1925 Rolls Royce Phantom I Cabriolet	This car is ref 232 in the Vintage Cars 1 section

An Introduction to Premier Carriage

by the Managing Director

Thank you for allowing us to introduce the UK’s leading wedding transport portfolio. Premier Carriage presents you with some of the most exclusive and professional wedding car services in Southern England covering Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, West Sussex, East Sussex, Surrey, Bristol, Avon and Berkshire specialising in the world’s most prestigious luxury vehicles, Rolls Royce and Bentley. With the largest collection of wedding transport in Southern England we are confident we will have vehicles to suit all tastes and budgets. Our collection includes 82 luxurious Bentley and Rolls Royce wedding cars and 148 other types of unique wedding transport, with many of these having been completely restored and refurbished both inside and out providing you with some of the highest quality pristine condition vehicles available for wedding hire in the UK, and all of our Vintage and Historic vehicles are genuine original vehicles, none are modern replicas.

In 1998 ‘Premier Carriage’ was introduced to the south with just one Rolls-Royce, but it soon became apparent the customer required more choice than just one car so being customer service focussed we purchased two more Rolls-Royce’s, a Bentley and a Jaguar and then welcomed other independent classic car enthusiast friends and colleagues to join us encouraging the very high standards and customer service skills that we expected for our clients. By providing the highest standard of professionalism, outstanding service, a large choice of quality vehicles at affordable prices and a strong belief that the customer must always come first, Premier Carriage began to grow.

As Managing Director of Premier Carriage and being no stranger to customer service I knew this was of paramount importance in a business, indeed since 1965 prior to forming the company a wealth of expertise and personal experience of the very highest service standards had been gained, having had regular and direct responsibility for the care and safety of the likes of Royalty, Presidents and Prime Ministers along with many major screen, stage and pop stars. When the ‘Premier Carriage’ company was formed those very high standards of service expected and delivered to the aristocracy and the famous were incorporated into the company as standard and so today, many years on, you are well placed to be treated like royalty yourself. If you see our wedding cars around town be prepared, for you may recognize a back seat passenger or two, as some of those very famous faces are now our clients.

Courtesy - Mark Ellam Photography

 

Our immaculately attired Fully Uniformed Chauffeurs are trained to exacting standards and will ensure you arrive at the ceremony in the graceful and relaxing manner that befits such an occasion. In attendance throughout they will offer you assistance entering and leaving the car providing the very highest standards of professionalism and personal service, supporting those Brides, and Fathers, who may feel a little nervous on this special day, to skilfully knowing when to be discreet and unobtrusive. A Wedding Chauffeur Service that is simply, second to none. 

 

Above all else we are proud that our exemplary standards, superlative personal service and attention to detail have gained us an enviable and respected reputation that others continually strive to imitate.  Premier Carriage is most privileged to have been asked to provide our services at all manner of ceremony venues, including two weddings at a famous stately home for the marriage of the nobility including a Countess, the cousin of The 6th Earl of Normanton, and the wedding of The Earl of Normanton’s eldest daughter Lady Portia which was filmed and shown in the BBC 2 television series ‘Country House’.  We are again privileged to have been asked to provide our services for the wedding in 2008 of The Earl’s 2nd daughter, Lady Marisa.   We retain impeccable references and complimentary letters from our former Brides & Grooms, their parents and well known personalities, and on our ‘References’ page you can view a selection of these.

 

For the journey from the ceremony venue to the reception your Chauffeur will assume the role of your Personal Butler and serve chilled French Champagne in elegant fine flute glasses for every Bride & Groom who may wish this service. The chilled Champagne Service can be requested at the time of reservation.

 

Courtesy - Mark Ellam Photography

In addition to the Platinum, Gold and Diamond Collections of luxurious Rolls Royce, Bentley and top quality Veteran and Vintage vehicles we also have one of the largest choices of other types of wedding transport for example, Horse Drawn Carriages, Vintage Taxis, Chauffeur Driven Luxury Vehicles, Classic Cars, Vintage Cars, Vintage and Classic Coaches, American Cars and Limousines, London Red Buses, Sports Cars and Motorbikes for the Groom and many other forms of unique wedding transport, in fact every kind imaginable. In reality if it moves, you will find it here !

 

Whatever the style of your wedding, whether a themed or period celebration, a low key affair or the grandest of stately occasions, we have the wedding transport that will help to make your day the very special occasion it is, and as our transport collection is continually expanding you may wish to bookmark this website for future reference.

For a variety of reasons a limit needs to be set as to the distance vehicles will travel from their base to a wedding itinerary area, therefore each vehicle’s page shows the maximum mileage from base that particular vehicle will travel to. To ensure all Brides have the opportunity of a superb vintage wedding car for their special day mileage restrictions have been relaxed on the superior veteran and vintage vehicles in the ‘Vintage Cars 2′ collection and these wedding cars can be transported anywhere throughout our southern region. In addition to wedding engagements all of the vehicles shown on this website are available for major film and television productions and you may well recognize some of them.

We pride ourselves on being a professional team of enthusiast owners and will always offer advice about the services we can provide should it be needed, we will of course be happy to cater for any special requirements you may desire. Our Q&A page contains the answers to many questions we have been asked over the years, however please do not hesitate to let us know if you have others you would like answered.

For those vehicles without reference numbers we have arranged for you to be able to contact our enthusiast owners direct and a contact link is provided on each vehicles page. Vehicles with Grey reference numbers will be handled directly by Premier Carriage.

We offer a personalised co-ordinating service so you will only need to deal with one person throughout. We will arrange the booking of the cars, receive the deposits and final balances at our own office, pay the owners for you, send you written confirmation, offer advice with ribbon colours and the timings and ensure the vehicle owners liase together to operate a seamless service, leaving you free to concentrate on other matters. Before the wedding day we will contact you with the final itinerary and if required make any last minute changes, for peace of mind we will also give you the mobile contact numbers for your chauffeurs.

Fair Price Guarantee - The wedding cars and chauffeur services shown on this website are priced fair and competitively, however in the unlikely event you find the same car type at a lower price elsewhere, let us know before you book and we will do our very best to see if we can match or beat that price. We would expect the wedding car you are making the comparison with, the hours included, back up facilities and levels of service provided to be to the same exacting high standards as we ourselves would provide.

 

Thank you once again for viewing the Premier Carriage website, we hope the information provided is helpful and trust you will find within this website the wedding transport to help make your most memorable day "the wedding of your dreams".

- Managing Director

 

The Wedding Car Service Includes

• Professional VIP service and assistance by gracious and experienced Fully Uniformed Chauffeurs.

• No further charge to drive Bridesmaids and Bride’s Mother to Church before the Bride if using the same car as the Bride. [Subject to mileage & journey time]

• Dress Rehearsal - We carry out journey checks, driving along the wedding route shortly before your wedding day to familiarize ourselves with the route ensuring an on time arrival on the day.

• We only book each car for one wedding a day, ensuring relaxed leisurely journeys and allowing plenty of time for your photographer to capture those memorable moments without being rushed.

• Ribbons & Bows for the vehicle/s provided in the colour of your choice.

• Elegant and lifelike highest quality silk Floral & Foliage arrangements will grace your wedding car where a suitable rear window shelf is fitted. If you prefer Fresh Flowers to match your bouquet/s, these can be provided on request.

• Large White Umbrellas are carried in our cars, but we hope this will be one aspect of our service you will not require.

• Unique vehicle Back-Up service  [Subject to availability & conditions]

To check availability of a vehicle or for a no obligation quote, our contact number/s and an Email link are available via the red Contact button above.