There is something fantastic-al about proper Mongolian yurts.
So, when we were approached to provide a tiny hideaway for a hollywood director’s very intimate 50th birthday party we were delighted.
Blue is his favourite colour. So, as well a string of specially commissioned blue flags, we ran a 150 ft long blue entryway down through the garden to a blue yurt.
It all looked very, well, blue - and very Hollywood.
And how brilliant that, when they all flew in from LA, they all walked down the carpet and took it in turns to stop and wave at the imaginary papparazzi…
Fantastic!
Inside it was sumptuous, fabulous and totally decadent. Full of cushions and drapes and games and old tables. Nestled amongst a whole lot of movie memorabilia in the middle of the Thames it couldn’t have been more appropriate.
Not least for one of the guests who, when they were shooting Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, had his trailer done up in entirely in red velvet. ”This is perfect” said the host. “he’ll feel right at home here…”
Well five weeks and no posts… it’s been so busy we haven’t had time to think let alone write…
But what we do have is a whole gang of happy customers - we’re exhausted but they all have a smiles on their faces. On the August Bank Holiday alone we had two big weddings with a total of nearly four hundred people plus a 21st, an 18th and a 16th!
And if that wasn’t enough four days before had a call from Italy for a last minute birthday picnic for a Hollywood director.
Once it was ll cleared away we all had a bit of a lie down!!
Well it all finally came together on top of the South Downs.
After months of planning - and a ton of emails! - 120 people successfully weathered the impending storms, snugly tucked up in a mini village of yurts and canopies set high up on one of the most dramatic parts of the South Downs.
Coming from all the corners of the world they were here for an uber-cool humanist ceremony to mark the wedding of two heroic emergency medics from East Timor.
From early in the morning ’til late at night - for three whole days - they dined, drummed and danced to the delight of everyone present.
It was not the easiest event of the year but it was certainly left the strongest impression on the guests. One of them took us aside at the end and said he had “travelled the world and been to hundreds of weddings and events but never to one as dramatic, as romantic and as completely inspirational as this”
Well said!
