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Harness & Co. have offices in London and Cambridgeshire for wedding and event planning. Harness & Co is headed up by award-winning event planner wedding awards judge, Vanessa Harness, who specialises in creating luxurious, bespoke wedding celebrations. The company offers a huge range of services and amazing packages to appeal various demands, event themes and personal styles. Harness & Co mainly concentrates their work within London, East Anglia; Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk but extends their services to Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and is ready to move further!

Experience

Vanessa is an experienced wedding planner, who is one of the leading planners in the UK, ever since she established her company in 2004. Vanessa has a wealth of experience from small intimate weddings to large scale multi day and luxury events which makes Vanessa one of the leading and most aspirational outdoor and luxury wedding planners in the UK today.

Vanessa has appeared as a leading wedding expert on BBC Radio, Sky Televsion GB News and Channel 5 along with being an expert writer for Magpie Weddings and an award sjudge and trainer for the National Celebrants Awards

Services offered

Harness & Co. offers all-encompassing high-quality, professional, customised services that covers the entire event, from start to finish, from initial consultation to wedding day. They plan all types of weddings, ranging from Civil ceremonies to venue receptions, with just 18 to more than 300 guests. The packages are offered for full and partial planning, and wedding day management. They also design special packages for destination weddings in the UK.

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Frequently asked questions

Size of weddings/events you organise:

Fewer than 100 guests
Between 100 and 300 guests
Between 300 and 500 guests
More than 500 guests

Services you offer:

Ceremonies
Venues
Technical equipment (sound, lighting, audiovisual...)
Wedding favours
Decoration
Stationery
Wedding invitations
Gift list
Music and entertainment
Car rental
Wedding photography and video
Guest styling
Styling for the couple
Hair and makeup
Wedding coordinator
Hen/stag parties
Caterers

What kind of ceremonies do you offer?

Civil partnership
Religious
Open-air
Symbolic
Themed
Eco-friendly
Humanist

Do you organise non-Christian religion weddings?

Yes

What type of weddings are you specialised in?

We are equally at home in a Luxury London Wedding Venue or an eco inspired wedding, with our experience and due to the extra complexities we have become renowned for being outdoor wedding specialists

How do you work?

Simply I work with you.. following a consultation to establish your exact needs, I work on your behalf making sure you get to experience the enjoyment of planning a wedding whilst I handle the detail

What are the forms of payment?

We accept BACS of course, we also accept all major forms of debit and credit card
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Kim Sent on 28/02/2019
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Stressfree planning with the best wedding planner!

Being from Australia, it was very daunting trying to organise a wedding in London, but from the very first contact with Vanessa we just knew she was the one to make our crazy dream wedding come true! Vanessa was always there when we had a question or wanted to Skype. She listened to what we wanted instead of trying to push a cookie cutter style wedding on to us. We loved every minute planning the wedding with Vanessa and it wasn't at all stressful. Highly recommend Vanessa and her team!
Fiona
Fiona Sent on 20/02/2019
5 out of 5 rating

Vanessa and Dom went above and beyond our expectations to make our wedding day perfect

Our wedding wouldn’t have been as perfect as it was without Rocks and Frocks managing our day. From the minute we decided to hire a wedding planner to help us with the day management of our wedding Vanessa took control and immediately put my mind at ease.

As we had an outdoor tipi wedding reception, we had a lot of separate suppliers coming to our venue, and Vanessa & Dom made us aware of the little yet important things that I hadn’t thought of before we had their help and took control, speaking with the suppliers in the weeks leading up to the wedding to ensure everything ran perfectly on the day.

I was ill on the week of our wedding day meaning that all the little touches that we’d spent so many months getting together wouldn’t have happened without Vanessa and Dom’s support. Rocks & Frocks went above and beyond what we expected from them and came to our rescue spending far more time making our venue look amazing than what we had originally planned.

The services we enlisted from Rocks & Frocks was the best money we spent on our wedding day and I would wholeheartedly recommend them to future bride & grooms.
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Meet the Team

Vanessa Harness
Vanessa Harness
Wedding Planner - Director

After a successful Project Management career in London, I went on to transfer my skill set and entered the world of live event production planning by joining a Production company working on worldwide events for both corporate and private clients.

I soon realised that my passion lay with weddings and in 2004 RandFWeddings was born; over the last 15 years I have had the enormous privilege of planning a variety of weddings from the small and intimate to large, extravagant weddings and more lately embracing the trend for festival style weddings held over several days. It is simply infectious sharing in the joy of a couple’s wedding day and seeing everyone’s delight as they progress through the various stages of the day.

Each one of our weddings is unique and planned using the same careful, meticulous attention to detail and personal, caring service. We are proud that we are still friends with many of our former clients and have since gone on to plan or share further life events with them.

We are proud members of the NAWP – the National Association of Wedding Professionals; promoting professionalism and integrity within the UK Wedding industry. We are also an official Rock My Wedding supplier. In addition, we support the amazing The Wedding Wishing Well Foundation – a charity that organises weddings for men and women in the UK living with life limiting conditions or terminal illnesses who long to marry their special partner in life.

When not working on weddings I can be found at home in our cottage in the Cambridgeshire countryside on the border with Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire fussing over our two cats ‘Sprocket’ and ‘Flossie’. I can also be found enjoying hill walking and outside adventures.

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86 - 90 Paul Street EC2 4NE City of London (East Central London)

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