BRISTOL VINTAGE IS FOR SALE!!!

Nearly nine years ago, my friend Katie was getting married and asked if I'd help her  collect vintage crockery for her wedding - and so began the start of our joint business venture, Bristol Vintage.

Initially we thought it might just be a one-off for Katie's wedding as we're both vintage geeks but we hadn't realised that there's a whole community of us out there!

Over the next two years, we had masses of fun collecting crockery and props and making lots of new contacts in the vintage and wedding worlds; we learnt about marketing ourselves on-line and we discovered how to pack and deliver crockery unbroken and how sometimes we can't sleep when we're worrying about doing the best job for our clients.

In the third year Katie had the joy of becoming pregnant and having a beautiful baby daughter, now nearly six years old!  

Although Katie had to leave Bristol Vintage to focus on her family, she's still very much a part of the company, often helping me brainstorm ideas and always there if I need support or just a sounding board.  

It's been an amazing journey, including staging the first vintage wedding fair in the South-West, which has gone on to be an annual event, our crockery appearing in lots of magazines, TV shows, and supplying crockery for hundreds of weddings, parties, funerals and other events.  Our clients have included Pieminister, Goldbrick House, Hotel du Vin, Aardman Animations, Riverstation, The Clifton Club to name a few as well as scores of wonderful couples and individuals and we've loved working with them all. 

We've co-organised a shop launch, been involved in photo shoots and held an annual wedding fair with the most fantastic exhibitors, many of whom have become friends.

We've loved every minute of it but, sadly, it's time for a HUGE life change and time for me to part with Bristol Vintage.  

So, Bristol Vintage, one of the longest running vintage crockery and events companies in the South West is on the market. The business includes afternoon tea crockery for nearly 300, including cups & saucers, tea plates, cake stands, teapots, milk jugs and sugar bowls.  We also have crockery for 160 for dinner AND we have mismatched cutlery too and mismatched napkins and linens!  We have some amazing props including our bike, Mabel, a sledge, working gramophones and a typewriter, suitcases, vintage and much more.  Alongside this we have our website, the company name, our popular blog, the wedding fair contacts, Facebook and Twitter sites and, above all, a faultless reputation and some wonderful friends in the industry.

I would love for someone to continue the company as we've built up a great reputation and a fabulous collection of crockery, which will be very hard to part with but, if that's not possible then I will be selling the crockery and props off separately.

If you would like further information on our stock and to have a chat about the business, please do call me on email: ali@bristolvintage.co.uk and we can arrange to have a chat.

With love to all our followers and past clients for many happy moments!

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BRISTOL VINTAGE - MAKING THE WORLD MORE GLAMOROUS CUP BY CUP!

When Katie and I started the business nearly 8 years ago, little did we know how it would grow!  Starting off with afternoon tea crockery, we just couldn't stop collecting and are now able to supply full tea and dinner crockery for over 120 people!

We are completely addicted to vintage and select every piece ourselves.  If we don't love it, it's not in our collection. 

As we are total magpies, we now also have a large collection of props, including picnic hampers, suitcases, our vintage bicycles, Mabel, Albert & Rose, vintage sledges, typewriters, rugs, stepladders ... in fact we can sometimes source specific items for you!

We love helping you set up and style your wedding or just hire out the props and extras so you can do it yourself.  We can even provide a full waitress service and work with caterers to supply full afternoon tea or just scones and cakes.

If you're having a retro party, we have a large selection of Babycham glasses as well as lots of quirky ornaments, cameras, books and smaller items.

We have jugs, teapots and fishboxes which can all be filled with beautiful flowers ...

 ... and we're particularly proud of our collection of vintage wind-up picnic gramophones. We're even unveiling a new gramophone at the fair!

Our latest addition is a 'photo wall' which we'll be showing off for the first time at the fair as well.  So do come and say hello - the fair is our way of sharing all the vintage love that's out there so we hope you'll enjoy it as much as we do!  See you on Sunday! xx

BRISTOL VINTAGE - MAKING THE WORLD MORE GLAMOROUS CUP BY CUP

Katie and I started up Bristol Vintage over 6 years ago now. Katie was getting married and loved the idea of having vintage crockery at her wedding. We were both mad vintage hoarders and had started to collect cups & saucers wherever we could find them - car boot sales, auctions, charity shops, friends, relatives ... and Katie's wedding day was amazing!

Photo Courtesy of Pete Cranston

Katie and I had known each other for several years and knew we'd love working together and suddenly we had the perfect business - vintage crockery hire.  Once we'd started we couldn't stop collecting, and now we have afternoon tea crockery for over 300 people, 100 Babycham glasses, a full dinner service for 150 people and lots of props, including Mabel, our beloved vintage bike, working gramophones & typewriters, sledges, picnic hampers and rugs and our recently acquired vintage-style photo wall!

Yes, we're a little obsessed, but we love what we do and we just can't resist collecting more for our brides!

Although Katie left the company after her third child, we still meet regularly to bounce ideas of each other and Katie can often be seen waitressing at one of our events, along with our fab team of the loveliest waitresses you could find!

We supply crockery for afternoon teas for two, up to a full wedding including set-up and style and waitress-service. We can introduce you to fabulous caterers, stunning dressmakers, delicious cakes and pretty much everything you need for the perfect vintage wedding.

I'll just have a small table of crockery & props at the fair as I want to focus on my exhibitors, but please do come and have a chat if you'd like more information. I'm really looking forward to meeting you all!