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N° 07 — Grand Fête · Claret & Brass
Grand Fête
Chandeliers, a full band, and a dance floor that runs the night.
Plate · Folio N° 07 · Grand Fête
The World
The night is the design — build the room to hold it past midnight.
Ballrooms, grand halls, full-floor venues — rooms with chandeliers and a license to go past midnight. A guitarist through cocktails, a full band between courses, a second set after midnight, and a room that's still going past one. The long table, the brown spirit, the last loud hour. The band is hired to read the room, not run it. Grand Fête is for the couple who know the night is the design — and who build the room to hold it, not to end at eleven.
The Folio — ContentsThe Collector's Edition
The whole night, on the record.
i.The Look The world in plates — chandeliers, blossom and brass, the long table, and a floor that fills and never empties.
ii.The Logic Why this wedding works: the night built to hold itself past midnight, the band leading from the music.
iii.The Budget Where the money goes first, what it buys, and what keeps the floor full to the last set.
iv.The Vendor Direction The briefs — the band, the bar, the venue — in the language late-night vendors answer to.
v.The Hour-by-Hour The whole night, timed — cocktails to the first set, the second set past midnight, the room still going past one.
Plate · The Entrance
Plate · Past Midnight
The Planning CompanionBuilt to plan against
The architecture, in your hands.
i.The Budget Logic The framework that keeps every spending decision answerable.
ii.The Vendor Briefs One per vendor — the band, the bar, the venue — ready to send.
iii.The Timing The working timeline, from booking order to the hour the second set begins.
iv.The Refusals What this wedding says no to — so you never re-argue it. Nothing that ends the night at eleven.
v.The Decisions The calls that bring the night to life, in the order they need making.