Shoreditch East London Asian-Suffolk Fusion Stylish Dry Hire Warehouse Wedding

October 28, 2020 in East London Wedding, Bespoke Wedding Bars, Event & Wedding Planner, Event Design, Event Management, Event Planning, Event Profs, Foodie Wedding, London Wedding Venues, Non-traditional Wedding, London Events, On The Day Coordination, Party Planning, Rustic Wedding, Unconventional Wedding, Urban Wedding, Warehouse Wedding, Wedding Coordinator, Dry Hire Venue London, Blank Canvas Venue

THE ULTIMATE DRY HIRE BLANK CANVAS LONDON WEDDING CELEBRATION

Pic 1-3 photo credit Elizabeth Alice Holt

Jen & Jack’s epic East London wedding bash was none other than amazing! They had chosen their venue, Shoreditch Studios, which is an urban cool & trendy dry hire, blank canvas space. A converted railway arch in the heart of buzzing Shoreditch. Now they had their party venue, then what. Having busy work lives they got in touch to get some help to bring their ideas & visions to life. A true collaboration, their ideas & dreams + my event planning knowhow & ‘little’ (it’s quite big) book of contacts. Loved working with these two and giving them a dream day.

Nice words from Jen & Jack on working with me + my team.

Dear Dita, Thank YOU so much for ALL of your help and support both in the in the run up and on our wedding day. We truly had the best day of our lives and having you there really meant we were able to to simply enjoy it all. Thank you again! ALL OUR LOVE. Jenny & Jack (so, so many thanks Dita - you were a star *)
P.S Thank you also to your amazing team. And of course to Ross, that pork was still the best ever. We have had so many compliments on the food

Jenny & Jack, Warehouse Wedding, Shoreditch, London

The day started at Hackney Town Hall, after the I do’s they headed to the reception venue on Retro London buses - well the guests did. J+J stopped off at a local pub in Hackney to have a pint (ace!) before joining their 170 guests back in Shoreditch.

Photo Credit Elizabeth Alice Holt + last one couples own

The exposed brickwork venue was decorated with nods to Jen’s Asian heritage with pink & purple orchids in blue patterned pots + single stems of red for good luck. Lots of white lanterns + festoons in the ceiling and a curtain at the end to give the room that cosy feeling! There’s was Hygge in the air for sure!

Pic 2,3,5,6,7,8 photo credit Elizabeth Alice Holt

Guests were treated to a fab menu of Dim Sum Dumplings & Oysters reception washed down with Champagne & Aperol Spritz. Perfect summer wedding stuff. For the main meal, provided by amazing Ross, Seven Cherries Food, it’s was an all sharing menu of Scandinavian starter and the star of the show Lechon Pork for main. Suffolk pork as a nod to Jack’s roots. A full-on fusion foodie wedding menu totally personal to the couple. Love it. The huge cake was made by Jack’s mum. After the sit down meal it was all about the Espresso Martini’s - great way to kick off the party! :)

Pic 1-3, 10, 12 photo credit Elizabeth Alice Holt

And a PARTY it was - all the way to 3am! - The Atlantic Soul Orchestra kicked it off, then a line up of DJ’s and even a sax player. When guests took a break from all the dancing, they had fun at the photobooth. Epic & fun wedding celebration! Really pleased to have been involved to make it all happen.

BIG UP for all the Brides out there doing a Brides Speech. You all rock. Just like Jen here heading up the spiral stairs doing her ace one to the room.

Photo credit Elizabeth Alice Holt

WOW, this one was a BIG WEDDING. I provided extensive partial planning for Jen & Jack (souring suppliers, catering, buses, staffing, fun stuff) + provided most of the bar. As it’s a dry hire venue J+J jumped at the option of doing a trip to France for all their wines & Champagne.

Huge thanks to Elizabeth Alice Holt for all of her great snaps credited above, rest are by Dita Rosted Events.

Get in touch if you need any help with a celebration you are planning. Thanks, Dita X

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Modern Indian Ceremony Mix Culture Foodie West London Wedding

September 29, 2020 in Wedding Coordinator, Unconventional Wedding, Non-traditional Wedding, London Wedding Venues, Event Planning, Event Management, Event & Wedding Planner, West London Wedding, On The Day Coordination, DIY Wedding

Check out Lola & Vinay’s wedding day at beautiful Petersham Nurseries. They had a modern Indian ceremony led by Uk’s first female Hindu priest, Chanda Vyas.

It was my very first Indian wedding to coordinate, such a lovely & colourful day. Loved everything about it. The ceremony was only about an hr compared to the normal days of celebrations. We were determined to have it outside - and it was touch and go as the weather was threatening to put a giant spanner in the works. Sometimes you just have to take a chance and it paid off - phew! Great day with so much energy around! :)

The stunning photography is by Irene Yap Weddings

THANK YOU SO MUCH for being with us on that day. I know for sure I would have freaked out if you had not been there. You made us feel like everything was under control at all times (which it was!) and you were absolutely brilliant with everyone :) Thank you for being so on board with the whole Indian ceremony at all times. Thank you for being so supportive on the adventure of an outdoors Indian Wedding at the venue, that would not have happened without you! Thank you for keeping in touch with us during the day, always with your amazing positive and calm way, for holding our phones and our nerves. And super thank you for coming to the pub with us.

You were the best help we could have ever hoped for and we could not have done it without you! Lola & Vinay

It’s not every day you end up having tequilas at the bar… after Lola & Vinay’s fab day that’s exactly what we did! :)

Fun Modern Jewish Culture Mix Islington Foodie Wedding

June 26, 2020 in Event & Wedding Planner, Event Management, Event Planning, Event Profs, Foodie Wedding, London Events, London Wedding Venues, Non-traditional Wedding, Unconventional Wedding, Wedding Coordinator, Urban Wedding, Wedding Photography

Candy & Max got in touch at the start of last year. They had a date, venue, band & cantor for Sept that year. They were a bit stuck with all the rest, had busy lives and needed help with simply getting things off the ground. They had clear visions and ideas of what they wanted for their day, just needed someone onboard that got them and could take their visions and make it happen!

I’m so pleased that this funloving couple came to me & trusted me and my team with their big day. In a few months, we had all the big tickets in place…catering, photographer, decor, chuppah, florist and they could get on with thinking about all the fun they would be having! And it was lots of FUN.

Few words from C + M

We were drawn to you as a wedding planner because you seem to specialise in the slightly quirky, and that’s definitely applicable to us! We have lots of different strands to us, culturally, and so it would be amazing to capture some of those things in our big day.
Thank you for putting our dreams into a room

This was going to be a Jewish wedding. Because it’s on a Saturday (which is Shabbat the day of rest in Judaism) meant that we had to wait until sundown for their Jewish ceremony, making the whole day a bit topsy turvy in the format. It worked very well with guests having gin cocktails on arrival, a big sharing feast (selected guests as carvers), Jewish dancing before the ceremony at sunset and then lots more high energy dancing!

This is part of the intro Candy + Max did when they first got in touch. The whole story behind this couple really got me and again I’m so happy I could play a part in their love story together. What a couple!

Also worth mentioning is that one of our big early achievements as a couple was that Max became the first person in the world with cerebral palsy to trek to Everest Base Camp on horseback, and I went too. We’re not normally that outdoorsy, but we do like a challenge!
I bring this up, because I wanted to mention that Max uses a wheelchair, and so we want to make sure that everything is accessible to him, and also that this part of him, and of our relationship is kind of... incorporated into the wedding, rather than pretending it’s not a big factor in our lives.

There are so many brilliant pictures from this wedding which started with a small ceremony at Islington Town Hall, then onto drinks & lunch fest the grand hall at Old Finsbury Town Hall, Jewish ceremony and all the dancing you can wish for! Here’s a selection of snaps by amazing storytelling & candid shots extraordinaire Kristian Leven Photography.

Ceremony #1 @ Islington Town Hall

Lunch & Dancing part one @ Old Finsbury Town Hall

This wedding was a through and through coming together of minds & cultures. Max is Mexican and Candy’s family is French and Australian. That mixed with their love for blue & gold colours we got to work with incorporating all of this into the decor & design. At the end, we had white Mexican bunting (came from Mexico), table design of blue & gold tones with lots of green foliage & spots of colours in the flowers. Light, bright and summery design. Most importantly, it was exactly the right mix of everything they love. Check out the name cards, painted by Max and Candy did the calligraphy. Talented team!

No end of their talents. Candy also sang on stage with Cantor Tamara. A surprise for Max.