Manor House Music String Quartet Weblog

Wedding at Chartridge Conference Centre

Sunday was a beautiful June day and we returned to the Chartridge Conference Centre (just outside Chesham) as a string duo to perform at a wedding. The conference centre is set inside 25 acres of beautiful countryside and hosts many corporate hospitality events as well as conferences, birthday parties, anniversaries and weddings. The venue is [...]

Returning to Waddesdon Old Dairy

On Saturday, we returned yet again to the Old Dairy at Waddesdon in Buckinghamshire. As this is probably one of our most local venues, just a few miles from home, we always enjoy playing there. The quartet were set up in a bay window area that acted as the aisle for the bride who approached [...]

Wedding at Hedsor House

Hedsor house is an impressive Tudor building near Taplow in South Buckinghamshire and on Saturday the string quartet were booked to play for a wedding there. The venue has a stunning central hall with a circular gallery which is ideal for a string quartet to project music from. Before the wedding, we played a selection [...]

Wedding at Notley Abbey

It’s always a delight to return to the spacious and splendid grounds of Notley Abbey which is a wedding venue right on our doorstep here in Buckinghamshire. Notley has a long and distinguished history and everything has an understated and tasteful quality about it.
We have played here both as a duo and quartet many times [...]

Weddings at Horwood House and RAF Halton

This Saturday we were pleased to be asked back to play for another wedding at Horwood House  in Little Horwood, near to Milton Keynes. Although the main house was only built in 1911, it has the feeling of Edwardian splendour and has a sizeable modern extension which is used for the wedding ceremonies and receptions.
After [...]

A busy bank holiday weekend….and a day in the life of a string quartet

It’s been a busy bank holiday weekend for us with three weddings, one was a wedding at Loseley Park near Guildford, the second wedding was at the Elvetham in Hampshire and a third (much nearer to home), was a wedding at Stowe House in Buckinghamshire.
All three had unique requests and in the case of the first two, [...]