Marquee Weddings

Hiring a marquee is a great way to hold your wedding celebrations if you really want to have a blank canvas to work with and they usually work out a lot cheaper than hiring a venue.

The Practical Stuff:

– Firstly you will need to ensure that the marquee hire company you have chosen to go with
have availability for your chosen date to avoid any disappointment

– Ensure the company is willing to visit the location of where the marquee will be erected
before agreeing to do the job

– Do they have lighting and heating facilities, or is this something you will need to arrange
yourself?

– Make sure you have enough power supply for what you want and how you will arrange this,
you may need to hire a generator, and a spare incase the first ones power blows!

– Where will the toilets be located?

– Where will the kitchen be located for the caterers?

– Think about heating, regardless of season!

The Designing:

– Think of a colour scheme, theme or some of your favourite things to get your creative juices
flowing

– Pick your flowers, centrepieces, tablecloths and chair covers that will tie in with the above to
decorate the space

– Think about having up-lighters and other types of lights to create the atmosphere you want

– Think about where you will have the bar, the evening entertainment and the dance floor, it’s a
good idea to have the bar near to where the evening entertainment will be

– Will you need any additional furniture?

We hope this helps you to get started with your planning…as you can see it is a lot of hard work and a large amount to think about to ensure you’re doing everything right – which is why hiring a wedding planner can really take the strain off you by offering expert advice and doing the hard parts for you.

Get in touch if we can help you plan yours!

With Love

The Team at Toast!
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Maid of Honour

So your best friend has asked you to be her Maid of Honour, and what an honour that is! So what exactly do you need to do?!

In Roman times the Maid of Honour and the bridesmaids dressed in the exact same dress as the bride to confuse any potential bride snatchers and to protect her from evil spirits! Luckily now it’s all about lending support and planning the all-important hen do!

You may feel a tad stressed at times, but it is all worth it and the bride will appreciate everything you are doing to make her day special.

One of the most important duties is to accompany the bride dress shopping to assist her choosing the dress of her dreams. Tell her when she looks gorgeous, and break it to her gently if a dress just isn’t for her, she will thank you for it!

Planning the hen party will probably be the most stressful duty of them all – the best thing to do is discuss with the bride what she wants and go from there. It’s great if you can keep everyone attending happy but when it comes down to it, the bride is the one to be considered.

On the day you will need to be on hand to calm the bride, keep her composed and to deal with any last minute hiccups.

If the bride’s dress has a train, you will be the one carrying it and ensuring it is arranged well in the ceremony and last but by no means least, be on hair and lipstick check for the photos!

Good luck and enjoy being your oldest friend’s right hand lady!! She will appreciate it more than you will ever know.

With Love

The Team at Toast!
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Here Comes The Tide!

Fancy getting married somewhere different, love the beach, but don’t like the idea of going abroad?

Well look no further, as Beach Weddings Bournemouth is for you!

Some of you may have already seen this new unique venue featured on ITV’s Daybreak, but for those of you who didn’t, here’s what it’s all about…

You can have exclusive use of the venue, along with 800 square metres of sand roped off, with your ceremony in the Wedding Hut followed by a wedding breakfast inside the marquee which is set up on the sand.

Your drinks reception can be held in a separate smaller marquee if the weather is being unpredictable, whilst the event team turn the larger marquee around for the meal.

90 people can attend the ceremony and 90 can be seated for the wedding breakfast. Larger marquees are available to hire at an extra cost if needed.

If you fancy just having the ceremony or the ceremony and the drinks reception here, it’s not a problem, you can book your wedding breakfast and reception elsewhere.

The venue is set up with a ‘seaside’ and ‘nautical’ theme which really fits the scene, but it is really a blank canvas for you to have exactly what you want for your special day.

If this is something you are interested in, check out their website for more details and prices http://www.beachweddingsbournemouth.co.uk.

It would definitely be a wedding worth talking about and just imagine looking back on those beach wedding shots!

With Love

The Team at Toast!
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