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
Margot Ellery and a small, steady team
A planner from hotel dining rooms, who still plans every wedding the way a good dinner is run: long preparation, few guests and no visible effort.
Most of the work happens months before anyone sees it.
From hotel dining rooms to small weddings
Margot learned her trade at the back of hotel dining rooms, watching how a good evening is built hours before the first guest arrives.
For eight years she ran private dinners, anniversaries and the occasional very small wedding for a country hotel. The best of those nights had something in common: a short guest list, a long preparation and a host who never looked busy.
She started Evermere to plan whole weddings that way. The studio is deliberately small. Margot leads every wedding herself, with one assistant planner and a steady team of coordinators who have worked side by side for years.
When she is not planning, she is usually at a flower market at six in the morning, or testing a new route between a ceremony and a dinner with a stopwatch in her pocket.
Margot Ellery
Founder and lead planner
Laying out a garland the evening before a barn wedding. Planner photographs are stock images in this template.
Four promises we keep
Written on the studio wall and repeated at every first call, so you know what to hold us to.
I
Small on purpose
We take a handful of weddings each season and never two on one weekend. The planner you meet is the planner you get.
II
Written down, always
Every meeting ends with a short note of what was decided. Nothing important lives only in someone's memory.
III
Your taste, not ours
We have opinions and share them when asked. The day should look like the two of you, not like our portfolio.
IV
Calm is a skill
Something always goes a little wrong. Our job is to fix it before anyone notices, and never to let you see us hurry.
A small, steady team
Three people plan, and two to four coordinators join on the day, depending on your guest count and venue. Sample team for this template.
ME
Margot Ellery
Founder and lead planner
Leads every wedding from the first call. Before Evermere: eight years of private dinners and small events in a country hotel.
IV
Iris Vane
Assistant planner
Design boards, stationery and the seating plan. Keeps the supplier list and the budget sheet honest.
TM
Theo Marsh
Lead day coordinator
Runs set-up, timings and pack-down. The calm voice on the radio and the person holding the spare umbrella.
Within a day's drive, and further for a weekend
Most of our weddings are within a few hours of the studio. For a small weekend away by the sea or in the hills, we travel too, with travel quoted at cost before you book.
Gardens and orchards
Spring to early autumn
Barns and old halls
All year, heated in winter
Coast and shoreline
Late spring to early autumn
Private dining rooms
All year
Town halls and chapels
For the ceremony, all year
Weekends away
Travel at cost
Tell us about the day you are imagining
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.
- 01 A first call of forty-five minutes, at no charge
- 02 A written proposal and fee within a week
- 03 Your date is held once the deposit is in