From the initial venue enquiry in February 2018, to the spectacular wedding celebration on a glorious sunshine-drenched day in Eastbourne in August 2019, the planning time span of Stephen & Lewis’s big day was the 18 months average but that is most definitely where ‘average’ disappeared.
The couple wanted the wedding of the year, an affair to be remembered by all their guests, and went about its planning in exquisite detail, element-by-element with the events team at The Grand Hotel Eastbourne.
With a beautiful Art Deco theme and their own monogram created, the S&L brand was born. The branding flowed seamlessly throughout the entire wedding journey from a bespoke aisle runner, table plan, seating cards, monogrammed mirror coasters and charger plates, wedding favours and more. After the Ceremony (held in The Princes Room) guests dressed top to toe in 1920’s attire, made their way to the balcony of the hotel’s Presidential Suite for confetti cannons and drone footage arranged by the production company West End Studios.
The Compton Room, the hotel’s original ballroom, with its feature pillars and intricate ceiling cornicing (dance floor, stage & bar too) hosted the wedding breakfast and evening celebrations, which was as glamorous as the morning. A menu of Smoked duck breast to start, slow-cooked Persian style lamb roulade followed by butterscotch pecan tarte, cheeses, coffee & petits fours were enjoyed with Champagne saucers, built into an impressive Champagne Tower by the Grand’s Conference & Banqueting Team. The evening entertainment was provided by a live band, Marilyn Monroe lookalike performance, showgirls, confetti canons, dry ice and a specially constructed moon shape poser chair. The perfect end to the perfect day.