vw campervan

Time for VW hibernation!

December 3, 2014 by Jo Gosling

For Pear Tree Weddings it is nearly the end of the 2014 VW wedding season – we will review the year in full over the next few weeks, but for now it’s time to look forward to the next few days & the last few winter weddings.

Daphne, Flossy, Basil and Wilma (and Bruce!) are now all tucked up tightly in their garages & barns taking it easy for a few weeks and enjoying a well earned rest before we start the servicing, detailing and titivating the wedding campervans and beetle ready for the 2015 VW wedding season….in fact today we’ll be making new curtains for Daphne – so although weddings may be slowing, the work for us just changes…..from managing weddings to enhancing & loving our gorgeous show room condition wedding VW fleet!

Over the next few days Wilson and Morris will be attending three weddings, and then they too can have a well deserved break. (Although Wilson is having new flooring and curtains – so he wont rest for too long!).

So, other companies drive their VWs throughout the winter – why don’t we? Well here at Pear Tree Weddings we recognise that:

– The VWs dont have ABS brakes or power steering & with the potential of icy roads we just don’t think they’re safe enough for wedding passengers
– The VWs do not like salty roads – wet salty roads are the last thing these VWs need – salt can play havoc with the paint work & under side of the vans & beetle!
– The VWs don’t have the most efficient heating – we really don’t want a shivering bride on her big day!
– ………and most importantly for us – we want a couple of months to work on our award winning fleet to ensure they are in absolutely perfect condition for the 2015 wedding season.

Friday 13th….unlucky?

June 13, 2014 by Jo Gosling

So, we were sat in the office today thinking how odd it was that we had no weddings booked for today – the only Friday in the entire wedding season without a wedding….when some bright spark said “Well who would want to get married on Friday 13th?” Good point…….but that got us thinking about the bad luck and good luck superstitions that are associated with weddings.

Did you know for example finding a spider in your wedding dress is very good luck – so too is rain on your special day!

Wilson the classic VW campervan was at a wedding a few months ago with a chimney sweep….meant to be a sign of good fortune at the start of your marriage – why? Well, over 200 years ago a London chimney sweeper saved the life of King George III, the king then proclaimed all sweeps were good luck bearers – to ensure a long happy marriage a kiss from a chimney sweep on your wedding day is still believed to be the ultimate good luck.

As for the horseshoe that appears so often on a wedding day – well, it’s fair to say it is a symbol of luck – the origins of which are a little unsavoury, so for now just keep carrying those horseshoes, but don’t concern yourself too much with why!

BUT – stop press – the funniest superstition we found was “Having a cat eat out of your left shoe one week before the wedding is good luck” – oh, please let us know if you ever try this one out!!!

Basil, Morris and Wilson, a selection of our split screen campers are all out tomorrow….finger crossed we meet a chimney sweep!

ribbons & bows!

April 28, 2014 by Jo Gosling

The VWs love being part of your wedding, and they adore being a central part of your photographs…..and they always dress to impress, looking their best.

So occasionally we have a bride who says it doesn’t matter what colour ribbon they choose…..how wrong you can be! We thought we’d share some amazing pictures of the VWs who have all been dressed in coloured ribbons to coordinate with bridesmaids or bridal bouquets!

We have a range of about 14 basic colours for ribbons that can coordinate with the season or with the bridal party! If you would like another colour as long as it can be sourced as a ‘poly ribbon’ we are happy to dress the VW in an alternative colour. We charge extra for non-standard ribbon & bow colours, usually about £10….however if you are happy to spend some extra pennies on ribbon, why not have your own personalised ribbons, with the name of bride & groom and wedding date printed on….your choice of colours, your choice of print colour.

The personalised ribbon for the ‘V’ shape across the front will cost £10, which we tend to coordinate with plain bows. Alternatively you can purchase printed handmade bows – we require a set of 4 for each wedding (although we only use 3 it is wise to have a spare!) A set of handmade bows costs £35. All extra lengths of ribbon will be sent in the post to you after your wedding.

However…..if you don’t fancy colour…..then ivory or white can look stunningly classic!

And so Morris was born…….

March 21, 2014 by Jo Gosling

In the summer of 2012 Pear Tree Weddings, home of vintage and classic wedding VWs, decided it was time to completely restore a VW campervan! Having refurbished and tinkered with several other VW Campervans we thought that we should design our own, luxurious, sumptuous and rather stunning wedding camper….. we wanted to create the most beautiful bespoke wedding VW in the UK.

To start with we needed a completely blank canvas to work with, and hidden in a barn on Beaver Street, San Fernando, California was a totally original 1958 split screen bus. Having been hidden in the barn for 15 years the VW wasn’t going anywhere accept on the back of a lorry, then on a ferry over to the UK……which is when we first met & fell in love with our campervan, who would be the oldest bespoke wedding camper van in the UK!

Pear Tree Weddings already had the fabulous Wilson, a 1960 two tone cream split screen campervan….. so we decided Morris should be in the same colours to co-ordinate perfectly with Wilson. However inside we designed Morris to be a little more plush – with hand crafted, rounded, Champagne unit, a beautifully hand carved Champagne glasses shelf, tiny integral spot lights as well as sumptuous upholstery.

First things first though, Morris’s panels had to be completely hand beaten to ensure they were perfectly smooth, only one panel had to be replaced – and behind that panel the restoration team found a tin of American coins, as well as a distress flare!

By spring 2013 Morris was looking stunning, we had a party to celebrate his arrival, and brides & grooms who had him booked for their weddings came along to meet him! Morris has drawn a lot of attention since, featuring in several national magazine articles! Morris’s first wedding was in April 2013, and since then he has been an incredibly busy chap. And when you do get your day with him……. have a little look at the shelf behind the driver’s seat, you’ll find those American coins have been set in to the wood!

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