Full planning
Partial planning
Day-of coordination
Small weddings, twenty to eighty guests
Now booking next season
Gardens, barns, coasts and dining rooms
Full planning
Partial planning
Day-of coordination
Small weddings, twenty to eighty guests
Now booking next season
Gardens, barns, coasts and dining rooms
Full planning
Partial planning
Day-of coordination
Small weddings, twenty to eighty guests
Now booking next season
Gardens, barns, coasts and dining rooms
Full planning
Partial planning
Day-of coordination
Small weddings, twenty to eighty guests
Now booking next season
Gardens, barns, coasts and dining rooms
We plan, design and quietly run every detail of weddings for twenty to eighty guests, so that on the day you can simply be there.
How we shape a day, from the first call to the last dance.
Evermere is a small planning studio for small weddings. We take on a handful of couples each season and stay with each of them from the first call to the last song, so nothing is handed off and nothing is forgotten.
Most of our couples are planning for twenty to eighty guests: close family, the friends who matter, a long table rather than a ballroom. Small does not mean simple. It means every choice is seen up close.
We look after the parts that take the most time and worry: venues, suppliers, budgets, timings and the people on the day. You keep the parts that are yours: the promises, the music, the food you love.
Margot Ellery
Founder and lead planner
A quiet minute between the ceremony and the meal: the kind of moment we protect on every timeline.
From the first venue visit or only for the final weeks: every package is led by the same planner, priced up front and written down in plain words.
For couples who want one person beside them from the first venue visit to the final farewell. Around twelve months of planning, design and the whole day.
You have the venue and a few favourite suppliers. We fill the gaps, shape the design and take over the logistics from around six months out.
You have planned it yourselves. We step in eight weeks before, check every detail and run the day so you and your families can be guests.
Whichever way you plan with us, these come as standard. They are the details guests never notice, because they went right.
The person you meet on the first call is the person standing at the back of the room.
Shared with every supplier and both families two weeks before the wedding.
We call each one in the final fortnight: arrival times, access, parking and power.
We walk the day on site with you and the venue manager, room by room.
Written, priced and agreed months before anyone looks at a forecast.
A short written summary, so decisions never live only in someone's memory.
Pins, a steamer, a stain pen, plasters, spare ribbon and phone chargers.
On the day, guests, families and suppliers come to us, not to you.
A full-planning year, in six stops. Partial planning joins at six months and day-of coordination at eight weeks, with the same care at every step.
12 months
Budget, guest list, date and the short list of places worth seeing.
9 months
Venue, photographer, caterer and band signed and in the calendar.
6 months
Flowers, stationery, the table plan and a first walk of the day.
3 months
Menus tasted, hair and dress trials, the welcome note written.
1 month
Every supplier called, the run of day shared, the seating finished.
0 the day
We hold the clipboard, the timings and the umbrellas. You hold hands.
A meadow at golden hour, a walled garden in May, a supper on the sand. Five sample stories of how a day came together, told from the planner's side.
We have no venue partners and take no commission. We simply know which rooms, gardens and shorelines work for a small wedding, and which do not.
20 to 70 guests
Ceremonies under trees, supper on the lawn and a plan B under canvas that is just as lovely.
40 to 80 guests
Long tables, timber beams and string lights. We sort the power, the heating and the late-night taxis.
15 to 50 guests
Tides, permits and the wind all checked twice, so the only thing you feel is the sea air.
12 to 40 guests
A restaurant to yourselves for the evening: one menu, one room and a toast that everyone can hear.
The studio rule
If it can be decided in March, it should not be decided on the morning.
Margot Ellery spent her first working years running private dinners and small events for a country hotel. She started Evermere to plan weddings the way those dinners were run: few guests, long preparation and no visible effort on the night.
She leads every wedding herself, with one assistant planner and a small, steady team on the day.
Short, practical notes we wish every couple could read before they start: on guest lists, budgets, cakes and candles.
Past eighty, a wedding changes shape: a second room, a microphone, a receiving line. Here is what you gain by staying small.
Read in the journal
A plain-language breakdown of a small wedding budget, and the three lines couples most often underestimate.
Read in the journal
Open flame is the first thing a venue manager asks about. How we light a room warmly and still pass the fire check.
Read in the journal
Write a few lines: the season, roughly how many guests, a place you love or are still looking for. We reply within two working days with a time for a first call.
