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Adam & Fern @ The Clock Barn

Last week saw my first visit to The Clock Barn – what a stunning venue! It’s located on the outskirts of Whitchurch on Tufton Warren Farm, about 5 minutes from the A34 and 15 minutes from Winchester and Newbury. The service and attention to detail provided by Helen, Emma, and the Clock Barn team was fantastic.

Once again I provided music for the ceremony, you can see my laptop and controller at the back of the room (but you can’t see the speaker). Fern’s Bridal party entered to Bryan Adam’s “Everything I Do”, and newlyweds Adam and Fern made their exit to the chorus of Florence & The Machines version of “You’ve Got The Love”.

After the ceremony the guests went outside for photos with Lee, their photographer, then back into the barn for drinks before being seated for the speeches and wedding breakfast.

After the meal the Bride and Groom took to the dance-floor for their first dance, “Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol.

Then the party began! I’d suggested to Fern and Adam to start a “music for our wedding” group on FaceBook for their guests and we had plenty of suggestions. We’d sat down a couple of weeks before the big day to sift through all the posts and decided what should be included, the results were fabulous and we had a great mix of rock, pop and dance. For later in the evening Adam and Fern had suggested a rave party set and they broke out the glow sticks for tracks by artists including The Chemical Brothers, Pendulum and Kasabian.

The night ended with everyone on the floor for Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” and Kings Of Leon’s “Sex On Fire” – and all of this on a Thursday night in rural Hampshire! Thanks to Adam, Fern, their family and friends and the team at The Clock Barn for a really great day.

For more information about The Clock Barn CLICK HERE

The Evening Reception

Whenever possible I like to add something unexpected into the event and I had a couple of things planned for Kirsty & Jason. The first was this moving gobo projected on the ceiling with their names and the date of their marriage. You can see I used their colour-scheme for the lighting in the room and the angles and surfaces available to project the image on to worked really well. The gobo just turns slowly.

We had talked in advance about playing my Getting To Know You / Mr & Mrs / Shoe Game, which went down very well.

Kirsty, her Bridesmaids and friends from the Hen Weekend gave us their fantastic dance routine to the Grease Megamix, which actually ended with them raising Jason right up in the air!

The Brides family are Scottish and we played a good number of tunes to get the kilts swirling including one from the Red Hot Chilli Pipers!

The end of the night was again well planned with a selection of “anthems” including “You Got The Love”, “Wonderwall, “Loch Lomond”, “500 Miles”, “The Time Of My Life” and “Never Forget”. Finally the guests maid a guard of honour, and Kirsty and Jason left the room to a remixed version of Katy Perry’s “Firework”, taking time to say goodbye to each guest in turn.

What a fantastic day! My thanks again to Kirsty, Jason, their family and friends for allowing me to share in their special day, and to all the team at Rhinefield for making me so welcome. Have I mentioned how much I love my job!

Wedding Breakfast

Sorry I haven’t been able to keep these posts up from Kirsty and Jason’s wedding – the last week has been, well that’s just say very busy. So I’ll try and get some more pictures up before we move on to last weeks events.

The ceremony room was transformed by the Rhinefield team for the wedding breakfast.

As you can see, the setting is absolutely stunning!

I, once again, provided background music along with microphones for the speeches.

Fleming Park Fashion Show

You may remember I provided the music for the Fleming Park Wedding Fair a few weeks back, well here’s a video of the fashion show.

The show was put together by Valerie from VA Productions and featured dresses from Mojgan Bridal Wear in Bournemouth.

The video was shot by Video 4 a Day

Saturday Night

Saturday night was great fun. The event was Carly and Christopher’s engagement party at the excellent Roddington Forge. It was also a chance for Joe to come along and play Tag-Team on the decks. We had a fine time mixing some classic hip-hop, dance anthems, current floor-fillers and a few cheesy tracks from back in the day that went down almost too well!

All together now …
“Get on up when you’re down
Baby, take a good look around
I know it’s not much, but it’s okay
Keep on moving on anyway”

Great people and good times!

Sunday 23rd October ~ Fleming Park Wedding Fair

This Sunday’s Wedding Exhibition is at Fleming Park Leisure Centre in Eastleigh. This is the first fair to be held by Wedding Daze at the venue, and there will be up to 85 local wedding suppliers, including yours truly.

The event is between 11am and 3pm this Sunday, and admission is £2.

Passfield Avenue
Eastleigh
Hampshire
SO50 9NL

Feedback …

Just thought I’d share some feedback I’ve had following a recent 50th birthday party.

“Thanks for doing a great job last week. A lot of our guests and the staff at the venue were very impressed. Your professionalism, enthusiasm and sense of fun were plain to see.

Hope to see you another time.”

Holiday Inn, Winchester ~ Sunday 9th October

Sorry I haven’t posted much in the last week, I’ve been really busy seeing couples and spending 3 days in Birmingham at various DJ events.

I’m back, and this Sunday I’ll be at The Holiday Inn in Winchester for another Wedding Fair with Stylish Events.

For more information about weddings at the Holiday Inn in Winchester CLICK HERE

Holiday Inn Winchester
Holiday Inn Hotel Winchester
Telegraph Way
Morn Hill
Winchester
SO21 1HZ

Legacy Botleigh Grange Hotel ~ Sunday 25th September

The Legacy Botleigh Grange is one of my favourite local venues. I’ve been fortunate to work in both of the main rooms this year with Chloe and Simon’s wedding and the Pretty In Pink charity ball.

The event is from 11am ’til 4pm ~ I’ll be there!

CLICK HERE for more information.

Last night

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who said hello at yesterdays Southampton Guildhall Wedding fair. Ce, my better half, came with me and we met loads of lovely couples and some fantastic suppliers.

Among the exhibitors were three other entertainers we’d wholeheartedly recommend ~ magician Dominic Reyes who we saw at Kim and Ian’s wedding last September, singer Martin Murphy, and singer Katy from Soulstar.

The show was very well organised and attended, we’ll certainly be back for the next one.

Next up for me is the Legacy Botliegh Grange Hotel Wedding Fair this on Sunday – more details to follow.