Vintage Wedding Cars
What is the definition of the word vintage in relation to cars? A vintage car is commonly defined as a car built between the start of 1919 and the end of 1930. Edwardian cars were built from 1905 to 1919, prior to that the cars are known as veteran. The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run was first run in 1896 and is the longest running motoring event in the world and also the world’s largest gathering of veteran motor cars.
There are so many manufacturers, names you will never have heard of, from Abbott to Zil, except of course the ubiquitous Rolls Royce and Bentley. Vintage cars are usually extremely photogenic, come in a variety of colours and provide a lot of dress/leg room.
How do you find a good selection of wedding cars? The first move is simple. Type into your search engine just the words ‘wedding cars’ and you will be greeted with thousands of pages relating to wedding cars. Usually the first two pages will all be wedding car hire companies. Next quickly go through them to locate the companies covering your area, then go through their website and look at the photo albums or videos for each of their cars. If the site does not have albums or videos of the cars you will have to spend a lot of time visiting them to try and find the car you are looking for. Using the photo albums and the videos you can narrow down the choice to two or three cars. Although most companies will allow you to check their availability online, regrettably a lot of them are not kept up to date so look for the words ‘real time’ or similar when using the availability checker.
Now comes the important part. Make an appointment to view the cars you have chosen. When you get there don’t worry too much if the cars are not spick and span as any company worth its salt will clean and polish the cars the day before your great day.
Check with the company if they will let you have an option giving you time to make up your mind. Most will give you a seven day option.
Finally, check how much deposit is required; it can be anything from £50 up to half the total hire cost. If you are asked for half the cost or a very high deposit, make sure you will get the majority of it back if due to unforeseen circumstances you have to cancel. Also find out what papers you have to sign, and if you have decided on a car, collect a copy of the papers there and then or download them from their website.
Once you have found the car you are looking for the chances are it will be the only one of that make, model and colour available for hire so BOOK IT STRAIGHT AWAY, if you don’t you could be very upset!
Article by Wedding Transport Specialist David Jones
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