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Weddings Weddings The Old Bull Inn

We absolutely love wedding receptions at The Old Bull! There’s nothing better than having your family and friends together all in one place to celebrate your special day. Our function rooms are perfect for a reception for up to 80 people each. Our packages start at only £999. Please contact us to request a brochure. The Ballroom is a stunning wood panelled room with orginal features, 2 large crystal chandeliers and original wooden ﬂoor. There is a small elevated stage area which is perfect for displaying a cake!

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The Oakroom is a more informal room with beams, an eclectic mix of 1940’s chairs and tables and an attractive bar. It is ideal for an evening reception.

or buﬀet to suit your taste and if you require a DJ we can put you in contact with one (we are happy for you to arrange your own, however they must have public liability insurance and be able to show this to us). We welcome you to come and view the space so you can see what will work best for you and discuss our wedding reception packages.

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Coach House, Flint Cross Meet our Head Chef Fergie train with Raymond (alias Chris Jones) Blanc.

When he completed his training, As he trained at the world famous Fergie returned to Sheene Mill before moving to The Fox in Willian Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Oxford with Raymond Blanc he can where he took his first Head Chef’s position. He has since increased bring amazing Michelin starred his knowledge in various areas foord at more affordable prices. including outside catering and His passion is for top quality weddings. He is now delighting seasonal locally sourced food. diners at the Coach House. Starting from scratch with a new Fergie was born in Royston so kitchen (which was modernised knows the local area and wanted to his requirements) he has made to bring his knowledge back to his roots. After leaving Melbourn it a place to visit to enjoy quality affordable food. Village College he started his training at Sheene Mill when it was 01763 208272 owned by Stephen Saunders. It coachhousehotelflintcross@ was Stephen who recognised his yahoo.com ability and put Fergie forward to www.coachhousehotel.org.uk

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Fergie has become known at the Coach House for his passion in delivering quality, delicious food whether it’s for midday, evening meals or Sunday carvery.

Finding the ‘right’ dress, was probably the hardest part of the wedding for me. When I finally found my dress, from Caroline Castigliano, it took a lot of imagination to envisage what the final dress would be like. Every dress I’d tried on was always in a larger size and I’d asked the designer to make several changes to the original dress, which I didn’t see until the week before the wedding! For us, choosing the venue was a ‘no brainer’! Sheene Mill is such a beautiful venue and is more than just a venue to us – it is quite literally our home! I worked at the Sheene Mill from the age of 11 when my parents owned the business, to then come back 10 years after they left to own the business myself! I have so many lovely memories, from my childhood and from recent years… Getting married at our own venue also meant I had complete trust in my staff and that they would execute everything the way they know I’d want it to be done. It also gave me the flexibility to go ‘to town’ and enjoy the venue from the other side for once! My staff did us proud, they all went above and beyond to make sure we had the most amazing day - it literally couldn’t have been better. It was a Classic, yet Glamorous theme, consisting of beautiful deep reds, champagne golds and ivory, with a summery twist! We used crystal glass wear and décor throughout, positioning candelabras and candlesticks throughout for added romance.

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We hung glass tealights from every tree and added additional mood lighting throughout the venue, which means that all of our brides now beneﬁt from these improvements. In addition to keeping our décor and colour scheme classic, we were keen to create our own touch. Our table plan was a large blossom tree, with hanging crystals and beautiful hanging place names, our guest book was a large graﬃti painting, themed to suit our colour scheme and represent both mine and Jordan’s favourite things. We had a liquid nitrogen gin bar on our deck which we purpose built, a large ice sculpture Champagne bar, and a divine 8 course tasting menu with accompanying wines and Champagnes.

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Best Man Speech - Dream or Nightmare? If you’ve been asked to be the Best Man at your friend’s wedding you are probably starting to worry already about making the speech. Fear of public speaking is one of the most common phobias and can get in the way of you enjoying the rest of the event. But there are easy techniques you can learn to build your conﬁdence.

1.to practi A month before the wedding, start ce feeling conﬁdent. Close

your eyes and picture an occasion when you felt really confident. Make the picture as big, bright and colourful as you can. When you are experiencing that confident feeling as strongly as possible, press the tips of your thumb and first finger together firmly. This is your confidence anchor.

2.beforeIn the week before the wedding, 4. When you stand up, plant your you go to sleep every night, feet firmly hip distance apart and imagine yourself making a brilliant speech. See yourself standing confidently, speaking easily, the smiling faces in front of you. Hear them laughing at your jokes and clapping as you finish. Enjoy that good feeling of a job well done. Press the tips of your thumb and first finger together to ‘fire’ your confidence anchor.

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• Watch repairs Exchange would like to introduce you • Watch batteries & accessories all to their relaunched business - HC • Diamonds & Gemstones • Gemstone Testing Jewellers & Gold Buying Centre. • Coins & Bullion • Valuations & advice The pair have moved to larger • Instant cash for Gold & precious premises at 8 High Street after metals trading for four years at number 4.

To celebrate the opening of the new shop they are oﬀering a chance to win vouchers worth £250 (1st prize) and £100 (2nd prize) to spend in store. Drop in between 1st and 8th February and leave your details to be in the prize draw on 8th February. Make a purchase between those dates to be entered twice into the prize draw giving you double the chance of winning!

“We will All with the help you professional & friendly choose the service that right piece you would of jewellery expect from for any a family run occasion” business with over 12 years experience. Hanna is a qualiﬁed graduate gemologist and is happy to identify stones (most stones can be identiﬁed on site).

Don’t Forget the Grooms As we enter 2017, grooms and their brides who are marrying this year, will be ﬁnalising their ideas.

Grooms wear often gets left to one of the later decisions but it must be remembered that the groom is just as important as the bride. They too need to have the opportunity to experiment with colour and style in comfortable and stylish surroundings. It is not about grabbing the ﬁrst grey suit on the rail and hoping it will do. Take advice and experiment.

and knowing he looks amazing on his special day. Start by booking an appointment with your chosen menswear supplier now, even if your wedding is not until the end of the year. Plan ahead and leave enough time for all your groomsmen to book in for their own personal fittings rather than just giving you their measurements in a last minute hurry. This will ensure all suits fit well, you will all feel confident and the photos will make you feel proud.

Time spent on ﬁnding the right suit, Sharon Cousans - Chimney Formal searching for the colour and style of Menswear. neckwear, which not only coordinates For more information about with the bridesmaids, but which Chimney Menswear or to looks good on the groom too and discovering the waistcoat which adds book an appointment, call on that striking individual look, will all 01763 252828 or visit: lead to the groom feeling conﬁdent www.chimneymenswear.co.uk

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When you ďŹ rst start to plan, sit down as a couple and work out your budget before you book anything. Be realistic and use your budget as a reference point. Try not to go over it. You may ďŹ nd it useful to decide which parts of the wedding day are most important to both of you and then split your budget accordingly.

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As spring approaches, many couples start focusing on their wedding day. For some it will be a religious ceremony at their place of worship,

Prioritise your tasks and then allocate each job a month, giving yourself a monthly check list of things to do. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do wedding planning every day. Give yourself set days in the month to do â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;wedminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; based jobs otherwise the planning will consume you and you will begin to hate it. Consider hiring a wedding planner as they can take all the stress out of your wedding planning

Book the venue ďŹ rst, then choose your photographer, caterers, ďŹ&#x201A;orist and entertainment as these are the providers that can become very busy quickly. Try and get these booked as soon as you can to avoid disappointment.

Regarding your photographer, always spend as much on photography as your budget will allow. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the only things from your wedding you will be able to keep

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forever and be your lasting memory. Unless they are a professional, DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T get a friend to do your photography. It could be a disaster and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to risk a friendship in the process.

When looking for suppliers, ask your recently married friends for their recommendations. Also ask other suppliers for people they have worked with and would recommend. Finally, a cheeky sixth suggestion from me, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget to plan your First Dance lessons. Everyone should dance on their Big Day and a special dance can create a lovely surprise for your family and friends. Why not step out in style? I can help create, with the happy couple, a dance that suits their personality, conďŹ dence and dance ability. No previous dance skills are required, and lessons can be held locally or at a location of your choice.

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Having worked in Europe for the last few years, Greg is establishing himself back in the UK in his hometown of Royston.

He is looking to book weddings in Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and the surrounding areas. Due to his particular style of wedding photography, Greg oﬀers to shoot an entire wedding day for a ﬂat fee. That means no complicated or limiting wedding packages, and no hidden costs or additional fees. His straightforward and transparent pricing also includes delivery of images via a secure and personal online gallery.

Greg started Just Weddings to pursue his passion for documentary wedding photography. Or, as he likes to call it, perfectly imperfect wedding pictures.

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Biscuits glacé de jour de Valentine Hello my Fellow foodies!

And so to February where we look forward to Valentine’s Day, Half term, Snowdrops and Shrove Tuesday. I would like to share with you this recipe for Iced Valentine’s Day biscuits. However there really is no reason they have to be heart shaped and they really are rather good with a mug of tea and a good book! If you have children off for half term you could always involve them too...although little fingers are best kept away from the food processor but, in my experience, are usually very happy to be involved with the decoration process! Biscuits glacé de jour de Valentine Makes approximately 12 regular sized biscuits. For the Biscuit 175g Plain Flour Finely grated zest of one orange, lemon or lime - your choice! 100g Butter, chilled and diced 60g Caster Sugar Approximately 2 tbsp chilled milk Approximately 6 red hard boiled sweets, finely crushed. For decoration of the biscuits 100g icing sugar Red or pink food colouring Food flavouring is optional but 1 drop of your favourite flavour should be all you need. Any decorations of your choice....go wild or go minimal! Equipment As you can see from the photo I have iced my biscuits. I used a number 2 fine icing nozzle and a piping bag. But if you haven’t got the bag and nozzle you could try folding your own from greaseproof paper and just snipping a tiny hole in the end to pipe through, or you could create more of a flooded icing design and decorate with sprinkles, silver balls, shop bought iced flowers, dried rose petals, edible glitter, coloured sugar...there are endless possibilities! I have also used 2 sizes of heart shaped cutters. Please don’t feel you have to rush out and spend money on expensive cutters. If you chill the dough after it is rolled you will be able to free hand cut the dough, (perhaps create cardboard templates to cut around) or for those of you with young children you may find that the cutters used for Playdough work perfectly... just make sure they have had a good scrub first! So, let’s begin by making the dough. Put the flour, butter, zest of choice and sugar into a food processor and blitz until you have a fine bread crumb consistency. Gradually add the milk whilst the machine is on and stop when the consistency begins to form a dough. Tip the ingredients out on to a work top and finish bringing everything together by hand as you do not want to over work the dough. Next, clingfilm the dough and place it in the fridge to chill for about half an hour- this will make it easier to

handle. The dough could be left for 2 or 3 days in the fridge or frozen for up to a month in advance. If you really want to plan ahead why not make double the amount and freeze half for later use. Pop the oven on to 180°C, and roll the dough to a thickness of approximately 3mm (it is a very short mixture and therefore tricky to handle, you may wish to roll it between two layers of greaseproof paper for ease of handling). Cut out the shapes and place them onto a non stick baking tray. Now, place a generous pinch of the crushed sweets into the “hole” of the biscuit. You are aiming to fill the entire hole when they have melted but you need to take care not to overfill or spill any on the rest of the biscuit. Next, place the biscuits in the oven for 15 minutes. You are aiming for the biscuit to be a pale golden colour and for all of the boiled sweet to have melted. When you are happy that they are cooked remove them from the oven and leave to cool on the tray for a good 5 minutes- DO NOT stick your finger into the melted sweets this will cause unimaginable pain! After the 5 minutes is up you can carefully remove the biscuit from the tray and leave to cool completely on a wire tray. When you are ready to ice the biscuits, simply mix the icing sugar with a drop of your favourite flavouring (I used a new lemon grass one I have just discovered) and colouring and then add water drop by drop until you have a runny, but still a little thick consistency necessary for piping. Simply pop it in your piping bag and let your imagination, and piping skills, run wild! If you intend to use sprinkles add these before the icing sets or they will not stick. Leave these to dry while you “de-stick” the kitchen and make yourself all pretty again before presenting the biscuits to your lucky Valentine... or eat them yourself! Until next time...

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Spring Wedding Show at Chesfiled Downs Golf & Country Club Sunday 26th February, 11am – 3pm www.chesfielddownsgolf.co.uk

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The Wedding Guide’s Wedding Spectacular at Knebworth Barns Sunday 5th March, 11am - 4pm www.youreventatknebworth.com

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A New Shop for Local Jewellers Hanna & Carla from Royston Gold Exchange would like to introduce you all to their relaunched business - HC Jewellers & Gold Buying Centre.

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The pair have moved to larger premises at 8 High Street after trading for four years at number 4. To celebrate the opening of the new shop they are oﬀering a chance to win vouchers worth £250 (1st prize) and £100 (2nd prize) to spend in store. Drop in between 1st and 8th February and leave your details to be in the prize draw on 8th February. Make a purchase between those dates to be entered twice into the prize draw giving you double the chance of winning! HC Jewellers oﬀer: • Brand new and refurbised jewellery for sale • Jewellery repairs & alterations • Wedding & Engagement rings

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All with the professional & friendly service that you would expect from a family run business with over 12 years experience. Hanna is a qualiﬁed graduate gemologist and is happy to identify stones (most stones can be identiﬁed on site).

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Wednesday 8th February from 9am for our ‘official’ opening and enjoy a glass of prosecco!

To celebrate the opening of our new shop we are offering you the chance to win a £250 voucher (1st prize) or a £100 voucher (2nd prize) to spend in store. Visit us from the 1st to 8th February and leave your details, the prizes will be drawn on the 8th February. Make a purchase between those dates and you will be entered into the prize draw a second time doubling your chance to win! Fill in your details below and bring this voucher along to the shop.

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As we enter 2017, grooms and their brides who are marrying this year, will be ďŹ nalising their ideas.

good on the groom too and discovering the waistcoat which adds that striking individual look, will all lead to the groom feeling conďŹ dent and knowing he looks amazing on his special day.

Grooms wear often gets left to one of the later decisions but it must be remembered that the groom is just as important as the bride. They too need to Start by booking an appointment with your chosen have the opportunity to experiment with colour and menswear supplier now, even if your wedding is style in comfortable and stylish surroundings. not until the end of the year. Plan ahead and leave enough time for all your groomsmen to book in for It is not about grabbing the ďŹ rst grey suit on the rail their own personal ďŹ ttings rather than just giving you and hoping it will do. Take advice and experiment. their measurements in a last minute hurry. This will ensure all suits ďŹ t well, you will all feel conďŹ dent and Time spent on ďŹ nding the right suit, searching for the photos will make you feel proud. the colour and style of neckwear, which not only coordinates with the bridesmaids, but which looks Sharon Cousans - Chimney Formal Menswear.

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Congratulations on your engagement! Now the planning begins!

Here’s my Top Five Tips for stress-free wedding planning...

When you ﬁrst start to plan, sit down as a couple and work out your budget before you book anything. Be realistic and use your budget as a reference point. Try not to go over it. You may ﬁnd it useful to decide which parts of the wedding day are most important to both of you and then split your budget accordingly.

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Prioritise your tasks and then allocate each job a month, giving yourself a monthly check list of things to do. Don’t do wedding planning every day. Give yourself set days in the month to do ‘wedmin’ based jobs otherwise the planning will consume you and you will begin to hate it. Consider hiring a wedding planner as they can take all the stress out of your wedding planning

Book the venue ﬁrst, then choose your photographer, caterers, ﬂorist and entertainment as these are the providers that can become very busy quickly. Try and get these booked as soon as you can to avoid disappointment.

Regarding your photographer, always spend as much on photography as your budget will allow. It’s one of the only things from your wedding you will be able

to keep forever and be your lasting memory. Unless they are a professional, DON’T get a friend to do your photography. It could be a disaster and you don’t want to risk a friendship in the process.

When looking for suppliers, ask your recently married friends for their recommendations. Also ask other suppliers for people they have worked with and would recommend. Finally, a cheeky sixth suggestion from me, don’t forget to plan your First Dance lessons. Everyone should dance on their Big Day and a special dance can create a lovely surprise for your family and friends. Why not step out in style? I can help create, with the happy couple, a dance that suits their personality, conﬁdence and dance ability. No previous dance skills are required, and lessons can be held locally or at a location of your choice.

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The Old Bull Inn

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The Ballroom is a stunning wood panelled room with orginal features, 2 large crystal chandeliers and original wooden ﬂoor. There is a small elevated stage area which is perfect for displaying a cake! The Oakroom is a more informal room with beams, an eclectic mix of 1940’s chairs and tables and an attractive bar. It is ideal for an evening reception. We have expertise in planning and delivering every event you can imagine. And we have a great team: passionate and friendly people to deliver everything you want. Our ethos is that we adapt to you – not you to us. We want you to have the best time and leave with the best memories. We can tailor your menu whether a sit down meal or buﬀet to suit

your taste and if you require a DJ we can put you in contact with one (we are happy for you to arrange your own, however they must have public liability insurance and be able to show this to us). We welcome you to come and view the space so you can see what will work best for you and discuss our wedding reception packages.

The Old Bull Inn 56 High Street Royston SG8 9AW 01763 242003 theoldbullinn.royston@gmail.com www.oldbullinn-royston.co.uk

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AFFORDABLE WEDDING RECEPTIONS FROM £999* *BASED ON 50 GUESTS MONDAY TO THURSDAY PACKAGE DETAILS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

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Coach House, Flint Cross Meet our Head Chef Fergie (alias Chris Jones) Fergie has become known at the Coach House for his passion in delivering quality, delicious food whether it’s for midday, evening meals or Sunday carvery.

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As he trained at the world famous Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Oxford with Raymond Blanc he can bring amazing Michelin starred foord at more affordable prices. His passion is for top quality seasonal locally sourced food. Fergie was born in Royston so knows the local area and wanted to bring his knowledge back to his roots. After leaving Melbourn Village College he started his training at Sheene Mill when it was owned by Stephen Saunders. It was Stephen who recognised his ability and put Fergie forward to train with Raymond Blanc. When he completed his training, Fergie returned to Sheene Mill before moving to The Fox in Willian where he took his first Head Chef’s position. He has since increased his knowledge in various areas including outside catering and weddings. He is

now delighting diners at the Coach House. Starting from scratch with a new kitchen (which was modernised to his requirements) he has made it a place to visit to enjoy quality affordable food.

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Wedding Fayre Coach House Hotel, Flint Cross SG8 7PN 19th February 11am - 3pm