Sweet and Candy Cart Hire in Staffordshire

Sweets Cart offers traditional wooden carts or bespoke built Ferris wheel with remote controlled led lights. They can also provide so much more to make your day unforgettable, read on to find out what and also their advice for when hiring suppliers for your event.

What do you need to know from an organiser in order to provide a comprehensive quote?

At Sweets Cart we pride ourselves in getting everything right for the Special Day, this can be either sending out our booking form but we love to meet up with our couples and run through their Wedding Day plans. This makes sure that we get all the information about the Big Day but also even calling or messaging the week before to say "Everything is planned & see you soon" can make all the planning go well.

What advice would you give to a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?

When setting up Sweets Cart - before we even launched we made sure we had everything in place so couples knew they could depend on our services. We launched with one Sweet Cart but prior to that, we had a Hygiene Inspection - Registered with the Local Council - Public Liability - Equipment PAT Test - CRB (DBS) Check - so our customer could trust in us.

Having this in place can mean we may charge slightly more, but many of our competition or venue dressers don't go to the additional trouble to make sure this is in place. So booking and getting a Sweet Cart thrown in may look great & save money but many customers book based on the professional service we provide & quality but our packages that offer value for money.

Please tell us a little bit about how and why you started the business.

Honestly, do you really want to know...

Gemma was working part-time hours - Monday - Wednesday - Friday and Simon working full-time hours but had been working in the Wedding Market for over 11 years. Driving Wedding Cars - 1922 Rolls Royce - Hummer Limousines - Party Buses for many companies in Staffordshire. So looking at the services provided in Staffordshire & Cheshire and although many Venue Dressers Offered a Sweet Cart we felt we could offer a high service for customers. So we watched out for all custom made Sweet Carts and eventually one became available.

So we travelled to view and were so excited to buy our first Sweet Cart but arriving home we then found that it was that big it wouldn't fit through the door and spent the rest of the day asking family & friends if they had room. We eventually went to a local storage site and signed the dotted line at £75 per month to store it.

Please tell us about a booking you've had through Add to Event, how did it go? Would you recommend us to others?

We truly have found that being part of Add to Event has really made a difference to our business, for a small investment you can show the services you provide. Ultimately customers can choose the services that fit their budget but also many times we find that trusting the services we provide we are booked, now I'm a believer that always cheaper is best but in the wedding market the margins are very close to your competition.

So a business like ours for example with our Sweet Carts being bigger and able to cater for more people we have to book a van but our competition may be able to fit it in a car which reduces costs, we can not compete with this but offering the best products - choice - services & reviews that people can trust means a lot.

As our business has grown so has our profile and exposure on Add to Event and we tell all our supplier friends to join and be part of the presence it can give to a business small or large.