Personalised Vests For Hen Nights

Following on from our last product review about personalised hotpants what better could we talk about this week but personalised vests. Our black vest are the perfect match for our personalised hotpants and are great for a girls weekend away clubbing in Ibiza. But not only are they great for your holidays they are fab for a hen night.

You get to choose your font and the font colour you can have Neon Pink, Neon Green, Neon Yellow, Neon Orange, White, Gold Silver and many more colours in a range of fonts. The vests are available in sizes 8 to 16.

And soon you will get a greater choice of colours for the vests including pink and white.



Lake District Weddings Appleby & Cockermouth

Lake District Wedding Feature Appleby & Cockermouth

The first Lake District Wedding Wednesday is all about wedding food and the wedding food of the Lake District. The Lake District has some of the finest food suppliers around from the Hill Farms to the Lobster Fishermen of Maryport. Some of these great finds can be found on the Menus of the Trout Hotel Cockermouth. Which has superb grounds by the River Derwent for the wedding pictures and looks superb after it's post floods refit. Another fine Cumbrian wedding establishment is Appleby Manor which offers a wedding menu of classical dishes with a slight twist. But not to much of twist like some establishments offer up and down the country. It offers food that is local, memorable and most important of all tasty. Take a look at the Appleby Manor menu below.
Trio of Salmon: Gravadlax, Smoked and Beignet
Cream of Cauliflower Soup
Pressed Ham Hock Terrine with Grilled Pear and Pineapple Chutney
Twice Baked Wensleydale Cheese Souffle
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Pot Roast Brisket of Cumbrian Beef
Served with turned root vegetables, shallots, mustard mash and beef jus
Cod Fillet with Tomato Mousse
With pancetta mash, peas and braised baby gem lettuce
Breast of Goosnargh Chicken
With saute potatoes, cabbage & bacon and poultry jus
Tian of Aubergine & Courgette
Served with Welsh rarebit and confit onion
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Raspberry Brulee with Raspberry Sorbet
Bread and Butter Pudding
Caramelised Hazelnut Parfait with Passion Fruit Sorbet
Sticky Toffee Pudding with Toffee Sauce and Vanilla Ice-Cream
Selection of Local Cheese
(Cheese can be served as an alternative to dessert or as an extra course for 7.50 per person)
And an example from The Trout Hotel Cockermouth can be found at http://www.trouthotel.co.uk/media/1180/whatever_the_occasion_pack.pdf

Hen Night Willy Straws

Hen Party Willy straws are a great way to raise a giggle at a hen do or girls night out. The Willy it self can be removed washed and placed on new straws. You could look for Willy straws on ebay but some hen night retailers have had these listings removed by ebay. As ebay say they are offensive or is that ebay have no sense of humour. The straws are about the length of a standard drinking straw but have a little pink Willy attached to the end and are perfect for a last chance blow.

They are just one example of willy accessories for hen nights other accessories include a wind up willy, willy water pistol, willy chocolates, willy pasta and a willy wand.



Hen Party Product Review - Hen Night Hotpants

With so many hen night accessories and fancy dress costumes to choose from it's hard to decide what to take to the hen do these days. Why not take something personal and you can't get better than Hen Night Hotpants.

Funkyhen Hen Night Hotpants can be personalised on the back of the hotpants with any message you like, our last customer chose the words GUILTY!. We have a range of font types and colours available for your personalised hotpants. Our hotpants are available in sizes 8 to 14 and go great with our personalised vests.

Our hotpants aren't just for hen nights though they can be used as club wear, promotional wear or even work wear hoot hoot.



Hen Night On The Tube

It's Friday so it's time to have some hen night fun and choose our hen night Youtube clip of the week. It involves a blow up man, some sashes, tiaras a bride to be and a veil then to top it all off the London Underground.

Get Personalised For Your Next Hen Night

Get Personalised For Your Next Hen Night

Many hen night accessories exist in the shops for the Bride To Be and Bridesmaids but what about everyone else. What about the sister of the groom or even the ex wife of the groom (yes it has been requested). Well why not turn to the Internet to find your personalised accessories. Such accessories can include sashes, neon sashes and T-shirts. You can now also get bags, hoodies and vest tops. Best of all and new to the market this year personalised hotpants, which are great for a hen weekend in Ibiza.

Personalised hen night accessories are just a great way to help you all stand out from the crowd.

V.A.T Free Wedding Suppliers

Everyone planning a wedding or hen night likes to keep costs down without compromising on quality and selection. One way of doing this is looking for V.A.T free suppliers, some suppliers offer V.A.T free discounts and promotions. While other small business have a turnover below the V.A.T threshold so do not have to pay V.A.T or add it onto their prices.

It is doubtful you will find a wedding dress V.A.T free or a wedding venue. But you may find a favour supplier or an invite designer who offers a V.A.T free service. Hen night suppliers often offer their hen night accessories V.A.T free. Such items include personalised T-shirts, personalised sashes, flashing badges, tiaras, veils and hen party games. So when searching google it is well worth remembering keep an eye out for those smaller wedding suppliers you might just save yourself some money. You never know you could even find a V.A.T free honeymoon.

Discount Vouchers For Hen Nights

Not all of you will be using a company to arrange the hen weekend. So one of the best ways to get value for money is a voucher. You can get vouchers sent to you via post, printed off the Internet or simply voucher codes obtained via the Internet. Such sites as www.myvouchercodes.co.uk are a great way to saving money on the hen night.

Also sponsored adverts are another way of obtaining discounts. These discounts can be for restaurants such as Pizza Express, hotel rooms such Premier Inn, pub grub or even party accessories for the big weekend. You can even now get City Passes that will get you discounts in various establishments in a given city. Such cities that offer these are Liverpool, Manchester, London & Brighton.

So the sooner you start researching and tracking down vouchers the cheaper the hen weekend will be.

Winter Wedding Menu Ideas

Choosing a wedding menu can be a challenge you’ve got to pick something that is balanced and liked by all but helps your day be a lasting memory for the right reasons. Doing this in winter can be even more of a challenge the seasons are against you not only in food but also in temperature. Your guests are going to need some thing that is warm and hardy after those wedding pictures in sub zero temperatures (well this winter any way) But they are not going want to feel bloated after the meal either as this could spoil the rest of the night. The best way around it would be a light starter, heavier main and a light dessert to finish the wedding breakfast off.

Many wedding Venues are already going to have pre-arranged menus that the wedding planner can suggest to you. But you might want to suggest some menu ideas of your own. To start I would go for a winter seasonal soup such as Parsnip or Celeriac. You could go for the bog standard cream of veg but you always risk this being made up blended vegetable left overs. If soup isn’t your thing you could perhaps go for a smoked haddock or cheese soufflé.

The choice for main just screams roast meat and 3 veg to a lot of people when planning a wedding an easy options that most will like. But to me it just screams boring and no imagination and will not stick in any guests memory for very long. As at my wedding I would go for sausage and mash of a regional variety. Because that’s the great thing about sausage you can get the venue to source it from a local butcher or farm shop. The obvious regional varieties are Cumberland as served at Hundith Hill Cockermouth (and a dam fine Sausage it is to) or another that springs to mind in Lincolnshire. But you can also go slightly off piste and offer a trio of sausage flavours something I have seen done very well at The Fenns in Essex. You could also go even more off the sausage piste with varieties such as Duck & Crab.

If you are having a fish as a main course it may be worth considering dishes consisting of the more ethical fish such as Pollock as Cod and other main stream varieties continue to decline in stock levels. Served with a cream based butter sauce such as Lemon & Dill.

Moving onto dessert go for something lighter so stay away from things like Sticky Toffee and keep to things like Lemon Tarts. Myself I would choose a Vanilla Burnt Cambridge pudding. We could call this a Crème Brulee but why give it a French name when we invented it and you went to all that trouble of finding a local Sausage.

About the author.

www.funkyhen.com have been supplier’s fun hen night accessories and fancy dress for over 5 years.

What Is The Groom In Charge Of Suggestions Please?

While working away on my hen night accessories web site I have been thinking back to my own wedding 7 years ago or is that 8. What did I do, what did I contribute, I arranged some ushers, picked my best man and came up with loads of ideas.

But it leads me to ask the question just what is the groom in charge of?

I mean I had ideas about the wedding dress and the tiara, none of which was taken on board. I had ideas about what I should ware none of which happened, something to do with the colour scheme. I had ideas on venues, which got listened to. Most importantly as a catering manager at the time I had ideas about the food.

On asking my wife she informed me as the groom I was in charge of suggestions!

And for your info some of my wedding day suggestions did happen we had 12oz Cumberland Sausage curl for mains, Salmon with a lemon sauce as a fish course and a crème brulee for dessert.

So what do you all think the Groom should be in charge of suggestions?