60th Summer birthday party at Home

For a 60th birthday at home, we turned a private garden into a full-scale fairground and festival site for the night. Dodgems and a Ferris wheel sat alongside bouncy castles and an ice cream van for the afternoon, while a military brass band played poolside as guests arrived in 60s and 70s fancy dress.

As the sun went down, a Beatles tribute act and an Elvis impersonator took over a marquee stage rigged with trussing, moving lights and a full PA, and a second marquee kept the dancing going long into the evening under pink and purple wash. We handled every part ourselves: event management, catering, sound, lighting, generators and power distribution across the whole site, so the family could spend the day as guests rather than organisers.

It's the kind of brief we like best, one garden, one night, a genuinely wide mix of entertainment brought together as one.