Morning all! We’re making the most of Saturday’s in 2015 on Love My Dress®, with some lovely blog content to keep you inspired over the weekend, starting on this fine (and very windy!) Saturday in January with details of the beautiful and luxurious new handmade wedding hair pins collection available from Britten Weddings.
The first thing I want to say about this is that Love My Dress readers are entitled to £10 off every single order between now and midnight on Monday 12th January. That gives you just 3 days to place your order and save some precious pennies in the process.
Use code ‘LMDPINS’ at the Britten Weddings checkout to take advantage of this offer.
I have so much admiration for Britten weddings – founders Sarah and Matthew Britten are an absolute delight to work and set such a wonderful example of how to run a small business with great customer service.
All hair pin orders from Britten weddings includes free delivery on a worldwide basis, with next day delivery is available to the UK, USA and Canada. A gift-wrapping service is also available for a flat fee of just £3.80 per order.
Images shot on location at Melanie Giles Hair & Beauty
in Bradford on Avon, by Alexandra Pitchford for photography
Britten Weddings’ collection of bridal hair pins includes floral, vine and art-deco inspired designs in gold and silver. Designer Sarah-Jame uses only freshwater pearls, sparkling crystals and white opals, and everything is lovingly hand-crafted. The company also offer a bespoke service allowing them to work with you in creating something totally unique for you.
Our wedding hair pins, for brides and bridesmaids, are sold in sets of 3 but you can add more if necessary or so your bridesmaids can match you. Join our mailing list and receive our free, illustrated, guide to wearing and securing bridal hairpins. Every set of hairpins is handmade in our workshop near Bath and delivered to your door, for free, in our luxurious packaging. (Sarah Jane, Designer at Britten Weddings)
I love the ‘Thea’ gold leaf and pearl wedding hair pins. Three of these pretties (hair pins are sold in packs of 3) will cost you just £58.
And the team work to make the experience of receiving your order a real moment of joy and pleasure…
Part of the experience is our luxury packaging, we want every part of the buying a Britten piece to feel amazing – heirlooms to be passed on deserve nothing more. All our orders are packaged using luxurious, deep boxes designed to keep your Britten piece safe for generations to come. Inside this box, nestled in soft tissue paper, you’ll find a silk dust-bag, also handmade in our workshop from 100% silk, with your hairpins tucked neatly within.
These beautiful ‘Avril’ gold deco crystal wedding hairpins below are truly excellent value for money ust £52 for a set of three.
Our Avril deco style hair pins painstakingly hand stitched, bead by bead, in our ancient workshop just outside Bath. They are perfect for framing a bun, tucking behind a ear or scattered in loose curls. Great for brides, bridesmaids and flower girls.
Freshwater pearls are arranged delicately on silver plated wire for the Eve silver hair pins below. They are perfect for framing a bun, tucking behind an ear, or scattered in loose curls, and great for brides, bridesmaids and flower girls alike.
Subtly boho in feel, these hair pins are painstakingly hand wired, pearl by pearl, in our ancient workshop just outside Bath. They are designed to complement Britten’s ‘Addie’ wedding earrings and are also available on gold wire.
This pretty little silk flower hair pin is the ‘Isabelle’ silk flower wedding hair pin, and it costs just £48. Each petal is hand cut from pure silk and then hand pressed and hand sewn into place.
Britten Weddings operates by cutting out the middle man and only selling online, and through their own beautiful boutique based in Bradford upon Avon. You will find the boutique located at Silver Street, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1JX – find the boutique on Google maps here.
We design every Britten piece. We offer these directly online & in our own boutique. By cutting out the middlemen we can make everything in England, use the highest quality materials, commission beautiful packaging, deliver to your door for free, and treat every bride like our only bride.
The Britten boutique is part workshop and part boutique, it’s where we create all our beautiful accessories. We’d love to meet you but it can get very busy so we ask that brides make an appointment so we can give you our full attention over a cup of tea or something sparkling! You will have the opportunity to try on our collections and we can help offer styling advice.
There is no charge for appointments unless they are after 7pm or on a Sunday when they are £35, and this will be refunded if you make a purchase.
The small town just outside Bath where we are based, Bradford on Avon, is pretty in a way that leaves you short of breath. You’ll find our boutique and design studio just off the 900 year old bridge in the heart of the town. The town is known as ‘little Bath’ and has some wonderful restaurants to enjoy a cocktail in after your visit. We would recommend the Kir Royale in the Fat Fowl, it’s just next door and a huge temptation for us on a Friday afternoon!
And don’t worry about applying the pins to your hair – Britten have thought of that too! If you sign up to the ‘Britten loves weddings’ mailing list, you’ll receive an illustrated copy of Britten’s ‘how to secure and wear hair pins’ guide. Perfect!
You have to admit, these are all really rather charming and so very pretty aren’t they?
Prices for a set of 3 Britten Weddings hair pinks starts at £42. Remember too, that there is an exclusive £10 off every order for Love My Dress readers until midnight Monday 12th January. Simly use code ‘LMDPINS’, or visit this page!
Britten would like to thank Melanie Giles Hair & Beauty in Bradford on Avon for their incredible work on the shoot. Britten would recommend any brides close by pay a visit to their stunning bridal space.
Enjoy your hair-pin shopping ladies! And pop back later this afternoon, we have a super glamorous and elegant wedding to share with you.
Love Annabel x
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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.
It is very pretty silk flower in the hair…
Really pretty bridal hair style. Love those silk flowers.
So pleased you love Missy!