{"id":276298,"date":"2015-11-12T23:27:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T12:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/pro-education\/easyweddings-show-us-five-star-supplier-certificates\/"},"modified":"2015-11-12T23:27:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T12:27:41","slug":"easyweddings-show-us-five-star-supplier-certificates","status":"publish","type":"au-pro-education","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/pro-education\/easyweddings-show-us-five-star-supplier-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Show us your Five-Star Supplier certificates: and the winner is…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Entries in our Five-Star Supplier awards ranged from the truly gorgeous to the amazingly creative!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In September, Easy Weddings\u00a0sent out more than 1550 Five-Star Supplier certificates to wedding vendors across the country who achieved five-star ratings from their own customers.<\/p>\n

Every frame was lovingly assembled and packed by an Easy Weddings team member<\/a>\u00a0and we’ve been thrilled with the response from clients who took to social media to show off their awards.<\/p>\n

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We were (delightfully) surprised by just how creative some of our vendors were in displaying their frames online, from Victorian celebrant Erin Rollason<\/a> who posted her picture from a hospital\u00a0bed (get well soon, Erin) to South Australian\u00a0cake makers Sweet Creams who re-created their award in icing – and whipped up a bunch of suitably themed cupcakes to celebrate.<\/p>\n

Every supplier\u00a0that\u00a0posted their award on social media using the #EasyWeddings hashtag went into the running to win up to $2000 in EW advertising.<\/p>\n

Choosing a winner wasn’t easy,\u00a0as you’ll see from just some of the entries displayed below, but this year’s award goes to Sydney celebrant Mel Armstrong Jones <\/a>who Photoshopped her award into 20+\u00a0scenes, including up trees, underwater, in people’s arms and, even, dotted along the Great Wall of China. You can see some of her brilliantly inventive images in the gallery below but you can also see them on her Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We were looking for something really fun and creative that went beyond a simple picture of the certificate,” said\u00a0said Matt Butterworth, Easy Weddings’ CEO.<\/p>\n

“The team was\u00a0very, very impressed with the caliber of entries we received in this year’s competition and, though it was incredibly difficult, Mel Armstrong Jones\u00a0took that\u00a0notion of creativity to an unexpected level.”<\/p>\n

Among Mel’s entries were pictures of her favourite rugby players running with her frame,\u00a0dolphins swimming with her frame (because, as one of her clients says, ‘Mel’s flipping awesome’) and a picture of the mighty Taj Mahal – watched\u00a0over by two of her giant frames.<\/p>\n

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New York’s Time Square filled with billboards featuring our winner Mel Armstrong Jones’ frames.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She even recruited her mother and children Morgan and Amelie\u00a0to bolster\u00a0her campaign.<\/p>\n

“I came up the ideas using all the names, places and people that I’m passionate about or that I work with within my business,” said a thrilled Mel, who has been with Easy Weddings less than\u00a0a year.\u00a0“I also thought about where I’d like to be seen; on the back of a bus or on a billboard in Times Square, for example, and I incorporated those ideas\u00a0into my posts,” she adds.<\/p>\n

So impressed with all the efforts was Matt, he insisted on a runner-up prize, $500 in EW advertising. This year’s runner-up prize goes to another celebrant, Melbourne-based Charis White<\/a>,\u00a0whose picture (below) also portrayed\u00a0her family celebrating her win.<\/p>\n

“I think this picture really illustrates what the wedding industry – and weddings in general – are all about; families and celebration,” said Matt.<\/p>\n

“Charis truly exemplifies\u00a0what Easy Weddings’\u00a0Five-Star Supplier awards\u00a0are about. In the four years she’s been with us, she has collected more than 80 reviews, most of them five-star reviews and, as a result, she sees more than double the enquiries of most others in the same category.”<\/p>\n

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Runner-up: Melbourne celebrant Charis White’s family-friendly award picture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Congratulations to all our\u00a0Five-Star Suppliers. The competition was hot this year – and we’re not sure why celebrants stood out so much this year\u00a0– but you may want to start thinking about how you’re going to display next year’s award. Good luck.<\/p>\n