went for his own joiners to board over the pool. He got it drained and boarded over. Yeah. And it’s a it’s a vent carpet basically we put down to cover the area so it wasn’t a tiled area.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 09:47
Get you. Okay. So anybody who’s out there now thinking I’m planning a wedding and I’ve got a venue, but I want to add a bit of extra something. Any kind of quick tips that you would give to them? Say, look at this or think about that or focus on this predominantly?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 10:08
Obviously, first of all, look at your venue, what’s possible, or what you’re trying to create. If you’re going for a rustic vibe, lots of fairy lights always makes a massive difference. We’d be amazed what you can do with just some fairy lights, adapt as it fans.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 10:20
Yeah.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 10:22
Check your venues if you’ve got anywhere for photographs if it’s a bad day, because fortunately we live in England, don’t we? And we get a lot of them.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 10:28
True enough.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 10:29
And you know, if not, look at things like the flower walls, backdrops and things that can be used for photographs, and you’re not gonna totally ruin your wedding day with pictures. A lot of brides like the white styley dance floors for the evenings. It’s that typical all white look when you’re doing that first dance, a magical appearance there. But obviously, like our service starts from the morning and we can be right through till one o’clock in the morning ’cause we’ll come back at change around, put the dams for it.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 10:56
Oh, gosh, Roy, it’s okay.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 10:58
More often than not, more venues want the dance four out at night as well because they’ve to the reset for the next day, don’t we?
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 11:03
Yeah.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 11:04
So it it can we can be working from six, seven o’clock in the morning till three, four o’clock the next day sometimes on a wedding.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 11:11
Wow. Okay. So almost a round the clock service then, really?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 11:14
Pretty much, yeah. But we do work to suit the venue, you know. Yeah. If we if it’s a big job and we need early access, we will be in early. It’s not something we fear. It’s not possible. We make it work as best we can.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 11:26
Got you. Okay. So, wow. I mean, it’s crazy because the more and more we’re talking about this, the more I’m realizing that there is not only to a business like this. but to your business and the services that you’re specifically offering. So what’s be because And I get this a lot, and there must be people out there who think this a lot. Well, this sounds great, right? But I’ve got this venue, so I could go and hire some lights and get some drapes and I could chuck those in, and they’ll be great. But there’s a huge difference, isn’t there, between simply adding decor and then designing a room so that it looks magnificent on the day.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 12:06
And you want to make it individual as well to the couple. You want it to their taste, not a stock product as such, really want of better words. Yeah. So got the provisions and things like that as well.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 12:17
Yes. So so I mean obviously, I’m guessing in your instance, as we’ve already mentioned, sort of lighting is foundational to adding atmosphere and ambiance. But how do things like drapes and backdrops and installations both complement and elevate that?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 12:33
Your draping’s great for like your village walls that unfortunately has got run down over the years, not decorated very nicely and things like that. Or doing that indoor marquee effect, really to the indoors. Plus, you’ve also got the warmth and not the cold marquee, shaking in the wind and things like that if you’re indoors.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 12:51
Yeah, okay. And of course Yeah, I say I mean, I I’m guessing that there’s a lot of like sort of village halls out there, aren’t there, or or just sort of dry higher venues that that really are sort of four walls that become quite echoey. And adding things like drapes, I’m guessing it absorbs a lot of that echoing sound.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 13:07
Yeah, it does. And some of the village halls are a bit sports hall like as well because they get used for fighting basketball queens and things like that. So it it’s trying to get away from that to give the appearance of somebody’s special day and not Yeah. Not the local football teams being practicing or netballed.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 13:25
Yes, I get you. I suppose it’s the kind of thing that when you’re considering a a supplier like you, you could literally walk into a village hall that like you look down and there’s a basketball court painted on the floor and think, Oh, that that’s going to be fine ’cause Matt can come in and we we can cover that and make it look like a really rustic, lovely, charming venue.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 13:44
Yeah, that’s right. And just lose think you know, take people’s eye away from it or cover it up and lose.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 13:50
Wow. That’s amazing. So What’s your favorite kind of installation to be adding in a venue, or the favorite kind of venue that you love to go to?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 14:02
I’d probably say more the rustic venues. I mean, we do a lot of fairy lights ’cause it it sounds a very simple product, but when you you turn back and look at Loretta in the dark and you think, wow, what a difference that’s made to a venue Or how he emphasized the beams in a barn and you don’t need the house lights on then either. You know, you’ve got that nice warm glow in an evening It just creates that perfect romantic atmosphere for the couples.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 14:29
Yeah, I can just sort of imagine that. So let’s start from the very beginning then. So a couple contacts you, they send you the photos through, you throw some ideas around, you settle on what both I’m guessing both you and they think is going to be great because at the end of the day, you’re the expert here, right? Um so you I I d I always say to people, trust your experts ’cause that’s what they’re there for.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 14:53
Yeah, you try and guide them, but you do need to listen to what they want as well to try and get together.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 14:59
Yeah, that’s right. That’s right.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 15:00
That’s very fortunate, like I say, because of the years we’ve been doing it, I have built up a very good collection of photocasts from different and I can show what we can and can’t do in places.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 15:09
Yeah. Amazing. So let’s kind of throw some general advice out there for people then. So there’s somebody out there who’s thinking, yes, this sounds like me And of course, it’s also worth noting your sort of Yorkshire Manchester area base, which is fantastic. Let’s say there’s somebody in Sussex here thinking, oh, this sounds like the kind of thing that I need help with. what considerations should those people be making? Or even people who live in Yorkshire and Manchester who are thinking to contact you, what considerations do they need to make about what they’re wanting and how they want it to look and feel?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 15:49
Yeah, I always say like go and touch us printed desk, get some ideas together first, because it can be difficult describing in words what you’re looking for as you appreciate. Send us money just that helps. Obviously, if they say we’re getting married at a particular hotel, I can send them past work there. Yeah. We spent hours and hours building a venue page on every venue we’ve worked at on the website. Wow, okay. can send a link and say that’s Sanburn Hall at New York, that’s what we’ve done at Sanburn in the past. Yeah. Just to give people inspiration to start with first. That’s the important thing.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 16:24
So I I guess then in that case, you’ve I mean, as you as you mentioned, you’ve got a huge library of photos that you can rely on, but I’m guessing a huge library of conceptual ideas that people can look at and go, Oh, I like that and that’s great and that’s the sort of thing I want, right?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 16:41
Yeah, that’s what we do get. We do get a lot of people or seeing you images online or you’re at a particular venue on getting married there. Yeah. Which is all good. We’ve got a few venues that we’ve obviously recommended now as well after the years.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 16:56
Yeah, yeah, that’s yeah. That’s fabulous. So Converse to that then, what would you say are some of the biggest mistakes that people make when they’re considering dressing a venue?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 17:07
Putting too much in sometimes. Too much can be a bit overbearing. We do try to advise, look, you know, it’s going to be a bit overpowering, is that you’re going to put too much in there.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 17:16
Yeah.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 17:18
You might you might get the feel it’s a bit too big, flashy wedding.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 17:23
Sometimes less is more, right?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 17:25
It can be, yeah.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 17:27
And I guess that really you’re trying to find the balance between not being too sparse and and not being too so you want the right the right kind of gentle, I’m going to say artistic stroke. so that you can take a venue and and emphasize all the bits that you want while I guess hiding all the bits that you don’t?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 17:48
Yeah, that’s basically what you’re trying to do. And obviously you you need to like look at what you’ve got your limitations of time and access as well, ’cause sometimes people expect too much. And you have to really come, look, we don’t have that time scale in the morning before you’re wedding to set that up.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 18:01
It’s Yeah. Are there any things that you think people ask for that many or even most wedding venues might say, yes, no, not here. That’s not that’s not what we can do?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 18:15
I’ve not had many problems like that, to be fair. Sometimes a little bit reluctant about something new coming in, somebody doing something different. Yeah. Once you’ve been and you’ve done the work and seen what you can achieve, they do change the attitude and I think most experienced have not seen that kind of thing before, not seeing Yeah, I’d I yeah, I totally from the doing something completely different and Yes.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 18:41
That I think that’s the thing, isn’t it? When most people think about venue decor, they’re thinking about chair covers and centerpieces. And you know, maybe a backdrop here or something. Whereas, in actual fact, what you’ve got here is all of that, and that’s a drop in the ocean, right?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 18:57
It is, yeah, to start with. That’s where you can step out, and obviously we can take you further from there.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 19:02
Yeah. Do you know, I’m just trying to think I’m remembering now. I went to a wedding, and I think it was the back end of 2025. And it was in this really, it was a modernized rustic barn feel. So in the party area, this huge open sort of cathedral ceiling, all these wooden beams and everything. And after the wedding breakfast, this supplier came in and they had a van, like a van full of glitterables, you know, from some that were three feet wide to some that were a foot across. and they just covered the ceiling in glitter balls, right? And then put up lighters in. And I was like, that looks like that looks crazy, the amount of stuff that’s going up there. It’s absolutely nuts. And then, of course, they turned off the lights that it went dark outside. They turned on all the lighting. And I was like, wow, this is.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 19:53
It’s a really different atmosphere, isn’t it? It comes appeal to the and the whole vibe of the wedding.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 19:58
That’s it. And and I think I mean, I I think there are things that people don’t realize like even even I say one thing like that, I mean like it was one huge installation, right? But one thing like that can can make a whole change. It it will make a room look entirely different from how it was at one moment in the day to the next.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 20:22
Yeah, it can make a big difference, can that, when it changes from one to the other, when it drops darker and things like that.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 20:27
Quite a surprising effect as well, I’d imagine.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 20:30
It is, yeah, because like people don’t expect it either when they come back in the evening after the room changes around them.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 20:35
Yeah. What are some of the the best responses that you’ve had from work that you’ve done?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 20:41
I mean, we always get lots of feedback and pictures back from the brides and grooms, which is great. And a lot of people are amazed how much of a difference it’s made after the wedding day.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 20:52
Yeah.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 20:54
Which obviously that’s the hard bit convincing a new inquiry that you know this is going to transform your day, this is going to make it something special.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 21:00
Yeah. I get you. Are are there any I mean, like if I guess in a lot of other industries that they have trends, right? Are there any trends in in venue dressing and decorating at the moment?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 21:12
Um we’ve done a lot of rusty, but it does seem to be coming back round again now to more the white natural plain look as well.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 21:19
Okay. Fair enough. And are there any things that have happened over the years where it’s been a phase that like we’ve gone through and then it’s gone? And like are there any things that you kind of sit back and think, I mean, it it was, yeah, it it made some of these venues look brilliant, but I hope I hope that we don’t go back to doing that again as a commonplace thing.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 21:40
I mean, I think there’s always products that you think, why did you buy that? I used to do the Starlight Archway for the ceremony and you’re just like oh yeah Yeah. But but it went through a couple of years trend with the starlight backdrop matching and Obviously, people’s moved away from that now.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 21:58
Get you? Okay. Amazing. And you can stay on top of trends really into that’s the season. I suppose it is staying on top of trends, isn’t it? I suppose it is. Do you know, there’s another thing as well that I think, and of course I guess a big craze for certainly for a while, and I still see them, I think, at a lot of weddings, of course, was light-up letters.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 22:16
Yeah, I’ve got that alphabet.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 22:18
Yes, that’s right. So, I mean, I remember seeing These and it was always love. Love, love, love, love, love.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 22:25
Yeah, that’s how it all started with love, want to.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 22:26
That’s right, yeah. And now, of course, you’ve got entire alphabets, haven’t you?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 22:30
Yeah, ’cause now it’s gone from love to initials, all the one the full surname. Yeah. But then that’s also developed because we’re now using them for award ceremonies, company names on anniversaries and things like that. So the products can be reused in other ways. It’s not
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 22:44
Yeah. I think it’s an amazing thing. But of course, also, I guess it leaves so much room, doesn’t it, for additional things for people to think about and consider. But also. I mean, do you ever get to a stage where people have choice overload?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 23:00
Sometimes, yeah. We’re just redoing the website at the moment. I think we’re like 900 pages on there, and it’s just
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 23:08
That is a lot, isn’t it? That is a lot. But I guess it’s testament to the amount of things that you’re putting into what you’re doing, right?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 23:16
Into different venues, yeah. There there can be too much choice, if you’re being honest.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 23:22
Gosh. Okay. So here’s here’s a I think this will be a really interesting question because it’ll tell us both a bit about maybe what is Certainly the top of the range out there at the moment. If you were planning your wedding today, where would it be, and how would you dress the menu?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 23:42
I always say if I was to get married I’d go abroad and get away from it.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 23:47
I get you. I get you, that makes sense, yeah.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 23:49
I think the problem is ’cause It’s like which venue would you pick? Because they’ll be like, Well, he didn’t buck with me and he’s gone there and I suppose being in the train, that’s a difficult thing, isn’t it? I do have favourite venues, but I don’t really want to Start saying them too much on the extra. Oh, no. Don’t worry, pop said that over me.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 24:07
They’re all our favourites, Matt. All of them. They’re all our favourites. That’s the truth. That’s the truth.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 24:11
I think you can use for different reasons as well. You know, it’s like. Yeah, they do different products in different venues and Yes.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 24:18
Yeah. I mean, I I’ve I’ve been to wedding venues down here that are like, you know, big stately homes, castles. Barns and barn conversions, you know, beautiful hotels. And I don’t think I’ve ever been to a wedding venue where I’ve stopped and thought this place is awful. Because they’re all wonderful, and they’ve all got things. Yeah, they’ve all got their own character, they’ve all got things that make them. stand out and really, really kind of bring everybody in. And I guess as well also they’ve all got opportunities for for somebody like you to come in and enhance everything and and and add a little bit of personality and flavor here and there, right?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 24:58
That’s right, yeah, like I say, each venue is different, so it’s turning it to that venue I mean they actually have some products and they’re actually boxed up with the venue’s name on because that product particularly goes there that often or perfectly designed for that venue.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 25:12
Right. Gosh. So so there must then be an opportunity where people say, Oh, we’re getting married here. You think, ah, then I’ve got a thing for that and they’re never g they’re never going to expect this, but it’s going to be brilliant.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 25:23
Yeah, there is. And we’re also like part of like A couple of hotels are part of the package, so when you puck your in there, we will come in and do the ceiling japes ’cause that’s included in your wedding package.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 25:33
Oh, okay Fantastic.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 25:36
Okay, so lots of indication upsell from there because they’ve already got that contact in with them. So we can sort of say, well We know you’ve got the ceiling japed, but have you thought yeah?
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 25:44
Have you thought about this, thought about that? We’ve all by the way, we’ve also got this super special installation that that works wonderfully there and here’s some photos of how that’ll basically, yeah. What an absolutely fabulous service to be able to get for people. Gosh, that’s fantastic. Well, listen, I mean, this has been a fascinating chat, but here’s probably the most important question. If there’s people out there thinking, this is definitely something I need to look at for my wedding, where do people find you and how can they get in touch?
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 26:15
So obviously first thing, have a look on the website, so it’s w w dot wedding-venue hyphen lighting dot co dot uk or Google wedding venue lighting. That’s the reason why the name came up. Obviously social media as well. Have a look at various installations we’ve done on there and things. Get in touch, drop us an email or give us a call and we’ll take things from there for you.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 26:38
Fantastic. That’ll be brilliant. And I certainly hope that some people definitely do that. Matt, I’m going to say thank you so much for coming along. It’s been absolutely fabulous to chat. And I’ll see you around at a conference or wedding sometime soon.
Matt Butcher – Wedding Venue Lighting • 26:50
You will do, yeah.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 26:51
Smashing. Take care. Thank you. And there you go, folks. That was an absolutely fascinating chat and an insight. into what is really possible when it comes down to transforming wedding venues of really all shapes and sizes. So if you are planning a wedding and you want your venue to feel immersive, creative and really impressive Not just decorated or plain, I can wholeheartedly recommend that you check out Matt at Wedding Venue Lighting and see what they can do for you. As he said, you could find the team online at wedding-venue-lighting. co. uk. They’re on Facebook at Wedding Lighting and on Instagram at Wedding Venue Lighting. It’s well worth a look. You can just see lots of options there as to how dramatic a transformation can be and how wonderful it can create as a backdrop for your wedding. Once again, thank you to everybody who has watched or listened. Please do remember to like, follow, and subscribe and share this podcast with as many people as you can. That way it really will help to create the biggest impact possible in people’s planning of their own wedding day. And until next time, folks, do remember to choose your suppliers wisely. And I’ll see you on the very next episode of the Supplier Spotlight Podcast. Take care, folks.