As you have probably read on Bristol Wedding News, Lauren and Daniel Welch got married recently thanks to the help of lots of great suppliers after their original wedding venue went into administration. Sadly this meant that they lost £4500 they had paid for the venue, food and drink as well as deposits paid to some suppliers who could no longer honour their bookings after they had to rebook the wedding on a different date.


The money that they were planning to spend on things like rings, jewellery and accessories had to be spent on a new venue, food and flowers and the hunt was on to replace the suppliers at very short notice who had been lost by the forced venue and date changes. Many great suppliers offered to help and stepped in with either a discount or work at cost price to help them make their dream day happen. Some suppliers who offered services either gave their time for free, or just charged for travel expenses. Lauren and Daniel are massively grateful to all of the suppliers who stepped in to help.




Daniel + Lauren // Married from Paul Van on Vimeo.


Wedding film maker, Paul Van  made a film of their day and I am delighted to show the preview trailer here featuring the work of some of the great suppliers who helped them out  out such as the cake, hair and makeup, singing waiters, cupcakes and sweets. Here's the full list of those involved.

How 2 I Do Wedding Planning - Supplier Sourcing and Planning Help
Bristol Candy Buffet - Sweets and Labels for Sweet Jars
Sidney Diongzon -Wedding Photography
Paul Van- Wedding Film Maker
Another Little World -Bridal Make Up
Cupcake Cabaret - Cupcakes
Cool Joolz - Wedding Bands
Laurel Designs- Table plan, Favour boxes, Guest Book and Place Names
Charlie & The Cake Factory - fudge favours

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?

As today is Follow Friday (#ff) on Twitter I thought a little post on Twitter was a great idea. If you are getting married and don't use Twitter, you are missing out as there is a huge and thriving Wedding community on there from bloggers to magazines and individual suppliers who all regularly share tips, ideas and pictures to inspire you.



If you are new to the world of Twitter it can be a little confusing at first so here's a little guide.

RT: Retweet -when you like someones tweet and want to share it, just retweet it
@: All usernames begin with @ and are up to 15 characters such as @brisweddingnews
#ff: Follow Friday -If you want to recommend people to follow use #ff and their username
#ww: Wedding Wednesday -Say hi to friends and share wedding stuff



                                                


Twitter will recommend some people for you to follow. You can search for people too such as your fave celebrities. There's so many great Wedding people on there and I could spend hours listing my favourites, but here's just a few to get you started...

Love My Dress Blog @LoveMyDressBlog
How 2 I Do @how2ido
The Little Wedding Helper @weddinghelperuk
Wedding Ideas Magazine @wimagazine
Emma Woodhouse @cloggins
Rachel Goodchild @RachelGoodchild
Bridezillas @bridezillasltd
Bristol Wedding News @brisweddingnews

If you love Twitter or it has helped you plan your big day, please let me know in the comments below.

Words by Steph Allison