The London Vintage Wedding Fair

This is the one fair we love to exhibit at - everyone who walks through the door loves vintage and therefore adores our china! Due to the overwhelming popularity, the fair outgrew its previous venue in Portobello Road and was held at The Royal Geographical Society building.  The building itself is a stunning venue - also available to hire for your wedding!

Our Vintage Flair display had a beautiful background in front of a huge sunny window, overlooking the courtyard where free champers was being enjoyed by the visitors.

This year, we had three displays demonstrating the different ways our vintage china and other accessories can be incorporated into any type of wedding reception. Our main table featured an afternoon tea/buffet table with our bespoke china cake stands, cake plates, cups and saucers etc.

The second display showed an effective way of having the wedding cake table, incorporating gorgeous bon bon dishes and stacked glass cake stands.  Finally, the third display featured a more formal dining example using china dinner plates, side plates, cups and saucers and napkins.

Amongst a huge selection of truly amazing wedding dresses were the beautiful Emmy shoes and Peartree photography that have some stunning portfolios you can see here. There are far too many beautiful dress and jewellery stands to mention but have a look at the list of exhibitors on The London Vintage Wedding Fair website.

BRIDES magazine - 'What's affordable but also has impact?'

We were delighted to receive an e-mail from Natasha at BRIDES magazine asking to use our china for a photo shoot. For such a young company this was a huge achievement as (in our opinion) BRIDES Magazine is the best in its category. The feature title for the shoot was ‘What’s affordable but also has impact?’This feature is perfect for our vintage china as elegant cups and saucers for £1.80 and side plates for 50p, can add colour and style to a wedding from as little as £2.30 per guest.

We feature in the March/April 2011 issue which is on sale now. You can find our china in the images on pages 212 & 213. Delighted with the images, it was well worth getting lost in the back streets of London trying to find Vogue House to deliver the china.

BRIDES is a Conde Naste publication.  You can view their website at www.bridesmagazine.co.uk  or join us in following them on Twitter twitter.com/bridesmagazine.

Vintage Glamour

There are so many styles that can be created with vintage china; garden party, afternoon tea, Alice in Wonderland, retro or just quirky. Although all of these look lovely, we do feel extra excitement when a bride tells us they are having a vintage glamour themed wedding as this means pearls, diamonds, amazing dresses and bold hairstyles. 

Amazing flower displays can be created using vintage glass cake stands, cups and saucers, teapots or tureens. The detail on the stands is so much more interesting than standard flower vases.

Whenever we receive an enquiry for a vintage wedding in Essex we recommend Claire Sankey from Lily & May. We first met Claire at a wedding fair in 2009 and have been working with her ever since. She totally gets the vintage look and knows our china items well. We often hold client consultations together so we can all agree on the flowers and tableware at the same time.

To check out Claire’s other creations, visit her website lily and may. To see other Vintage Flair china items visit our gallery Vintage Flair gallery

The Royal Variety Performance

You may have read on our website that we had been invited to setup a gorgeous high-tea display at the 2009 Cosmopolitan Ultimate Woman Awards (which was brilliant!)…well, the same company organising the backstage gifting lounge, Lily James, invited us back (we must have made an impression!) to setup the gifting room refreshment area at this year’s Royal Variety Performance!  With Ellen 9 months pregnant and sofa-bound, I set off at the crack of dawn with anticipation of the celebs I would meet in the day ahead.

It was a great day, meeting representatives from great companies such as Yankee Candle and O.P.I, and serving mince pies and teas to the celebs (a hard day’s work I can assure you).  But the highlight of my day has got to be when Robbie Williams was stood next to me (oh, and watching Take That rehearse)!!  I was completely star-struck, I was even too nervous to speak to him so had a chat with his lovely wife instead!  

Usually it’s the women who flock to our stunning china, but this time, it was the men who were drawn in, with Jamie Cullen enjoying a cup of tea the way it is meant to be drunk - in fine bone china!

Comedians John Bishop and Micky Flanagan also admired our china while tucking into festive mince pies.

As well as weddings, vintage china is becoming popular at a range of corporate events from launch parties to fashion shows and client pitches. Both these events have highlighted how vintage china can make what would normally be a standard tea station, an elegant conversation piece.