The Future Is Exciting…

As a wedding blog, we depend not just on our readers visiting our blog to prove it’s worth, but on a group of wonderful suppliers who sponsor Love My Dress.  Without them, Love My Dress would not be able to look to the future, to consider ways of improving, developing and enhancing the services we provide for our readers and all those who are inspired by these pages.  In fact, without them, we would not be here at all.

I’ve already dropped a few hints in recent posts and social media chat-chat that we have just commissioned a complete re-branding project.  You see, Love My Dress is almost 4 years old now. I started off small, feeling giddy with excitement when my reader stats would hit 400 by around 4pm in the afternoon. Nowadays, we have thousands of visitors the world over,  and though mostly a beautiful bunch of British brides, our regular readers extend as far as the other side of the world, and they have bumped up our page hits to around 20k a day now – often more.  That’s a lot of people. A lot of folk looking for inspiration for their wedding.  And a whole good reason for us not to simply sit on our laurels and consider that we’ve ‘made it’, but to look to the future and plan how, indeed, we can make it a whole lot better. We need to keep evolving to keep things fresh, to keep things exciting.

The future is excitingFound via Sarah Yates on Pinterest

Over the next few months, we’ll be working with a bloody amazing team of designers and techy people to give Love My Dress a visual and ‘behind the scenes’ style makeover.  We’re keen to seek your feedback and suggestions and will be inviting these in a separate post very soon.  For now,  I so very much want to turn the focus to a group of special people to say a huge big thank you.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; we would not be here and indeed, none of this would be possible without the continued support of our amazing sponsors and today, I would like to give a shout out to each and every one of them, not just for being amazingly talented, but for ensuring that day after day, we are able to deliver a shed load of wedding day inspiration to thousands of brides and industry suppliers the world over.

That’s a pretty amazing thing, isn’t it?

We would like to invite you to bookmark this page today,  or take a note of any particular suppliers you might want to look in to below. Each of them come with a ‘very highly recommended’ stamp of approval from us.

 

Bridal Wear & Bridesmaids 
Heart  Alan Hannah – beautiful bridal wear handmade in Britain
Heart  Belle & Bunty – I adore these girls and their bohemian meets vintage wedding dress collection
Heart  Charlotte Balbier – pretty, romantic, feminine wedding dresses. We love them.
Heart  Claire Pettibone – the most exquisite, ethereal, nature inspired wedding dresses
Heart  Heavenly Vintage Brides – beautiful and elegant original vintage bridal wear
Heart  Joanne Fleming – one of the UK’s best independent designers, vintage/bohemian/exquisite
Heart  Naomi Neoh – Utterly beautiful, romantic bridal wear
Heart  Nymphi Designs – gorgeous bridal wear inspired by Greek mythology
Heart  Nicki Macfarlane – Bespoke bridesmaids dresses, flowergirl dresses and page boy outfits – Nicki designed the flowergirl dresses for the Royal Wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
Heart  Sally Lacock – simply divine bridal wear creations from one of the UK’s best independent designers
Heart  The State of Grace – one of my most favourite bespoke bridal wear designers in the world!


Shoes

Heart  Emmy – beautiful vintage inspired bespoke wedding shoes
Heart  Arabesque – wedding shoes, bridal shoes, shoe dyeing and wedding accessories

Accessories, Jewellery, Headpieces & Millinery
Heart  Corinne Smith Designs – based on Scotland, shipping world wide, beautiful stuff
Heart  Gillian Million – beautiful bespoke and vintage inspired wedding accessories
Heart  Glitzy Secrets – gorgeous and easy to use online vintage jewellery emporium
Heart  HT Headwear – Bespoke bridal and individual headwear for all occasions
Heart  Liberty In Love – online wedding accessories boutique
Heart  Rose Garden Accessories – beautifully crafted accessories by a talented artisan 

 

Bridal Boutiques
Heart  Miss Bush Bridal Wear – Surreys leading designer bridal wear boutique – well worth planning a trip to visit, wherever you are located

 

Wedding Photographers in the South
Heart  Hannah Mia – St Albans wedding photographer
Heart  Jacqui McSweeney – Brighton wedding photographer
Heart  McKenzie Brown – Devon based alternative wedding photographer
Heart  Moments Captured – Brighton wedding photographer producing beautiful, timeless, elegant style wedding photography
Heart  Naomi Kenton – one of the best fine art style photographers I know. I simply adore Naomi’s work

 

Wedding Photographers in London & the surrounding area
Heart  Eliza Claire Photography – Eliza’s beautiful photography features regularly on Love My Dress
Heart  Fiona Kelly Photography –  Surrey based, and a lovely lady who takes great photography
Heart  Julia & You – Essex based Julia takes beautiful photography
Heart  Kari Bellamy – Creative London wedding photography
Heart  Mckinley-Rodgers – Oxford based duo Penny and Cam take photos that touch my heart every time
Heart  Modern Vintage Weddings – fine art wedding photography with a modern-vintage twist
Heart  Olliver Photography – wondrous weddings in pretty places
Heart  PNM Weddings – London and destination wedding photographers
Heart  Polly Alexandre – exquisite fine art film photography and the lady who took my PR shots
Heart  Rhys Parker – documentary wedding photographer in Oxfordshire
Heart  Tom Ravenshear
– wedding and portrait photographer based in London, but shoots
weddings in many different countries. Fresh, honest work with a relaxed
and fun approach.
Heart  Wedding Belles – newcomers to the community of sponsors here at Love My Dress, whose work we are looking forward to featuring very soon

 

Wedding Photographers in the Scotland
Heart  Craig & Eva Sanders – exquisite fine art wedding photography from a highly talented husband and wife team
Heart  Mirrorbox Photography – Mirrorbox have featured many times on Love My Dress, with their fun of relaxed, alternative style, fun and quirky weddings

 

Wedding Photographers in the Wales
Heart  Jake Morley – Cardiff

 

Unique Services
Heart  The Wedding Reporter – wedding reports bound in to a beautiful and unique book – a wonderful record of your day
Heart  Calligraphy For Weddings – Beautiful calligraphy services for your wedding stationery

Props Hire/Styling
Heart Borrowed Blue Boutique – One of the best wedding decor and gift boutiques 

 

Stationery and Artists
Heart  Artcadia – gorgeous letterpress and bespoke wedding stationery. We adore.
Heart  Berinmade – creative paper goods for the loved and the cherished.  Founder Erin regularly contributes to Love My Dress too
Heart  Emily & Jo – beautiful bespoke stationery
Heart  Vintage Rose Wedding Invitations – as featured in Vogue, beautiful vintage inspired wedding stationery


Cakes and Caterers

Heart  Cake Maison – Wonderful designer of luxury wedding cakes in the London/Sussex area
Heart  Kalm Kitchen – The only caterers I can personally recommend. Out of this world with the most exciting and creative serving suggestions designed to fit with the style of your wedding/event.


Hair & Makeup Artists

Heart  Lipstick and Curls – London based hair and makeup artists specialising in era/vintage looks


Venues & Wedding Yurt Hire
Heart  Country House Wedding Venues – Search for beautiful places to get married
 

Wedding Fairs & Events {the good ones!}
Heart  Miss Vintage Wedding Affair – a very popular vintage wedding fair held in London
Heart  The Eclectic Wedding Extravaganza – Birmingham based alternative style wedding event

Wedding Planners/Event Stylists
Heart  Cranberry Blue Weddings – I have direct experience of working with Melanie Helen, who is organising my book launch. She is amazing. Highly, highly recommended.  Read this feature too – it demystifies the role of the wedding planner.
Heart  Pocketful of Dreams
– Michelle and Vicki
contribute regularly to Love My Dress.  We love this modern, vibrant, creative team of wedding and event designers.

Wedding Favours
Heart  Lovely Favours
– pretty vintage inspired favours for your wedding guests. I used this
company to purchase vintage style perfume bottles from as favours for my
female guests, they went down a treat!

thank you, seriously, thanksFound via Pinterest

A trillion thanks you’s and respect to all of the above suppliers and sponsors for being simply amazing and for supporting the continued development of Love My Dress.  We are and always will be beyond grateful.

And that just leaves us to say, than *you* to dear reader. We are here for you, and we are committed to making this corner of cyber space one of the most inspirational and enjoyable places to visit when planning a wedding. Stick with us, it will be worth the ride – the future is exciting!

Annabel & Franky

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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.

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