If a private wedding in the beautiful Cheshire countryside is high on your list of priorities, then you must consider neighbouring wedding venues, purpose built Merrydale Manor and Grade II listed Colshaw Hall.
Located just outside Knutsford, The Colshaw Hall Estate is one of the most idyllic and picturesque settings in Cheshire. As an exclusive use venue, the entire 300 acres of majestic grounds are yours for you and your guests to enjoy all to yourself. Next to Colshaw Hall but set in its own exclusive grounds, Merrydale Manor has a picturesque lake, a stunning manor house and acres of parkland and manicured gardens, offering you the best of this beautiful region. It's always a joy to drive through the village of Over Peover to deliver a wedding cake to one of these beautiful wedding venues but with each having so much to offer, if you're planning a Cheshire wedding, how do you choose between them? Click here to enquire about availability for your Cheshire Wedding Cake Here are some of our recent highlights from these two fabulous Cheshire wedding venues...
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Some wedding cake trends naturally evolve from previous cake trends, whereas others are informed by the wider culture. The royal wedding cake for The Duke and Duchess Sussex in 2018 undoubtedly influenced two of the biggest styles of last year - American style buttercream covered wedding cakes decorated with fresh flowers and deconstucted cakes where single cakes are displayed on individual stands to create their own vignette. And 2020 is likely to be no different with several new and exciting wedding cake trends coming through. Here’s what to keep an eye out for this year… 1. Small and Sustainable Wedding CakesThe climate emergency means that sustainability is fast becoming a much bigger part of all our lives and informing our lifestyle choices. This means couples are much more sensitive to the impact their wedding might have on the environment. Being conscious of waste and avoiding single use plastics is one of the many simple ways to make a difference and have a more sustainable wedding; we anticipate couples and cake makers alike turning away from ever bigger made up of ‘fake’ tiers of polystyrene to be discarded after the wedding. Polystyrene doesn’t degrade and will inevitably end up in landfill or broken up in the sea. The alternative being embraced by environmentally aware couples is to celebrate real cakes, which might be smaller but where intricacy of design, craftsmanship and taste are more highly prized than sheer size. |
A Coat for Christmas by James Thorp There were just two days until Christmas 1785 but Santa wasn’t feeling merry. He sat forlornly staring at the heap of rags which had been his faithful old brown broadcloth coat. The coat he’d worn for over 200 Christmases was now ruined. A few minutes earlier, Santa had absent-mindedly mistaken Dasher’s antlers for a coat hook and with Santa’s coat covering her face, the reindeer had lurched forwards crashing into the sharp antlers belonging to Blixen. The two reindeer tussled and as they shook their heads to untangle themselves the coat was shredded and fell to the ground in tatters. An eager elf named Elsie saw the commotion and rushed to tell Mrs Claus what had happened. Without delay Mrs Claus summoned Rudolph with a loud whistle and said to Elsie ”You must take Rudolph and fly to England to buy cloth to make Santa a new coat. It must be warm and be able to keep the snow out but please, anything but brown!”. It was just before noon on Christmas Eve and the cloth traders at The Piece Hall in Halifax, Yorkshire were hurriedly completing their final deals before going home for Christmas. As Elsie rode Rudolph through the skies above England, she saw the crowd buying and selling pieces of cloth below and swooped down to have a closer look. Galloping through the narrow entrance of the Hall they came across a glum faced merchant. They stopped to ask what was the matter. The merchant said that he had not sold any cloth that morning and didn’t have enough money to buy his family a Christmas goose. Elsie explained that she too was in a desperate situation and told the man the story of how the reindeer had ruined Santa's old coat. The man smiled as he hoisted a great bundle of bright red cloth from the back of his horse “This red Kersey cloth is used to make cloaks for the English Cavalry - it’ll make a fine new coat for Santa” he said. Elsie paid the man and strapped the cloth onto Rudolph’s back before heading back home to the North Pole where Mrs Claus was waiting. As soon as they arrived with the bundle of cloth, Mrs Claus set to work frantically cutting and stitching. By dusk, the coat was finished and there was even enough cloth left to make some matching red trousers and a warm red hat. Santa was delighted with his new clothes and thanked Elsie as he prepared to ride off on his sleigh. The End |
Suzanne has been named as one of the best in cake decorating and sugarcraft in the UK for 2018. The Cake Masters magazine Top 10 UK Cake Artists’ award is the latest accolade for Suzanne, who was presented with her award at Birmingham’s NEC on Friday the 2nd of November where she was judging at the world's largest cake competition, Cake International. The celebrations continued at the annual Cake Masters Magazine Awards, where we had chance to chat to royal icing master, Eddie Spence MBE about baking, cake decorating and one of his favourite TV programmes, Extreme Cake Makers!
"To be one of the top ten cake artists of the year is a huge achievement, and one of the highlights of my career so far. The top ten are chosen for artistry and skill across all facets of cake creation, from cake sculpture to intricate royal icing, and what makes this award so thrilling is to be recognised among these illustrious artists for creativity in my speciality area, which is wedding cake design.” Suzanne |
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Magic at The Mandarin Oriental
It's dusk at The Mandarin Oriental hotel in London's Hyde Park and there's magic in the air...
The storytellers.
Photography: John Nassari
Planner and Wardrobe Stylist: Raspberry Bespoke Events
Location: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London
Cakes: The Frostery
Model: Charleen Meredith
Hair and Makeup: Botias Hair & Makeup
Floral Design: Rob Van Helden
Linen: Over the Top Linen Rentals
Crockery: Whitehouse Crockery
Lighting: That Event Company
Stationery: Ananya Cards
Wedding Decor: Wedding Day Hire
Bridal gown: Le Spose di Giò
Table: Farley
Shoes: Charlotte Mills
Photography: John Nassari
Planner and Wardrobe Stylist: Raspberry Bespoke Events
Location: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London
Cakes: The Frostery
Model: Charleen Meredith
Hair and Makeup: Botias Hair & Makeup
Floral Design: Rob Van Helden
Linen: Over the Top Linen Rentals
Crockery: Whitehouse Crockery
Lighting: That Event Company
Stationery: Ananya Cards
Wedding Decor: Wedding Day Hire
Bridal gown: Le Spose di Giò
Table: Farley
Shoes: Charlotte Mills
When some of the North West's brightest stars assembled in a warehouse in Manchester last Christmas, they discovered a magical pathway to another world....Enjoy this visual festive feast with Photography by Teresa C.
The Northern stars
Magpie king - Red floral architecture
Queen of Christmas - Amy Gee Boss Model Management
Crown jeweller - Eleventh Heaven by Ann McKavney
Sugar Plum fairy - Suzanne Thorp at The Frostery
Plates and sorcery - Whitehouse Event Crockery
Potions and powders - Flossy & Leigh Bridal Hair and Makeup Company
Shining stars - Typical Type
Silk and lace - Knutsford Wedding Gallery
Magical moving pictures - Marry Me Films
Magpie king - Red floral architecture
Queen of Christmas - Amy Gee Boss Model Management
Crown jeweller - Eleventh Heaven by Ann McKavney
Sugar Plum fairy - Suzanne Thorp at The Frostery
Plates and sorcery - Whitehouse Event Crockery
Potions and powders - Flossy & Leigh Bridal Hair and Makeup Company
Shining stars - Typical Type
Silk and lace - Knutsford Wedding Gallery
Magical moving pictures - Marry Me Films
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