• We will remember Gena and Katya’s wedding due to many great moments: starting from an absolutely magnificent location and ending with planning a really huge celebration. Organization of this wedding took us a whole year! Installation of the wedding pavilion took us five days; our decorators had to adorn 1000 square meters of the pavilion space! Foreign guests were present at the wedding as well. About 12 hours our interpreters were translating everything to them non-stop!
  
  The wedding venue wasn’t chosen by accident: our newly-weds are great travellers and their wedding was an unforgettable adventure for their guests. It was a trip to Kazakhstan, to the atmosphere of mountain landscapes of majestic scale and beauty, of great lakes and adorable scenery, as if they were created especially for Katya and Gena, for the two of them.
  
  Having arrived to the wedding venue, the guests plunged into the atmosphere of the magic forest. In the welcome zone we created a real market street, where the crafters cooked candies, made flower wreaths and forged coins with the couple’s monogram. There were big swings covered with flowers, a walking unicorn and domestic animals that helped the guests to feel the heartwarming and cozy atmosphere.

• The design of the ceremonial arch was developed in accordance with the scales of the mountains. It was extremely important as the first dance of our newly-weds took place under this arch and in the evening it was the centre of the magical performance. Forest bells were a symbol of the wedding. Everyone could hear their jingle during the whole evening. When the wedding ceremony started, we gave the guests sticks with bells and ribbons. The tables were decorated with bells as well. We also wrote the couple’s monogram on the bells. The guests jingled with them every time, when they wanted to make the bride and the groom to kiss each other.
  
  The wedding invitation looked like a book of legends. We also put horseshoes for luck insight. During the wedding celebration the same book of a huge size appeared on the stage. The groom was turning over the pages of the book and telling the love-story of the couple, when he suddenly came out of it and the fairytale turned out to be reality.
  
  Katya and Gena’s wedding gave birth to one big family’s legend!

It has been a week since our wedding but all memories are still fresh in my mind. And I’m not the only one. Every day we receive messages with similar comments from our parents and friends. The wedding didn’t leave anyone cold. Gena proposed on the 11th of June 2014 and the wedding was held on the 27th of June 2015, so we had almost a year at our disposal. We visited many different agencies but after our meeting with the wedding planning agency Dlya Dvoih we realized that it was made for us. We spoke the same language. It was extremely important for us to be understood. Wedding planners from this agency helped us to develop our ideas, instead of imposing theirs on us, as it sometimes happens. Another peculiarity of this agency is its attention to details. Each card, each bell and care for our guests- these are very important details that one shouldn’t ignore. By the way, all guests noticed the focus of the agency on details. I want to comment on the planner of our wedding Toma in particular. We liked her very much. She turned out to be an ideal wedding planner for us. It was very easy to work with her and our meetings usually lasted extremely long as we had much to discuss. We also want to thank tremendously Masha and Nastya. They are absolutely crazy idea hamsters and just great women. Our wedding wouldn’t have been that great without them. Photographers. The photographers Anna, Alexey and Sergey are great professionals and every photo made by them is a real work of art. We enjoyed working with them and despite the fact that photo shoots lasted many hours, we didn’t even get tired. Videographers. I have been following our videographer Jana for a long time and I really love her lavender videos. We wanted a video like this for us. A video penetrated with laugh, smiles, feelings, a play of light and etc. And she made it for us. Sasha was a real discovery. He is an extremely nice and funny man; it was very comfortable and easy to communicate with him. During our shoots everyone got soaked to the skin several times, but it didn’t affect the quality of our photos and video. The Master of ceremony (MC). Egor Pirogov is an ideal emcee. His jokes fit in every situation and touching moments made everyone cry. Decor. Long before Gena proposed, I had been following Julia Shackirova’s studio on Instagram. I was amazed by their projects and dreamed to work with them once. And indeed they did an amazing job. Our wedding decor was like from a fairytale. Invitations. Invitations – that’s another story. They amazed all our guests and set a high bar for the whole wedding. We liked the idea that they looked like books. Our guests can put them on their bookshelves. If once they stumble across them, the invitations will remind our guests about our wedding. Dresses. It took us 4 months to create an ideal dress for me in Atelier Moscow. And the result met all my expectations! The second dress was by Israeli designer Liz Martinez. It turned out to be not only beautiful but also very comfortable. It had even pockets! All dresses for the love-story and pre-wedding photo shoots were sewn by a wonderful designer Masha Golubeva. She understood the conception of the wedding at the first moment and all dresses made by her were really from a fairytale! Makeup and Hair style. Lena is a real fairy! She succeeded in making me more attractive without adding me some years, which was a very difficult task! The look was absolutely fairy and I enjoyed the result. And besides Lena is a great woman. We spoke non-stop and thanks to her I wasn’t nervous on the wedding day at all! I will apply to her again! Preparations on the wedding day. On the wedding day I got enough sleep, had breakfast and then Lena came to me to do makeup and hair. I expected to have butterflies in my stomach, as it used to happen before exams, but to my surprise I was absolutely calm. Then my fiancé and his friends, photographers and videographers, and bridesmaids arrived. The house was full of guests. Everyone laughed, joked, had fun and prepared to the wedding without stress. When we arrived at the wedding venue, Gena was walking towards the ceremonial arch. And exactly at that moment I started to panic. Everything was so festive and touching! I arrived and my father opened the door of my car. He held my hand tight and calmed me down. He said that I was very beautiful and it gave me strengths to go to the arch. When the marriage officer was speaking, I couldn’t hear anything. I looked at Gena trying not burst into tears. But when Nicosha was bringing our rings, I couldn’t control myself anymore. As soon as we finally said 'I do' to each other I felt relaxed again. I was the happiest person in the world then. Our wedding dinner was beautiful, sentimental, touching and at the same time extremely funny and heartwarming. We watched video presents and nobody could hold back tears. It isn't easy to resist the temptation of being lazy and just don’t make videos like these, but I can tell from my experience that couples should take part in all possible shootings. Video presents are very touching details of every wedding and besides when you get older, you can show them to your grandchildren. Then we danced till we dropped to the music of Rockfellers, Banderos and a super DJ Eva Vostrokova! The decorators from Julia Shackirova's studio transformed the restaurant beyond recognition! I didn't have enough time to examine the welcome zone and all activities there! Now I can see all details of our wedding venue in the photos made by Sergey Zaporozhets. The celebration was very beautiful and interesting!  To sum it all up, the wedding day ended way too fast. It was like a wonderful moment that we will never forget! We had a great wedding we dreamed of for us and for all 250 guests. Thank you so much!