Posts Tagged ‘Flooring’

Parkstone Wedding Reception

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

A very unusual garden was the venue for a wedding reception in Parkstone, Dorset.

Unusual as it was on different levels and odd angles and it even had a very sharp drop to contend with, however, one thing it did have was a brilliant view of Poole Harbour and beyond to the Purbecks. To take advantage of those views, we installed our panoramic window walls.

We were tasked with installing a 6m wide marquee as the main dining area, although a corner of the marquee was hanging over the edge of the sloped garden, although combining the marquee with our award winning hardwood flooring meant that we could do this safely!

MAY DAY MAY DAY

One of the clients own gazebos blew over and was damaged the day before the big day, so last minute we were called to come back to the site to install a 6m x 3m marquee on the patio to provide more covering for guests. – Thanks Elegance Ashley for dropping everything and coming to the rescue!!

We also created the wow factor inside the marquees by hiring our new spandex table covers in Black for the large round tables and White for the poseur bar tables.

One Weekend – Five Wedding Venues Created

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Last weekend saw team elegance creating five superior wedding venues in Dorset and Wiltshire. The elegance boys started off by delivering all the equipment necessary to create a superior wedding venue (apart from the tent itself) to Dean’s Court House in Wimborne. The team there has just started to hire out the house for weddings and functions this year and information can be found here (http://www.deanscourt.org/).

Next on our hit list was to install the venue for Richard and his bride to be at Birkin House (http://www.birkinhouse.com/), near Dorchester where we are lucky enough to be one of the main suppliers of marquees and event equipment. This marquee had a separate catering tent where Amanda, David and Louise from Merlins Catering (http://www.merlinscatering.co.uk/) were hard at work preparing a feast for the happy event. We also provided all the equipment for the Bar, including chillers and pumps and of course the lovely liquid itself!

Then we were back with Andrew and Alex over looking Poole harbour at Harry Warren House (http://www.harrywarrenhouse.com/) in Studland, this venue must be one of the best if you like your sea views! Aurelia instructed us to install the marquee to the side of the house, a new place for us, as we normally install the marquees in front of the house where its more level. No problem though, using our flooring system we managed, with the help of over 1500 pieces of packing wood, to level the floor and install the marquee. Another catering tent was professionally guttered and ducted to the main marquee and this time the team at Nomad catering (http://www.nomadfood.co.uk/food/)  providing the delicious food.

Moving next to Nothe Fort in Weymouth (http://www.nothefort.org.uk/) and going from an unlevel site to a perfectly level parade ground, although this site still has it’s challenges, and one of them is not to use stakes to anchor the marquee so bang, load on the flooring system boys, another occasion where we were glad that we have invested so much into the flooring and are now the largest stockholder of this type of flooring in Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire! This time the hog roast food was provided by Posh Pigs (http://www.poshpigshogroast.com/)

Lastly, we went to Wiltshire for Becky to install her marquee at Gurston Farm, a new venue for us but the great thing there is that they have a hall which has a kitchen, bar and toilet facilities right next to where the marquee was sited avoiding the need to hire it all in. Best of all was the view to be had over the valley.

International Horse Trails – Somerley House

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Last weekend saw the return of the International Horse Trails at Somerley Estate, near Ringwood, Hampshire. Now in it’s fifteenth year, this important spring fixture attracts riders at all levels from all over the world.

We hired three temporary venues, the smallest for Savills,the property agents, included basic flooring and furniture. A 6m x 15m traders marquee and a whopping 110 feet long main tent, split into sections for sponsors, public restaurant, kitchens, secretary’s office and VIP’s where we also installed a hardwood floor throughout and stylish aluminium doors.

We also hired hundreds of chairs including our lime wash chavari banqueting chairs for the VIP’s, round and trestle tables, generator and power distribution for the immediate site.

Bournemouth Pier Challange!

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

What a day today! talk about a challenge…

It has been in the planning for months but today saw the installation of one or our smaller marquees for the South West Baby Show at Bournemouth Pier where we hired a 6m clear span marquee for exhibitors and visitors to use. The first challenge was to get to site, after consulting lots of officials we slowly maneuvered our specialist vehicle around the back of the entrance to the pier and then with a few maneuvers lined up to go through between the turnstiles and the kiosk, a matter of inches either side. Creaking noises were to be heard as we drove along the pier to the very end where we finally got to where the marquee had to be installed.

The second challenge was how to install a marquee on a pier? – easy! use Marquee Elegance’s infamous flooring system to anchor the marquee safely in situ. Just to put some icing on the cake we fitted out the marquee in our corporate purple valances and the kind people of the show allowed us to leave our flag as well.

Thanks to Chris and Nick for once again keeping up the quality and relishing in this weeks challenge.

and, some action shots: