So yesterday was pretty quiet on the blog. Mainly because I treated myself to a day out at the Designer Wedding Show. For those of you who’ve never been, it’s actually a really great one to go to, especially if you’re blown away by high-end designs and on-trend, unique products. You might even spot a celebrity or two.
My lovely friend, Emma from Emma Lucy Photography kindly agreed to be the Under the Vintage Veil photographer for the day, so I have some great snaps to share with you all. Here are a few highlights from the day.
All images © 2012 Emma Lucy Photography
Having arrived early and without breakfast, I was very kindly fed delicious cake samples by top luxury cake designers, GC Couture. Mmm… today I’m having cake withdrawal but it was so worth it! Imagine this sight, friendly smiling faces offering up cake worthy of celebrity birthday parties first thing in the morning (GC Couture made Cheryl Cole’s birthday cake). I also got to see their latest design, Isabella (see left-hand pic) swoon!
Having taking all the samples we could get away with without emptying GC Couture of their entire stock, Emma and I decided to have some down time at the Boothnation stand. Boothnation, for the uninitiated, supplies party photobooths that do, well, pretty much what they say on the tin. Except you can get them (and the pictures) in different styles to suit your event (including vintage). And there’s even a wind button. Tyra Banks would be proud. As you can see (bottom right) Emma and I became instant celebrities when our photo came up on Boothnation’s display! Clever! Check out the bottom pic – channeling our inner Zoolanders… (I’m on the left, Emma’s on the right).
We then stopped to swoon at By Appointment Only Design (look at all the pretty flowers!)
Picked up more cake samples at Dish
I was then thrilled to meet one of my favourite jewellery designers, Donna Crain, who I’ve had the pleasure of featuring on the blog in the past. Not only is Donna an absolute delight (I envy the brides that get to work with her) but her designs are just exquisite. I’ll let you guys judge for yourselves, but look! LOOK! Wow!
After trying on way too much Donna Crain jewellery (I was pretty much ready to make off with most of it, but managed to control myself) Emma and I headed over to Emmy Shoes where I got to see them up close. I quite embarrassingly squealed a few times and actually, I think I need a whole blog post just to talk about Emmy Shoes. So look out for that this week!! I was actually lost for words, they’re just so, so beautiful.
We checked out some of the cool, historical venues on offer by Historic Royal Palaces
But my obsession with glitz and glamour took a dangerous turn when I found Magpie Vintage. I tried on the most gorgeous pieces and spent a good five minutes staring at myself wearing them in the mirror. So lush! Emma had to pretty much tear me away (it was for my own good).
We stopped to say hello to Mandy at Mango Pie whose colourful stand was a real showstopper. Emma loved all the red (her favourite colour) and got snapping. Mango Pie had teamed up with Purple Grape Catering to make the cute cake favours in the pictures below.
Yummy make up at Bobbi Brown…
We tasted some lovely samples from Rosalind Miller Cakes and look! Look how pretty… so many favourites I can’t choose one!
Sassi Holford. Do I need to say more?
How tempting does this look? Cosy heaven at the Raj Tent Club stand… Emma and I resisted the temptation to sit there and sip champagne for the rest of the day.
We couldn’t resist snapping this gorgeous table design at the One Whitehall Place stand
And last, but by no means least, we spent a good portion of the morning drooling over the fantastic gifts and styling accessories over on the Not on the High Street stand. I entered a competition to win £250 of goodies and was so overexcited I spelled John’s name wrong. Whoops! Oh well, I’m sure he’ll forgive me if we win! Anyway, behold the amazingness:
I was also thrilled to see Tash and Claudine at Moments Captured and stop for a chinwag at their lovely stand, as well as bumping into Anna from Anna and the Ring, Emma from Miss Bush Bridal, Alexandria from Postscript Events, Charlotte from Charlotte Bridal and Emma, AKA The Wedding Reporter.
Are you planning to head to the Designer Wedding Show? Who are you looking forward to seeing? Have you already been? I’d love to hear from you. And an extra special thank you to Emma for these gorgeous photos and getting them to me so fast. What a bloomin’ ace photographer eh?
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Thanks for having me along with my camera. Mmmmmm…cake! x
It was an absolute pleasure meeting you both yesterday. Having heard so many lovely things about you it was great to finally meet the person behind the blog! Thank you for including me in your blog xx
The best post Ive read so far on the The Designer Wedding Show. Thank you for making Mango Pie a part of it.
I thought the show was fab! The flowers smelt and look amazing. They were definitely one of my highlights. BAO Designs are so unbelievably talented.
I mainly went to see the fabulous Hermione Harbutt headdresses, and I was not disappointed. They were truly beautiful. She was so sweet to me as I told her my whole life story.
I also went to look for shoes. I’m a massive fan of Harriet Wilde “sturdy” heels/shoes as I’ve never been able to pull off wearing delicate strappy numbers. I also wanted to see Rachel Simpson shoes. I found one stall that were showing a few of the range, however this is where the show got disappointing for me. I was there late on Friday and I feel some (not all) stall hosts had “given up” a bit. The 2 women at the stall were so busy gossiping they completely ignored me being there. I chose a couple of shoes I wanted to try, went to the lady and said “can I try these…” and was completely ignored as they ran off giggling leaving me alone in their stand! I was gobsmacked! Bet they wouldn’t do that in their shop! I was a bit miffed, but tried on the one half of the shoes on at my leisure. They were beautiful&comfortable…so I’m definitely going to be popping into Rachel Simpson’s other stockists in London to have a look at more of the range.
I left from the show with headdress sorted, 2 shoe options to follow up, lovely images of well-presented tables in my head to consider and the scent of flowers in my nose. I think that makes the trip a success! x
I missed you!! What a great round up, almost as good as being there (just need a glass of champagne in hand as you’re reading!) xo
The red anemones on the Mango Pie tables are gorgeous.
And the pearl back necklace (Magpie Vintage) is very swoon worthy! Please tell me you bought it to wear for your own wedding.
Teresa xx