All aboard for Whanganui Vintage Weekend 2019

Whanganui Vintage Weekend will be back in 2019. Photo/ Stuart Munro

Whanganui Vintage Weekend will return next year with a platform to stay Whanganui's "biggest party" for years to come.

Planning is well under way for the annual Wellington Anniversary Weekend multi-day festival which in 2019 will run from January 18 to 21.

Heather Cox is the new event manager taking over from Sally Jane Smith.

Cox said she was working to define what vintage meant "so that it resonates more deeply with the vintage theme".

"It is something from the past of high-quality, especially something that represents the best of its kind," she said.

"The events are a showcase of the best from eras gone by, illustrated through entertainment, activities, food, drink and fashion with the historic and award-winning architecture of one of New Zealand's oldest cities as the backdrop."

Cox said Vintage Weekend was Whanganui's biggest annual party and it was growing.

"I think it's got the potential - it's already there - lot's of people are coming from out of town.

"Every year is improving but this year I want to pull together an event management framework that sits behind the planning and define what vintage is and how people can represent or experience that," she said.

"It's worth doing, I think."

Heather Cox has taken the reins as event manager.

Whanganui and Partners has supported Vintage Weekend for the past three years and Cox said the Vintage Weekend Trust was pulling together the programme at the moment.

Vintage Weekend has been running since 2012.