11pm seems to be blog time!
Our last really hectic day of the season today! Wool!

Bev, Daisy, Holly and had to be up at 6.30 today to travel to Harptree Court near Wells.
The event was Jo and Xaxier's wedfest! Jo combines exuberant creativity with detailed organisation and created a wonderful mini festival for their wedding celebrations. The Brixworth was bedecked with decorated lamp shades and old photo frames, candle lanterns covered with butterflies and strings of old photos. We filled huge hampers with wonderful picnics and guests sat on picnic rugs or at trestle tables. Jo's mum made lovely gingham runners for the old trestles ( I must see if she wants to sell them!). The vintage marquee was the 'hedgerow bar' with galvanised baths full of chilled wine and cider. I wish we hadn't been working so hard, we would have had more time to admire everything! But I will try to post a few photos next time.

We are somehow going to go away on holiday tomorrow!! But before that John has to get back from Bath (he has gone to get Daisy who doesn't feel well.. Obviously something she has eaten!!?) then tomorrow there are four tents to dismantle before the hurricane winds arrive!
I hope that during our absence (at it has to be said, the trickiest time) the rest of the carpeting will be finished in the cottage, the decorating will be completed too, the kitchen will be made, the kitchen floor finished...(am I a little optimistic?)

Being unfit parents we are leaving a 21yr old, an 18 yr old and Daisy (15 or 20, depending!) and I am actually feeling very guilty about it. But it will be fun and games when we return, four days of frantic house packing and cleaning and then we move into the cottage. Which incidentally will have no cooker, one sink (the tiny corner one in the girls bathroom!) and a fridge in the shed!

But come October, well, the end of October, let's be realistic! Life just might be settling down to some sort of normality!
one small parting fact, Vintage Marquees has provided tents for 43 events this season!!!
I feel I have earned my new iPad which I am playing on now!

September 2nd, can you believe it!!??
And we have two more hectic weekends, then just the odd booking or two this year.
A few catering events over the winter and lots of planning and web site updating for next year.
Since the last post I really can't remember what I've done!! Mainly spun in circles between cottage, tents, and general chaos!
Some lovely events though...We had Freya and Victor's wedding which was very special. A fabulous bohemian event, complete with a stunning yurt which made our beautiful Big Top look rather ordinary! Every event is so exciting and so special. Freya and Victor cleverly covered all angles by having a tea party (provided by yours truly!) followed later on by their own home cooked curries etc and eaten in the yurt with everyone being very chilled on the floor cushions etc. It all worked really well and the Big Top (meant to be a bit posher!! than the others) has never looked so ethnic, with Indian wall hangings to boot!

The following weekend I provided about 80 sets of vintage china, table cloths and wedding favours for Laura's wedding in the Abbey Gardens in Malmesbury. I was washing and sorting china for the rest of the week!

The photo shows the pretty wedding favours, small heart shaped soaps in organza bags. There really is no end to our talents!!haha!

This weekend we migrated to Amersham in Buckinghamshire (the longest drive I have ever done!!) Very brave!! My mini was packed to the gills with Bev, Daisy and I, as well as 120 chocolate brownies, several hundred cheesy biscuits, pate, cheeses, lantern crooks, etc, etc! Purdy organised an extravaganza of a party for Charlie and Becky who were 21 and 18. An absoulutely amazing party in their totally stunning garden. Cleverly I forgot the camera, but again, the Big Top did look fab, expecially late at night with all the lanterns lit and fairy lights twinkling around the pool...