The wedding before!

Sophie and Anthony's wedding last weekend was lovely and the weather was fab. So lucky, as it hammered down the next day. Don't we love England!!
This one was taken at Rachel and Ricky's wedding which was sumptuous, with delightful shabby chic detail everywhere! No detail was left to chance, from the vintage deck chairs, to the ice cream stall, candelabras, windmills and croquet!
I love the creativity and imagination of it all! Each event is so different and all equally lovely! In the last three weeks my Big Top has been a lovely lunch tent with old linen cloths and a band outside playing in the garden, a beautiful 1950's lounge, complete with full bar at one end, and coya matting looking like carpet, And then the centrepicec for the lovely wedding party overlooking Box Valley, with pretty missmatched bottles full of sweet peas and vintage crockery and bags of jelly beans.
Thank you to everyone who loves the look of my marquees and has taken the leap of faith to ask me to help at their weddings. It is hard work, but so special and I love it all....really!

Here is the utterly stunning view (and quite a great
photo, don't you think!!)
of Box valley taken looking out from our marquee
at Sophie and Anthony's wedding last weekend.
A tricky one for us staff, tripping around on a slope, but I think all the guests faired well and no one toppled down the hill! A lovely do with fabulous food and sumptuous BBQ from Neston Farm shop (hopefully we will be liasing with them in the future)

too busy to blog!!

Well, here we are again! Three more weddings since my last blog and I think about another seven to go before the end of the season. Then I think I will hibernate and sleep for the winter (actually of course I won't, I will be Mrs"I'm in my new cottage at last" and will be happily busy making curtains and plumping cushions!!)

Now, the Corsham do was a lovely relaxed (for the guests anyway!) affair in a beautiful garden with lots of lovely tents dotted around and listening to the jolly Pack Horse band from Lacock.

Perfect.

That was followed by Rachel and Ricky's wedding in Gloucester. Wow!! What an event that was! An amazing procuction with so much planning and brilliant attention to detail.

AAh!! I seem to have failed to add the appropriate image (arm chairs in a marquee) and found one of Josh (my big 21yr old) and I in the snow..aah well, better luck next time, hehe!

More blogging activity tomorrow I hope (it's midnight now, no wonder I'm making mistakes!)

till the next one...

This is Rob and Kate's 'going away bike'!! They sailed off down the drive while being showered with confetti! Luckily not rain!! Such a stormy day, but as the ceremony began mid afternoon, the sun came out and my brollies didn't come out again until the evening! Another BEAUTIFUL wedding that I have had the luck and privilege to be involved with.

Here are some of Kate and Rob's wedding guests at Sheldon Manor sporting my so stylish parasol umberellas!

I worked with Kate and Sarah on Friday filling kilner jars with sunny yellow gerberas and daisys

to go on the wedding tables in the marquee.

On Saturday, several frantic hours were spent decorating the cheese and fruit cake wedding cake (great idea!), decorating marquee poles,fixing button holes, and filling any available recepticle with spare flowers!

A great group of lovely creative people with ideas that are so inspiring. I love all the wedding preparation, and all things so creative, so it is wonderful to be involved at the last minute helping all the ideas come together. One of Kate and Rob's ideas was to name their tables by using small black boards wedged into discs of tree trunk, FAB!

On Monday we delivered and erected five

marquees for a wedding at the Stanlane Vineyard

near Reading. Here are John and David relaxing

infront of Joey amongst the vines!

July Wedding

Here are Natasha and Anthony looking so happy.
Their wedding in Biddestone was brilliant. Natasha did an amazing job organizing everything (including making miles of her own bunting). Lots of last minute changes which were dealt with brilliantly! Being let down by caterers, food was bought from Sainsburys, family pitched in and with a huge hog roast 120 guests seemed to be catered for with ease!!
Flowers were bought from local supermarkets too, and suplemented with alchemilla and lavender from gardens in the village. All looked lovely and Natasha's resourcefulness was brilliant. She and I collected glass vases which looked so pretty on the rustic pub tables (and my trestles of course!)
I loved making the posies for the bride and bridesmaids and the button holes. This wedding business is FAB!