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Have you Considered A Horse Drawn Carriage for a Princess Bride at a Fairytale Wedding CastleSaying “I do” in a french wedding chateau is as fashionable as carrying the latest Gucci handbag for today’s Hollywood celebrity.Katie Price AKA Jordan apparently made it fashionable. French Wedding Horse and Carriage Some advice on selecting a horse and carriage for your castle wedding. - a pair of horses makes more of a wow statement. Also this offers you a back up if one of the horses at the last minute is lame and not able to pull the carriage. This is only a back up plan if the horses are big enough in the first place to pull the carriage singly. Ask the carriage providers if both horses work in pairs and drive singly as well.Enquire whether they have both single and pairs harnesses. - how big is the carriage.Will it hold you and your wedding dress comfortably. You do not want to be squished. Carriages for smaller horses are smaller inside as well. A carriage pulled by a pair of horses over 16 hand high is roomy and makes a great impression. You will not feel squeezed and your wedding dress will not get all crushed. - think about the weather. Does the carriage you are considering have a canopy or a glass cover. Victorian carriages and Landaus are popular for this very reason. - Ask how the carriage is going to be decorated - at the very least you should get a pair of brass lanterns and flowers. Do the horses wear plumes? Ask what colour schemes they can offer or if you can provide flowers of your colour scheme. Because of the movement and wind, companies usually use silk flowers. If you want additional colour real flowers can be added for your static photos. - Do the pair of horses match - colour, height, blaze and socks and stepping action. Two matching browns or black horses will look more impressive than a brown and a black. Ask to see a video if at all possible. Long white socks and blazes look stunning and are very popular. They look striking just like a french polish manicure. Ask if the horses mains will be braided or flowing. - If you are going to have a video think about the stepping action of the horses. Horses bred with some hackney blood have a lovely knee-high stepping action which looks incredible. It seems a shame to go to the expense of a horse and carriage and then not have a horse that looks the part - fine and elegant. The Dutch really know their carriage horses. It is a national past-time. They run the KWPN register of the most prestigous warmblood horses in the world. - Ask what attire the driver and groom (not your man - the one holding the horses) will wear. - Think about the distance that you need to travel. Horses do not go at 100 kilometres per hour and are limited on the distance that they can travel.You do not want to spend all of your wedding day travelling from your home to the church and then to the reception venue. Also if you are travelling a long distance any wind could play havoc with your hair if you have an open top carriage. - Think about safety. Unfortunately in some countries wedding carriage drivers are not regulated and you get some cowboys. Check that the harness looks symmetrical. I have seen wedding carriage business promotion material with a horse harnessed to a carriage with the shafts being set at different heights. How old are the horses? Check that they have insurance. Ask if the carriage has hydraulic breaks. Apparently it was Madonna (Skibo Castle in 2000) and Spice Girl Victoria Adams (Irish castle wedding in 1999) are credited with heightening interest in the trend with pomp and circumstance. However, a destination wedding at a luxury wedding castle attended by 30-40 people might run to $10,000-20,000 a day, not including airfare. At our french castle our horses and carriage are offered to our wedding clients with compliments for their fairytale wedding.
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