Fabulous Roaring 20's!

Well, we certainly have been busy little bees recently (hence the lack of blogging going on!).  Firstly let me tell you about a cool and rather slick Roaring 20’s event we did for a 21^st Birthday Party last weekend; A large scale operation involving marquees, star cloth, fancy lighting, props and entertainment.

This event had been in the planning for quite a while; we’d done many a site visit and lots of liaising with the different suppliers, such as our regular marquee company and caterers (we may be excellent at theming, props, lighting etc. but when it comes to catering, best leave that to the pros! The guests may have ended up with cheese sandwiches otherwise – not very 1920’s!) 

The marquee had to go up a few days before the party, so we were on site, bright and early on the Wednesday.  The structure took all day to go up and then we were back on Thursday to add in the details. The marquee was lined in ivory and we built a strip of black star cloth right down the centre.  This was to darken the marquee down, make it feel less ‘pretty’ and add a little bit of glamorous sparkle!

Friday was the day it all started coming together…we delivered all our props, dance floor and lighting; the caterers began their prep and the bar was installed. We're talking Black & White Dance Floor, Beautiful 1920's Silhouette Backdrops and Stunning Lighting Effects.

On the Saturday, we all began at the crack of dawn to concentrate on the all-important finishing touches.  The band arrived to sound check and before we knew it, guests were arriving for drinks on the lawn (although they had to hurry down the garden and shelter under the Chinese Hat as the weather was awful!) The guests looked fantastic - they all really went to town on costumes; While the ladies went for 1920's Flapper dresses, the men donned tuxedo's and fake moustaches and there were feathers everywhere!

After dinner, the band struck their first chord – a rather cool Electro Swing Band – and I personally have never seen a dance floor fill so fast! The guests were in full party spirit from the word go and the atmosphere was brilliant!

A lot of hard work went into making this event look stunning, but it certainly paid off – everyone, guests and crew alike all had a super time!

Since then, we’ve been pulling all sorts of events together, mainly on the corporate side – the next blog will tell you all about a fabulous 007 event we did in Nottingham at the weekend just gone! It will be up here shortly – keep your peepers peeled!

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