Limo Broker recruiting vintage wedding car hire companies throughout the UK

February 8, 2011 By Trudi Johnson
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Calling all vintage wedding car hire companies! The UK’s leading provider of luxurious chauffeur driven transportation, Limo Broker, is looking for vintage wedding car hire providers to join its national network of wedding transport operators.

Whether you’re a sole trader with a single wedding car, an established company with 20-years experience in the industry and a fleet of 15 classic wedding cars, or if you’ve just launched your own company offering chauffeur driven vintage wedding cars, Limo Broker wants to hear from you.

By becoming a Limo Broker approved agent, you’ll be joining forces with one of the fastest growing transport organisations in the country. Limo Broker has an extremely high web presence with its news website, main site, and also over 200 micro-websites which are location specific.

Limo Broker is always looking for new ways to enhance its profile and attract new customers and one way strategy the company is using now is viral videos. These professionally shot videos target specific markets, such as wedding car hire, and help to showcase the services, cars and experience Limo Broker can provide through their top class agents.

Location is not a hurdle to becoming a Limo Broker agent as the company operates throughout and the UK and in parts of Ireland so whether you’re a wedding car hire chauffeur based in London or Edinburgh, Cardiff or Norfolk, Brighton or Birmingham, Chester or Inverness, Dublin or Newcastle, Manchester or Cornwall, there is an opening for you at Limo Broker.

Vintage car hire for weddings is a growing market and Limo Broker has reported a surge in enquiries for classic wedding car hire ahead of the peak wedding season. With many of their current agents already fully booked for peak wedding dates during May, June, July, August and September, Limo Broker is keen to recruit new operators as soon as possible to cope with the demand.

For more information on getting onboard with Limo Broker as a classic wedding car hire agent, get in touch today.

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Bride in tears as wedding car gets parking fine

February 8, 2011 By Carl Wheeler
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A bride from Dunstable was left in floods of tears on her wedding day after one of her wedding cars was slapped with a parking fine outside the local registry office.

The Black BMW wedding car had chauffeured a disabled family member to the ceremony and had a blue disabled badge parking permit on display at the time the ticket was issued, the bride claims.

39-year-old bride Rebecca Ridgway had even taken the time to check with the venue that it was acceptable to park the said wedding car outside, and was assured it was fine, as long as the blue disabled badge was clearly on display. But despite this, the wedding car was hit by a parking ticket as the bridal party waited outside the venue ahead of the ceremony.

As well as issuing the wedding car with a parking fine, bride-to-be Rebecca also alleges that the female traffic warden was “rude” and also “abusive” which the 39-year-old has detailed in her letter of complaint to the parking regulators and also the council.

The unpleasant incident marred what should have been the happiest day of this bride’s life as she described how her first words to groom Andrew Wilson were, “we’ve got a parking ticket” as she arrived at the ceremony for their wedding blessing.

The couple had married in a ceremony abroad a few months earlier, but the wedding blessing in Dunstable was supposed to be their celebration with their family and friends.

In their defence, the council say that vehicles parked in the area where the ticket was issued must display as parking permit as well as a blue disable badge. The matter is being investigated.

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Katherine Jenkins and Gethin Jones announce their engagement

February 7, 2011 By Carl Wheeler
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Katherine Jenkins and Gethin Jones have confirmed they are engaged, and are planning to tie the knot next year.

Former Blue Peter presenter, Gethin Jones, got down on bended knee at the end of the couple’s holiday on the Mexico coast last month. It’s been reported that the Cardiff born presenter surprised the opera star with a diamond engagement ring from Bond Street Jewellers Goode and Son, which the 30-year-old is said to be thrilled with.

The Welsh duo have been dating since 2007 when they met on the set of Strictly Come Dancing where Katherine was due to perform, and Gethin was appearing as a contestant on the show. The pair have been together ever since, buying a £4.7 million property together in London last year, prompting speculation that a wedding was in the pipeline.

Despite busy work schedules over the coming year, the couple are keen to get plans into action, with one source close to the pair saying the Katherine and Gethin are planning a “fun, wild wedding.”

With both the bride and groom hailing from South Wales, it’s likely the celebrity couple will opt for a Welsh venue for their big day in 2012. Both Katherine and Gethin are especially guarded about their relationship so any glossy magazine deals for their wedding are likely to be refused.

The 30-year-old opera singer took to Twitter today to confirm the news, and thank her fans for their messages of congratulations.

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Wedding Car hire firm specialising in London cabs doing big business in Oz

February 4, 2011 By Carl Wheeler
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A wedding car hire company in Australia is doing big business thanks to their very British unique selling point.

Steven Olsen and Brian Hickey having been running London Taxi Wedding Services in Warribee for the last 17 years, and during that time, they estimate they’ve chauffer driven 1,246 brides and grooms on their wedding days in their original London cabs.

The businessmen say the majority of their bookings come from couples who have some kind of a connection to London and want to feature the city in their big day. For some couples who may have met in London, have visited the city together, or one pair whom Steven recalls who actually met in a London cab, hiring such as vehicle for their wedding day transport makes perfect sense.

The wedding car hire company owns a total of 8 London cabs, which is especially impressive when you consider there’s only 38 original London cabs in Australia.

Novelty wedding cars are becoming increasing popular with couples tying the knot both in Australia and the UK with some wedding car hire providers such as Limo Broker reporting an increase in enquiries for unusual wedding cars. For more details on novelty wedding cars available to hire via Limo Broker, please visit their main website.

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Wedding car holds special memories for bride

January 5, 2011 By Carl Wheeler
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Nine college friends of a bride who tied the knot in Malaysia last month decided to create a very thoughtful wedding present for the 27-year-old on her big day.

Bride-to-be Li Xin-yi was completely blown away when her friends presented her with a wedding car which the group had personalised by covering it entirely in photos of the happy couple.

The friends all met eight years ago while studying at the Equator Academy of Art in Malaysia and have been a close-knit group ever since. When the 27-year-old revealed her plans to wed her long-term partner, 29-year-old Li Zheng-rong before Christmas, the group decided they wanted to commemorate the special occasion with a memorable gift.

The nine wedding guests stayed up until 3am on the morning of the wedding to put the final touches to the extra special wedding car. The Toyota Rav was transformed into a moving scrapbook after the friends got busy sticking photographs of the bride and groom over ever surface of the car. It’s estimated it took over 500 photographs to completely cover the car.

As well as the specially created picture wedding car, the bride’s father also hired two vintage wedding cars especially for the big day, both of which were over 70 years old and classic vehicles.

UK based limo hire company, Limo Broker, is currently offering special deals on both classic and modern wedding car hire for bookings in 2011 so get in touch to learn more. Unfortunately Limo Broker doesn’t currently offer a facility to decorate their wedding cars with personal snaps of the bride and groom!

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Limo Broker launches brand new highly optimised website

December 16, 2010 By Kate Owen
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Top name limousine hire company, Limo Broker, are celebrating this week following the successful launch of their brand new website.

Featuring state of the art search engine optimisation techniques, Limo Broker’s new main website is an extremely powerful marketing tool for the company as it ranks highly on all major search engine results list meaning it’s more likely to be seen by potential customers.

A selection of high quality images and also video clips showcasing some of Limo Broker’s most popular limousines and luxury cars has been uploaded onto the brand new website to help enhance customers’ experience of the site.

A range of new articles with helpful tips and advice has also been added to Limo Broker’s new website so as to aid customers in their quest to track down a great limo hire deal. With recommendations on the best limos to hire for school proms, weddings and hen and stag dos, and news on the latest limousines to join the Limo Broker fleet, the new site aims to provide potential customers with all the information they could possibly need to help with their enquiry.

Limo Broker is leading the way within the luxury transport industry in terms of its connection with social media, and so the new website has enhanced links to Limo Broker’s Twitter and Facebook pages. Those who become fans of Limo Broker on either of the social networks will be the first to hear about any last minute discounts and special offers on limo hire throughout the UK.

Check out the flashy new Limo Broker website with its new logo design and computer graphics and let us know what you think.

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Wedding limo carjacked in the US

November 8, 2010 By Dez Rowley
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Five terrified bridesmaid were forced to flee from their chauffeur driven limo over the weekend after a thief broke into the vehicle, attacking the driver, while the party were parked outside a church in Massachusetts.

It’s believed the thief was fleeing a nearby property which he’d broken into and was being pursued. In order to make his getaway he forced his way into the luxury wedding limo, smashing the passenger window with a hammer.

It was at this point that the five adult bridesmaids made a run for it as the robber and the chauffeur wrestled inside the limousine. The thief eventually got the better of the battling limo driver, and made away in the wedding car.

Despite the ordeal, the shaken bridesmaids managed to conceal their terror, and made their way down the aisle behind the bride as though nothing had happened. The bride and groom, Jillian Sherlock and Nikhil Pereira, exchanged their vows in blissful ignorance as no one let on about the carjacking drama for fear of putting a dampener on proceedings.

During the service the police arrived along with a replacement limousine for the bridesmaids. The police took witness statements from all of the bridal party after the wedding in an attempt to build up a picture of the opportunist thief.

The wedding limo was later found abandoned, however the wedding carjacker is still at large.

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Wedding car procession made up of diggers

November 2, 2010 By Trudi Johnson

One budget savvy groom from China had the brain wave of swapping an elegant procession of luxury wedding cars, for a fleet of decorated diggers to help save money on transport for his big day.

The groom, Zhang Zongqiang, works for a heavy machinery company so getting his hands on a procession of JCB diggers wasn’t a problem. The 35-year-old hoped the idea would save him and his wife-to-be money, and also ensure their wedding stood out from the crowd.

However the blushing bride, Ye Yuzi, wasn’t so convinced. With her heart set on a classy and sophisticated wedding car, Zhang’s digger idea was a million miles away from her dream wedding day transport.

Despite her reservations, her soon-to-be husband talked her round by promising their wedding would be especially memorable with the inclusion of the digger wedding procession.

The groom’s plan to create a show-stopping spectacle certainly worked, as the streets came to a standstill as the wedding procession of decorated diggers passed through. People stopped what they were doing to catch a glimpse of the happy couple as they passed by standing hand in hand in the bucket of the digger at the head of the procession.

Bride ye admitted she was “freezing” during her ride in the digger before adding, “it was all worth it.”

The newlyweds even handed out sweets to police officers along the wedding procession route to make amends for causing traffic build up with their unusual wedding day transportation.

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Bride ditches the wedding car and arrives onboard a yak

October 11, 2010 By Dez Rowley
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Yesterday was one of the biggest days of the year for weddings with thousands of couples across the world queuing up to get married on the special date of 10/10/10.

China saw more weddings on this date than any other part of the world as the number 10 is especially lucky in Chinese culture as it’s symbolic of completion and perfection.

One Chinese couple were determined to have a wedding to end all weddings on the lucky date and pulled out all the stops to create a big day to remember.

Instead of arriving at her wedding ceremony in the back of a luxurious chauffeur driven limo, the bride arrived on her special day in the Sichuan Province of China riding on the back of a white yak.

The extravagant wedding was thought to have cost 1.6 million Yuan, which works out as approximately £150,000, with the Yak being one of the most expensive items of the day as the animal had to be transported from a far off province of China especially for the ceremony.

It’s been reported that the couple paid 100,000 Yuan, about £9,500, to have the white long-haired bovine beast transported from Yunnan Province to the wedding venue in another part of the country.

The wedding yak certainly had the desired effect as the streets came to standstill as the bride made her way through the city to her wedding ceremony riding on top of the white wedding yak.

Despite the success of the wedding yak, the newlyweds also had a black Aston Martin on standby to make their getaway following the ceremony.

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Tractor serves as wedding car for couple’s cave wedding

October 6, 2010 By Trudi Johnson
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With a tractor for a wedding car and a bride in welling ton boots, there was nothing traditional about the wedding of Andy Taylor and Jaclyn Harbot who tied the knot in a cave in the Scottish Hebrides this week.

The couple, who got engaged in New York’s Central Park a year ago, came across the isolated cave on the Island of Rona while on holiday last year and were so overwhelmed by the location, they vowed to get married at the spot.

The venue for the big day was Cave Church, near the Isle of Skye, which is situated halfway down a steep cliff and only reachable by foot via a precarious muddy path. The remains of when the spot served as a church are still evident with pews, now replaced with boulders, lining the Cave Church area.

Given the unique wedding location many traditions went out of the window. The chauffeur driven Rolls Royce wedding car was dispensed with and replaced with a tractor and a boat, while the bride’s meringue dress was exchanged for something more practical which wouldn’t drag in the mud.

Only a handful of close family members attended the big day due to the unusual choice of venue. The wedding reception was held on the island’s only permanent residence.

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