Articles about horses, carriages, and events
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Welcome to the Carriage of Occasion blog. We’ll be sharing a range of stories over time to help you get the most from your use of horses and carriages for your special events, as well as taking you behind the scenes to meet our horses.
We’re going on a bear hunt!
If you come to Strathalbyn during the school holidays, you’re sure of a big surprise, we will go over, around and through this gorgeous town
But what about the weather??
This is a question we get asked for almost every booking, and quite rightly so. One thing we have absolutely no control over is the
The Expanding of a Hobby
Established in 2009 and initially a hobby, Carriage of Occasion literally plodded along for a number of years, with our beautiful Calvin and his stunning
COVID and the creation of ‘No Frills”
At the start of 2020, we were sure it was going to be our year. We had finally moved our workshop home after years of
The Burden of Sand
Horses are amazing, beautiful, useful animals. Their digestive system however is complex, relatively fragile, and totally inefficient (which is why their poo makes great fertiliser).
“Living the Dream”
It is often said to me that I am living the dream. While I guess it could be perceived from the outside that indeed I
The coming of Age
I think the scariest thing about what we do with our horses and carriages, is doing something for the first time. Years of training, working
The Next Generation
When offering a service as we do, one is always looking for ways to improve the service. This is how we came about our next
Wine Tour Langhorne Creek in Horse Drawn Style
Today I am taking you on a wine tour around the beautiful Langhorne creek wine region. It’s a cool 22 degrees, mostly overcast, and a
A funeral to remember (or preferably forget)
When you think about a horse and carriage service I would think you would mostly see pictures of glitz and glamour and fairytales and romance.
The long road from training to commercial
It’s a hard thing to gauge, when a horse is ‘ready’ to perform the tasks of one of our carriage horses. We ask a lot
Humble beginnings and a little horse called Calvin
We often get asked how we started our carriaging thing and I am only too happy to explain! We all have to start somewhere! Coming
Wedding planning question: What is so expensive about the ‘W’ word?
We hear it all the time ‘why is it so much more expensive for a wedding’ or ‘as soon as I mention wedding, the price