WARNING: Read this before you book - Miller Marquees - Crown Structures Ltd
We paid a significant deposit to Miller Marquees in good faith. We later discovered the company entered liquidation in February 2025, owing creditors over £170,000. We were never warned. We were never told.
The timeline tells the real story:
📌 April 2024 — While still actively taking customer bookings and deposits, director Stephen Miller quietly incorporated a brand new company, Crown Structures Ltd (company no. 15682153), registered at the exact same address — Badingham Farm, Framlingham, Suffolk. His wife Francesca Miller was appointed co-director the same day.
📌 Summer 2025 — Workers, including the Ross brothers, were employed and worked up to 18-hour days with promises of bonuses. They were never paid. Court judgements confirmed debts of over £20,000 owed to them alone.
📌 October 2025 — The company was reportedly in serious financial difficulty, with a strike-off process believed to be underway. Deposits were still being taken.
📌 9 February 2026 — Liquidators formally appointed. The company was over.
📌 February 2026 — Companies House records confirmed total debts exceeding £170,000: over £105,000 to trade creditors, £65,783 owed to consumers — ordinary people who trusted them with their weddings and events.
This is a textbook 'phoenix company' arrangement — one company drowns in debt while a replacement is already waiting in the wings, assets transferred, and the director carries on. Customers and workers are left holding the bill.
When people raised concerns publicly, rather than apologise or offer refunds, the response was to threaten defamation action. Suffolk Police confirmed a related complaint was logged but treated as a civil matter. Draw your own conclusions.
All of this has been reported by the East Anglian Daily Times. It is on public record. It is verifiable.
To anyone reading this who has paid a deposit: contact liquidators Parker Walsh immediately at parkerwalsh.co.uk to register as a creditor. If you paid by credit or debit card, contact your bank today and raise a chargeback. You can also report director conduct to the Insolvency Service at gov.uk.
And to Stephen or Francesca Miller — should you be reading this — we'd welcome a genuine, personal response. Not a copy-pasted legal template. Not a threat. An honest explanation of why customers who trusted you are out of pocket while a new company trades on.
We won't hold our breath.
Do not book with this company or its successor Crown Structures Ltd. Check Companies House before you hand over a single penny to anyone. We wish we had.