The monsoon arrived nine days early. The pavilion earned its cost in a single evening.
It was a forty-guest wedding on the lawn in the last week of June, planned for a dry evening that did not arrive.
Nine days early
The rain started at four. By five the lawn was unusable and the family were, understandably, distraught.
The pavilion
We had built a covered pavilion the previous winter, largely on the argument that it would be useful perhaps twice a year. It was set, lit and dressed in ninety minutes, and the photographs are better for the weather.
What we changed
Every outdoor event now has a written wet-weather plan agreed at booking, with the pavilion held and the switch decided by four in the afternoon rather than by argument at six.
Forty guests, the pavilion, the lawn and a wet-weather plan written before you need it.
Runs every wedding and offsite on the estate, handles press and site visits, and lives four hundred metres down the road.
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We were guests at that wedding. Nobody minded the rain by the time the lamps were lit.