The Bristol & Somerset Wedding Awards 2016

So sorry for the delay in posting our wonderful news..........

So very proud to advise that we were the winners again this year at the Bristol & Somerset Wedding Awards Ceremony on 26 February for 'Wedding Transport 2016' !!

Absolutely delighted to collect the award for the second year running and can't say a big enough 'THANK YOU' to all my wonderful bride and grooms from 2015 who placed their vote and comments to make this happen again!

Here are some of the comments we have since received from the Awards:-

"So helpful.  Nothing was too much trouble.  Can't thank them enough for all the help with the photos etc."

"Englands Finest Cars were fantastic from start to finish! Jayne was so professional and was always at the end of the phone.  The cars were beautiful and Jayne turned up on the day looking great and was incredibly professional and calming - just what I needed! "

"The service was above and beyond!  Jane and the team made our day so special! They were so helpful right from the booking and on the day!   The car was lovely and I was treated like a princess!"

"My sister booked Jane on her wedding day and Jane was fab which made me decide to book her"


Here is the Professional photo me with my award taken by Martin Pemberton Photography on the night!

Fancy a brief glimpse into the Awards Evening??  click here.

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Bath Chronicle's 'Win a Wedding' Competition - Wedding on Sunday, 21 February 2016

Once again it was a great pleasure to be involved in the Bath Chronicle's 'Win a Wedding' Competition worth £12,000.

During July 2015, the winners were announced.....click here to see them in the Bath Chronicle, and last Sunday we were lucky enough to meet them in person at their wedding.

Englands Finest Wedding Cars collected Sarah and father of the bride from her parents home in Coombe Down in Bath and travelled across the Bathampton toll bridge (free of charge for us!) to the beautiful Bailbrook House in Bath where Sarah and Michael were married.

Afterwards, we took the new Mr & Mrs Dunn with their wedding photographer, Danielle Love, to Sydney Gardens situated next to the Holburne Museum in Bath, where they enjoyed some 'private' images.

Sunday was a wet rather chilly day but thankfully the rain stopped as they enjoyed photos in Sydney Gardens just in time to put the umbrellas away for a short while, until the rain came back for our return journey to Bailbrook House with final photographs before our departure.

A lovely couple to meet and provide our wedding car 'free of charge' and it was also really nice to meet Danielle for the first time from Love Photography.

Since the wedding we have received these lovely comments from Mrs Dunn.....

."Thank you so much to Jayne for collecting me and taking me to my wedding . You made me feel more relaxed during quite a nerve racking time. The car was beautiful, and you always made sure my dress and I were ok! Then we went on for a drive and stopped for photos and again, well prepared with the umbrella and wrap it was lovely thank you . We had a great day x

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Monday's wedding at Orchardleigh Manor House with Genna & Steve

 

"The car was perfect - Steve sorted it out and I was so

pleased when I saw it on the day - beautiful!"

Following recent conversations with Steve the groom, it was great to meet the man in person last Monday before he left with 'the boys' for the beautiful 'island' church within the grounds of Orchardleigh.

As guests began to congregate at the Manor House awaiting the vintage bus that had been hired to take them all to the church, they realised after a while that it was not turning up and so three range rovers and a minibus were supplied by the team at Orchardleigh Estate.

As the final group of guests departed, we made our way down to the church with Genna's bridesmaids and then returned to collect Genna and her father, arriving only twenty five minutes after the official 2pm start.

Below is an image showing the arrival of Genna and her father as we drove the final part of the journey to St. Mary's church.  An intimate little church set on an island with a bridge decorated in the same flowers and voile.  

After the ceremony, their photography and videography team Jake from Ryan Welch photography
spent some time at the church taking some gorgeous private photos of the newly weds, colours are fantastic!

After, we travelled at leisure back to the Manor House at Orchardleigh where further images were taken with the car on arrival, notice that we travelled with the hood down in late October! 

 Congratulations to a truly wonderful couple, I hope you enjoy a very happy life together and thank you so much for your lovely comments recently received and for the images from your day, very much appreciated!

EXCITING NEWS FOR ENGLANDS FINEST WEDDING CARS

We will shortly be launching our beautiful new website created by the lovely Emma from eleven23solutions 

This is to coincide with my semi-retirement from the wedding car hire industry after twenty years.

With effect from January 2016, I will only be providing a single ivory convertible for weddings within the Bristol & Bath area with  myself as personal uniformed chauffeuse and some exciting 'little extras' onboard too!

You may have noticed that today I have uploaded a new 'header photo' and 'company logo' to my facebook and twitter pages and this is just the start of things to come, all very exciting!!

If you would like to meet me and view the car this coming Sunday we will be in central Bristol from 10.30am until 4pm at The Bristol Royal Marriott Hotel on College Green, you won't miss us as we will be parked directly outside with me standing by the car!

Here is a taster of our 'new face' for 2016 with website photo below:-

I look forward to meeting you this weekend!

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Beautiful wedding at The Manor House in Castle Combe on Saturday, 29 August 2015

Fabulous wedding yesterday enjoyed at the fairytale venue, The Manor House, in the pretty cotswold village of Castle Combe, with Alexandra and Bruce.

Warning - all photos currently supplied by myself, taken by myself on my mobile, to create a 'flavour' of the day.   Wedding photographer, Adam Drake Photography, to forward some 'professional' images shortly.

Here we are with two very beautiful companions from Carriages by Midnight based in Devizes, look at the inquisitive face on this handsome boy - the horse of course!

Here we are pictured below waiting whilst the bride and groom are married at the pretty St. Andrew's Church in the village - with many spectators just waiting to catch a glimpse of the happy couple.

On our return to the Manor House, guests enjoyed canapes and champagne and awaited the arrival of the bride and groom.

And here they are!

Shelley and Daniel get married in style on the SS Great Britain

Wonderful wedding with Shelley and Daniel at the SS Great Britain last Friday, 28 August 2015

Please note photos were snapped by myself using my mobile......I think you can just get a 'flavour' of the day but I apologise that they are not 'professional' images!

Shelley and her father enjoyed some pre-shots with their photographer, Keith, at the Clifton Suspension Bridge before the wedding.

After, we travelled onto The SS Great Britain for the ceremony, with a cheeky photo taken over the shoulder of their photographer, Keith Smith, on our arrival!

Holly and the team at this venue gave me a great welcome and I even enjoyed a very nice coffee whilst waiting!

Here are Shelley and Daniel just before we left to travel onto their reception venue at The PBA Club in Shirehampton - and minutes before the heavens opened and the hood was very quickly put up!

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Amy & Richards Recent Summer Wedding

We were privileged to attend Amy & Richards recent wedding with the lovely Stewart Clarke Photography.

Here are some of Stewart's beautiful images of the day and it a great pleasure to share them all with you.

Our arrival at St. Mary's Church in Hawkesbury Upton where the ceremony took place, a very pretty country church.

How stunning is our beautiful bride!

Taken at their wedding reception at a family home in Iron Acton - beautiful day and beautiful wedding.

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BEAUTIFUL WEDDING AT BATH ABBEY

It is always a challenge to take on a wedding at Bath Abbey because of the logistics of driving onto the pavement amongst the crowds of spectators often queuing at The Roman Baths next door to the Abbey, without managing to run over peoples toes, and this wedding was no exception!

We provided two journeys from Darlington Place nearby to Bath Abbey on Saturday, 2 May for Pauline and Christopher's wedding and although not overly warm and sunny it was dry and so we managed to take the hood down as requested by the bride to depart.

As we left the couple enjoyed lots of attention from their guests and also the vast crowd of spectators and tourists that had gathered whilst the ceremony was taking place, and the new Mr & Mrs D-G really did have a wonderful send off!

On arrival at The Bath Spa Hotel they greeted guests as they arrived at the reception venue, opting on this occasion not to enjoy an extended journey to their reception venue in the car, but rather wanting to arrive at the hotel to finalise all the plans for their wedding breakfast.

Throughout, the wedding was captured by the very professional Leon from Leon Day Images who is a preferred wedding photographer at The Bath Spa Hotel and he has kindly forwarded these wonderful images of the day for us to show.

If you are still looking for a wedding photographer, please do take a look at Leon Day's website by clicking here, he offers wedding photography throughout the Bristol, Bath and South West areas, you will not be disappointed.

For more details about us and our matching fleet of three ivory convertibles available throughout 2015, subject to availability, please click here.  

GETTING MARRIED & LOOKING FOR WEDDING INVITATIONS & ALL THE REST.....

I recently hard from Mark one of our previous grooms (from 2007) who has since become involved in 'Wedding Stationery' since his wedding.

Originally known as 'M.H. Create' but now re-branded to 'Simply Invited UK', Mark designs and produces luxury wedding invitations with matching stationery at very reasonable prices.

Mark travels to meet clients to discuss their specific requirements to enable him to create a 'tailor made' quotation.  

Take a look at his website by clicking here which includes pre-designed themes to give couples a chance to view what is actually available with 'Simply Invited UK' as a bespoke design service.

If you are looking for any of these items, contact Mark to discuss further by clicking here.

Save the Date cards

Day and Evening Invitations

Pocketfold and Wallet invitations

Table Plans

Table names / numbers

Place settings (personalised if needed)

Menus

Order of Service

Thank you cards

We wish Mark every success!

ENGLANDS FINEST CARS CELEBRATE AT THE BRISTOL & SOMERSET WEDDING AWARDS

Fab night organised by Naomi from The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation and supporting organisers held at The Bristol Hotel in Prince Street on Friday, 27 February 2014.

A wonderful 'champagne and canapes' reception.













With magicians












Including Darren Campbell....













Flamboyant table decor

Very tall ladies to greet us - on stilts!

The Cabaret

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 And the very important AWARDS

 Naomi from The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation looks very glamour!

There was also an auction with all proceeds raised from some truly amazing donated prizes going to help fund weddings for terminally ill people who often have little time and funds available to do so.

Take a look at their fantastic wedding stories by clicking here to their website, but have some tissues handy!!

Sat waiting for the awards to commence, with Ben from A Perfect Memory Videographer, another winner for the second year running.

And me!
Very proud to collect my Award as
'Winner for Wedding Transport 2015'

And finally, me with my fabby Award .....
as you can see I am very happy and proud to show off this little beauty!

A huge thank you to my wonderful couples who voted for me.

And of course Englands Finest Cars would not be who they are without the fabulous team of 'uniformed lady chauffeuse' who played a very big part in us gaining this award, so love and kisses to my girls.

EXCITING NEWS FOR ENGLANDS FINEST WEDDING CARS!!!

We are all SO excited at Englands Finest Wedding Cars as we have been awarded 

'Winners for Wedding Transport 2015'.

A huge big 'thank you' to all our wonderful couples that used our services as their wedding transport throughout 2014 and who voted for us!

These were the questions asked of each of our bride and grooms who were married last year:-

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On a scale of 1-10 please rate the Supplier below (10 =Excellent 1=Poor)

Rate the Supplier on Customer Service:

 10 Excellent 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Poor

Rate the Supplier on Quality of Product:

 10 Excellent 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Poor

Rate the Supplier on Value for Money:

 10 Excellent 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Poor

Rate the Supplier on their Commitment level to your wedding:

 10 Excellent 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Poor

Additional Feedback on your Supplier?

Why Did you book this Supplier?

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For a link through to The Bristol & Somerset Wedding Awards website, please click here for further details and a list of other winners and wedding categories.

Our first wedding of 2015!

It was a great pleasure to be working alongside the lovely Stewart Clarke Photography again for our first wedding of the year, especially as we closed the year with our last wedding of 2014 with him also!

These photos show the story of the day unfolding, with Jenni arriving at the church before she exits the car and joins her father to walk down the aisle.

This shows the father of the bride arriving with the second car in attendance outside the church.

And, after Jenni and Michael are married as they set off on their extended journey to their reception venue, in style of course!

And here they are at their reception venue, the Alveston House Hotel....and the sun is still shining!

Just before we left them to enjoy themselves, the last one!

Photographs supplied by Stewart, which just goes to show that we can have sunshine in this country in January!! (Although I would recommend thermal underwear to be on the safe side!)

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Recent 'Top Secret' Wedding at Berkeley Castle

Sworn to secrecy and were all the other wedding suppliers, we were recently involved in a surprise wedding for the bride and as it turned out for the father of the bride also, as the whole day had been planned in its entirety by the groom!

Arriving at the rather secluded Stinchcombe Hill House near Dursley the night before, we arrived to collect Cally and her father and take them to their secret destination.

The old farmhouse was situated at the top of the hill with some beautiful views and quirky interior, and this is us as we arrived talking to the bride's sister, her twin bridesmaid.

As we set off we were asked to pop into the local  Country Park as an opportunity to confuse everyone, and were greeted by one of the grooms colleagues who happened to work there, that they were not ready for us and we had to go for a tour!

As we arrived at the gatehouse to Berkeley Castle which was the secret destination the bride and father of the bride had no idea where they were and so the gatesman advised them both - thankfully they were so so pleased!

The courtyard was dressed with flowers and candles and everyone was very emotional as the doors opened into the Main Hall and they were greeted with all their friends and family.

Images supplied by the award winning Mango Photography.

Mr & Mrs M Congratulations!

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