On Sunday Goldbrick House opened its doors for a fabulous wedding open day to allow engaged couples to view the ceremony and reception rooms as they could look for their own big day. The rooms were styled by The Little Wedding Helper using stunning pink and green floral displays by Flowers By Thea.




Acoustic Musician Matt Bee created a relaxed ambiance while couples milled around viewing the range of rooms from the restaurant, which was set up for a reception, to the stylish champagne bar and loft, which was set up as a ceremony space, with access to the outdoor terrace ideal for summer weddings.




A selection of top local wedding suppliers were on hand to give prospective brides and grooms even more inspiration from sweets and lollipop favours from Bristol Candy Buffet (below) to vintage china hire from Bristol Vintage as shown above. There were also free wedding planning tips and advice from How 2 I Do Wedding & Event Planning.





For those with a sweet tooth there was lots to behold from Vintage Candy Buffets to stunning cakes by Chocolate Delores and The Custom Cake Shop.

Paper Sherbet had original design stationary and HQ Hairdressing were on hand to offer advice on wedding hair styling.




For more information on getting married at Goldbrick House, contact Katherine Minton or visit the website. Please also click the links above to find out more about any of the great suppliers who exhibited.

There were lots of mouth watering treats on display at the Top Hats & Tea Cups Wedding Fair on Sunday from Candy Buffets to cupcakes and beautiful stacked wedding cakes.

Bristol Candy Buffet, part of How 2 I Do Wedding & Event Planning had brought along a great selection of sweets from fudge to marshmallows, Haribo fruit sweets and giant chocolate jazzies. Candy Buffets are a huge new trend for weddings and one that is growing all of the time.

 Bristol Candy Buffet offer a range of packages to suit different wedding sizes and budgets, as well as offering candy centrepieces and swirly lollipop wedding favours, that can double as place settings with each guests name on a pretty label attached with a ribbon bow to match your theme.




Ice Maiden Cakes had brought a gorgeous selection of tiered cakes to display. Make sure to check out their website for some great pictures of their cakes and cupcakes. Their cocktail cupcakes were recently enjoyed by the cream of the wedding industry at the Wedding Ideas Magazine 100th Issue Party and went down a storm.

Lauren Lane finally became Mrs Welch on Saturday when she married her Fiance Daniel in a wedding that she feared may never happen. The couple had originally booked Keynsham wedding venue, Chewton Place for their big day and paid them just under £4500. Just before Christmas they had the devastating news that Aspire Venues had gone into liquidation taking all of their money with them.



Happily for Lauren and Daniel what seemed like a hopeless situation was saved by the kindness of many generous wedding suppliers, who stepped in with some amazing offers. As one of the suppliers who has been helping Lauren, I spoke to her just before the wedding to ask a few questions about this heart warming story to share with readers of Bristol Wedding News.

Thank you to photographer  Sidney Diongzon for sharing these lovely pictures of Lauren and Daniel on their wedding day.



How did you and Daniel feel when you first heard the news about Aspire going into liquidation?






Can you briefly explain how has Twitter helped you save the wedding?

At Bridezillas launch party recently I tried one of Cupcake Cabaret's "experimental" Cherry Cola flavour cupcakes and it was absolutely delicious so today an entire post is dedicated to their moist yuminess.


                          

Cupcake Cabarets motto is that cakes "should always taste as good as they look" which is important when splashing out for a cupcake tower for your Wedding.

We have been contacted by Absolutely Cakes to tell you about their Wedding cakes and cupcakes. They have a great selection on their website that you can purchase and order easily online.


                                                     

"Whether you want Traditional, Classical, Elegant, Modern, or Novelty, our Multi Tiered Cakes or Cupcake Towers will be freshly made from the best of ingredients and can be tailored to your individual requirements in both looks and flavours."


                                           

                                              

They also make delicious macaroons, a French delicacy which is becoming more and more popular in the UK. They can be made in a rainbow of colors and flavours to match any Wedding theme and Absolutely Cakes make them in Chocolate, Vanilla, Rose, Tiramisu, Coffee, Lemon, Chocolate Mint, Chocolate Ginger, Lavender Chocolate, Orange Blossom. Yum Yum!

                              

You can also visit them and buy cakes at the following markets across Bristol:

• Tobacco Factory Market, Southville, every Sunday, 10.00 to 2.30
• Whiteladies Road Local Producers Market, first and third Saturdays of the month, 9.30 to 2.00
• Corn Street Farmers Market, every Wednesday, 9.30 to 2.30
• Thornbury Fine Food Fair, quarterly as advertised

Find out more on facebook or the website

Images courtesy of Absolute Cakes

Words by Stephanie Allison