**To claim your 15% discount prior to the end of November at
Victoria Mary Vintage, simply quote 'LMD15' at checkout**
Hey loooooovely peeps! ;) Please tell me you have swooned already over this morning's real wedding feature? Like, come on! How much more beautiful do wedding day's get? I want to introduce you to a lovely lady this afternoon called Victoria. Like me, and like many of us, Victoria discovered a passion for doing something create via the process of planning her wedding and set up a business to share her fondness for pretty things with other people. She named her business after herself and these days, Victoria Mary Vintage is making people sit up and take notice with it's delicate yet striking vintage wedding jewellery and headpiece designs. Let's find out a bit more shall we? I always love learning how people have gone about setting up their own businesses.
"I set up Victoria Mary Vintage after I got married in December 2009. My wedding day look was very vintage and I really wanted to keep the vintage look going throughout my accessories. I was wearing my grandmother’s pearls (a gorgeous double row of them!) and combed antique sales until found the perfect pair of vintage rhinestone chandelier earrings. I then made my hair comb to match using a vintage marcasite leaf brooch, accented with small pearls and swarovski crystals…"
Love My Dress Wedding Blog – Photography Copyright (c) 2011, Victoria Mary Vintage
"Soon after that friends were asking me to design their wedding jewellery and headpieces, so I launched my business in early 2010 selling a selection of one-of-a-kind pieces – tiaras, headbands, necklaces, bracelets, earrings… I combine vintage jewels, primarily rhinestone and marcasite, with delicate freshwater pearls in soft pastel shades (there’s nothing like real pearls), vintage creamy glass pearls,
I work from my home studio and sell my pieces through my shop online and by appointment at my home in London. I happily ship throughout the UK and worldwide.
There is a beautiful collection of original vintage wedding jewllery, as well as vintage inspried bracelets, necklaces and earrings on the Victoria Mary Vintage website…
"I have been making jewellery in one form or another for my whole life, so I adore now being able to make bespoke handmade wedding jewellery for brides. I love the the look of vintage jewellery – there is something just so glamorous about it, when the shiny newness has worn off leaving just the well-worn sparkle. And I love thinking of the history of a piece of jewellery – isn’t it fabulous that the brooch that’s been refashioned into your bridal headband was perhaps once worn on a gorgeous dress to a decadent party in the 1920′s?"
"As a whole, my business is inspired by the feminine glamour of the 20th century leading up to the early 60′s, and the care that women took in how they dressed themselves – making sure their lipstick was perfect and their hat, shoes and handbag matched before going out; their hair was always neat, and it was perfectly acceptable to wear little gloves wherever you went."
"I like to think the jewellery I create will make the women who wear it on their wedding feel just as beautiful and feminine, and will give them something gorgeous to treasure long after their wedding day…'
"On a day-to-day basis, however, my inspiration comes from little things – usually some new materials I have found or a beautiful brooch I bought at an antique fair. The colour, texture and lines of the material build themselves up into a whole design – I love creating swirly, floral Art Nouveau designs out of hundreds of pearls and crystals, and am currently working on a new line called "Silk and Lace", a collection of raw silk, frayed vintage floral headpieces, launching at the end of this year (I've included a few sneak peeks below!)…"
This is but a peek into the pretty collection of bridal headpiece designs that are availabe on the Victoria Mary Vintage webiste – click here to see many more.
To claim your 15% discount prior to the end of November, simply use the code LMD15 at checkout.
Oh, and check out blogger Anna of Anna And the Ring wearing her beautiful Victoria Mary Vintage headpiece at the launch of Surrey wedding venue Fetcham Park yesterday – how beautiful?
To discover more, visit the Victoria Mary Vintage webiste, email [email protected], or follow Victoria on Twitter.
Lots of love all,
Annabel xXx
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Founder of Love My Dress. Passionate Podcaster and Editor. Annabel lives in rural North Yorkshire with her husband and business partner Philip, their two daughters and menagerie of furry hounds. She loves photography, meditation, walking, being outdoors and star gazing. She is fierce when it comes to championing talent within the wedding industry and when she's not working on Love My Dress, she supports her husband Philip in the running of the family's sustainable flower farm and floral design business, Moonwind Flowers. In 2013, she became a published author.
