Monthly Archives: August 2007

The polishing of the dance floor

So you’ve finished the meal and you’re all in the bar or the lounge or on the terrace or whatever socialising while they turn the room round for dancing. And what’s the last thing that happens before they let you back in to kick off your first dance? That’s right – a...

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Timings #2

It’s about time we had another comparison of planned and actual timings for the day, so this is a fairly standard Anglican church ceremony followed by tea and wedding cake in the church hall, a short drive to the reception venue, 3 courses, 3 speeches then straight into the first dance. Apart from the tea...

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Cake thief!

OK, this isn’t actually a picture of the banquetting manager at Penshurst Place making off with Alison and Andy’s wedding cake, but it could have been.

Those truffles were really scrummy …

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Pianists

The pianist at yesterday’s wedding played the venue’s grand during the ceremony and his own digital piano during the reception, and he impressed us far more than most do. Richard Sully’s a talented pianist and really nice guy, and everything you need to know about him is on his website

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25 wedding photographers and a gazebo

Photograph by Richard Harris, art direction by Huy Nguyen
It’s a rather scary thought, but if a passing meteorite had crashed onto that gazebo on Tuesday evening, something in the order of 1000 couples would soon have found themselves looking for a new photographer for their 2007 or 2008 wedding. That’s a bunch of Brit...

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