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Win a beautiful tiered vintage cake stand and a teacup candle made with natural wax from Darby & Joan Vintage

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Today’s competition is to win a beautiful three tiered cake stand handmade from vintage plates AND a vintage teacup candle with with natural soy wax and lightly scented. This fantastic competition and prizes are brought to you by the very generous Darby & Joan Vintage, who hire out vintage crockery for weddings, parties and hen do’s, create delicious afternoon teas, and make these pretty teacup candles.

The teacup candles are handmade using 100% eco-friendly soy wax and fragrant scents. These teacup candles from Darby & Joan Vintage are perfect for decorating your wedding tables or giving as bridesmaid gifts or wedding favours. If was the lucky winner of this prize I think I would put my teacup candle in my bedroom or bathroom as they are so pretty and feminine.

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The Crockery Cupboard has an exclusive offer on their vintage crockery hire to make your wedding utterly beautiful

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The Crockery Cupboard are celebrating our 5th birthday with us by offering our readers a fantastic 10% discount on crockery hire bookings over the next month. They have a beautiful range of unique mix and match crockery pieces, from the 1920’s to the 1960’s.

Run by two friends – Jane and Rosalie – The Crockery Cupboard has vintage plates to make any table setting look effortlessly striking, while their bowls and platters are perfect for serving anything from canapés and salads to cakes, cream and berries.

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Win a fabulous ‘tea for two’ mini hamper of vintage crockery from For The Love Of Vintage

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*This competition is now closed*

I was lucky enough to meet Sharon from For The Love Of Vintage for drinks recently and she’s utterly fab, running her business hiring out vintage crockery for weddings. So how would you like to win this lovely ‘tea for two’ mini hamper full of vintage crockery? It includes two Royal Stafford cup and saucers, a Royal Albert sugar bowl, a Heathcote milk jug, a Grindley teapot (2-3 cups) and comes beautifully presented in a wicker tray.

If you live in the Manchester/Cheshire area and are looking to hire vintage crockery for you upcoming wedding, do get in touch with Sharon as she has a beautiful collection and is incredibly friendly and helpful.

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15% off vintage styled hen parties and vintage wedding china hire from Darby and Joan Vintage

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Perhaps you’d like a hen party in the style of vintage afternoon tea party, or you’d like to treat your wedding guests to a sumptuous dinner served on vintage china – well if your hen party or wedding is between June 2013 and August 2013 you can get 15% off both these from Darby and Joan Vintage.

For hen parties, Karen from Darby and Joan Vintage will supply all the food, china hire and venue styling – leaving you to relax and have fun with your hens. For weddings, she will supply an array of pretty vintage crockery for up to 100 guests. Move over boring white plates – instead, celebrate your hen party or wedding with gorgeous vintage teacups and dainty plates.

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Wren’s Tea Party have got an exclusive 10% off their vintage crockery hire packages for our readers

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To celebrate our 5th birthday, Jenna from Wren’s Tea Party is offering our readers an exclusive 10% off all their vintage crockery hire packages throughout March 2012. As well as crockery, Wren’s Tea Party has a collection of vintage accoutrements and handmade accessories that you can hire for your wedding.

Wren’s Tea Party offer a variety of crockery hire packages including ‘The Teacake’ for up to 10 guests, ‘The Victoria Sponge’ for up to 50 guests, ‘The Lemon Meringue Pie’ for up to 100 guests, and ‘The Deluxe Chocolate Gateaux’ for over 100 guests. So there’s a package to suit every size of wedding.

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Directory Showcase: Rosie Weisencrantz, Simply Love Vintage and the Cupcake Baker

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Wishing you a very happy Valentine’s Day whatever you are up to. This week’s Directory Showcase is full of romantic loveliness, ideal for a day celebrating love – from pretty vintage crockery, to exquisite heirloom bridal jewellery, to dainty cupcakes.

If you want to wear a necklace, headpiece, or bracelet on your wedding day created from beautiful heirloom finds, then Rosie Weisencrantz is a must-see. Each piece is handcrafted from vintage finds from a bygone era, and with no two pieces the same they are truly unique and individual. Visit the directory for a full list of vintage, eco and ethical wedding accessories.

Simply Love Vintage offer vintage crockery hire in the Dorset area, to help style you wedding or event. They have an eclectic collection of china, vintage inspired props, linens and bunting to create a beautiful wedding. Visit the directory for a full list of vintage crockery hire companies across the UK.

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Are ‘vintage’ weddings dead and on their way out?

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Are ‘vintage’ weddings a dying breed of wedding? There seems to have been a lot of mumblings in the wedding world recently that ‘vintage’ weddings are has-been, over-done, contrived and a ‘trend’ that is on its way out. As someone who’s never really been that fussed by trends, it got me wondering if this is really the case.

The lovely Helen at Doily Days was the person who planted a seed in my mind about whether I had an opinion on this subject when an email popped into my inbox last week. So I decided to get in touch with some of the businesses listed on the directory who hire out vintage crockery and accessories for weddings. I wanted to know what they thought.

Jenna from Wren’s Tea Party told me that couples should do what they want: I don’t think that brides-to-be should feel that a vintage vibe is ‘so last year’ if that’s what they want. Weddings are very personal occasions and should reflect a couple’s personal style. People’s homes are also a reflection of their style – our home is a mixture of old and new things, we have lots of vintage furniture and accessories as well as newer pieces. My wedding was therefore a reflection of our love of good design and vintage pieces, it wasn’t about following a trend.

I think Jenna’s completely right that weddings should reflect you as a couple, and not just themed to a trend or what you might be told is in fashion. Like Jenna, our home is a mixture of old and new, which is naturally what our wedding turned out like – if the great-and-the-good of the wedding industry had told me that glamorous and oppulent weddings were in last year I wouldn’t have styled my wedding that way. It wouldn’t have been ‘us’ as we don’t live that way or love those sorts of things.

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Allie and Tom’s handmade 1930’s inspired country wedding ~ part two

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1930s inspired country wedding (part two)

If you missed yesterday’s part one of Allie and Tom’s handmade 1930’s inspired country wedding be sure to read it first – it’s full of beautiful details and photos of their ceremony and how they got Allie’s parents field ready for their wedding. So without further ado, after their ceremony, Allie and Tom had some photos taken whilst dodging the rain showers – what a beautiful vintage car.

>> View Allie and Tom’s 1930s inspired country wedding (part one) here <<

Then everyone headed back to Allie’s parents field where they had Pimms in the marquee, followed by an afternoon tea of cakes, scones and sandwiches, all made by her mum’s friends.

Afternoon tea was served on vintage crockery collected over the year by Allie and her mum. I spent a lot of time the day before the wedding selecting all the crockery and it really did look as I imagined it.

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Eco-friendly vintage teacup candles for an afternoon tea wedding

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These pretty vintage teacup candles are made by one of the newest additions to the directory – For The Love Of Vintage. As well as hiring out gorgeous vintage crockery for weddings and parties, Sharon also sells a pretty collection of vintage teacup candles (they also come in sugar bowls and sundae glasses) and tiered cake stands made from recycled vintage plates.

They are available (and as seen above) at Manchester based teashop And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon (they make these gorgeous cupcakes) and one of our lovely businesses Blossom Flowers. If you want something bespoke made contact Sharon directly at sharon@fortheloveofvintage.co.uk.

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Our rustic country wedding – afternoon tea in the garden before the ceremony ~ part 1

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For us, dreaming up an afternoon tea in my parent’s garden before our wedding ceremony was probably one of the best ideas we had. So often at weddings you have travelled for a couple of hours, often arriving at lunchtime or soon after, having not had a chance to eat anything and feeling a bit out of it from the car journey.

We wanted our guests to feel as relaxed as possible and well fed before getting down to the serious business of witnessing our marriage. For a start, on the invitation we told people they could arrive from 3pm, rather than saying ‘you must be here at…’ This meant there was a nice staggered arrival of family and friends, and hopefully it meant people weren’t under too much pressure to arrive by a specific time.

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