Soft light through delicate layers of lace, beautiful blooms and a Japanese teaset… so perfectly pretty wouldn’t you agree…

See our feature over on Brides up North, here are some of my favourites

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B MITCHELL 1 Amaryllis and Lace

 

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BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE MAKING BEAUTIFUL THINGS

Styling & Stationery – Vicky Trainor & The Vintage Drawer

Venue – Be All You Can

Styling & Model – Helen Stevens of Surfacephilia

Floral Styling – Bels Flowers

Cakes – A Slice of Nostalgia

Furniture – Peeling Paint

Bride’s Dress – Truly Beautiful

Make-up – Make-up By Jo

Hair Styling – Adrian Wray of Chocolate

Hair Accessories – DC Bouquets

Glassware – Northern Lights Interiors

Vintage Dress – Margaret Garbut

 

Come and see us at The Wedding Institute!   .

Laura – The London Carriages Works, Liverpool

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Friday evening Vicky Trainor and I unveiled the images from the phoot shoots we had all helped to create, the night was filled with lots of smiles and bubbles..ok lots and lots of bubbles (and I got to use my babysham and Cherry B glasses!)

Cherry B courtesy of Helen Stevens Sherry soiree and weekend walks...

Photo’s above courtesy of the lovely Helen Stevens 

We are chuffed to bits that the first instalment of prettiness is  ’Amaryllis and Lace’ and will be featured on Brides up North tomorrow so keep your eyes peeled!

Saturday was an absolute treat, we had a very rare day off  and spent it with the children exploring Skelton Woods, in the words of Lilla ‘we walked our wellies off’ I want more days like this…

photo Sherry soiree and weekend walks...

saturday afternoon walk Sherry soiree and weekend walks...

 

Just something a little bit lovely I’m organising. For more information and up dates please visit the For the love of  page…and give it a little like.

vintage fair postcard For the love of Vintage Fair


We are so excited to be presenting our new wedding fair campaign. Introducing to you The Wedding Institute  We have hand picked our creative’s from across the North East to bring you a fair with a difference.

For more information please visit The Wedding Institute . If you are a bride to be you can register here 

 

hello from the wedding institute Welcome to The Wedding Institute

I’m so in love with this shoot and can’t wait to share the rest of the images with you!

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Just a few of  the very talented and lovely people who’s beautiful talent and creations are featured in these images Vicky Trainor, DCBouquets, Make-up by Jo, Designed by Zoe, Rose and Aster Belsflowers

So last week I got to work with the amazing Vicky Trainor and a whole host of super talented people. The past few months have been a total whirl wind of excitement and hard work which has culminated into something rather special. Here’s a sneak peek of the beautiful details from one of the shoots…

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The next Fabulous Fair!! We have some amazing featured exhibitors at our next fair – North East designer Vicky Trainer and local photographer Graham Lowe will be at both Past 2 Present Home & Gifts and For the Love of Vintage Fair

13TH NOVEMBER POSTCARD 620x879 Our next Vintage Fayre   Home & Gifts at Whinstone View Bistro, Great Ayton.

The lovely Vicky creates delightful hand made prettiness, the Vintage Drawer is my particular favourite it’s full to the brim of divinely sweet and delicate vintage inspired treasures from personalised bookmarks, delightful brooches, sweet hair clips. If you can’t make it on the 13th November fear not you can still make a purchase at her Esty shop it’s pure prettiness over load!

Bookmarks from the Vintage Draw Collection

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‘Love Brooch’

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Vicky’s latest additions are these delightful ribbons!

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Grahame Lowe is a fellow photographer and friend. His distinctive style and expertise has been developed over many years of shooting exclusively black & white film and hand-printing his work in his darkroom at his Castleton (North-Yorkshire) based gallery. Although work is made using a variety of camera equipment, Graham is becoming increasingly well known for experimenting with hand-made, customised and toy cameras which adds to the atmospheric imagery that only Graham can make. see more of his work please visit website you can also see and purchase his work from Profile Gallery & Sitting Room

Grahame’s work is immense and spans over 50 years! Some of his most popular photographs are his rock musicians taken at Redcar Jazz Club. He has also hand printed some of his documentary photography taken in the 60′s and 70′s

Marc Bolan

Marc Bolan electric Tyr Our next Vintage Fayre   Home & Gifts at Whinstone View Bistro, Great Ayton.

Pete Townsend

Pete Townshend The Who RM Our next Vintage Fayre   Home & Gifts at Whinstone View Bistro, Great Ayton.

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 Our next Vintage Fayre   Home & Gifts at Whinstone View Bistro, Great Ayton.

We also have lots more fab and lovely things to feast your eyes and fill your stockings from china and glass wear, jewellery, vintage inspired design, vintage clothes & yummy cakes and tea!

Such a sweet pair. Love you guys.

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hd2 Hannah and David...

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