Love Bridal — Cheshire’s Brand New and Most Exclusive Bridal Boutique

by Emma Draper for Love Bridal boutique

Love Bridal Bou­tique has been born out of our pas­sion for all things bridal! My own prior expe­ri­ence as Bou­tique Man­ager for a Man­ches­ter bridal bou­tique, cou­pled with my work as a bridal make-up artist and also as Stu­dio Direc­tor within Jonny’s pho­tog­ra­phy busi­ness too (yes we live and breathe all things bridal!) has given me invalu­able knowl­edge about the wed­ding indus­try. Let’s just say that wed­dings are what we do and what makes us tick. So, given all our expe­ri­ence, Love Bridal is the very last piece of our lovely wed­ding jigsaw.

Jonny and I have always taken great pride in the con­nec­tion we make with our brides (and grooms) and their fam­i­lies too. It’s never just about being the per­son that sells them a dress, does their make-up or takes their pho­tos. It’s all the added extras and being some­body that they really want to have involved in their whole wed­ding plan­ning and to be there on their wed­ding day too.

We’re thrilled to bits when brides come to us after their wed­ding to thank us for every­thing we’ve done and say such lovely things to us.

It’s this that forms the foun­da­tions for what Love Bridal is all about – build­ing con­nec­tions with our brides and get­ting them to buy into us, our brand and what we have to offer them. As an appointment-only bou­tique, we will always focus on the expe­ri­ence, pro­vid­ing one-to-one con­sul­ta­tions where the bride will have the bou­tique com­pletely to them­selves to find their dream dress and indulge their fam­ily and friends at the same time in the lux­u­ri­ous sur­round­ings.

In addi­tion to this, we offer an exten­sive knowl­edge about the indus­try and sup­pli­ers avail­able to them, and this is always really appre­ci­ated by our brides. We have spent a lot of time get­ting to know other like-minded busi­nesses and sup­pli­ers and will only rec­om­mend the best of the best, and those who we know our brides will love as much as we do. From expe­ri­ence, I know brides love work­ing with great wed­ding pro­fes­sion­als who not only know all there is to know about their par­tic­u­lar area of exper­tise, but who really know what’s hap­pen­ing in the indus­try. It’s not just enough nowa­days to say you sell wed­ding dresses, so being able to ask where a bride is get­ting mar­ried and for me to know that venue, or to ask which florist she’s using and for me to have worked with them, really reas­sures her that she’s sur­round­ing her­self with top wed­ding sup­pli­ers and is really going to be looked after. It also helps me to under­stand what kind of a day they are going to be hav­ing, and what kind of a dress will work for the bride and their whole vision for their day. It’s all about going that extra mile.

Wed­ding dress design­ers at Love Bridal boutique

Choos­ing dress design­ers was a very excit­ing time for us and we spent a lot of time talk­ing with and meet­ing up with design­ers in the lead up to The White Gallery in May. It was vital that the design­ers (both dress and acces­sory) were a per­fect fit with our brand and what our brides would be look­ing for. We saw a con­sid­ered selec­tion of design­ers along the way and then even­tu­ally we man­aged to make our deci­sion. We’re delighted with our final selec­tion and we have already built great rela­tion­ships with our design­ers, which I believe is vital for pro­vid­ing the absolute best dress col­lec­tions and ser­vice for our brides. Just see­ing all of our dresses come together at the shoot was com­pletely mag­i­cal and rein­forces that we’ve made the right deci­sions and will have a great selec­tion on offer to our brides!

Mia Mia, by Alan Hannah

Our first label, Mia Mia, by Alan Han­nah offers a range of light and pretty gowns with beau­ti­ful touches of bead­ing – there are a great range of shapes in this col­lec­tion from clean A-line gowns such as the Alana gown, to more fluid slinkier gowns all with their own very beau­ti­ful detailing.

Edel­weiss wed­ding dress by Mia Mia. Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Lucy West Images

Edel­weiss wed­ding dress by Mia Mia. Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Laura Law­son — Law­son Photography

Anas­ta­sia wed­ding dress by Mia Mia. Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Lucy West Images

Alana wed­ding dress by Mia Mia and head­piece by Vivien Sher­iff. Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Jay Photographic

Anas­ta­sia wed­ding dress by Mia Mia. Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit CG Weddings

Anas­ta­sia wed­ding dress by Mia Mia. Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit CG Weddings

The Intuzuri Cos­tura col­lec­tion at Love Bridal

The Intuzuri Cos­tura col­lec­tion offers some seri­ously strik­ing gowns con­structed from the finest Chan­tilly laces, duchess satins and silk taffe­tas com­bined with intri­cate lace appliqués, hand-beading and intri­cate bodice detail, as seen on the beau­ti­ful Adel­phi gown to styles such as their more unusual feather-bodiced Ari­anna. Their col­lec­tion includes some clas­sic shapes from full A-line skirts and long dreamy trains to figure-hugging fishtails.

Adel­phi wed­ding dress by Intuzuri at Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Emma B Photography

Adel­phi wed­ding dress by Intuzuri at Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Sam Clay­ton Photography

Terry Fox at Love Bridal boutique

Terry Fox pro­vides a more unusual selec­tion of gowns stretch­ing from gor­geously glam­orous to sim­ply ele­gant, or quirky, fun and vin­tage with some of her more elab­o­rate and the­atri­cal gowns. Acces­sories are also avail­able to com­pli­ment these gowns, for exam­ple one of her sig­na­ture gowns “Truth, Beauty, Free­dom, Love”, the words of which are fab­u­lously embroi­dered onto the dress, can also come with a match­ing bag or you could even get one for each of your brides­maids with their names stitched on to them too! Sooo glam­orous! For the bride who wants a more slinky gown, dresses such as Flim­si­cal or Lovely Lisa in their soft lace and dusky tones are per­fect choices.

Truth, Beauty, Free­dom, Love wed­ding dress by Terry Fox at Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Jonny Draper Photography

Lovely Lisa wed­ding dress by Terry Fox and Rain­flower head­piece by Vivien Sher­iff at Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Jay Photographic

Lovely Lisa wed­ding dress and cape by Terry Fox at Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Jonny Draper

Lovely Lisa wed­ding dress by Terry Fox and Rain­flower head piece by Vivien Sher­iff at Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit HDM Photography

Glit­ter­ball wed­ding dress by Terry Fox at Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Pete Law­son (Law­son Photography)

The Her­itage Range by Balbier/Wyatt at Love Bridal

Our fourth and final designer (for now at least!) is the Her­itage Range by Balbier/Wyatt. Now, many of you will already be famil­iar with Amanda Wyatt and her daugh­ter Char­lotte Bal­bier, but this col­lec­tion is a new col­lab­o­ra­tion between mother and daugh­ter and also Amanda’s father (Charlotte’s grand­fa­ther) Alan Wyatt. This is an indus­try first and we are delighted to be amongst the first and only stock­ists of this col­lec­tion. This col­lec­tion is very dear to our hearts as we’ve been lucky enough to get to know Alan, Amanda and Char­lotte over the years so it’s so spe­cial to us that they will now be a part of Love Bridal Boutique.

Monaco wed­ding dress from the Her­itage Col­lec­tion by Bal­bier Wyatt at Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Neil Redfern

Monaco wed­ding dress from the Her­itage Col­lec­tion by Bal­bier Wyatt at Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Jonny Draper Photography

Costa Rica wed­ding dress from the Her­itage Col­lec­tion by Bal­bier Wyatt at Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Jonny Draper Photography

Costa Rica wed­ding dress from the Her­itage Col­lec­tion by Bal­bier Wyatt at Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Jay Photographic

Costa Rica wed­ding dress from the Her­itage Col­lec­tion by Bal­bier Wyatt at Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit ARJ Photography

To com­pli­ment our beau­ti­ful dress col­lec­tion, we have hand­picked a selec­tion of acces­sory design­ers which we knew would work well with the gowns. Vivien Sher­iff is a very excit­ing designer for us as her pieces are so unique. All pieces are hand­made using fine qual­ity nat­ural mate­ri­als to pro­duce iconic and instantly recog­nis­able sig­na­ture pieces. A par­tic­u­lar favorite at our shoot was the fab­u­lous Rain­flower flower/birdcage in a gor­geous dusky pink tone which really worked well as a state­ment piece with a more tra­di­tional A-line or with a short fifties style gown. For the bride look­ing for a more sparkly state­ment head­piece, we have care­fully selected some stun­ning pieces from Halo&Co. Using the finest mate­ri­als from Swarovski crys­tals and stones to hand dec­o­rated 18 carat gold plated metal work, there really is some­thing for every bride from a more tra­di­tional tiara shape (which is mak­ing a real come­back!) to the side head­pieces which are still extremely pop­u­lar with today’s bride. We will also be stock­ing Har­riet Wilde shoes which com­pli­ment our col­lec­tion beau­ti­fully. A lux­ury con­tem­po­rary and more edgy brand of shoes with a vin­tage feel, you can choose from sim­pler more tra­di­tional satin styles embell­ished with beau­ti­ful clips to lacy Mary Janes to crys­tal or flo­ral dec­o­rated stiletto heels – I was in com­plete shoe heaven when mak­ing our selec­tion!

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Har­riet Wilde shoes with Flower Design bou­quet, Love Bridal bou­tique Photo credit Lucy West

So, with­out fur­ther ado, we can now declare our diary offi­cially open to all you brides-to-be out there! To make an appoint­ment please email us at hello@lovebridalboutique.co.uk. Our web­site has also launched this week so you can find out more details about us and our design­ers at www.lovebridalboutique.co.uk To be kept up to date with our lat­est news fol­low Love Bridal on face­book http://www.facebook.com/lovebridalUK or on twit­ter @love_bridal

Wed­ding sup­plier cred­its for the Love Bridal / Best of the North West pho­tog­ra­phy launch:

Wed­ding photographers:

• Jonny Draper Pho­tog­ra­phy http://www.jonnydraper.co.uk/
• Silk Wed­ding Videos http://www.silkweddingvideos.co.uk/
• Neil Red­fern Pho­tog­ra­phy http://www.neilredfern.com/
• Law­son Pho­tog­ra­phy http://www.lawsonphotography.co.uk/
• Sam Clay­ton Pho­tog­ra­phy http://www.claytonphotography.co.uk/
• CG Wed­dings http://www.cgweddings.co.uk/
• HDM Pho­tog­ra­phy http://www.hdmphotography.co.uk/
• Shut­ter­leaf Pho­tog­ra­phy http://www.shutterleaf.co.uk/
• JAY Pho­to­graphic Images http://www.jayphotographicimages.com/
• Emma B Pho­tog­ra­phy http://www.emmabphotography.com/
• Han­nah Beat­rice Pho­tog­ra­phy http://www.hannahbeatrice.co.uk/
• ARJ Pho­tog­ra­phy http://www.arj-photo.co.uk/
• Alex Davies Pho­tog­ra­phy http://www.alexdphotography.co.uk/
• Lucy West Images http://www.lucywestimages.co.uk/

Other wed­ding suppliers:

• Styal Lodge http://www.styallodge.co.uk/
• Sonara Parker MUA http://sonaraparker.com/
• Amy Dar­ring­ton Hair­dresser http://www.amydarrington.co.uk/
• Betty Upton — Dress Monitor
• Lau­rel Wed­dings http://www.laurelweddings.com/
• Flower Design http://www.flowerdesign.co.uk/
• Per­fect Choice Plan­ning http://www.perfectchoiceplanning.com/

Bridal design­ers involved in the Love Bridal shoot:

• Balbier/Wyatt http://www.lovebridalboutique.co.uk/
• Terry Fox http://www.terryfox.co.uk/
• Alan Han­nah http://www.alanhannah.co.uk/
• Intuzuri http://www.intuzuri.com/
• Vivien Sher­iff http://www.viviensheriff.co.uk/
• Har­riet Wilde http://www.harrietwilde.com/
• Halo & Co http://www.haloandco.com/