Luxury Wedding Planning

A working carousel on a lawn with costumed performers standing on it, the horses and a painted dragon picked out in gold.

Luxury Wedding Planning

We produce weddings. Each one is drawn from nothing, built in our own workshops, cast, and run on the day by the people who designed it. We work with couples spending from £500,000 upwards.

What you are actually buying

Most wedding planners buy in the things that make a wedding look like something. We make them. Set and scenic, floral, props and antiques, hair, make-up and wardrobe, lighting, audio, video and stage management are all our own departments, and the food comes through our own kitchen.

So a carousel, a birdcage the size of a room or an orchestra on a staircase begins as a drawing and ends up in your garden. Nobody has to own one already.

It also means one crew, one call sheet and one person to ring. On a build this size, that is what keeps the day calm.

The ten departments

Chandeliers hung in the open air over long dressed tables on a terrace, the carved facade of the house rising behind.
Chandeliers hung outdoors over the terrace at Waddesdon Manor.

What we have built for couples

These share nothing at all except us.

A giant iron birdcage on a lawn filled with flowers, a costumed performer seated inside it.

Cressida and Danny

A garden in Hampshire

A working carousel on the lawn with performers riding it. A brass band in period costume under a white parasol. An iron birdcage the size of a small room, filled with flowers, with somebody sitting in it.

Dinner was two long tables down a marquee, on grass. A garden turned into a fair for a day, and turned back again the morning after.

A brass band in period costume playing on a lawn beneath a large white parasol.
A red painted door and a garden set built on a lawn, costumed performers standing in front of it.
Two long tables running the length of a marquee on grass, flowers down the centre of each.
Guests standing at long dressed tables on a terrace, chandeliers hung above them and the house uplit amber behind.

Sanj and Ushma

Waddesdon Manor

Long tables the length of the terrace at Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild’s château, with chandeliers hung in the open air above them and the facade uplit amber behind.

Dinner outdoors at a great house, a stage built in front of it, and a band playing to the whole terrace once it was dark.

A band playing on a stage in front of a great house at night, the facade uplit amber and guests seated in front of it.
Guests at a candlelit dinner table under a chandelier, dried flowers and warm light along the table.
Chandeliers hung in the open air over long dressed tables on a terrace, the carved facade of the house rising behind.
A full orchestra playing on a great stone staircase, the hall lit magenta and a seated statue above them.

Mandip and Pritesh

Several days, several buildings

A wedding that ran over several days in several buildings. A mandap built under a canopy of flowers. A civil ceremony and afternoon tea in a gilded ballroom. A full orchestra playing on a great stone staircase under magenta light.

One story told in four places, designed separately in each so that a guest at all of them never saw the same thing twice.

A ceremony in a gilded ballroom, the wedding party in pink seated along a green and gold carpet.
Long banqueting tables running the length of a hall under a star cloth, the room washed magenta.
A wide white marquee laid with round tables, tall floral centrepieces down the length of it.
Long banqueting tables running the length of a hall under a star cloth, the room washed magenta.
A hall taken to the far end of what it could do: banqueting tables the full length of it under a star cloth.

Worlds we would build for a wedding

Some couples arrive with a story already in mind. Others want one and have not found it yet. These are ours, drawn and costed and built before, and each of them has been made at full size for somebody.

Any of them can be a wedding. So can something that exists nowhere on this page.

What it costs

From £500,000

That is where a wedding of this kind starts, and it buys the whole thing designed, built, cast and run as one piece of work by one studio.

Below that figure we would be duplicating what a very good wedding planner already does well, and we would rather say so now than halfway through a proposal. Where the money goes.

What we lead

  • The design and the build

    The drawing, the build, the dressing and the strike. Everything that has to be made.

  • The plan and the money

    One timeline, one budget, and the awkward questions asked in the first month.

  • The suppliers

    Everyone we do not make ourselves is chosen, briefed and managed by us, and paid to terms we have agreed for you.

  • Your guests’ day

    Arrival to farewell, including the parts nobody thinks about until they go wrong — travel, rooms, dietary requirements, children, and the person who needs help getting in.

What a couple said afterwards

From the moment we met, I knew that Christopher was the perfect person to organise our wedding. His amazingly creative mind has added so many fabulous, fun elements to help us create a wedding with a difference. He has incredible attention to detail and so much experience to draw from, which means he creates a very calm influence and always has things under control.
Sash & RussPrivate clients

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Before you choose a venue

Most couples arrive with a building already booked. If you have not, hold off a little. Tell us what you want the day to be and we will tell you which places can take it, including a few you will not have heard of.

Send us the date, the number and the country.

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