OUR STORY
About Us
The Little Hire Company is dedicated to providing exciting, unique, and bespoke items for hire for all types of celebrations and events, including weddings, corporate events, school balls, and personal celebrations.
Our services extend further than our hire catalogue, with a genuine love of events our hearts lie in creating memorable celebrations, whether these are product launches, corporate functions or weddings.
Our team have extensive knowledge of the industry and we pride ourselves on our work. We have a vast network of contacts within the industry who we can call on to assist with various parts of your project.
Way back when...
We started with a love of creating beautiful celebrations - and the belief that all things should be celebrated! We get one life, it should be a good one, and having family and friends around us is such a big part of that.
We started in 2011 - known then as Oh Buttercup Events, and have evolved and changed in leaps and bounds ever since. Our core values and creative passion is still as bright as ever, and we are always looking for innovative and creative ways to make something truly personal and special for our clients - whether that is helping our clients choose decorative items to hire, to styling their wedding or a corporate event. We love the diversity and change the industry constantly brings
MEET THE DREAM TEAM
Fallon
CREATIVE DIRECTOR + HEAD STYLIST
Background Marketing
Most exotic place you’ve been to?
Colombia or Bolivia. Not exactly the typical tourist spots I guess, but incredibly amazing countries.
Favourite chip flavour? Woodfired BBQ
What are 3 things on your bucket list?
- Travel through Eastern Europe + Greece
- Take the kids on an epic cross-country USA trip
- Write + publish a childrens book
What’s your signature dance move?
What I like to call the “geriatric swing-bounce”
What is something you do in your spare time that might surprise us?
That I have spare time 😂
Tom
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Background Logistics / Operations
Badly explain your job at LHC
People pay me for stuff, then return it but I don’t give their money back. I also spend alot of time in sheets and sometimes I send other people the sheets I’ve rolled around in.
Favourite chip flavour? Twisties (it IS a chip)
Most exotic place you’ve been to?
Villa Park
What’s your karaoke song?
“Wonderwall” - Oasis
Disclaimer: Fallon wrote this for me because I still haven’t answered any questions in 6 months 💁
Helen
HEAD FLORAL DESIGNER
Background Floristry / Retail
Badly explain your job at LHC I make pretty things with pretty flowers.
Favourite chip flavour? Prawn cocktail. Tell me where to buy them here!
If you could have any one superpower, which would you choose? Flight! Reduce my carbon emissions!
Most exotic place you’ve been to? The Falkland Islands!
What’s something you would dis-invent? Donald Trump. Can I say that?!
What’s your signature dance move?
An extremely average side-step.
Karyn
EVENT ASSISTANT EXTRAORDINAIRE
Busy writing up some great responses…!
Amber
FLORAL DESIGNER
Background Floristry, Admin + Hospitality
Badly explain your job at the LHC
I have the pleasure of pottering around along side Helen while we admire pretty flowers drinking hot coffee!
Favourite chip flavour? Sour cream and chives
What are 3 things on your bucket list?
- Have my own piece of land with a little flower plot of different and interesting flowers growing.
- Be able to take my children on some unforgettable experiences
- Have a white Christmas
Most exotic place you’ve been to?
Haven’t done much travel but flying into Milford sound was pretty incredible
What’s one place you don’t mind waiting?
Airports is the first thing that popped into my mind. People watching is entertaining
Karen
EVENT ASSISTANT
Background Customer Service/Sales Support
Favourite chip flavour?
Chicken
What are 3 things on your bucket list?
- Travel to America
- Take my daughter to Disneyland
- Buy a house on my own
Most exotic place you’ve been to?
Fiji
What’s your signature dance move?
Load me up on some drinks and I will show you! 😊
Camila
EVENT ASSISTANT
Background Admin/Office Manager
Choose a movie title for the story of your life
Crazy Stupid Love
What are 3 things on your bucket list?
- Go to Greece
- Live in Chile for at least a year
- Have rescue animals
Most exotic place you’ve been to? Cuba
What’s the anthem of your life? This is me
Your party trick? I can drink lots 😂
If the worlds a stage, where does the audience sit? Moon
What’s your signature dance move?
The cha-cha
Kate
EVENT ASSISTANT
Background Industrial Design
Choose a movie title for the story of your life
Typical Kate
Favourite chip flavour? Salt and vinegar.
What are 3 things on your bucket list?
- Visit every Disneyland
- Take my family back to France
- Visit Singapore to see all the living architecture
If you could have any one superpower, which would you choose? Invisibility.
Your party trick A forward walk over.
You survive the Apocalypse, what will your job be? Not going to lie I think I would be the scared to death weak link that dies first 😂
Sarah
EVENT ASSISTANT
Background Legal Assistant
What is something you do in your spare time that might surprise us?
4wd and Dirt Bikes
What’s the anthem of your life?
“Nothing else matters” - Metallica
Most exotic place you’ve been to? Fiji
What’s your signature dance move?
I do not dance! 🙅♀️
What are 3 things on your bucket list?
- Disneyland
- Greece
- America
Choose a movie title for the story of your life Aladdin
Caitlin
EVENT ASSISTANT
Background Event Coordination/Management
Badly explain your job at LHC
I make sure cutlery is straight, things are shiny, flowers have volume and assist with taking some of the pressure of the bride
What is something you do in your spare time that might surprise us?
I am a tenor drummer for the Scottish Society Pipe Band
Favourite chip flavour? Green Onion
What are 3 things on your bucket list?
See all 7 wonders of the world, visit 30 countries before I am 30, convert a van into a epic advert wagon on my own.
Most exotic place you’ve been to? Peru
What’s the anthem of your life? This is more my go to karaoke song – Mr Brightside, but whenever I hear it I have to turn it up a belt it out.
What’s one place you don’t mind waiting?
Airports, because you know you will be somewhere completely different soon.
Sam
EVENT ASSISTANT
Background Admin/Finance
Most exotic place you’ve been to?
Tongsai Bay, Koh Samui Thailand - My Heaven!
Choose a movie title for the story of your life Confessions of a Shopaholic
What is something you do in your spare time that might surprise us?
I am a life member and current President of Kaiapoi Netball Club and have played for the club since 1999 at the young age of 7. I have also coached for 13 years now.
What’s your party trick?
I am extremely good at Beer Pong after a couple of drinks, I love beating the boys!
You survive the Apocalypse, what will your job be? Music Director for Movies
Laura
EVENT ASSISTANT
Background
Retail Manager and Visual Merchandising
What are 3 things on your bucket list?
- Swim with the pigs in the Bahamas
- Road trip around New Zealand
- Save all the homeless dogs
If you could have any one superpower, which would you choose?
Flying! How handy would that be?
Most exotic place you’ve been to? Fiji
Favourite chip flavour? Chicken
What’s the anthem of your life?
Any opportunity I have to choose the music, Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus is my go to!
What’s one place you don’t mind waiting?
Airports, I could people watch for days!
If the worlds a stage, where does the audience sit?
Is this a trick question?..there would be no audience because we are all on the stage.. 🤔
What’s your signature dance move?
So many to choose from 😂
You survive the Apocalypse, what will your job be?
I’d be pouring the wine!
Gemma
EVENT ASSISTANT
Background Events + Hospitality
Badly explain your job at LHC
Lighting fires, chopping trees, designing bows + climbing ladders
What is something you do in your spare time that might surprise us?
I play roller derby for Dead End Derby. My derby name is ABsolut Kaos
Most exotic place you've been to?
Don’t know if its exotic exactly but i have spent 5 years in total of my adult life working on Hamilton Island, a resort island in Great Barrier Reef
What's the anthem of your life?
According to this very sophisticated quiz i found on the internet and as we all know, the internet doesnt lie...."Wannabe" by the Spice Girls ( I feel thats a little harsh to be honest)
Rachel
EVENT ASSISTANT
Background Hospo / Interior Design / Theater Props + Costumes
Hobbies that may suprise us? Hula hooping, wharf jumping, longboarding with my dog towing me!
Most exotic place you’ve been?
Romania, Orkney Islands
What superpower would you choose? Shapeshifting
What’s on your bucket list?
- Learn to weld
- Do a TED talk
- Learn to sail
What’s your party trick? Multiple costime changes!
Shona
EVENT ASSISTANT
Background Hospo / Customer Service
Favourite chip flavour
Hard to choose, but BBQ
What are 3 things on your bucket list?
Visit Greece
Road trip around NZ with the kids
Buy a house in the country
If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
Mind reading
Your party trick
I can twist my tongue sideways
What’s one place you don’t mind waiting?
In traffic - especially if it’s a sunny day with some good music!