Onwards!!

I can't believe we are already a month into 2013 ...and I still have such a long 'to do' list before Vintage Marquees is ready for the next season! But..some progress has been made! The crew now have very stylish (!!?) polo shirts and jackets and I have also had logos printed to go on all our marquees (thank you Sarah and your sewing machine!) In that vein, I am in the throes of buying 25 lovely old deckchairs which will be covered with beautiful thick cream canvas and the VM logo to boot!! and will be available for hire this season.

I am shifting my stock round a bit. Due to popular demand I am hoping to buy a 30'x 50' marquee; traditional like all the others, but new and beautiful with windows like the Big Top. So I will be looking to sell some of my Indian pagoda marquees, and some of the little Jester tents, as well as the lovely
Raj marquee. Just contact me for any info... I will only be asking for what I have paid for any of these tents, all the old ones are genuinely old and much loved (ie kinda tatty!!)

Meanwhile, the bookings are coming in! July is looking busy already and due to the logistics of long distance travel, I am going to try to only take one long haul (!!) booking per week. Definitely more local advertising is needed..Bath, Marlborough, Malmesbury, Tetbury, Frome...here we come!

more plans..more ideas!

 Check out the new Cath Kidston spring/summer catalogue!


Here is our little Vintage marquee, the star of the show!! The theme of the shoot was 'village fete' so the (vintage trestle) tables in the tent were decked with entries for the plant show, miniature gardens, and best of all..cakes!! John, David and I joined the crew in a  cake feast when everything was 
dismantled at the end of the shoot!!!

Still busy!!

Even though tent activity is of course much quieter in the winter, we are still busy busy!
And our lovely Vintage tents are well, not exactly becoming famous, but well, at least we are getting noticed..this week the Vintage tent had to go to London to be used in a promotional shoot for
 Cath Kidston (more about that later!!) and the Market Stall and our rustic gift cart were used in a shoot for 'Pretty Nostalgic ' magazine and I also received news that Joey will appear in one of the summer issues of Country Living next year!!
Meanwhile we are sorting and cleaning canvas walls and I have plans to make rustic deckchairs out of ..bits of tent!! I have teamed up with Sarah (www.kenaus.com) who is a whizz with the sewing machine and can mend and create for me!
Now to update the links page and sort out contract conundrums!
Happy Christmas and here's to a DRY 2013!!(and is it too much to hope for a bit of sun too!!??)

A new wedding venue!!!
For anyone looking for a beautiful old walled garden to erect a lovely vintage marquee in, look no further! Fiona at Bridges Court in Luckington, Wiltshire (www.bridgescourt.co.uk) will welcome you, show you her B&B rooms, the ample parking etc, etc. A truly stunning garden and an absolutely perfect setting for a traditional wedding party. Vintage Marquees are providing a marquee for the first wedding at Bridges Court in May 2013, so watch out for the photos...

Fantastic light trees!!

The latest exciting purchase!!
Two amazing 7' high LED light trees!
These fabulous life size trees will look absolutely stunning
placed either side of the marquee entrance!
These pictures were hastily taken (in the rain!) of course all the branches can be spread out and arranged beautifully.
The trees actually emit a lot of light so would also be brilliant inside a marquee, and totally safe too.

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!!!)