Luke Warm can offer a whole range of ideas for weddings and civil ceremonies. Working from photos before the big day he can help pop the question with a caricature mural! draw a caricature of the Bride and Groom for use on wedding stationery and if required in partnership with Glyn Archer Wedding Designs 01803 391217 produce unique, caricature based wedding stationery. draw a wedding caricature of the Bride and Groom as a memorable present for the couple or their parents. draw a caricature and arrange for it to be printed on tee shirts for Hen and Stag nights draw Place Setting Caricatures for the Wedding Breakfast - which also make highly original Wedding Favours! Often Luke is asked to draw place setting caricatures for the top table in advance and then entertain at the wedding on the day by drawing the other guests. create a caricature Guest Book for your guests to sign. Probably the best way to do this is for him to creat place name caricatures for you as above (for your guests to keep) and then scan them and have them professionally printed as a Guest Book (for you to keep!). Then on the day itself Luke Warm can entertain your guests with his 5 minute on the spot caricatures. In a typical performance of 2-3 hours he can draw 25-35 people. (The only time it doesn't work at a wedding is during the speeches - but he can usually entertain the children or take a pre-arranged break at this time.) As he's based in Devon, Luke Warm entertains mainly in the south west drawing caricatures at weddings in Devon (Exeter, Plymouth, Torquay, Paignton, Barnstaple, Tiverton, Newton Abbot, Tavistock), Cornwall (Bodmin, Truro, Camborne, Redruth, St. Austell, Falmouth, Penzance, Newquay), Somerset (Taunton, Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Yeovil, Bridgwater, Wells, Glastonbury), Wiltshire (Trowbridge, Salisbury, Swindon, Chippenham, Devizes, Marlborough, Warminster), and Dorset (Dorchester, Poole, Weymouth, Sherborne, Wimborne Minster, Shaftesbury). but he's happy to travel beyond the west country as required. Caricatures drawn from photos can also be given as memorable presents to the Best Man and Bridesmaids, as was this B&W drawing of the Groom and Best Man. And even if your already married, caricatures can make great wedding anniversary presents - and of course are perfect for that first 'Paper' anniversary! The best way to contact Luke Warm is by email as you'll get a considered and comprehensive written reply to your enquiry, usually within the same working day. If you include an address he can also send you a brochure. To email Luke Warm please click on info@CaricaturesByLukeWarm.co.uk For further contact details please click here.   Caricaturing for Weddings This is definitely where it's happening at the moment... Caricaturing on the spot at wedding receptions is the latest thing! Luke Warm has just won the Best Wedding Entertainment Award for the second year running at the 2010 West Country Wedding Awards! Thank you to all the couples from 2008 and 2009 who kindly voted and made this happen! Caricatures for Wedding Stationery As well as illustrating Save the Day cards, Invitations, Menus and Thank You notes, caricatures drawn from photos by Luke Warm have been used for personalised wine labels, balloons, banners... These days it's possible to print on almost anything! B&W is great for that classic, timeless look, while a bit of colour can make it all that bit more fun and funky. Luke Warm will do his best to include your shared passion - whether it's flying or karate! Tee-shirts can be great for hen and stag nights and mousemats and mugs can make unusual and useful wedding favours! A caricature of the Bride and Groom can even be printed onto edible film and used to decorate cakes! On the spot Caricaturing at Wedding Receptions Luke Warm usually starts drawing just as the guests arrive after the wedding ceremony and the first glass of champagne is being poured. From then until the start of the Wedding Breakfast family and close friends tend to be fully occupied with greetings and photos and he can help break the ice for other guests who may be less involved. The other popular time is between the Wedding Breakfast and the evening entertainment when he can keep the excitement levels up and the party bubbling. Working on the spot it takes him 5-6 minutes to draw each person and in a typical booking of 2.5 hours he would expect to draw 25-30 people and in 3 hours 30-35.  When he's drawing one person there are almost always 4 or 5 others watching and being entertained. He can work standing or sitting and can bring lights and banners to set up an informal caricature studio if required.   He often use a combination of these approaches initially working standing up and then later on moving to a seated caricature area he's set up earlier with lights and banners to draw couples and small groups. The only time that caricaturing really doesn't work at a wedding is during the speeches - he's too distracting! - though he's often been asked to entertain the children during this time. Summer Saturday's book up well in advance and a deposit is necessary to secure a booking. Can't Make the Wedding? You can still send a memorable present. This one was commissioned by a whole group of farming friends in Devon for a roving sheep shearer from New Zealand and sent over for his big day. Wedding Anniversaries You've had the big day and done the photos, so what better way to mark your first 'Paper' wedding anniversary than with a caricature of you both. It can even be drawn in your wedding clothes if you wish. Caricatures can also be the perfect present for couples who've been together that little bit longer - this one was drawn to celebrate a Ruby Wedding Anninversary.. ..while the one below was for a Silver Wedding Anniversary. Unusual ideas.. The 'Little Britain' drawing below was commissioned by a bridegroom for use in his wedding speech to help publicly settle the score from the stag night with his close friends.   The A2 drawing below was commissioned to celebrate a civil ceremony and spaces were intentionally designed into drawing itself for guests to sign on the day to make it even more a part of the event. 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