Emma Walkin, on the record.

For twenty-three years, I have filmed weddings across Ireland through my studio, Edithouse. Over fifteen hundred of them. Every venue, every supplier dynamic, every timeline that worked and every one that quietly fell apart.

Everything about weddings has changed, except love...

In all my years filming weddings, the one thing that has not changed is the love at the centre of the day. Almost everything around it has. There are so many options now, for venues, for suppliers, for the shape of the whole celebration, that couples find it harder and harder to keep things simple. The choice is wonderful, but it is also a lot to carry. I have watched couples become genuinely overwhelmed, spending months going back and forth on decisions, second-guessing themselves at every turn. More options should make a wedding easier. In practice, it means couples need good, honest advice more than they ever did before. That is the gap I started Page Two to fill.

After enough weddings, I started to see the same thing again and again. The couples who ended up happiest were not the ones who had spent the most or planned the most. They were the ones who had made a few good decisions early, about the venue, the timing, the shape of the day, and then let everything else follow from there.

The couples who struggled had usually been left to figure those decisions out alone, often while planning from thousands of miles away. That is why I started Page Two. After all those years inside other people's weddings, I knew I could help couples get those early calls right, before they became the things that could not be undone.

I have spent years watching couples make expensive, irreversible choices on instinct and marketing, when what they actually needed was someone on their side who had seen how it plays out.