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Appointment availability

After a long year it seems we are going to be able to open our doors for appointments again from the 12th April onwards!*

In the first instance we are offering 2 appointment times on Saturdays on a first come basis. As such we can be more flexible with times so you can choose when you would like to come if you are first, and the second appointment will fit around that.

The first appointments are available from Saturday the 17th of April.

As lock down restrictions are eased more appointments will become available until a normal service is resumed no earlier than the 21st of June 2021.

Please get in touch via the contact us page
We are also very happy for you to call us, we like to have a chat especially as no-one has been out much recently!

*Subject to the road map as set out by the government running as predicted.

 

2018 photo shoot

Winter wedding dresses from Edwardian to 1950s

Getting round to doing a Photo Shoot always takes me ages because I am a very hands on kind of a person and there are always 110 other things that need may attention. So its been a while, sorry.

For this shoot I wanted to use my home, I like the exoticism and drama we have created and I felt i wanted to make images which where rich and dark as well as whimsical.

Photo shoots are a hugely collabrative process and for this one I asked my daughter Gemma if she would run it for me, she also took the pictures.  Katy of Honeykins Vintage provided invaluable styling advice and was just fantatic to work with.We had very generous support from What Katie Did who supplied the wonderful underwear and Irregular Choice who lent us some fabulous shoes. We had enormous fun doing it.

Gorgeous vintage kimonos and Irregular Choice shoes

Very special summer Surrey vintage wedding

We do actually go to the occasional wedding as well as just dressing the bride. Last summer we went to a very special one as my Brother In Law, Matt’s brother Adam, married the lovely Jo (www.jojocooperphotography.co.uk) in their garden in Surrey.

I didn’t expect to supply the dress, but Adam and Jo were visiting us in late 2014 and we ended up having a bit of informal dress consultation/afternoon of dressing up and she fell in love with a dress: a 1950s Chantilly lace.

The wedding day itself was amazing. There was so much goodwill and work that had gone on behind the scenes in the weeks running u to the big day that it all went perfectly. From home-made plum brandy in little bottles, cake for afternoon tea made by relatives, gardeners from Adam’s landscaping company (www.earthscapesltd.co.uk) making the outside look beautiful, to buckets and buckets of salad in the trailer fridge!

Hannah from Lifeline photography (www.lifelinephotography.co.uk) was on hand all day, all the following images are hers. We see a lot of wedding photography and we rate her highly.

The bridesmaids (both sets of family’s daughters) had dresses from Dig For Victory in Brighton (www.digforvictoryclothing.com) who also altered them to fit.

The amazing marquee, and the portable loos come to that! were from Carron Marquees (www.carronmarquees.co.uk) and the pig was smoked by Spring Bok BBQ (www.springbokbbq.co.uk).

On the day Jo was in the capable hands of Caroline Hart for her hair, with underpinnings by the ever reliable What Katie Did (www.whatkatiedid.com).

Adam and Matt both wore suits from David Saxby (www.davidsaxby.co.uk) and the dress code for the boys was as tweedy as they liked, despite it being July!

The wine was supplied by our local favourites the Bat and Bottle (www.batwine.uk), and the beer for the Petticoat and Tash bar came from the Tillingbourne Brewery (www.tillybeer.co.uk) with e cheese tower from The Cheese Shed (www.thecheeseshed.com).

Before the band struck up, The Blackfish Duo (www.blackfishduo.com), the marquee got invade by the East Surrey Morris Men (www.esmm.org.uk) which really got the party started.

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Very apt 😉
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The first drink, in their own bar, all the way at the other end of the aisle!Summer vintage wedding
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Dress – Abigail’s Vintage Bridal
Photography – Lifeline Photography
Bridesmaids dresses – Dig For Victory
Suits – David Saxby
Wine – Bat & Bottle
Beer – Tillingbourne Bewery
Marquee – Carron Marquees
Smoked Pig – Spring Bok BBQ
Cheese – The Cheese Shed
Morris Dancers – East Surrey Morris Men
Band – The Blackfish Duo
Lingerie – What Katie Did

The second window of Christmas

We are guilty of getting a little bit carried away with our Christmas windows, but we just love showing off our vintage wedding dresses. So here it is, the second window of Christmas in our Fairy Tale theme: Cinderella.

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The window looks lovely in the daytime but really dramatic at night.

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It turns out you can’t get real pumpkins in December…

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Yes, all those crystals on the heel were hand applied!

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1950s lace wedding dress

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1950s taffeta wedding dress with sequins.