Essential Events Hire

22/11/2023

…….. and so it begins! 🎄

13/08/2023

How beautiful is this set up from Friday’s wedding at Haselbury Mill? We are loving our new linen sage green bows.

Great to work alongside Flowers by Amy who supplied the beautiful flowers for the occasion.

As always lovely to bump into Lee at Pulse Roadshow who was busy setting up to provide the entertainment for the day.

At last a ceremony set up outside in the summer sunshine 🫶

06/08/2023

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks for events but here’s a little snapshot of what we have been up to!

31/07/2023

Our second time at this hall transforming it to become a 70th birthday celebration on Saturday evening. We love working along this family to create a party atmosphere (4th time lucky for us!).

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Venue Hinton St George Village Hall

29/07/2023

Friday’s wedding at Haselbury Mill featured ivory chiffon overlays with a faux floral embellishment just to complete the limewashed chiavari chairs for the aisle.

24/07/2023

Here’s a before and after of yesterday’s wedding reception set up at Coombe Lodge at Blagdon

Lovely to see The Little Wedding Helper who was busy adding her professional styling touches to the venue and to meet Loubee Floral Designs who provided all the beautiful floral work for Steph and Matt’s Wedding Day!

So elegantly transformed 🤩

22/07/2023

It’s Saturday evening and no events to collect in tonight, so I think now may be a good time to enjoy these wonderful treats kindly gifted to me as a thank you 🥰

19/07/2023

Yesterday’s event celebrated young people in Bridgend. Recognition of all the amazing work they partake with as part of an ambassador programme. This campaign is combined with lots of partnerships working together to achieve success and innovation.

The pavilion looked amazing 🤩

16/07/2023

An emotional one this week, installing this marquee to complete the celebration of life for this wonderful man’s family and friends. Nestled within the place he loved and called home.

13/07/2023

Saturday’s wedding all set up ready for the bridal party and their guests to arrive.

Lovely to see some familiar faces at Haselbury Mill

The wonderful Pulse Roadshow and the lovely Eden Photographics

Rain stopped play, so the ceremony took place inside the beautiful Tithe Barn.

Our blossom tree certainly makes a stunning backdrop framing the most important seats in the barn.

09/07/2023

When you transform a commemoration celebrations service with 1100 attendees into the end of year commemoration ball for 500 guests, in less than 3 hours on a very hot day!

Our biggest ball to date at this venue included
round tables, limewashed chiavari chairs, ivory tablecloths, table number holders, centrepieces made up of blossom trees, faux floral and silver candelabras, red carpet with lantern entrance, floral halos, paper lanterns, wooden dance floor and festoon lighting.

Once again working alongside the very talented professional team at bright* to ensure we met all expectations for the client.

Who doesn’t love a bit of banter at 1am to keep you going during de-rig 🤩

05/07/2023

The McMillan Theatre in Bridgwater all set up for the Student Awards a couple of weeks ago.

What a lovely space the theatre creates for an award ceremony evening 😊

📷 Photo Credit Moment Photography - Somerset Weddings, Portraits, Commercial

02/07/2023

Our second year of transforming this school sports hall into a multi-use end of year celebration venue.

were used to create this masterpiece.

Working alongside bright* during the build to achieve the expectations of all the suppliers and most importantly for the client 🤩

27/06/2023

Little Isaac’s dad, uncle and grandad have been a huge support to our business over the years; helping with setting up and de-rigging our events. We thought that it would only be fair to share this link to try and raise awareness of what this incredible family are going through right now.
We know times are tough financially but if you are able to spare a little something we know this family would really appreciate the love and support from you out there!
We’re going to leave this right here 🦸‍♂️💙

https://www.gofundme.com/f/865cf-the-winsley-family?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&fbclid=IwAR2EYb3NaJDfQgjmlOSoVD_JFTWs06k1iMS_354V_92gw5-WcP4H9ddaFYs_aem_Ae9veC1KEZsLHaarMzB9IL-gnB4Kh6HILwzZI5zPVvWBwVhJ1VANPdvBcaKJJFR-PAc

Meet our friends Charlie, Shane and their 3 year old boy Issac.. Issac plays a huge part in ours … Lauren Acreman needs your support for The Winsley Family.

25/06/2023

A trip up to London this week never fails to disappoint! We’re hoping we will be allowed to share this event with you 🤞but for now a photo taken from the van whilst being stuck in traffic along the mall.

21/06/2023

In true British weather style, all weather apps were explored before making the confirmed decision that this ceremony would be taking place outside.

Who knew how many different weather apps there would be?!

18/06/2023

When Cheddon Fitzpaine Memorial Hall became a wedding venue. It was so lovely to see some vibrant colours in the styling 💖💜🧡💙💚💛

This weekend’s transformation included

14/06/2023

Our faux floral hoops/halos have been been so popular this year, adding those finishing touches to your wedding decor!

11/06/2023

Another village hall transformation for yesterday’s wedding, this time it was Stawell Village Hall

were used to create this masterpiece!

It’s amazing how a village hall can be designed into a beautiful space and become a personal wedding venue for you and your guests 🫶

04/06/2023

What a beautiful set up for Saturday’s wedding at Haselbury Mill

were used to style this wedding 🥰

03/06/2023

Thursday’s wedding ceremony all set up at Coombe Lodge at Blagdon



The vases and candles were then reused at the wedding breakfast for centrepieces, another great way of recycling during a wedding.

28/05/2023

Not 1 ……. Not 2 ……. But 3 venues wedding ready for yesterday’s celebrations.

It’s official ‘wedding mode has been switched on’ 🥂

21/05/2023

No set ups this weekend, just dry hire events allowing us time to tidy up the warehouse ready for ‘silly season’. Making more room for new items which includes an arch, we will share it with you very soon 🤩

Here’s our wisteria canopy framing the best seats in the ceremony. We love it as it makes such a beautiful backdrop and such a statement 🫶

18/05/2023

Last week we provided centrepieces for the Pride of Somerset Youth Awards. Navy, gold and different to previous events, was the brief.

Here’s the outcome, a trio of different height cylinder vase with floating navy and gold spheres neatly placed on a round mirror, finished off with an artificial floating candle in each vase (no naked flames were allowed)

🎉 Congratulations to all of the winners and the nominated candidates 🎉

14/05/2023

It’s not very often we get night shots of our weddings all set up without a few drunken guests, but here’s yesterdays wedding at The Green Wembdon

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We do like a village hall wedding, a blank canvas to be creative with!

12/05/2023

The sun was certainly shining for yesterday’s wedding at St Audries Park Wedding Venue, it was also very lovely to catch up with Fleur Amour - Specialist Wedding Florist who provided the beautiful fresh flowers on the day. They smelt divine!

Our wisteria arch created a stunning backdrop situated in the orangery for the ceremony, with the wisteria table top trees on display for the wedding breakfast room.

09/05/2023

♻️We had an upcycled event on Saturday too♻️
Our client purchased the lighted balloons last year for their charity event, this year we supplied new balloons for those centrepieces. With that little ball of used balloons on the table, being the only waste from the 2 events.

07/05/2023

🧡 Our 12th year of working with this beautiful family to create Emry’s Orange Ball. They have raised over £450k throughout the years for the charity that supported them when their youngest son had leukaemia. They really are a true inspiration 🧡

Harry Potter was this year’s theme, we provided
to create this magical evening!

🧡 You know it’s been a great evening when ‘Harry’ and the snakes had been taken to the dance floor 🐍 🪄

30/04/2023

So pleased that yesterday’s wedding was able to have their ceremony outside ☀️

Venue Haselbury Mill
Sashes provided by Blown Away Event Decor

23/04/2023

Friday’s wedding at Haselbury Mill. Their lakeside ceremony room, along with the wedding breakfast in the apple loft, creates a beautiful setting for an intimate celebration.

22/04/2023

Did you know that as a small business in the wedding and events industry ……..

We re-use 95% of our products time and time again for events, we maintain, recycle or upcycle products to sustain the hire life, we have solar panels and an air source heat pump installed at our premises and we encourage less waste in all our events with our clients during the planning stages.

We will continue to make small steps leading to better changes / adaptations for our business to become more sustainable moving into the future.

20/04/2023

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It’s been a while that we’ve worked with fresh flowers, here’s some milk churns on their way to a lunch date!

12/04/2023

Happy ‘hump’ day!

09/04/2023

Our ever popular centrepieces out on display this weekend.

🐣 Happy Easter 🐣

26/03/2023

As you all know we do love a hall transformation, we think you may love this one. Introducing yesterday’s wedding at Westonzoyland Village Hall



🫶Congratulations Mr & Mrs H 🫶

24/03/2023

Picture perfect, the ceremony room with a view 🤩

Our wisteria arch fits perfectly in this room making the space wedding ready!

20/03/2023

just nature at it’s best!

Love the natural colour contrast of the green moss at the bases of the silver birch trees.

So many weddings are bringing the outside to the inside of their venue styling.

19/03/2023

Mood boards, colour palettes are becoming ever popular within the planning of a wedding.

Here’s a styling board that was used by us in 2022, we are continuing to see these colour combos into 2023/24

Rustic styling and eucalyptus continues to be firm favourites with the majority.

We love seeing colour and textures back into weddings and events, long may it continue.

18/03/2023

When you’re so busy working on event proposals you forget to upload our recent work, here’s Blake Hall last week getting all dressed to be wedding ready!

Making the room a little smaller to make it more intimate for the wedding party, drapes are an ideal way of making this happen 😊

10/03/2023

Today’s training session was all about learning how to use the paper shredder. The outcome was unsuccessful; however, her own method seemed to work just as well though 🐾

Please note: no personal documents were used during this training exercise.