Last Saturday I played the harp for Sharon and Seng’s wedding at Everingham Park. It was about a forty-five minute drive from where I live in York, so a relatively local gig for me.
Everingham Park itself is an ideal wedding venue. It has an onsite Chapel for Wedding Ceremonies, then just a stone’s throw away is a building next to a large pond. This is where the Drinks Reception and Wedding Breakfast take place. Parking was easy and the venue is easy to find. I hadn’t played there before and it was really lovely.
On this occasion I was booked to play for the Drinks Reception and Wedding Breakfast. This was the room where the Wedding Breakfast was. I really liked the flowers and the pop of colour from the red napkins.
I always like to have a peep at the cake too, even though I attend a lot of weddings, I’m usually all finished and on my way home by the time the cake is being cut.
Considering the fact that this was an October wedding, the weather was absolutely gorgeous. Guests were enjoying mingling outside for most of the afternoon.
My A string above middle C snapped just as I was ready to begin playing. Luckily I always keep my spare strings with me, so I was able to whip another string on and quickly tune it up before I started.
Lovely bride Sharon had requested that I play anything that I think would suit the occasion, so I played my usual mix of light classical, pop, Disney, and film/show tunes. A few of the guests were big Disney fans, so I made sure to include plenty of that. Another guest requested anything by Vivaldi or Bach, so I played an arrangement of Spring from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Sheep May Safely Graze by J.S. Bach.
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