Occasions
What are we building, and for whom?
Every occasion has its own failure points — the charge nobody mentions, the hour nobody protects, the guest nobody planned for. These pages hold the practical planning knowledge for each one, written plainly and without invented numbers.
Private birthday
One evening, one crescendo, no queue at the door.
A private birthday is the easiest premium celebration to get right and the easiest to overspend on. The decision that matters is not the venue — it is whether the night moves (boat, anchorage, shore dinner) or stays in one place. Everything else follows from that.
Read the planning notesProposal
One moment. It either lands or it does not.
A proposal is the one celebration where scale actively works against you. What you are buying is privacy, light and a plan that survives bad weather. The budget is small compared with a wedding; the precision required is higher.
Read the planning notesAnniversary
Quieter than a wedding, more considered than a holiday.
Anniversaries reward restraint. Two people, occasionally a small group, and a programme with one memorable centrepiece rather than five competing ones. The most common mistake is booking a full day when a well-timed four hours would have been better.
Read the planning notesHoneymoon
Two weeks that should not feel like a schedule.
Honeymoons fail on pacing, not on budget. Three destinations in ten days produces airports, not memories. The planning work is deciding what to remove.
Read the planning notesWedding
The most logistically demanding celebration there is.
A coastal wedding is three events — arrival, ceremony, dinner — each with its own venue, weather risk and supplier chain. The sequence in which you book them decides whether the budget holds.
Read the planning notesCorporate retreat
Discretion, logistics and a clear reason to be there.
Corporate coastal programmes live or die on arrival windows and contracting. Guests arrive from different cities at different hours; the programme has to absorb that without anyone waiting in a lobby.
Read the planning notes