Find out more about Gabrielle Plasman Wedding Planner and how she started her business. I have worked with Gabrielle a few times now, once at GGs Yard and Folkerton Mill.
Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do?
I am a destination wedding planner, I plan weddings for French speaking couple who mainly live in France (or Belgium & Switzerland) and are looking for a small wedding.
How long have you been a wedding planner?
I started my business 6 years ago.
What made you decide to start a French Wedding in Scotland?
I moved to Scotland a few months after I turned 18, with a very basic English and no clear plan of what I wanted to do, expect that I needed to be in those lands. After a while, I became fluent and saw a documentary about wedding planners, it totally ticked and I felt like I could be happy doing this.
After some more digging I found that Scotland is one of the only country in the world where you can get married legally as a foreigner who doesn’t live here and learnt more about the humanist ceremony and the fact that you can get married anywhere and however you liked. Nothing like weddings in France. As we know, French people tend to struggle with the English language as well, so I thought there would be a clientele there but everybody would say this is too niche. I wasn’t convinced so I started to target both British and French people and only French people got back to me!
I thought this would be the perfect job to have a positive impact on people’s life – which is what I’ve always wanted my job to reflect – and to mix my passion and love for this country and romantic side as well.
French people really appreciate the fact that by getting married in Scotland they can have a wedding which reflects who they truly are and offers something so different and with less restriction than the wedding they would have in France.
Being able to help them achieve this is an amazing feeling!
Do you have a favourite venue you like to visit?
I do a lot of elopement, I love going to the adventurous ones such as Gylen Castle on Kerrera or Loch Coruisk on Skye! I love barn weddings as well, Comrie Croft for example is a lovely venue in my dear Perthshire!
But there are soooo many venues and so many I’m still to discover, which is what I love about my job, no wedding are never the same!
Is there a venue you haven’t been to that you would love to go to?
Glen Dye, I feel like this might be where I would even get married myself even tho I’ve never been!
