Ginger Sunday

With all this unexpected good weather befalling us this week our thoughts have turned to how to make the most out of the weekend... so we hit the internet this morning and here's our highlights from around the South East:

LONDON

Did you know it is Ginger Sunday - no, nothing to do with hair colour, but in fact something much cuter. London Zoo are celebrating the arrival of Baby Tango - a rare ginger monkey born in September! They are offering 2 for 1 on all entries on Sunday (2nd October) for more details click here.

GUILDFORD
Closer to our Surrey Head Office there is a exciting new venue for music & comedy called G Live. If you fancy a few laughs then there are still tickets available for Al Murray stand-up show Barrel of Fun Extra or if you prefer the classics the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra are performing on Sunday evening (3rd October) tickets starting from just £19.50 www.glive.co.uk

ASCOT
Horses and beer more your thing? On Saturday 2nd October there is the Autumn meeting at Ascot, featuring the 5th Annual CAMBRA Beer Festival. So as well as the usual excitement of Flat racing there will be an extensive range of regional real ales, cider and perries. In this warm weather, what could be nicer...

BRIGHTON
Well, this could just top the horse racing for us... Frock Me at the Corn Exchange. Brighton's foremost vintage fashion show returns - from designers and students to the glamour glitterati, they all love this fair.


Frock me is the place to find clothes from every era from the 1920's right through to eighties retro glamour. Ooooh, we're not sure we can resist; plus we could go for a wander round the Lanes and the pier after! For more details go to www.visitbrighton.co.uk. We may just see you there.



If you know of another event happening that you think we might like, please let us know.

Enjoy the sunshine,

The Great Big Event Team.
www.thegreatbigevent.com

Brighton Rock comes to Goodwood Revival

Last week we were thrilled to be asked to style four beautiful Crown Pavilions for Goodwood's Revival festival. If you haven't come across this company before we highly recommend you look at their website www.crownpavilions.com and watch the video below.


Crown Pavilions & Crown Gardens Project : Ms Gabriella Atkinson from Crown Pavilions Ltd on Vimeo.

Crown specialise in creating beautiful garden rooms and gazebo's, which can be used from anything from a amazing outdoor dining area to outside kitchen.

Our job was to style four of their pavilions which were to be exhibited at the Revival. Armed with ivory drapes, lanterns and a truck load of retro sweets we headed south to Goodwood. Our four very special themes were:

A Place to Wed - This romantic pavilion was wrapped in ivory draping with interwound ivory. The centre table featured a beautiful bouquet from Carl Wilson, 3 tier cake stand laden with delicious cupcakes from Hannah Logan, the brides wedding shoes and a vintage cup and saucer from Vintage Days.

Gentlemen's Club - This outdoor room featured classic Gentlemen club items from Leather bound books, a beautiful silver candelabra on a white linen table cloth with a black fleur de lis on it. Classic and stylish.

Oriental Place - Here we recreated a small taste of the orient with multi-coloured lanterns inside and out, purple silk parasol and finished off with an amazing arrangement of fresh flowers - gorgeous!

Brighton Rock - In the largest of the four pavilions we went with a fantastic upmarket retro seaside theme. If you have a sweet tooth this was the pavilion to visit with a spectacular sweetie bar fully stocked with bon bons, windmill sweets, candy floss and of course Brighton Rock. All the sweets were supplied by the lovely Tracy Scanlan of Mrs Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe in Cranleigh It was a really sweet seaside, pink treat!

We hope the visitors enjoyed looking round these wonderful Pavilions as much as we enjoyed styling them and we hope there was enough bon bon's to go around!

If you have a room, marquee, gazebo our indeed a Crown Pavilion you would like us to style for  an party, wedding or corporate event then please just email us with your requirements and we will come back with our ideas.

Best wishes,

Gilly

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Glee Vs Abba - The Party

What a weekend we have just had; after months of planning and listening too maybe just one too many Abba tracks our fabulous Glee Vs Abba party took place and what a party it was!

Gilly headed up our Posh Party team with a beautiful marquee from Caron Marquees. The Marquee was fully blacked out with dark blue carpet and starlight ceiling which set the scene for a exciting night ahead.

The evening brought two shows one from the Conservatoire (Guildford School of Acting) who went all Glee, singing and dancing to all the favourite tracks from the TV show including our favourite 'Don't Stop Believing'   and then brilliant Fabbagirls who treated the guests to hit after hit from the 70's supergroup Abba.

Gorgeous food and drink flowed throughout the evening and at the request of our birthday girl we set-up a delicious 'Ice Cream and Cake Parlour' with personalised cupcakes. The sweet table proved very popular later in the evening!

We would like to give a big thank you to all our staff and suppliers who made the evening very special. The evening was a wonderful, sparkly success and we very much enjoyed it too.

Who won the battle of Glee Vs Abba - we're not quite sure but we think we maybe singing Dancing Queen for some time to come!

Our next blog will be coming soon on our first ever baby shower....

Best wishes from,

The Great Big Event Team

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Big thank you to Greg from Just Imagine Video for taking such wonderful photo's