Celebrations, weddings & memorials across Hertfordshire
We plan the day, book the people and run it on the day itself. Whether it is a 50th, a wedding or the gathering after a funeral, you should be present at it rather than working it.
Organising a day that matters is a second job.
11 suppliers, 40 messages, a guest list nobody has replied to, and a fortnight of logistics you did not ask for. We already know the marquee people, the caterers, the florists and the photographers around here, because we have worked with them before. One plan, one person to call, and someone on site on the day itself so that you are not the one being asked where the chairs go.
Celebrations
Nothing bespoke. That is deliberate: it keeps the planning fast, the suppliers sharp and the price honest.
Summer · 40 to 80 guests
Marquee or tipi at your own house. The one people remember, and the one that takes the most organising.
Typical total budget£8,000 to £15,000
Year round · 50 to 100 guests
A 40th, a 50th, a big anniversary. Held at a venue, so there is nothing to clear up at your house.
Typical total budget£6,000 to £12,000
Year round · capped scope
A 1st birthday, a 13th, an 18th. A short menu of themes we know work, at a fixed price.
Typical total budget£1,500 to £3,500
Budgets shown are what a celebration of that size typically costs in total, including every supplier. Our planning fee sits inside it, and we will tell you exactly what it is on the first call.
By referral only, and only a handful a year. It is a bigger, longer job than anything above and we would rather do a few properly than take on more than we can hold. If someone has passed our name on, get in touch and we will tell you honestly whether the date works.
Memorials and wakes
A room to find, people to feed, flowers, and a long list of calls to make, all at the worst possible time and usually within a few days.
We can take that on. We work alongside whichever funeral director the family is using, and we deal with the parts that sit outside their remit: the venue, the catering, the flowers and the practicalities of the day itself.
There are no packages and no price list on this page, because every family needs something different and the timescales are short. Telephone us and we will tell you plainly what we can do and what it will cost.
How it works
What you are marking, roughly when, and roughly what you want to spend. We will tell you straight away whether your date and budget work.
Venue or marquee, food, drink, flowers, music, photographer. Invitations out and RSVPs chased, so you are not the one texting your cousin twice. Booked and contracted with people we have already worked with, not names off a search.
Someone from our team is on site from set up to the last van leaving. You are a guest at your own party, which was rather the point.
Straight answers
A planning fee, agreed before anything is booked, plus a fee for running the day. No percentage surprises at the end.
Our suppliers give us trade rates, and we would rather say so on the website than bury it in a contract. It does not change what you pay them.
Bespoke is where party planning gets slow and expensive. Fixed packages mean we can move quickly and you can see the price up front.
Who you are actually hiring
Ten internationally broadcast events a year at the Professional Triathletes Organisation, hospitality programme included. Tudor's guest experience at the Rugby World Cup in Japan. Carlsberg's guest programme across ten host cities at EURO 2016: twenty thousand tickets, seven thousand guests, and 99% of them rating it good or excellent. Champions League finals in Cardiff and Kyiv.
That was done in senior roles at FUSE, CSM and the PTO rather than here, and it is not really the point. The point is that 60 people in a marquee in Hertfordshire holds no surprises for me, and that I have spent a career being the person who has already thought about where the vans park.
What I have built locally is a bench of Hertfordshire suppliers I have worked with and would use again. Marquees, caterers, florists, photographers, people who turn up when they say they will. That is the difference between a party you organised and a party you attended.
Lucy