Manor House Music String Quartet Weblog

Wedding at the Grove, Hertfordshire

On a Saturday in May we played for an evening wedding breakfast at The Grove Hotel on the outskirts of Watford. As the event started at 5pm we were able to comfortably travel up from our earlier wedding in Surrey. We set up on the dance floor in front of the top table and despite the [...]

Wedding at the Barbican Centre

Although all the members of the string quartet have played many times in the Barbican Hall as part of orchestral concerts, this time we were booked as a group to perform at a wedding in the Conservatory on the third level. It is a large area containing lots of tropical foliage and has an airy [...]

Wedding at Queens College, Oxford

Last Saturday the wedding string quartet was engaged to play for a wedding reception held at Queens College in Oxford. /It was a particularly special day as the bridal couple had requested four arrangements to be prepared especially for the day and many hours of work had been involved to achieve this. We began playing [...]