Our Ice Cream Tricycle

We have had brilliant fun preparing for our first outing of our Ice Cream Tricycle!  Our chefs enjoyed test driving it around the car park on a lovely sunny afternoon.  On the wedding day we set up the tricycle in the gardens here at Sutton Bonington Hall, complete with large sun umbrella and straw boaters for the staff.

The Guests loved the Ice Creams, choosing from Choc Chip, Vanilla, Toffee Crunch and Raspberry sorbet.  We found that Toffee Crunch was the most popular flavour! 

We will be using the Ice Cream Trike again on Tuesday and have since had several enquiries for future weddings. 

Latest News from Sutton Bonington Hall

Sutton Bonington Hall has entered The 2013 Wedding Industry Awards and so we are hoping to receive lots of votes from past couples. Couples who were married or held their wedding reception at Sutton Bonington Hall since 1^st November 2011 are eligible to vote.  You might also find that your other suppliers (i.e. your photographer) have entered.  Last year we were shortlisted in our category, and we would really like to do one better this year.

Sutton Bonington Hall is now on Facebook (www.facebook.com/suttonbhall) and Twitter (@suttonbhall), this is a fantastic method for us to keep everyone up to date with what’s happening at the Hall.

We are planning two Christmas Dining Evenings at Sutton Bonington Hall on Wednesday 19^th and Thursday 20^th December 2012.   Further details and menus will be released in the Autumn, but we are hoping to create two really special fine dining evenings that we hope you would enjoy.  To book tables please email us enquiries@sutton-bonington-hall.com

Dining Evenings 2013 – We will be holding Dining Evenings in the New Year.  The dates are still to be confirmed although one of these will be Valentine’s Day Thursday 14^th February.  These events are a perfect opportunity for you to return to the Hall for a romantic meal for two, or a special family dinner. 

Special treats at Sutton Bonington Hall

Over the last few weeks we have had several new and different ideas that our brides and grooms have brought to the Hall to make their wedding day special.  We always love to see the different ideas people have, it means each wedding here is different to the last.

For the jubiliee weekend our couple were lucky enough to have a very talented violinist in the family, who entertained wthe guests while they were on the lawn having photographs and drinking Pimms.

More recently in June we have a fantastically pink wedding, where the conservatory was decorated with lots of Pink Pom Poms and beautiful flowers from Fleurs en Fleur based in Loughborough.

Finally, last weekend our bride and groom had ordered an absolutely fanstic looking #weddingcake from Your Unique Day The cake fitted in perfectly with their 'Tea' theme and was a real talking point

April Showers

The gardens at Sutton Bonington Hall have been throughly enjoying the rain we have been having this April, although it definitely makes Will's, our gardener's, job a lot harder!

This last weekend we were delighted to host the wedding reception for Louise and Steve.  Fortunately they were able to dodge the showers and even had photos taken in the garden.

On Sunday Deana and Jim celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary at Sutton Bonington Hall. They invited 50 of their closest friends and family to attend, and they all struggled through the rain to reach us.  It was raining so much we lit the log fires in the Library and Drawing Room so the Hall was warm and welcoming.

Weddings in March

We were honoured to host the weddings and/or wedding receptions of five lovely couples in March 2012.  Each wedding being very different, but all starting out married life together with hopefully lots of happy memories of their special day.

Early in March we welcomed Eamonn & Claire to the Hall, after the ceremony in the Drawing Room they were able to head into the gardens for canapes and photographs by FirstHand Photography.  We were delighted when Peggy informed us that our cups of tea were to her liking!

Throughout March we have seen some fantastic creativity from our brides, one of our brides, Ruth, had even taken the time to make paper flowers for her bouquets and the table centres.

We always enjoy seeing the various themes and colour schemes, including The Beatles, Fondant Fancies and a lovely springtime yellow wedding.

We were delighted to work with Martin Neeves for the first time at Sutton Bonington Hall, and we love to see as few of the photos he took at Valerie and Richard's wedding on his blog

Our chef Neil also served our new assiette of desserts for the first time in 2012 for Ian and Vicky's wedding. 

Assiette of desserts:

Classic ‘strawberries & cream’ shortbread

 Dark chocolate torte

Lemon & blueberry posset

Who could resist!!!!!

Mother's Day Lunch

We welcomed 7 families to Sutton Bonington Hall for Mother's Day Lunch.  We were delighted to see past brides and grooms return to the Hall with their families, and in one case as new parents bringing their son to their wedding venue for the first time.

The adults enjoyed a three course meal seated in the conservatory.  The most popular meal our guests chose is below - a delicious Sunday Lunch -

Warm goats cheese with a hazelnut crust, beetroot salad

Roast sirloin of Beef, béarnaise sauce, Yorkshire puddings with roast potatoes and seasonal vegetables

Sticky Toffee Pudding with vanilla ice cream

The children enjoyed chicken goujons followed by ice cream, then in between the rain showers let off steam running around the gardens.

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