We had a fantastic time playing for a Spitbank Fort Wedding Ceremony today. Olivia and William had booked us a while back, and we always love playing on Spitbank Fort. We were picked up by their friends in Old Portsmouth and went onboard the Mary Siobhan boat which took us over. We clambered onto the […]
We kicked off September with a lovely wedding at the intimate Taplins Place on Saturday. Taplins is a lovely garden that is part of a family home. There’s a cool little pagoda style summer house for wedding ceremonies, and a barn for the wedding breakfast. The garden is decorated with interesting trinkets and photo opportunities, […]
We had a fun day last week playing at Luke and Kirsty’s wedding at Aynhoe Park. Aynhoe Park, is a Grade I listed 17th-century country house rebuilt after the English Civil War on the southern edge of the stone-built village of Aynho, Northamptonshire, England. It overlooks the Cherwell valley that divides Northamptonshire from Oxfordshire It […]
We were delighted to be asked to return to the WarriorFest 2018 this year – a superb pirate and dinosaur themed beer festival onboard HMS Warrior. Organised by Staggeringly Good Beer, it’s a hedonistic night of beer, folk, eye patches and striped tops. We played last year and enjoyed the festive atmosphere, and this year […]
On Saturday we played at the wedding of Nick and Lawrence at the Moorhill House Hotel. We’d been booked to play during the outside ceremony in the gardens, where the marriage took place under a lovely white pagoda. The couple walked in accompanied by their mums, and the bridal party, and there was a lovely […]
We had a lovely time at the wedding of Charlotte and Dug in West Meon on Saturday. It was great to be the string quartet in West Meon for a day. The couple had picked us to play at their drinks reception. The reception was being held in a lovely house and garden, with fantastic […]
On Saturday we were back at the Old Thorns Hotel, Golf and Spa Resort for the wedding of Hannah and Karl. Just off the A3 near Liphook, we have played here many times before. We started off proceedings with coffees at the Starbucks attached. Ruth, Amy, Anna and Sophie. Starbucks nearly got all four names right! […]
We played on Saturday at the wedding of Chloe and Connor at the Elmers Court Hotel. Macdonald Elmers Court Hotel & Resort is located on the stunning Solent Coast, at the edge of the New Forest and lies within 23 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds. We were booked for the ceremony and drinks reception. We enjoyed playing […]
We were delighted to be asked by Naomi House to provide our string quartet music at their 21st Anniversary Party for Naomi House & Jacksplace. And what an achievement! Naomi House & Jacksplace hospices provide expert hospice care to more than 325 life-limited and life-threatened children, young people and their extended families from Hampshire, Wiltshire, […]
Last night we were out playing at a special dinner party. Stephen had got in touch with us just one week previously, asking whether he could have a string quartet hire for a dinner party. As it was for a Thursday evening we were happily able to fulfil this last minute request. Stephen explained that […]
On Saturday we braved the wet weather to play at the drinks reception of Nick and Nichola (the two Nicks!) at Dorset House School (Great Barn). The venue is one we’d not played at before so it was good to explore somewhere new. Dorset House School is a prep school in Pulborough. Dorset House is […]
We were happy to play for the Lyndhurst church wedding of Nakita and Ishmir at the St Michael’s and All Angels Church in Lyndhurst last Saturday. The weather was uncommonly hot for a bank holiday weekend, the couple were so lucky with their wedding day weather! We interviewed Nakita before her wedding and discovered […]
Hampshire string quartet The Bossard Quartet played at Lucy and Calvin’s wedding at the Lysses House Hotel on Friday. It was a lovely intimate wedding, with a high spirited atmosphere. Lucy and Calvin had booked us as they are big Oasis fans and loved our rendition of ‘Whatever’, a special song for them. The Lysses […]
We had an enjoyable day yesterday providing our string quartet at Buckler’s Hard for the wedding of Becky and Nick. The couple married at the Master Builder’s Hotel and picked Bastille’s Pompeii to walk down the aisle to – and they walked out to our new arrangement of Taylor Swift’s Shake it Off. We LOVED […]
The Bossard Quartet were booked to provide their string quartet at Stansted Park at the wedding of Ellie and Michael. Read about how this lovely couple picked something quite different, in the form of a folk fiddle processional from the house down to the chapel. We love playing our music for string quartet at Stansted […]
We were very pleased to be asked to play for the car showroom opening of the new Hyundai dealership in Southampton recently. Chris from Digital Incubator had been in touch to book us. He was organising a lovely event to celebrate the new showroom – fantastic entertainment from us, a celebrity guest in the form of […]
The Bossard String Quartet ventured into West Sussex to play for Daniel and Samantha’s wedding at Goodwood House on Saturday. Read about what they played, and an extra special wedding quiz with the bride and groom before their wedding. We braved the ice and slush to head over to Goodwood House for Daniel and […]
We love going to venues which are privately owned, where the owners have a vision, a passion and a standard of service which shines through above the rest. We are therefore delighted to introduce a new feature to our blog – the Featured Venue series. This is where we chat to different Hampshire Wedding venues about […]
Out with the old and in with the new! We are pleased to launch our new logo, and updated website for 2018. We have used our old logo for the last 10 years and it has served us well. But time for a new look. We opted for a black logo which represents our typical […]
We spent an enjoyable few hours at River Studios in Southampton recording some new string quartet recordings for our ‘listen’ page of our website last night. We arrived at the studios in the pouring rain, ran in and were greeted with hot steaming cups of tea. Perfect! We set up in the studio and did […]