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Matching up furniture with your corporate colours and branding can sometimes be a bit of a problem for the event hire industry.  However, our brand new contemporary dining table and bench sets address this issue, with different coloured painted accents being available upon request.  On our website, we have provided some popular colour choices from which you can choose, or you may have a particular colour that you are looking for, in which case do let us know and we can endeavour to match it up. These table and bench…[ read more...]

For professional caterers, jackstacks and platemates are common terms used in the industry.  Behind the scenes, these are vital pieces of catering equipment hire to help ensure the smooth running of a catering event. Jackstacks are those piece of equipment onto which multiple plates can be stacked, separated by bars or tray slots, so that plates of food can either be prepared in advance and stacked ready for service, or stacked as part of the clean-up operation afterwards, ready for washing.  Go behind the scenes at any large catering event and…[ read more...]

Today we are introducing our new hire cups and saucers, oversized tea cups and saucers to our speciality crockery hire range here online at Event Hire UK. The 16oz tea cup and matching saucer are made in white china and are the perfect item for themed events such as Alice in Wonderland, for example, and the Mad Hatter's tea party.  In reality, you will most likely use these 'tea cups' for starters for your catering event. These oversized tea cups are available in quantities to cater for most large scale events and so…[ read more...]

At large event hire companies such as Event Hire UK, it's always interesting to see the volumes of equipment that are available to hire, being as we always talk about big events and being able to service event planners nationwide. Successful event hire companies need to hold both a large range of equipment as well as holding large stocks of each of these different styles, being as items are constantly out on hire, and for large catering events, for example, items such as chairs, cutlery, plates and so on are…[ read more...]

Yesterday saw some of the logistics from our Bradford sales and distribution centre supplying and setting up event furniture at the Yorkshire Event Centre in Harrogate. Boasting 2 large halls of space, the Yorkshire Event Centre is perfect for all different types of events including exhibitions, conference, dinners, weddings and concerts to name just a few.  This particular event is a blue chip company conference into which Event Hire supplied 60 round 6ft banqueting tables, 480 charcoal banqueting chairs, 200 metal café chairs, 22 settees, coffee tables, poseur tables and…[ read more...]

If you’re an event planner looking to create an event with a difference, then our range of illuminated signs here at Event Hire UK may well be what you are looking for.  You might be a hotel wanting to promote weddings at your venue with a wedding fayre, or perhaps a marquee company wanting to attract more wedding bookings, for example.  Equipment such as our lit-up LOVE letters and our illuminated heart arch walkway are perfect for these sorts of occasions.  You can offer these to your brides and grooms…[ read more...]