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The Event Weddings Difference
1.
About Us
Event Weddings is Australia's premium wedding
services agency, offering complete Chinese wedding
MC and Chinese wedding planning packages for
Australian Chinese weddings. Having hosted 300
weddings in 2014, we are one of the most trusted
names in weddings. Event Weddings is also the
publisher of the E+ Wedding magazine and the sole
organiser of the annual Sydney Chinese Wedding Expo
at Darling Harbour.
2.
About our Service Inclusions and why we do it
The job of a premium
wedding MC is one of the highest pressure roles in a
wedding event. The minimum requirement of the job is
to create great atmosphere and speak fluent Chinese
and English. However, there is a lot more to the
job...
(a)
Professional Cantonese, Mandarin and English wedding
hosting
All our
professional senior wedding MCs are from a radio or
stage background who are highly talented in their
own languages. In particular, our senior Chinese
English wedding MC Sy Chung has been a radio host
with SBS Radio/TV for 10 years.
By speaking in Cantonese, Mandarin and English on
your wedding day, we will ensure that all your
guests are comfortable and feel welcome. We will
create great atmosphere, whether you want your
wedding to be stylish and personal, or more like a
big party.
As professionals MCs, we will make sure that all the
attention goes to you, the bride and groom and other
people who are honoured on the night and never
ourselves, as many amateur MCs tend to do. There
will be no embarrassing stories and our job is to
make you look good. We also have a zero-alcohol
policy.
(b) Wedding Planning Meeting and Runsheet Drafting
Event Weddings is born
from a media/staging background with 10 years of
experience at SBS Radio/TV. We have received
professional training to an international standard
in event planning and production. We understand the
science behind putting together a great event. We
understand that proper planning for the event and
having the right rundown formula is paramount in
creating your perfect wedding day.
When you go to a wedding venue or go online, you
will certainly find sample runsheets for your
wedding. However through hosting hundreds of
weddings, we have identified 25 different kinds of
Chinese weddings, all of which require a different
runsheet.
In our initial meeting, we will get to know you and
run a 20 point checklist to find out which wedding
programme suits you the best. We learn something new
at every wedding, and we continuously update these
runsheets and create new ones.
When helping you plan your wedding event, we
specialise in the following:
● Taking care of Chinese cultural elements to your
wedding
● Adjusting runsheets to cater for specifics of each
venue (serving speed, parking etc)
● Strategies to ensure your guests arrive on time
particularly in larger weddings
● Strategies to protect the groom during wine toasting
● Managing complicated family situations
● Strategies to help guests stay until the end
● Strategies to maximise guest cooperation and
participation
● Managing audience mood flow
(c)
Service coordination on your wedding day
A premium wedding MC
service is not just getting up and introducing what
is happening next. Your wedding MC fulfills the role
of your wedding coordinator on your wedding day.
This role is distinct from the "wedding coordinator"
included with your venue package who is mainly in
charge of ensuring the delivery of food service.
In many weddings where amateur MCs or lower-tier MCs
are used, the bride need to tap him on the shoulder
to let him know what he needs to do, and these MCs
also often start programmes without informing other
services particularly photographers and
videographers, and as a result important shots are
missed.
Event Weddings MCs have taken their stage experience
skills in major events such as concerts held at the
Entertainment Centre and other large scale events
with over 50,000 attendance to your wedding day. We
will put you at ease and help you take care of all
your wedding suppliers and coordinate all timings
with the venue to make sure all your services work
well together and on time. We will also help you
coordinate everyone who is involved with your
wedding party such as parents, bridal party and
family members.
Before the start of the event, we will arrive 1-2
hours early to check all your services to make sure
that everything is available. As wedding planners,
these 1-2 hours gives us enough time to help you
make corrections. For example in the past we have
helped with undelivered cakes, wrongly spelt names
on computer presentations and bringing in a AV and
technical team within an hour.
A perfect wedding day is
not necessary one where everything goes to plan. It
is a fact that no event ever goes exactly to plan
and changes are always made on the day, and the
decisions you make affect the quality of the event.
Our experience helps us make better decisions, and
when an experienced team makes a decision on the
day, your guests won't notice.
3.
About Sy Chung
Sy Chung is a
leading Australian Chinese and English speaking Wedding MC. With the ability
to speak fluent English and Cantonese, he is currently a
radio presenter at Hong Kong's MyRadio station after
completing 10 years as a radio presenter at SBS which broadcasts nationally across
Australia. His work includes the "PopAsia Request Australia"
English music show, a popular news satire programme "Mr
Speaker" as well as news and current affairs reports.
Besides his work in radio, Sy is also one of
Australia’s most sought after Master of Ceremonies. Because
of his multilingual skills and ability to entertain and
excite any kind of audience, he is the first choice for
numerous wedding ceremonies and receptions, functions for
local community associations, corporate events, church
meetings and functions for clubs and societies.
Sy also regularly appears in events organised by
local Members of Parliament as well as various government
events including the ACT Multicultural Festival as well as
major events held by various local councils including the
City of Sydney, Cabramatta, Parramatta, Burwood, Auburn,
Holroyd and others. Some of these events are attended by
over 80,000 people.
Sy was born in Hong Kong and migrated to
Australia when he was six. Growing up in Sydney’s Hills
District, Sy developed a keen interest in arts, speech and
drama. During primary school, he received four years of
training at one of Australia’s best drama schools, the
Australian Youth Theatre. Before entering high school he was
also awarded by the Australian Speech and Communications
Association.
At the same time, Sy was also perusing his love
for music. When he was 14 years old, he completed 8th grade
piano and he continued to complete his AMEB Associate in
Music (AMusA) Diploma when he was 16.
Upon completing his studies at Normanhurst Boys’
High School, he completed his Bachelor of Law degree at the
University of Technology Sydney several years later. In his
university days, he was Federal President of the Federal
Australian Chinese Student Clubs and he also served as an
executive at the university’s student union.
It was also during this time that Australia’s
Chinese radio legend Vincent Chan introduced Sy to the world
of radio where he studied under the guidance of William Shiu
at Sydney Radio 2AC. In 2005 Sy joined SBS Radio where his
popular news commentary and satire programme “Mr. Speaker”
is broadcast across Australia. In 2010 he also joined SBS’s
PopAsia Show team which aims to introduce Asian pop music
and culture to the wider Australian audience.
He is the founder of Event Weddings, which is
the publisher of the E+Wedding Magazine and the sole
organiser of the annual Sydney Chinese Wedding Expo in
Darling Harbour.
If you’re looking for a young and enthusiastic
Master of Ceremonies to capture and entertain your audience
at your next event make Sy Chung your first point of call!
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