Do you provide vehicles for other special events, apart from weddings.
The only occasions we provide vehicles for are Weddings, Wedding/Marriage Blessings and Civil Partnership Ceremonies. In addition some cars that have Private Hire Insurance and Local Council Licences are available for honeymoon travel to and from the Airports or Docks as part of a wedding booking, in other words you must have booked a vehicle for the actual daytime wedding event also. We also provide our cars to Film and Television production companies for filming and also for paid promotional events where the carriage of passengers is not required. Regretfully we do not provide vehicles for any other special occasions, for example Birthdays, Anniversaries, School Proms,Theatre Trips etc. where the carriage of passengers for hire or reward is required. The reasons why are explained below.
Although a vehicle owners insurance company may cover their car for other special events, UK law does not permit any vehicle to be used for other events such as Anniversaries, Birthdays, Hen & Stag Nights, School Proms, Day Trips etc. unless the vehicle owner has been granted a licence by the local council to carry out these other types of events, and also the vehicle in question has been licenced. If a vehicle owner carries out an event that is not a wedding with a vehicle that has not been licensed by the local council it can be impounded, crushed and the owner heavily fined as has happened to unsuspecting owners from other companies in the past. The annual cost of these licences are very expensive and coupled with twice annually strict MOT's for the vehicle's the cost to gain a licence is not usually practical for most owners with Classic or Vintage cars as these other types of event are a very small proportion of the vehicles possible engagements and therefore the high cost to gain a local authority licence would not be practical as the outlay may never be recouped. Thankfully the government understands certain traditions are a part of our heritage and therefore does not impose these stricter requirements on vehicles used only for Weddings and Funerals.
If you do find a company prepared to hire you a vehicle, especially a Vintage or Classic Vehicle for any event other than a wedding [or Funeral] and both the owner and that particular vehicle are not licensed by their local council the vehicle owners insurance will also be null and void in event of an accident, therefore you would be travelling uninsured. Premier Carriage abides by UK law and as a responsible and professional company will only book out vehicles for Weddings, Film & Television work, and paid Promotional Events where passenger travel is not required, regretfully not for any other occasion. Thank you for your understanding.
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