Luxury Parties
Luxury Party Planners
Every window is a world
we have built.
Twelve luxury parties with extraordinary themes that we’ve planned in the past. And you can become a part of this ultimate club. We plan private celebrations for 20 to 1,000 guests in the most spectacular way, only once, never repeated.
What Are You Celebrating
Most people come to us with a date, not an idea.
Nobody rings up asking for an immersive world. They ring up because there is a fiftieth in June, or a wedding, or a Halloween party they have been threatening to throw for years. So here they are the other way round: the occasion first, and what we have built for it.
A big birthday
Twenty-first, fortieth, fiftieth. Usually for someone who has been to a lot of parties and is quietly hoping this one is different.
Harry Potter
A 21st
A 21st for Jessica, inspired by a trip to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, wanting to recreate the magic for her own epic celebration.
Casino Royale
A 40th
A 40th in Montenegro, surrounded by friends and family who surprised him by staging a fully immersive James Bond themed adaptation.
The Great Gatsby
A 50th
A 50th milestone celebration cocktail party for the most stylish gentleman with an appreciation of the finer things in life, held at the uber glamorous Somerset House, London.
Read it in full →A wedding, or an anniversary
For couples who do not want a marquee and a covers band. The reception is the event itself, rather than the bit after the photographs.
Moulin Rouge
A theatrical wedding reception
A theatrical wedding reception that broke all conventions, built entirely within a big top, clad to look like The Golden Age of Montmartre with all the joie de vivre and merriment of the most famous theatre there ever was.
Read it in full →
The Secret Garden
An elegant summer soiree
An elegant summer soiree for a couple in Hampshire, celebrating a house warming in the most magical way, opening the Manor House, a maze and their magical secret garden.
Read it in full →A ball
Everyone dresses properly and the guests end up being half the show. Masks, costume, and a room that rewards the effort people have gone to.
The Phantom of The Opera
A masked ball
A masked ball themed dinner and dance for a group of friends celebrating their 21st year of friendship since university days, held on the stage of an actual theatre, surrounded by a Phantom-inspired cast.
Swan Lake
Exclusive party entertainment
Exclusive party entertainment for every one of our clients, from Principals of the Royal Ballet to stars of stage and screen.
Christmas
The one time of year when nobody needs persuading. Book it in June, though — the good buildings have usually gone by August.
Narnia
A winter Christmas party
A winter Christmas party where Narnia actually appeared at the back of the wardrobe, and not just a rail of fur coats and a lamppost prop. Be whisked away into a truly immersive Christmas world.
A Christmas Carol
A Victorian Christmas
A Victorian Christmas party in subterranean London along the Thames where authentic objects brought history back to life for one night only, and the Ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, carved shapes on the dance floor.
Halloween
Done properly, which is to say not a plastic cauldron. Genuinely unsettling for about an hour, and then a very good dinner.
Dracula
An immersive Halloween
An immersive Halloween held in Dracula’s castle in Transylvania itself, a truly authentic retelling of this classic gothic story in the place of its origin.
A bar or bat mitzvah
Probably the hardest brief we get. It has to work for thirteen-year-olds and their grandparents, in the same room, at the same time.
Star Wars
A bar mitzvah
A bar mitzvah where the careful balance of tradition meets the fantastical imagination of a teenage mind, all presented in a celebration that will be remembered forever.
A dinner that needs a reason
Smaller numbers, where the party needs something to happen in it. People arrive as guests and go home having done something.
No occasion at all
Some of the best things we have made had no birthday attached to them. If you simply want to throw something extraordinary, that is reason enough.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Epic luxury adventures
Epic luxury adventures for the most discerning and curious, wrapped within a story across the waves, within a myth, a legend or the manifestation of your own tale.
Twelve of them are in the windows. There are far more than that, and they are grouped by the kind of world they are: fantasy, literature, horror, high society, science fiction, Christmas, romance, discovery, ancient and gastronomic. Or see them finished, in the case studies — among them The Surrealist Ball, a masquerade, and The Ultimate House and Garden Party.
Not Drawings
And here they are, built.
Everything above this line is how a world starts — drawn, before anybody has agreed to anything. Everything on this wall is a room our own departments built, lit, and struck again the following morning.
Come To Bed, The SavoyThe Puppet Theatre Dress
Kensington Palace, for Chivas RegalAn immersive dining experience
A table dressed in gold silk
A garden party in HampshireAn elephant grown from moss and flowers
- Top leftThe Puppet Theatre Dress. Come To Bed, at The Savoy.
- LeftAn immersive dining experience at Kensington Palace, for Chivas Regal.
- RightA table dressed in gold silk.
- BelowAn elephant grown out of moss and flowers, at a garden party in Hampshire.
How It Is Made
Every world is built the same way. No world looks the same.
The method does not change. What comes out of it changes completely.
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An hour, no charge
What it is for, who is coming, the date, the building and the investment. We say honestly whether we are the right people.
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Concepts, not mood boards
You see the actual room before you commit to anything. Drawn here, by us.
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The building
Sometimes yours, sometimes one we open for you. We look for the room that makes the arrival land.
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Made upstairs
Set built in our workshop, wardrobe cut on the floor above, flowers conditioned overnight. Nothing hired in.
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The cast
Performers briefed to stay inside the world for the whole event, not acts who arrive, do a turn and leave.
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The event
The people who designed it are the people running it. That is the reason for owning ten departments.
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The morning after
Struck overnight by the same crew. The building goes back to what it was.
A World, In Full
The Great Gatsby. It all hangs on the way in.
This one needs height and a staircase, so we go looking for the building before we draw anything. Guests should come in above the party and walk down into it. If they arrive at floor level it is still a lovely event, but you have lost the moment people remember.
Outside
Something that has no business being indoors, indoors. It tells everyone what sort of event this is before they have handed over a coat.
The room
A live band rather than a playlist, and dancers working the floor instead of a stage, so the party never feels like something you are watching.
Everyone in it
Wardrobe is cut and fitted above our workshop, staff included. Guests dress up far more readily when the people serving them already have.
A 50th milestone celebration cocktail party for the most stylish gentleman with an appreciation of the finer things in life, held at the uber glamorous Somerset House, London.
A World, In Full
The Secret Garden. Ten thousand stems, and a door you have to find.
We draw the door before we draw the garden, because coming across it is the whole point. Nobody is shown the way in. This is also the world people most often want at their own house, where the building already does half the work and we bring the rest.
The way in
Every world needs one object that explains it without a word of signage. Here it is a key, and a robin who knows where it is kept.
Who you meet
A small cast on purpose. The musicians are hidden in the planting rather than set up on a stand in the corner.
The table
Everything is conditioned overnight and dressed at dawn. It is the only way flowers still look like this at eight in the evening.
An elegant summer soiree for a couple in Hampshire, celebrating a house warming in the most magical way, opening the Manor House, a maze and their magical secret garden.
A World, In Full
Sherlock Holmes. The hard part is the game, not the fog.
A murder mystery is easy to do badly. Usually it takes over the whole thing, or half the room quietly opts out and talks among themselves instead. What we build has to work for the people who want to solve it and the people who just want a good dinner, and it has to hold both for about four hours.
The room
Fog, gaslight and a street you walk down to get to your table. Guests are in it before anybody explains anything, which saves you a briefing nobody listens to.
The case
It is laid across the whole room rather than handed out on cards. Things turn up in the flowers, in the menu, in what a waiter says to you.
The pace
Clues arrive between courses, so the food sets the rhythm. Nobody is dragged away from their main course to look at a body.
The ultimate murder mystery staged as part of a long weekend of celebrations, within the drawing room and clues around the grounds — who dun’ it? Solve the murder and win the ultimate prize.
A World, In Full
Moulin Rouge. A wedding reception that behaves like a theatre.
Most receptions are a room with a band at one end and a dance floor that fills up after eleven. This one had to hold people from the moment they walked in. A big top gives you nothing to begin with, which is exactly why it works — no walls that mean anything, no ceiling worth looking at. You are not dressing a room. You are building one.
Getting in
Guests arrive through a front of house rather than a marquee door. A box office, a programme, and a bar that looks as though it has been standing there sixty years.
The cast
Dancers, waiters and musicians are all inside the same world for the whole event. Nobody turns up at nine, does a number and leaves again.
After dinner
The tables go and the floor becomes the stage it has been pretending to be. This is the point at which a wedding stops resembling anybody else’s.
A theatrical wedding reception that broke all conventions, built entirely within a big top, clad to look like The Golden Age of Montmartre with all the joie de vivre and merriment of the most famous theatre there ever was.
On The Record
Vogue named us the most creative party planners in the UK.
Our work has been featured in the Financial Times How To Spend It, Country & Town House, The Telegraph, on the BBC and on This Morning, for breaking trends and for our specialism in producing extraordinary immersive worlds.
Hosting an exceptional event in London is rarely about access to the venue. That part is easy. You will know these addresses as landmarks — Westminster Abbey, the Natural History Museum — and once we are inside, they stop being landmarks and become somewhere else entirely.
- Vogue
- Financial Times
- Country & Town House
- The Telegraph
- BBC
- This Morning
Who We Work With
Who we usually work with.
Private celebrations
Milestone birthdays, life occasions, anniversaries and bar mitzvahs, usually 20 to 1,000 guests, at home or in a location we source for you.
At your own house
Often the best version of it. A house you already love does half the work; we bring power, floors, lighting and kitchens, then take it all out again.
Anywhere in the world
From the opulence of Monte Carlo to the vibrant allure of Western Australia. Our sister company Mill and Fable opens the doors abroad.
We take on around ten events a year, which is what allows the same team to be present at every occasion.
What We Do
Our luxury party planning services.
Creative Concept and Event Design
Original themes, environments built at full size, and styling drawn and made for the story.
Venue Sourcing and Access
Exclusive private residences, iconic landmarks, luxury hotels, and international destinations.
Full Event Production and Logistics
Lighting, sound, staging, floristry, furniture, and theatrical, technical production.
Entertainment and Experiences
Performers cast and directed for the part, A-list live acts, installations you walk into, and moments no one saw coming.
Guest Experience Management
Invitations, RSVPs, concierge coordination, and on-site guest handling.
Twenty Years of It
Complete management, so you can enjoy your celebration distraction free.
What It Costs
What it costs, and how long it takes.
There is no price list, because no two of these are the same thing. There is a shape to it though, and you are entitled to see it before you spend an hour talking to us. Every figure below excludes VAT.
- A piece of it
from £5,000
One space dressed, props and styling.
- Theme, design and entertainment
from £50,000
A compelling theme, the design to carry it, and immersive entertainment running through it.
- A fully immersive world
£500,000 upwards
The whole thing designed, built, cast and produced — and into the millions.
Most hosts start in the middle and move up or down as the idea settles. If what you want and what you want to spend are not the same size, we will say so early, while it is still cheap to change your mind.
A world built at full size, or anything at a real filming location, where access is held rather than booked.
One world, somewhere we control — a house, a hall, a marquee, a hillside, a ship.
A different conversation. We will tell you honestly what is still possible in the time, and what is not.
Straight Answers
What hosts ask us before anything else.
How much does a party like this cost?
We always start with the question: what wouldn’t you want to spend? There is always a budget and every person’s comfort level is different. We never dictate, but greater levels of luxury and immersion command greater levels of investment. It is normal for a client looking for full immersion to invest upwards of £500,000 + VAT, but a scaled approach is considered for smaller numbers.
How far ahead do we need to book?
Most of our work is booked 6 to 24 months ahead, but we have built an event in 6 weeks when the date could not move.
Can you do it at my house?
Often that is the best version of it. We bring everything a building normally provides, put it in, and take it out again.
How private is this?
Above all, we are discreet and trusted. Guest lists stay with us, we do not post your event, and we will not use your photographs without asking you first.
Do we have to use your team?
You can bring your own, and we happily collaborate. We own ten departments so that nothing is compromised because a supplier said no.
What if something goes wrong?
We are right by your side. Transfers run late, service is delayed, an act cancels — our roster is ready and the people who built it are in the room.
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Next
The next move is a conversation, not a brief.
You do not need a theme, a budget or a shortlist of venues to start. Tell us what you want your experience to feel like, and we will tell you what it would take to build it, what it would cost and how long it would need. The first hour is ours, and there is no charge for it.