Surrey, UK
Event Management, Event Production, Experiential Marketing
150 Guests
10 Acres
4 Foodstalls
I only have one word to describe the night - stunning.
It was everything I imagined and more. You helped transform the garden into a magical wonderland, people were immediately blown away as soon as they walked through entrance.
The Brief
Our client’s daughter, approached MGN Events, to plan her Dad’s 60th birthday, in their garden at their home in Surrey. She had a desire to create a fun fair and festival theme for 150 party guests, dressed in black tie. The party had to include great food, lots of entertainment, and to really bring their stunning large garden to life!
The Solution
After visiting our clients stunning house & gardens, we instantly became excited for this project! Their unusual shaped house set the tone for creating a party that really brought to life their garden. They were blessed with a beautiful, enormous tree in the middle of their garden and a mini ampi theatre behind. The vision was to make the tree the focal point of the party design. Our production team used high powered wash lights to allow the tree to change colour continuously throughout the party (it even strobed during the bands performance!).
Guests arrived through the black carpet entrance with a glass of champagne, greeted by stilt walkers, and guided by a gentle mix of storm lanterns and cool candles. Festoon lighting provided the perimeter lighting of the grounds, and aimed to guide guests to the various points of interest of the garden!
Our client really wanted to show off his entire garden and encourage guests to explore! We positioned various entertainment, food and drink around the gardens along with two chill out areas underneath small trees, complete with hay bale sofa’s!
Our creative event team had put a lot of thought into carefully planning and designing the event with many thoughtful design touches to take guests on a journey of exploration.
Guests were treated to a choice of three delicious festival street food stalls: The Tex Mex BBQ with 100% pure beef Tex Mex cheese burgers, smokey BBQ chicken Fajitas, skewered free range chicken thighs, and Mexican grilled corn with seeded Brioche buns and farmhouse butter salad and Mexican three-bean salad. Secondly, a Low n Slow smoked pulled pork shoulder BBQ with tangy barbecue sauce on the side and toasted ciabatta baps with farmhouse butter salad and crunchy cabbage slaw. For fish lovers guests were offered maple-infused Atlantic salmon cooked on a cedar plank, with creamy new potato salad with lemon & chives.
The perfect ending was found in the form of a sweet stall serving the ultimate fruit salad with a pineapple mint syrup, cookies-and-cream fudge Brownies with chocolate sauce, traditional toffee apples and marshmallows on a stick. All in keeping with the festival theme and a great way to get the evening party started!
I just wanted to say a massive thank you for helping me plan my dad’s 60th.
It was the attention to detail and the beautiful lighting set up that really added that special touch to the night.
What started off with a few bullet points I’d scribbled on a note pad, became a sparkling adults playground that took your breath away, thanks to you.
As darkness fell, the event took on a whole new vibe thanks to our talented production team who had carefully designed the lighting scheme with a mix of Festoon, LED, Lanterns, Outdoor Lighting and Wash Lights, all supplied by a Generator with many many power leads. This was all worth it to see the garden take on a whole new look for the evening party.
A full list of our 60th party planning services:
Stretch tent open marquee
Classic funfair game stalls
Festival themed decor (bunting, festival flags, umbrellas, hay bales)
Live band
Roaming entertainment (Stilt walkers, fire breathers)
Festival Furniture (Hay bales, tables & deck chairs)
Party Planning
Party Design
Complete Production Management
Power
I wouldn’t think twice about working with anyone else on future events.
