top tips to achieve vintage style at your wedding table

*Use a simple vintage teacup and saucer filled with flowers at each place setting.
*Table linen- Use vintage tablecloths, or fabrics instead of white linen. Stick to your colour palette and then mix and match styles.
*Use vintage glassware and vases for your flowers. Remember mix and match works amazingly well for the vintage style
*Mix and match coloured glasses for a really eclectic look.
*If you opt for a cream tea instead of the traditional wedding breakfast use vintage teapots for your flowers.

Vintage Violets: A new venture

Vintage Violets is our new vintage china hire service. I, along with my sister-in-law to be Niki,thought that we would turn our personal collections into a business. We are now hiring out our beautiful 1940's and 1950's vintage tea and dinner sets for weddings, private functions, photo shoots etc. For more information please email us at info@violetsandvelvet.co.uk

Happy New Year!

Now is a great time to start planning your wedding, and what better place to start than at a wedding fair.

Violets and Velvet are working alongside The Eight Bells in Saffron Walden, Essex to bring you a new and exciting wedding fair.

We have sourced lots of interesting local companies who are all working to bring you that little something unique for your perfect wedding day.

From Vintage China hire to bespoke tiaras and a vintage wedding dress fashion show, there is bound to be something here that you simply can't go home without!

The Fair takes place on SATURDAY 30th JANUARY 2010 11am - 4pm at THe Eight Bells, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB10 1BU. We look forward to seeing you there! x