When we were planning our wedding - and I can't believe that we started that process two and half years ago; how time does fly - we spent a lot of time looking for vintage tea sets. I started out thinking we would hire them but there was a distinct lack of options. Even the ones that looked promising initially turned out to be a
disappointment and so we decided that we needed to take matters into our own hands, painstakingly collecting - in conjunction with our families - a hundred sets of dinner plates, tea plates, cups and saucers. (and cutlery too). It turned out to be beautiful and well worth the effort; we took two sets on our honeymoon and even today we eat off some of the tea plates. I also have enough tea cups and saucers for an extremely large royal celebration next April and every single junior member of my family has inherited part of it for their university lodgings.
Planning a wedding now and I understand that is a myriad more options. Just today I stumbled across
Vintage Tea Sets, a company who essentially offer a similar service to what we ended up doing ourselves. They also sell candles in vintage tea cups and other tea party essentials as well as hiring crockery for events of all kinds. They are also based in the West Country, and, if you are planning a west country wedding (as we did) they must be well worth investigating. I think I must have been drawn to them as they feature two of my favourite things on their website (vintage crockery and peacock feathers).
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Top photo by me and of our crockery and napkins. We bought all 100 of those too.
Bottom two photos borrowed from
Vintage Tea Sets, showing their crockery.
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Vicky at Vintage Tea Sets is fab! Such a great lady and really talented - she also runs Clara Bows, a company that makes 1920s-esque hats and headpieces. She made my veil and headpiece for our wedding which I loved loved loved. It was also her tutorial on how to make teacup candles that inspired me to make them for the wedding too.
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