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Vintage Wedding Fair Fun!
Vintage Dorset doesn’t go to many wedding fairs. We love the ideas, fashions, inspiration and meeting people. But, most weekends we’re giving our existing clients all of our attention. It would be crazy recruiting sales people to talk to brides when what we offer is a personalised service – yeuk! But it has been an ongoing dilemma…
Luckily most people are great at hunting out our vintage loveliness online – or find us through personal referrals. We often meet up with couples to show the range of china we have. But, we do like to show off a wider range of our goodies more publicly once in a while!
However, this year we’ve had a bit of luck and remarkable success at squeezing the space-time continuum. Therefore, we’re delighted that at the end of February we’re going to one of the largest and most impressive wedding fairs in the county: the Lulworth Castle Wedding Fair!
“It wouldn’t be February without the Lulworth Castle and Courtyard Wedding Fair – a lavish must-do event for every bride-to-be”
——–This 400 year old Castle boasts two extraordinary venues for weddings – the Castle itself and the lovely Courtyard. Its a fabulous location to get married within easy reach of perfect beaches and glorious spots for photos.
Calling in to see the venue alone is a great opportunity -but the Lulworth Castle Wedding Fair also offers couples the chance to see over 50 local wedding firms exhibiting in the castle, courtyard and marquee spaces.
Within easy reach of Bournemouth, Poole and Dorchester the fair is open from 10.30am to 4pm on Sunday 26th February & entry is just £4. CLICK HERE FOR MAP
This is a great place to find inspiration no matter what your wedding theme is – you’re going to be amazed!
Vintage Dorset will be exhibiting in the Courtyard – so come and find us there – we’ll have a large display of our vintage china, lots of interesting venue dressing accessories, vintage tablecloths, cake stands and bunting, wedding favours and some super table flowers in teacups. You can see first hand the kind of quality we insist on and we’ll be there on site to talk through whatever you might need for your own wedding. There will definitely be lots of lovely vintage ideas!
Other fabulous exhibitors include the wonderful Butterfly Brides of Poundbury whose new shop full of gorgeous dresses is simply to die for! There’s the super Jon Roach from FourT4 photography plus Emma Hurley Photography, White Satin Stationery, Honeybells Tent Hire, Catherine Budd jewellery, Nomad and Proviso Foodies, the fabulous Lisa Notley Cakes, HFJ Flowers and Sunflowers plus Wedding Time dresses of Dorchester lots of string quartets, harpists, marquee providers, ice sculpturers and loads of other mighty fine sparklies! We know there are lots of others we’ve missed – so loads to discover! Many exhibitors have special show offers for couples who book services and goods on the day together with lots of competitions and freebies!
There’s also plenty of vintage influence to find if you’re looking for a nostalgic, country garden or romantic theme including photo-booths and vintage footage / retro cinema – we’re not sure what this is but can’t wait to find out!
More details of the event are on the Lulworth Castle website and on their event poster here. If you’re heading along do come and find us x
Sunny Anniversary
Sasha and Alan wanted a special beachside party with lots of vintage charm to mark their Silver Anniversary. Taking advantage of the gorgeous Branksome Dene Chine on their doorstep, an unexpected burst of late summer sunshine and Vintage Dorset helping with the event styling – this was the perfect opportunity for a Sunny Anniversary!
Vintage Styling – Bunting, Flowers and Props!
This party for around 80 guests was steeped in nostalgia and colour – and designed to be fun and informal. Mixing vintage props with loads of bunting and flowers, gorgeous vintage tablecloths and lots of vintage china we transformed Branksome Dene Chine Community Room into an old fashioned tea shoppe. Its rare to find a venue that is literally on the beach and when the heavens indulged us with late summer heat this became the best possible spot for tiffin! The kids loved our old vintage toy cash register and it was great fun bringing out our old kitchen scales, a washboard and galvanised bucket of flowers and our old ships lantern. It seemed very fitting to use some nautical vintage so close to the coast!
Food – sandwiches, cakes, scones, cake-stands and vintage china – swoon!
Sasha and Alan’s family supplied sandwiches from the Marks & Spencer entertaining range (you only need to give 2 days notice for these great value gorgeous sarnies) and with pink lemonade, sparkling wine, Sgt Bun’s superb scones and cakes from the WI / Country Markets everything was perfect for a vintage afternoon tea in flip flops!
Here are some more pictures including the gorgeous cake stands and serving platters, tablecloths and beautiful food!
Vintage styling is great for adding sparkle to all kinds of special occasions – its informal and fun and can be great value – especially if you are adding your own food items or want to use your own venue. If you need venue styling, vintage china hire or help finding local food providers and staff for your event then get in touch with us HERE.
Congratulations to Sasha & Alan & thank-you for the delicious bottle of wine!
