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This Weekend – Visit Our Stunning Sperrys, Tipis and Marquee!

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This Weekend!!  – Visit our Terrific Tipis, Stunning Sperrys and Magical Marquees!

One more sleep and its HERE!!! It’s our Open Weekend, over the next 3 days (15th/16th/17th October 2021) and we could not be more excited! Why not come along and take a look at these beautiful spaces and toast some marshmallows while you’re here?

We are the only Open Weekend where you can see fully dressed stunning Sperrys, Tipis and a Marquee side by side.  We also cover the whole of the UK, so wherever your wedding or Event,  it’s the must see open weekend this autumn! Continue reading

Spring Wedding Open Weekend 21 – Meet Our Brilliant Suppliers!

We’re counting down to our Wedding Open Weekend , in just 3 weeks time! Planning all the details with our brilliant suppliers.  Have you booked your appointment to come and view our beautifully dressed  Tipi, Marquee and Sperry tents yet? You can get in touch to reserve your appointment with one of our friendly events team here and you’ll get a goody bag too!

The All About Me Open Weekend is taking place  on Friday 4th, Saturday 5th and Sunday the 6th June 2021 and we are excitedly making all the preparations for the event with our awesome wedding industry colleagues…here are just a few of the brilliant suppliers who make it all come together and can help you create the most amazing wedding!

BRILLIANT SUPPLIERS

Delicious Dishes, Perfect Pints and The Sweetest Of Treats!

Providing all the culinary delights for you and your guests are the brilliant suppliers, caterers Vanilla in All Seasons. With years of exceptional experience in outdoor and indoor event catering, Vanilla in All Seasons can create the perfect wedding breakfast and more for you and your wedding party.

Making sure your party is well watered, Cestrian Bars will be on hand with their huge range of draft and bottled drinks, gins, spirits and soft drinks to ensure your event goes off with a bang! A professional bar set up for your perfect event. Come along and see them set up in all three tents.

Who doesn’t love Ice cream served from a gorgeous little vintage Ice Cream Van? The sweetest tasting treats from the Hyacinth Vintage Ice Cream Van are sure to hit the spot. The perfect thing to keep your guests happy, also very cute for wedding photos!

BRILLIANT SUPPLIERS
Pinterest Level Floral Inspiration!

We have two fabulous and talented local florists creating magical inspiration in the tents, each with their own unique styles.

Heather and her team from  Living Colour Floral Design in Stockton Heath,  will be styling our new Sperry and Marquee with two different looks. With her gorgeous floral design, Heather always inspires with unique ideas and only every uses real flowers and  foliage and creates stunning centrepieces, perfect to wow your guests.

Alice from local flower grower and florist Delamere Flower Farm, will be inspiring you in the Tipi with her floral creations.  A truly sustainable option, Alice grows the blooms she uses and will be inspiring us in the tipi with a stunning array of designs.

Natural Foliage Drama!

If you are looking for the wow factor, Richard from Real Oasis will be dressing the venue with real trees and amazing large plants to create a gorgeous natural canopy of greenery . Real Oasis supply real trees to the TV/Film industry as well as outstanding wedding and events up and down the country. We are delighted to have them at the open weekend.

Light Up, Light Up!

Brilliant suppliers “The Word is Love” create stunning focal points, with their light up features, neon signs and backdrops, a talking point that you can add personalisation to and make a statement too! They will be showcasing their innovative event backdrops to inspire you in all three tents.

Also making everything look incredible will be Lightech with their event lighting, they specialise in providing the most stunning lighting for marquees, tipi and sperrys and can light up any space and enhance any theme or mood. Come along on Friday evening to see the venue lit up at night, it’s truly magical.

Picture Perfect!

Over the open weekend Frank Henshall Photography will be on hand to capture the weekend for us with his talented eye for detail and also to chat to you about your wedding photography needs.  Frank’s photography and film style is natural, documentary, he sums it up as   “Natural, relaxed, timeless……and fun!”

And Not Forgetting The Oh So Important Details!

We think of everything, as do our brilliant suppliers and no event would be complete with out posh loos and electricity!!We are delighted to be working again with the wonderful Blue Loos and Melody Corporation generators, reliable, professional, friendly and essential for any successful wedding event!

Come along and meet our brilliant suppliers, we can’t wait to meet you and chat weddings!! You can get in touch to reserve your appointment with one of our friendly events team  and get yourself a goody bag too!
Photo Credits:  Lucy G Weddings / Jo Bradbury Photography / Mr and Mrs W/ Terri Pashley Photography

Hello October, It’s Our Incredible Open Weekend!

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Happy October! It’s our incredible OPEN WEEKEND this month and we cannot wait to welcome you on the 27th/28th/29th October to showcase our award winning tipis.

Come along and see our Tipis set up with a selection of different layouts, furnishings and finishing touches, to give you lots of inspiration. Some of our amazing partners and friends in the industry will be there on the open day too, so you can gather lots of information, ideas and pricing. We’ll have beautiful florals by Living Colour, styling inspiration by Pretty Creative, bars by Cestrian Bars,  posh loos by Blue Loos, stunning lighting by Lightech and much more.

If you’re interested in coming along over the weekend then you can book now to secure an exclusive All About Me goody bag. Just get in touch with us on 01244 360 214 or email james@marqueesandevents.com

 

Open Weekend Inspiration – Autumn Vineyard Tipi Wedding

Last October, our lovely suppliers who work together to dress the tipis for our open weekend, collaborated on this elegant styled vineyard inspiration tipi shoot, captured by Lucy G Photography. We thought we’d share the images today ahead of our next open day. We think they are gorgeous!

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The inspiration for the shoot draws on a subtle vineyard theme, with our bleach wood wine barrels, rich deep wine coloured florals, textiles and stationery with gorgeous sophisticated dresses for an elegant twist on a tipi wedding.

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The styling is by Rebecca at Pretty Creative , dresses curated by Lucy at The White Closet Studios, Liverpool, beautiful florals by Heather at Living Colour, stationery by Emma at Hattie Boo Designs, hair and make up by Clare at Harry Jon and textiles by Kaye Hannabuss Textiles.

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The tipis were set out with a main reception, party tent along with a smaller ceremony/blessing tent that overlooks the lake.The flowers by Living Colour were just a little opulent, with stone urns placed on wine barrels and deep, claret tones in the stunning bouquet.

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The stationery again played on the vineyard and wine theme with beautiful hand painted invitations, table plan, save the dates and menus by Hattie Boo Designs as well as all the signage details. The Hollies Farm Shop provided the fabulous cheese and deli board, which Lucy G Photography managed to photograph just before everyone swooped on the cheese board to sample it!

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Our bride Charlotte had her look created by talented Clare at Harry Jon, with a very natural look with her hair swept up in a loose up do with the occasional tousled curl loosely falling down around her face and shoulders. For the Charlie Brear dress, Charlotte’s hair was styled with a pretty floral hair clip by Gypsy Rose Vintage.

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Talking Tipis and Toilets!

It is understandable that guests who are invited to a wedding or any type of event in a Tipi might be concerned about the toilet situation. If you have had experiences of festivals or camping as a youngster, you may have terrible memories of blocked toilets and smelly washrooms. And everyone has had that nightmare situation of being caught short without toilet roll. It isn’t something that most of us like to talk about much, but it is a reality of every day life and like it or not, it needs to be a main concern when organising any event based in one of our tipis.

Mobile Toilets

Blue Loos Luxury Toilets

Unless the tipi is adjacent to a house or facility with suitable WC’s – suitable to cope with the number of guests expected at your event, you will need to hire mobile toilets. There are a lot of great companies out there who provide these services, but you need to be aware that you don’t have to make do with substandard, or ‘builder-type’ toilets. The range of facilities that you can get these days is vast, and some of them are positively lovely!

No we aren’t joking. We are confident enough to say that the mobile toilet facilities that we recommend for use alongside our tipis are actually very luxurious! We work alongside a company called Blue Loos and their luxury range include;

  • Quality hand soaps
  • Fresh towels
  • Full carpeted interior
  • Modern fixings and chrome finishes
  • Aesthetically pleasing exteriors
  • Automatic air fresheners
  • hot and cold running water
  • heating
  • Mirrors with soft lighting
  • Heating
  • Background music

Now that doesn’t sound like your average mobile toilet does it? Blue Loos do provide a range of options to suit individual budgets, so if your event doesn’t require such luxury, you can go with their more standard models which are still really quite lovely.

So you can reassure your guests that your event will provide more than suitable toilet facilities, plenty of toilet roll, heating and even some ambient background music if you desire. Definitely not your average festival toilet!

My Wedding Story – Part 5 – 2 weeks to go!!!!

One week and five days to be precise. The Tipis are being built as we speak! That makes it really feel like its actually happening, if you know what I mean.

The Tipis would usually be built a day or two before the wedding, but there is another wedding the weekend before ours at the same venue, so the Tipis are staying up. This has worked out great for us at it means we will have longer to dress the venue. The All About Me team have been so flexible and brilliant with letting us do this, we can’t thank them enough. In Fact, we have been so lucky with all of our suppliers. This is who we have gone with;

They have all been really accommodating and are used to working with the Tipis which we think is very important.

The next time I write a blog post will be after the wedding! By then I will be in a better place to be able to provide some useful information about what has gone well and what has gone not so well. Hopefully everything will be brilliant! No matter what the weather I know that I can rely on the Tipis to keep all of my friends and family warm and dry. The thing I am most excited about is the fire pits. They make the Tipis so cosy and inviting and I just know that people who don;t know what to expect will be blown away by how spectacular the Tipis will look.

I will post lots of photos next time. And if my photos come out well I will tell you all about my photographers!

 

Anyone need the toilet????

How can we say thanks to Blue Loos for coming to our Open Weekend without talking about how lovely their toilets are? Well the truth is, we can’t. Because their toilets truly are lovely. If you think that mobile loos are all the same, you will be pleasantly surprised by Blue Loos. They are professionally maintained, smell lovely and compliment the quality of our Tipis perfectly. They come in a range of styles including Luxury!

Give them a call to quote for your event now and tell them we sent you!