For many families, coming together to decorate the Christmas tree is the official start of the festive season, but for a growing number of very wealthy people it is just another task to be outsourced to professional help for as much £80,000. “Hiring florists for Christmas has been happening for years,” said Becky Handley, director of the event production company Theme Traders. They will ask us to provide carol singers, Santa, sugar plum fairies and real reindeers,” she said. “People have gone a bit bonkers about Christmas.”She said the cost of a “production Christmas” started at a few thousand pounds but could easily stretch into the tens of thousands. “We flew over professional ice skaters from France one day, and another day we brought in real reindeer and we’d bring in Santa another day.

Source: The Guardian December 08, 2017 17:02 UTC