MEET THE GANG
SALLY LAMPSHADES
Ruler of the universe. Sally is equally at home with a spreadsheets as she is roasting a million peppers, scooping ice-cream or arranging flowers. She has revolutionised our office world, created client portals (!) & sorted our accounts. If you are getting married with Petal & Feast meet your new best friend, and what a best friend to have. Sally is always kind, smiley, reliable & generally lovely. When she has five minutes, (winter!) she paints and draws.
Amber
Equal parts Petal and Feast – Amber heads up the Flower Field with Hannah in the week, & the food & flowers come the wedding. Often seen with a wheel barrow & pruning saw, or crate of Herritage Tomatoes, Amber can whip up a flower chandelier or gallette faster than you can say canapes. Amber is our in house ex-vegan, has useful long arms and is a great holiday cheerleader.
sophie
Sophie, Sophie, Sophie… Monday to Friday Sophie works for Fat Face, designing menswear, come Saturday she becomes a veritable wedding fairy, one minute she’ll be serving you a canape, the next she will be in hysterics with Sally, wheeling about the ice- cream bike. A sunny smile on her face and a hit with everyone, we are so lucky to have her in the gang.
CHARLIE
has been here forever. Since then her spatial awareness has improved greatly and she now knows more than 3 cakes fit in her car. Charlie wins the Long distance Clara Award for dedication to the Petal & Feast Cause, travelling all the way from Devon for a bit of wedding action. She is capable & doesn’t faff around, having Charlie s like having the wedding SAS. She even swims in really cold water without flinching. An excellent member of the gang and always up for a Petal & Feast jolly.
kathleen
When at home, we think of Kathleen making pavlovas in her beautiful kitchen, sleeping on a cloud, maybe stopping to smell a rose at her door, whilst carrying round her two baby bunnies in an arty wafty linen apron pocket, but when she arrives at the barn door, Kathleen Is Wedding Woman. There is no perceivable spinning-round-in-a-phone-box moment; but cool, calm, collected and conscientious, there is something so reassuring about Kathleen donning her pinny and briefing her charges on the Event Plan. We love her and are so pleased she is here!
hannah
The loveliest gang leader around. We all absolutely love Hannah – there is a reason the Petal & Feast Crew come from far and wide to do a wedding. She is brilliant at making everything gorgeous, delicious and fun, and can whip up a good time out of anything. Just the person you need to make all your wedding dreams come true. Unflappable in the face of making a flower arch magically stick to the side of a church with just a twist of wire and some cable ties, or cooking a banquet from scratch for a hundred. Other talents include casually growing a field full of flowers, leaving all her car doors wide open, and holidays. She is also very easy to make jump. There’s nobody we would rather wash up a thousand plates with on a weekly basis.
OUR FABULOUS SUMMER CREW & brilliant helpers
We have a great gang of bright sparky young folk. Come May, June, when the sun is shining and the universities and colleges start empty out, our lovely Summer Crew arrive. Brilliant, funny smiley folk whizzing about with Canapes, serving drinks, clearing up, chopping this, grating that, washing up, mopping up, moving a million chairs – they are all so handy. We love hearing all about what they have been up to the night before and the ins and outs of who is with who, where they are living, where they are going. They love finishing Eton Mess. Studying all sorts of interesting things, Film, History of Art, Music, Nursing, Architecture…. They’re great to hang out with – we love them all, and you will too.
johnny & luna
A long, long time ago Johnny was sitting in his kitchen, minding his own business when, “Rat-a-tat-tat! at the kitchen door…” Hannah and her Mum turned up to ask if she could have her wedding there… Fast forward nearly 20 years (this can’t be right, surely?) and they are firm friends. The Secret Barn is the site of a whole lot of Petal and Feast shenanigans. Johnny has been dragged in to it too (not too unwillingly). Luna, Johnny’s dog, is always by his side – or just a few paces ahead and acts as Johnny’s herald. If you see her you know he isn’t far away. Johnny is fun, generous, foody and hilarious, he loves art, lunch, and travel.
andy And a CAST OF other UNSUSPECTING people.
Special mention has to go to Andy. Just like those things you see on instagram, Hannah started a flower field and now Andy (her husband) has a job he never asked for and doesn’t get paid for! Lucky him. He makes flower supports, builds things – most recently ‘the dahlia house’, mows, feeds chickens he didn’t think we should get and lots and lots of other things. There’s a cast of others who pop up here and there. Colin deserves and special mention for his can-do ‘whizzing up’ of things, like a second roof on our kitchen or whole new barn, Jonah for being our lovely builder and Paul for making pretty wooden structures and fitting right in.
We like each other so much – we even go on holiday together, just for fun.
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Our wonderfully sporadic newsletter – keep up to date with workshops, supper clubs, seasonal recipes, what’s growing at the flower field (and what’s not), the general comings and goings of life at Petal & Feast.
