busy,busy!!

AAAhhh!!!Yippee!!!! I AM SUCH A TECHNO WHIZZ!!! The whole blog format has changed and (in-between numerous phone conversations!! and several glasses of wine!!) it has taken me about an hour to work out how to add this photo!!

Anyway, this is the new addition to the team WOOO!!! I am just about to send off my cheque to Trent Windsurfing Club!! to purchase this pretty (and appealingly slightly grubby I think!) little marquee! She is 15' x 25', so very slightly bigger than our two original Vintage Marquees.

It is rather a worry that I seem to have a passion for collecting such large and cumbersome items!!! Still, at least my canvas marquees are useful (whereas sofas..wellll.....)

We are already galloping along with the wedding season, and the sun has actually shone for one of them! It is so great to be part of all the exciting planning and preparation and to help create beautiful wedding venues, from barns, to village halls, to marquees huge and tiny! All are so special and individual and wonderful!

Tomorrow we are building marquees at Stockton, Wiltshire for the Vintage Nostalgia Show which should be a very jolly event for all us retro lovers! Then on Wednesday the crew are heading to Hungerford, providing the Jamboree marquee and masses of chairs etc for a wedding and on Thursday the Big Top is going upon Frome for a big party and at the weekend one of our little Jesters is at Hartham Park, Corsham for a boules tournament.


Next time I hope to post a picture ( a major achievement in itself!!) of David, our main man!( along with JP) on his vintage tractor....watch this space!!!

Babies and rain!!

Well, last week was both fraught and lovely too!!
Now three of my beautiful brides from last year have babies! Woo! And last week I actually had cuddles with two of them..aah! Both Laura and Natasha have beautiful baby girls, both about 6 weeks old now. soooo sweet!! That was the good bit...
Now for the stresses, I have just received an email saying I have the ideal business/company. Well, that is so not so when faced with the prospect of erecting marquees in sodden fields in the pouring rain! Poor Sarah and Paul who had planned an idyllic day with children skipping in the fields and marquees looking majestic by the picturesque canal, had to admit defeat and succumb to the kind offer of a concrete barn with corrugated roof! So it was a challenge for all and an emotional few days to turn the shed into well, something weddingy!! And do that we did! The Vintage Marquees crew provided silk drapes, matting, and of course masses of quirky paraphernalia (churns, lights, gingham cloths etc) then Sarah's friends did the rest. Four of us worked at the wedding serving the teas, creating a wedding cake out of meringues and flowers (!!), serving champagne and scuttling around being helpful and I have to say it was a truly special day, I think made all the more so for the spirit of camaraderie pulling it all together in the face of adversity.
Martin and Julie at Marsh Farm (in Trowbridge, where the reception was held) were wonderful too and I hope we will work together again.. it really would be lovely to put up our tents by the canal...one day..when the sun shines!!