Category Archives: Events

Introducing Well Dressed Tables Polycarbonate range – a stunning, practical option for outdoor drinking 

We are thrilled to introduce our brand-new Polycarbonate glassware range. A perfect blend of elegance and durability suitable for outdoor drinking. Our range boasts the look of stunning glassware, whilst maintaining the stain, break and chip resistance of Polycarbonate. 

Our Polycarbonate range offers a responsible alternative for outdoor drinking that does not resort to harmful single-use plastics. We are committed to helping you create a safe, stylish and sustainable drinking experience for your guests. 

Our Polycarbonate glassware range is available for hire now. http://www.welldressedtables.co.uk/products/Glassware_Hire/Polycarbonate_Range/

The Ashes at The KIA Oval

The scene is set for the 5th and final test match as this breathtaking Ashes series culminates at the KIA Oval later this week! 

We are providing all glasses, crockery and cutlery, ensuring a luxury experience for patrons in all hospitality areas.  

Open & Here for You

We hope you have been keeping safe and well over these past few weeks and months and had some time to relax over the Festive period.

There continue to be some more tough times ahead for all of us but we wanted to let you know that we’re here to help if there is anything you need. Well Dressed Tables is open for business should you have any hire requirements and we are delivering and collecting COVID19 safely.

Our teams, whilst reduced at present have gone through COVID19 safety training and we have taken the required steps following government guidelines to ensure our staff and you are safe and that we are able to deliver at the same level of exceptional service, very safely.

Please take a look at some of our emergency services which you may find helpful during this time here as well as a breakdown of all of the products and services we have available to you here.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if there is anything we can help with. Stay safe and well. Keep in touch, we’re just at the end of the phone on 020 8545 6000.

Best Wishes

The Team at Well Dressed Tables

 

 

Working Together to Stay Apart

 

We hope you have been keeping safe and well over these past few months.

There sure are some more tough times ahead for all of us but we wanted to let you know that we’re here to help if there is anything you need. Well Dressed Tables is open for business should you have any hire requirements and we are delivering and collecting COVID19 safely. This month our dish and glass washers have undergone a COVID19 service check and we’re delighted to have our certificate of cleanliness & hygiene from Winterhalter UK.

 

Our teams, whilst reduced at present have gone through COVID19 safety training and we have taken the required steps following government guidelines to ensure our staff and you are safe and that we are able to deliver at the same level of exceptional service, very safely.

Please take a look at some of our emergency services which you may find helpful during this time here as well as a breakdown of all of the products and services we have available to you here. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if there is anything we can help with.

Stay safe and well.

Best Wishes

The Team at Well Dressed Tables

020 8545 6000

Well Dressed Tables Shortlisted for Festival Supplier Awards 2020

Well Dressed Tables are excited to announce that we have been shortlisted for the prestigious Festival Supplier Awards 2020. We have been shortlisted in the Best backstage / VIP Supplier award category, for our work on Reading, Leeds, Latitude and Wireless Festivals.

The Festival Supplier Awards are now in their sixth year and were developed to recognise, reward and promote best practise in the outdoor event and festival sector.

Michelle Tayton, event director of the Festival Supplier Awards comments: “The quality of our shortlisted suppliers is outstanding, a welcome reminder of the excellence and professionalism that exists within the outdoor event and festival industry. We’re delighted that Well Dressed Tables has been recognised for its pursuit of excellence, given the tough competition in its field.”

With a focus on delivery, customer service and sustainable initiatives, the awards are judged by an esteemed panel of high profile industry experts. These include: Ben Robinson, From the Fields; Jon Hogan, Coventry City Council; Emma Reynolds Taylor, Library Productions; Suzy Griffiths, IMG; Alasdair Fowle, Co-op; Beckie Parsons, Judgeday; Harry Guthrie, HGEP; Ben Hardy, Richmond Event Management; Emily Muirhead, Vision Nine; Denis Dooley, New Forest Show; Frankie Tee, Enteetainment; Neil Levene, Brand Events; Becky Gundry, Festival Republic; Chris Johnson, Powerful thinking; Jon Drape, Engine No 4; Susan Lees, Culture Liverpool and Craig Greaves, CSG Events.

The award ceremony and gala dinner is eagerly anticipated and will be held at the Hurlingham Club on Thursday 30th January 2020.

‘Glastonbury – Design Highlights’

After a fallow year, we were thrilled to be back at Worthy Farm for what was THE BEST YEAR EVER! With more than 200,000 people over the 5 days with some of the Music industries finest and up and coming artists, it was a blast.

In preparation for what was going to be a scorching hot weekend, we picked out some of our finest furniture to match the design brief for the Artists dressing rooms and green rooms at The Pyramid and Other Stages. This year we were able to introduce some of our new collection to The Pyramid backstage areas with luxurious sumptuous soft touch sofas and bespoke made coffee tables with some rustic charm. We demonstrated the ultimate leap forward in design, luxury and comfort for this year’s event.

Contact us now to talk about how we can help make your next event look extra special. kelly@gldproductions.com

Aintree Grand National 2019

Arena was once again selected as structures and furniture supplier for another major race meeting hosted by The Jockey Club, The Grand National at Aintree from 4 to 6 April 2019.

Having worked closely with The Jockey Club for more than 35 years, Arena has provided a variety of structures, seating and furniture for the various events; Epsom Derby, Newmarket and The Festival at Cheltenham – so they are no strangers to the race day run of events and their exacting requirements.

As well as supplying and building the temporary structures for the three-day event, Arena has delivered temporary grandstands, staircases, viewing platforms and a range of furniture for the hospitality suites, food and beverage outlets, the parade ring, behind the scenes areas for owners and jockeys, and perhaps the most highly regarded section of all, the Queen Mother Stand.

The prestigious event attracts thousands of racegoers each year for racing, music, food, and entertainment, with millions more across the globe tuning in from home, so the pressure is always on for suppliers to get it right.

Chris Morris, recently appointed CEO for Arena UK & Europe, said: “The seating, structures, and furniture were delivered safely and on schedule which is crucial for such a long-running event with the Grand National entering its 172nd staging at Aintree this year.

“A key client benefit of working with Arena is having multiple event elements delivered and installed by one company, and with over 1,000 items of furniture alone, it demonstrates the sheer scale and magnitude of this event. Teams working on site who get along and work well together can be the difference between a successful event and a complete disaster. Our clients are in safe hands with Arena, we have years of experience working on complex events across multiple product and service offerings and always deliver the Arena Standard unequivocally.”

Cheltenham Festival 2019

We were thrilled to support The Festival presented by Magners at Cheltenham for the 15th consecutive year. Guests at The Festival will join a quarter of a million others to catch the highlight of the Jump race season and enjoy undoubtedly one of the most popular racing events in the UK calendar, between March 12th and 15th 2019.

Arena’s triple-deck structure, the longest in the world at 180m long, was the focal point of The Festival, housing a sumptuous smorgasbord of course-side hospitality. The phenomenal structure will accommodate more than 25,000 hospitality guests across the four days.

The interiors, also delivered by Arena, have surpassed expectations this year. Customers had a fantastic choice of a variety of luxurious settings and stunning environments to suit every budget.

Arena also installed 1,000 Clearview, tiered, terraced seats in the Guinness Stand and 1,000 seats in the Best Mate Stand and the Head on Stand, ensuring festival goers don’t comprise on comfort when viewing the thrilling racing. Several viewing platforms and crucially, standby cover during the event complete the Arena seating offering.

Well Dressed Tables, Arena’s furniture hire and catering equipment hire company supplied over 15,000 covers of catering equipment across the site using some more quirky pieces for Chez Roux, Theatre Restaurant, Bentley and the new Horse & Groom Pub. This included new bespoke Marble plates, coloured Highgate water glasses and our eclectic range of gold cutlery.

Christopher Piggott, Managing Director of Well Dressed Tables, explains:

‘’We’re delighted to have supplied The Festival with a vast range of catering equipment and furniture across the site with a key focus on the Tented Village. Significant investment was made into bespoke new ranges including new furniture and bespoke pieces of catering equipment. Our team has done a fantastic job working together to deliver my favourite Cheltenham Festival of the last few years, many of the new areas have been real show stoppers’’.

Arena’s furniture hire specialists, Spaceworks provided a wide range of furniture across multiple areas of The Festival site, including The Jockey Club Chalet, Final Fence Restaurant, Chez Roux Boxes and the new Horse & Groom Pub. The array of furniture supplied from the company’s extensive inventory included Oak Cross Back Chairs and matching bespoke made Wooden Dining Tables, Spectra Dining Chairs, new Blenheim Soft Furnishings and more.experiences offered to VIP guests are truly memorable.

Our Fresh Approach To Brexit

With news that the government is considering stocking up on processed foods ‘just in case’ we crash out, we’re ready with over 200 cold rooms and dry stores available to hire with minimal notice to help you keep foods fresh and stored in the appropriate environment.

In the UK we only produce about half of what we eat and around 40% of our fresh produce comes from the EU. Key facts we may never have realised before now. Stockpiling may be the only sensible thing left to do!

The food industry including our contract caterers, event caterers and our favourite retailers are highly dependent on high quality European produce so don’t let your consumers be without their favourite spices, fresh fruit and veg, olive oils and more, the list is endless along with key medical supplies. It’s not just our retailers and favourite foodie establishments, it’s our pharmaceuticals too. Anything that puts a barrier in the flow of the distribution, could potentially increase costs and reduce the freshness of our much loved fresh produce. The vast amount of produce we bring into the UK requires temperature controlled storage.

With the impact of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit looming, why not be prepared with a contingency plan with a simple storage solution such as a temporary cold room or dry store, available for short term and long term hires. We have a 24 hour emergency call out team available and have multiple depots to service the UK’s requirements often within a matter of hours. Our largest cold rooms and dry stores can hold up to 30 pallets.

 

Don’t have a meltdown, contact us today to discuss our cold store solutions. You can reach us on 020 8545 6000 or drop us a line at sales@welldressedtables.co.uk