01
Setting out the tables and chairs
The 18 tables and 200 chairs are brought out, placed and laid according to your table plan, without your lifting a finger or putting your family to work the day before.
An additional service
The furniture is lent to you.
Carrying it is another matter.
The estate provides, at no charge, 18 round tables 1.68 m across and 200 chairs, enough to seat 200 guests. Moving them, however, is not included in the hire.
What is provided
The furniture is lent to you free of charge
18 round tables 1.68 m across and 200 chairs, for up to 200 guests. It is included in the hire: nothing to rent elsewhere and nothing to have delivered.
What is not included is the work that goes with it: bringing them out, setting them according to your table plan, moving them from one place to another during the day, then putting them away. We would rather say so here than let you find out three weeks before the wedding.
Beyond 200 guests, or for particular furniture, your caterer or a hire company takes over and we coordinate with them.
What coordination covers
Six things you will not have to deal with.
02
Moving them during the day
This is what couples underestimate most. A humanist ceremony under the cedar or beside the ponds, then dinner in the Pavilion, means carrying dozens of chairs from one end of the grounds to the other during the drinks reception. Somebody has to do it, and on that day it is neither you nor your witnesses.
03
Checking what each supplier needs
The caterer, the florist, the DJ and the photographer each arrive with their own needs for access, power and space. They walk the site with them and make sure everyone has what they need.
04
Handling what goes wrong
A shower that moves the drinks reception, a late delivery, a missing power point at the far end of the grounds. That is the job: deciding quickly, without pulling you away from your guests.
05
Welcoming and guiding your guests
Two hundred people discovering five hectares need to be told where to park, where the ceremony is and where to find the bedrooms. That is what they are there for.
06
Meeting suppliers, the day before and on Sunday
Those setting up the day before and those taking down on Sunday find somebody on site. You do not have to cut brunch short to open a door.
What it is not
It is not a wedding planner.
The distinction matters, because the two jobs do not replace one another. Technical coordination looks after the estate on the day: the spaces, the furniture, the routes, the suppliers once they are on site. It does not design your wedding, does not choose your suppliers and does not coordinate them with one another beforehand.
If that is what you need, we work with partner wedding planners who take you from the first idea to the day itself. Tell us at the visit and we will put you in touch. The two go together well: the planner knows your wedding, the coordinator knows the estate.
How it is counted
Per day of celebration
One day for a one-day wedding, two for a weekend that receives on Friday and Saturday. The set-up day before and the Sunday take-down are included, at no extra charge. The figure appears on your quotation.
We talk it through at the visit
We walk the estate together, you choose your ceremony settings, and we tell you honestly whether technical coordination is worth it in your case or not.