Thinking about hiring an ice cream van for your wedding?
Not only will your guests love you for it, having an ice cream van at your wedding is a great way to break up the day, provide some fantastic photo opportunities, and make your guests happy!
Here are our top five reasons to invite Betty – our beautiful vintage ice cream van – along to your wedding.
1. Ice cream is a delicious alternative to a traditional dessert
We love being invited to weddings where the couple decide to do things a bit differently (different is us all over!) So, if you aren’t the kind of person who wants a formal sit-down dinner at your wedding celebration or you want an alternative dessert option, then hiring an ice cream van for your wedding can offer a brilliant alternative to a traditional dessert. Hiring an ice cream van to serve your guests whilst the wedding photographs are being taken is also a popular choice as your guests can enjoy a delicious treat whilst waiting for their photos to be taken.
What’s more, we make catering for special dietary requirements really easy: all our ice creams are gluten-free, and we can source vegan ice creams and sorbets on request too.
2. An ice cream van creates fantastic wedding photo opportunities
Capturing stunning, personality-filled photos of your special day has got to be up there with one of the most important parts of your wedding. You can count on our vintage ice cream van Betty to always show up dressed up to the nines with bunting and flowers – which means we’ll create gorgeous photo opportunities galore!
Get snaps of your guests tucking into ice cream, have a go at serving ice cream yourself, or strike a pose with Betty looking lovely in the background. The thing we love most of all is that we get to be such a memorable part of our beautiful customers’ celebrations.
3. Keep your wedding guests cool and refreshed in hot weather
If you’re getting married in the balmy summer months, being outside in the sun all day is going to leave you and your guests feeling rather parched. And there isn’t much that British people get more excited about than the sight of an ice cream van on a sunny day – remember when you were a kid playing in the street after school and heard that recognisable tune from a few streets away? Enough said!
After spending time standing in the sunshine, your guests will be soooooooo grateful for the opportunity to tuck into our delicious, locally-sourced ice cream (in between those glasses of ice cold prosecco!)
4. An ice cream van breaks the wedding day up and adds excitement for kids and big kids
Having an ice cream van at your wedding provides a great way to break up the day and keep guests entertained between the ceremony and the wedding breakfast, or between the meal and evening celebrations. Your guests get a change of scenery, they get to relive that childhood excitement of running up to an ice cream van, they get to savour some of the best ice cream to be found on the Isle of Wight… and they get some brilliant selfie opportunities too. It’s a win-win for everyone!
5. Adds a unique, quirky touch that you and your guests will remember
Our ice cream van Betty is a white and baby blue 1973 Bedford vintage ice cream van, and there aren’t many beauties like her around. Hiring our retro ice cream van for your wedding will make your day even more unique and special.
We pride ourselves on paying attention to the smallest details that make the vintage scoops experience unique, and we’re always open to special requests to personalise your day – whether that’s your favourite ice cream flavour, a different choice of outfits for our servers, or something personal to you that we can add to our decor.
Want to hire our vintage ice cream van for your wedding and add the Vintage Scoops experience to your special day? Get in touch! We’d love to hear from you.