Fine Wine For Weddings
Love & Lord have joined forces with Wine Chap Tom Harrow to create the perfect drinks lists for romantic celebrations.
By Estella Shardlow on Tuesday 7th February, 2012
The bespoke wedding specialists unveiled their new Wine Service at the Langham hotel, London last evening.
In teaming up with Wine Chap, Love & Lord now offer tailored wine selections for a host of romantic events - including pre-wedding family tastings, sophisticated hen and stag parties, Valentine’s suppers, as well as wedding receptions.
Exquisite bridal dresses created by The State of Grace were displayed in the Langham's Infinity Suite and paired with complimentary wines. A demure bias cut silk crepe dress found its perfect partner in the clean, crisp vanilla notes of a Ruinart Blanc de Blancs Champagne, while a cheekier number like the 'Dolce Vita' dress, featuring a sculpted plunge-front corset and shorter bustle skirt, fitted with a Vesevo Fiano d'Avellino's tropical fruits and floral nose.
For the show-stopping 'Goddess' dress - a backless silk satin gown befitting of a 30s Hollywood screen siren - it could be none other then the velvety, complex La Giaratta Valpolicella Classico 'I Quadretti' with its explosive kirsch and currant flavours. Love & Lord's creative director, Lucia Silver, revealed that the dress was one of four costume changes that one of their brides carried out, and at this particular wedding La Giaratta was enjoyed by guests seated around a pool filled with vintage-styled synchronised swimmers and serenaded by opera singers as choreographed fireworks went off overhead!
Since their launch in 1999, Love & Lord have planned a host of luxurious, tailor-made wedding events at venues such as the Ferragamo family’s medieval Tuscan Estate to Cap Estel in the heart of the Côte d’Azur, not to mention a clifftop wedding ceremony costing in excess of £1m for a Russian oligarch's daughter.
The new service offers tips on securing the best value wine selections that look and taste the part, but are affordable for large events, plus help devising the perfect menu to match your wine list.
There's also the option of tailoring the wine list to the location of an event - how about the finest Prosecco and vintage Barolo for an Italian wedding, or a sweet sherry and Rioja for a ceremony in Spain?
The launch comes in the same week as Vintage Seekers unveils its unique new 'Shop by Celebration' service, an easy way of shopping our range of wine, Champagne and spirits for specific vintages to match whatever milestone occasions are coming your way. Find out more in VS Wine.
For more information about Love & Lord's service visit www.loveandlord.com/news
