Here are the crew! The A team! From left Caspar, Lewis and Lloyd. Boys you have been WONDERFUL, THANK YOU!! Lloyd your energy is amazing, you inspire us all, I love it.
Nick our brilliant driver (come photographer!!) took this photo when the boys were drenched having spent four hours dragging all our equipment through fields of mud after a very wet wedding!
Sadly I don't have a mug shot of Nick, I must take my camera out next time!!

So a big thank you to Nick too, and David of course (who has spent far too much time mowing lawns for old ladies and not enough time marqueeing as far as I'm concerned!!) and to John (who one day may give  up the day job and join Vintage Marquees full time!) and to Adam and Tom and all the uni boys who come and go.

Also a huge thank you to Bev who is not just a right hand person, but absolutely brilliant working beside me at all the events (Bev is calm and just carries on as I panic that we don't have enough time to do everything and is always so lovely with everyone .. I couldn't do it without you Bev).
Thank you too to my lovely waitressing team. You are all great and Daisy especially, you have been with  us at almost every event, you are a star (proud mum!!)
Cazza my catering mate (thank the Lord for you!)xx

A wopping thank you too, to all my lovely clients! We have met such lovely people and are privileged to have been part of so many special days this summer. Your thanks and enthusiasm are so much appreciated and it has been such a treat to have put our tents up at some utterly amazing and beautiful venues all over the country.

I hope that next season will be as dynamic (and hopefully drier!!) than this one!

Here are a few of pics of the Raj tent. It is a lovely 30' x 40' marquee. Call me if you are interested in buying it!

Unlike my traditional tents, the Indian ones are fully lined (and would look lovely with cream/linen/old lace bunting!! I might just have to run up a few hundred meters!!!)

End of the season

Wow!! The end of the season! Yesterday we put up the Brixworth in Surrey for the last hire of the season. And what a season it has been!! A few facts and figures which quite frankly amazed me when I totted them all up...
Nick has driven over 5500 miles delivering and collection for Vintage Marquees this season! He has probably been involved with about three quarters of our bookings, so that is only part of our mileage totals!
We have done twenty three weddings, twenty one parties, seven country fairs, village fetes and vintage shows and I have hired out nine lots of items when the hirer has used other marquees (shock horror!!)
Of the parties, there have been three 18th, three 21st, five 40th, three 50th, one anniversary, two christenings, one 80th and three hires just for a party!!!! And I have worked at eleven of the events mostly catering and working with my girls waitressing and helping to run the show!

This is the pagoda, not a great pic though.

Now for a few months of consolidation before the next season! There are lots of new photos so major web site up dating to be done. I would also like to liase with some local wedding venues with the aim to reduce our mileage next year. Also on the marquee front, I am hoping to buy a 40' x 60' old canvas marquee this weekend, so we would be able to accommodate approximately 200 guests in one marquee!! I also very much hope to find a 30' x 50' marquee. Sadly the Raj was not made quite to our British standards and would not withstand the constant hirings our tents cope with. So I will be selling it I hope. Just call if you are interested! I also have three pretty pergoda tents which I have imported especially to sell. Just call for details!