{"id":185,"date":"2010-08-23T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T11:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ardetonquartet.co.uk\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:58:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T11:58:10","slug":"quartet-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ardetonquartet.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/08\/23\/quartet-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Quartet Wedding!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53324995@N08\/4919832376\/\" title=\"Sarah and Dury Wedding by ardeton string quartet blog, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4114\/4919832376_696f61af66.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"Sarah and Dury Wedding\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m sure all of our previous clients will know, Sarah and I have been a couple for longer than this quartet has been together, and as the quartet comes towards celebrating a decade of providing music for weddings, that&#8217;s quite a long time. We met at the University of Birmingham, where we were both studying music.<\/p>\n<p>The Ardeton Quartet had an unusually quiet opening to August this year, as Sarah and I were married at the one of our favourite venues to play &#8211; The Great Tythe Barn in Tetbury, after a wedding ceremony at St Johns in Chipping Sodbury. We had an absolutely fantastic day, but we&#8217;re not telling anyone what our music choices were &#8211; we like to stay impartial during music consultations!<\/p>\n<p>However, we would like to say thank you and give a big recommendation to: <a title=\"The Great Tythe Barn Wedding Venue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gtb.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Tythe Barn<\/a> &#8211; who were as always fantastically professional and accomodating; and to <a title=\"Eileen Johanna - Wedding Entertainment in Gloucestershire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eileenjohanna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eilieen Johanna<\/a> and her band who provided the perfect backdrop to our meal; and <a title=\"Wedding Band in Bristol, Bath and Gloucestershire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themoonloungers.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Moon Loungers<\/a> who kept us singing and dancing into the night and reminded us very much of ourselves as they had as much fun as the guests getting on with the music!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as I said in my speech(!), it&#8217;s a great pleasure to spend every weekend playing opposite my best friend in the quartet for weddings and events, and now I can say &#8216;my wife&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>Dury<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53324995@N08\/4919233025\/\" title=\"Sarah and Dury Wedding on bus by ardeton string quartet blog, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4079\/4919233025_cfab7eae6b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"Sarah and Dury Wedding on bus\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53324995@N08\/4919832204\/\" title=\"Sarah and Dury Wedding Service by ardeton string quartet blog, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4141\/4919832204_f92617f835.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"Sarah and Dury Wedding Service\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sure all of our previous clients will know, Sarah and I have been a couple for longer than this quartet has been together, and as the quartet comes towards celebrating a decade of providing music for weddings, that&#8217;s quite a long time. 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