Destination Weddings in France We love our Weddings in France! We love being part of someones very special day. We love it even more when very talented people capture those moments and turn them into film... like this film from Mike Zwijgers (a very talented Dutch film maker!) Watch this fabulous film and you'll spot some Candies at 2:55
Fourth Booking! We have a feeling that tonight's party goers are Candy Fans. We played at their wedding several years ago... then they booked us for a special birthday party at their home near Bordeaux... then they booked us for a surprise 70th Birthday party for a close friend... and then they moved house and decided to book us for their house warming! If [...]
Friends Re-United at The Manoire If you were a group of friends wanting to arrange a re-union but you are all spread across the globe, where would you choose to hold a party? France of course! In this case the very beautiful Manoire Laurette in SW France, not far from Bordeaux. It's a fabulous building, lovingly restored and now serves as an up market [...]
HOT HOT HOT IN SW FRANCE The Candies headed back to the French region of The Lot today; for our third visit at the very beautiful Chateau Camp del Saltre and another Dutch couple recommended to us by Lot of Happiness. The weather has been crazy hot in France and as the evening progessed and the guests danced the night away, one [...]
Mountains, Weddings and Paola! Today's wedding was in the Pyrenees mountains not far from the south coast of France near Perpignan. We were joined today by our fabulous fourth Candy Paola. Singer/songwriter/pianist Paola Vera has been described as a ‘Jazz chick with hits’ (Richard Niles) and a ‘truly gifted improviser’ (Pete Churchill). Paola’s music blends her passion for jazz with a modern [...]
The Eden Project At the end of 2018 we were asked to provide the entertainment for the Brantome Police Horses Summer Ball. Brantome Police Horses is a very popular charity in the Dordogne and it's voted No.1 Visitor Attraction for the whole of the Dordogne (on Trip Advisor). They provide care for retired police horses that otherwise would have no home to go. [...]
HUGE 60th Birthday Party in the Dordogne We always love to work with new Event Planners and Venues so we were delighted to get a call from Larraine Bashford at Hideaways en France. Hideaways specialise in organising and creating luxury chateau weddings so we were very happy to be invited to work with them! Larraine was organising a very special birthday party. We would [...]
Wat was het een geweldig weekend! That translates as What a Great Weekend! A few years ago we performed at the wedding of a Dutch couple, who married in a fabulous chateau in the Lot region of France. They LOVED their wedding day so much that they decided to change their lives completely; they created a wedding planning company and moved to France [...]
It's no secret that The Candies LOVE a good wedding. Today's couple booked us from their home in Hong Kong and we made all of the arrangements via email. I was surprised when the groom joked... 'thank you for turning up' when we first met but it made me think what a HUGE leap of faith our clients take when they book us from [...]
More Parties, More Kind Words, More Fabulous Music in SW France When did we last catch up? We've been so busy we forget :D We've performed at a couple of weddings; our Fabulously Vintage champagne set and our Disco Diva Party, we spent an amazing day at a beautiful family wedding in the Charente, we've been back to Etang Vallier Resort... WOW! those folks [...]