A return trip to St Audries Park

Congratulations to Justine and Chris who held their wedding at St Audries Park at the end of December. We entertained guests throughout the day, and many of Justine’s American friends and relatives sang along and danced to our music between courses during the wedding breakfast. Justine and Chris had chosen to have our Jukebox option, so everyone was listening out for their selections, and trying to guess who had chosen what!

Wedding at Lord Mayor’s Mansion House, Clifton

Congratulations to Katie and Chris who held their wedding at the Lord Mayor’s Mansion House in Bristol. We played during the ceremony, and entertained guests afterwards with a selection of livelier jazz pieces whilst everyone mingled with drinks and canapes in the sumptuous surroundings. It’s a small world – some of the guests had travelled down from the North West, and it transpired they were related to an old friend of Rebecca’s!

Congratulations to Eloise and Julian

We played for Eloise and Julian’s wedding and drinks reception at St Audries Park on 9th December. Although it was a cold winter’s day the roaring fires kept everyone warm and we enjoyed playing for the guests whilst the happy couple had their photos taken.

Wedding at Banwell Castle

Congratulations to Tina and James who held their wedding day at Banwell Castle in North Somerset. It was a lovely setting for an intimate wedding, and we had fun playing for a children’s game of pass-the-parcel during the wedding breakfast!

Remember remember…the weddings of November…

November still had us travelling far and wide, with three more weddings as winter approached. We would like to extend our congratulations to:

• Sharon and Rhodri, 3rd November, Ceremony and wedding reception at Coed-y-Mwstwr near Bridgend
• Joanna and Bronson, 9th November, Wedding and drinks reception at Orchardleigh House
• Benjamin and Katy, 30th November, Wedding and drinks reception at Clearwell Castle

October – still busy!

The wedding season continued well into the Autumn. We would like to congratulate all the couples who got married this month:

• Theresa and Kieron, 14th October, Wedding ceremony and drinks reception at Tortworth Court
• Gareth and Debbie, 20th October, Wedding ceremony and wedding reception at Bowood Golf Club – including an RAF flypast!
• Edward and Lois, 27th October, Wedding ceremony at the Park House Club in Cardiff

Playing for Life!

The end of September saw the Ardeton Quartet playing in the grounds of Ashton Court Mansion for the Cancer Research 10k Race. Wrapped up warm in many layers, we played a mixture of our most up-beat and lively repertoire at the 5k halfway-point, to inspire the runners to continue on their way to complete the Race and raise lots of money! Many of the runners clapped, cheered and shouted their Thanks as they ran past – though to be honest we were just as inspired by their determined efforts! Congratulations to all who took part, it was a fantastic morning!

So many weddings!

Time ran away with us during the Autumn – we played for so many weddings towards the end of the year that we got rather behind with updating this blog! Congratulations to:

•  Helen and Nic, 15th September, Drinks reception and wedding breakfast at Prestwold Hall near Loughborough
• Sally and Andrew, 16th September, Wedding and drinks reception at Miskin Manor near Cardiff
• Sabrina and Michael, 22nd September, Wedding ceremony and drinks reception in the Octagon Suite, Bath Assembly Rooms
• Victoria and Marcus, 29th September, Wedding ceremony in St Leonard’s Church and wedding reception in a marquee in Upper Minety, Wiltshire