{"id":276379,"date":"2017-10-11T00:15:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/pro-education\/insider-interview-henry-clarke\/"},"modified":"2017-10-11T00:15:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:15:53","slug":"insider-interview-henry-clarke","status":"publish","type":"au-pro-education","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/pro-education\/insider-interview-henry-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Insider Interview: Henry Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Today, we spoke to music professional Henry Clarke about how weddings are changing and the increasing demand in the industry for authentic wedding musicians.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6667\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6667\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.easyweddings.com\/files\/2022\/02\/23170006\/Henry-Clarke-17587-P1060664-1759200204.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Clarke Wedding Music\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Clarke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Tell us a bit about your business and your experience in the wedding industry.<\/h2>\n<p>I am wedding musician from Perth \/ Margaret River, WA and have been actively involved in wedding music for around 3 years. I have been playing music for over 20 years and I perform as voice and guitar for wedding ceremonies, pre-drinks, and receptions.<\/p>\n<h2>What do you do to make your business stand out?<\/h2>\n<p>I play great songs that my clients enjoy and help create a relaxed, happy and friendly atmosphere for the wedding day. I have a genuine interest in helping wedding parties create their perfect day and LOVE playing music.<\/p>\n<h2>How do current couples differ from couples a few years back?<\/h2>\n<p>More flexibility in live music placement &#8211; ceremony locations, song arrangements, order of proceedings, formality structures and more!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6669\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6669\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.easyweddings.com\/files\/2022\/02\/23170011\/f2999246-1524-44ec-99d3-7629462fd5bb-bartley_691.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Clarke Wedding Music\" width=\"900\" height=\"501\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Clarke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>What are some current trends you are noticing in the wedding industry?<\/h2>\n<p>I am seeing an increased focus on couples creating a memorable \u2018experience\u2019 for weddings. For me, this means more \u2018real\u2019 and &#8216;authentic\u2019 music solutions like live weddings singers\/musicians\u2019. With more variety of services and suppliers out there today, clients have more possibilities to tailor-make their day just the way they\u2019d like.<\/p>\n<h2>What\u2019s the biggest thing you\u2019ve learned recently that\u2019s helped your business?<\/h2>\n<p>Working with Easy Weddings!<\/p>\n<h2>If you could give one piece of advice to a brand new wedding professional what would it be?<\/h2>\n<p>For most couples, it will be the first time either of them has been a bride or groom, so patience and additional guidance is important.<\/p>\n<h2>What are your predictions for the wedding industry in 2018? What do you think will be the next big thing?<\/h2>\n<p>I believe more couples will consider \u2018experience-adding\u2019 to help make their day memorable and entertaining, like live music, photo-booths and other forms of entertainment.<br \/>\nI\u2019m also hopeful that same-sex marriage will become legal so a new wave of wedding ideas come to fruition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6668\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6668\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.easyweddings.com\/files\/2022\/02\/23170017\/Henry-Clarke-17587-P1060667-1759200240.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Clarke Wedding Music\" width=\"900\" height=\"598\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Clarke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/WeddingMusic\/Perth\/SitsioMusic\/Gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\">View Henry&#8217;s storefront here.\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269608,"template":"","au_pro_edu_tags":[],"class_list":["post-276379","au-pro-education","type-au-pro-education","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","au_pro_edu_categories-share-worthy-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-pro-education\/276379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-pro-education"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-pro-education"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_pro_edu_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_pro_edu_tags?post=276379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}