We've Spent 50 Years Making Events Extraordinary. Now We're Helping You Do The Same.

Big M Productions was not born in a boardroom. It was born on a stage — in the lights, the music, the electric moment when a perfectly planned event comes alive and a crowd of people forget everything else in the world.

For over 50 years, we have been creating those moments for South African families and businesses. Weddings. Bollywood productions. Red-carpet award ceremonies. Corporate galas. Milestone celebrations.

We have seen — and executed — it all. And along the way, we learned something that most people only discover the hard way. The difference between an event that is remembered forever and one that is forgotten by Monday morning is almost never the budget. It is the planning.

We watched it happen thousands of times. A couple would book the most beautiful venue in Durban. A family would hire the most talented photographer in Joburg. A company would secure the most prestigious ballroom in Cape Town. And then — slowly, quietly — the cracks would appear.

The budget would creep. Vendors would be booked in the wrong order. Critical decisions would be made at the last minute for three times the price. The seating chart would be done the night before. The MC would have no script. The run of show would live in someone's head.

Not because these people didn't care. They cared enormously. But nobody had given them a system. That realization changed everything for us.

So we built the system ourselves. We took the exact tools our production team uses to execute events worth hundreds of thousands of rands — the budget trackers, the vendor sheets, the run-of-show templates, the MC scripts, the guest list managers — and we turned them into a digital product anyone can use. Then we went further.

We built a live online planning application so you can manage your entire event — budget, vendors, tasks, music, and entertainment — from any device, anywhere, at any time. For free. With every kit. We wrote the invitation templates. We created the email scripts for vendor negotiations.

We developed the checklists that take you from twelve months out to the morning of your event — step by step, task by task. Everything we know. Everything we've learned. Packaged into five event planning kits starting from R147. Because extraordinary events should not be a privilege reserved for people who can afford a full-time coordinator.