Rachel Goodchild Designs

We’re delighted to welcome back Rachel Goodchild to our Bristol Vintage Wedding Fair.

Rachel is a designer specialising in vintage-inspired contemporary paper goods. Her product range includes giftwrap, greeting cards, journals, gift bags and boxes. She’s been designing since 2000 and originally sold her products to the wholesale market, but as her reputation grew, a retail business was added. She now has many and varied customers throughout the United Kingdom as well as the States, Europe & Australia. 

These gorgeous giftwrap designs have been featured in The Sunday Times Style Magazine, Homes and Antiques Magazine, Vogue, Country Homes and Interiors, Coast and Country Living Magazine, as well as in The Pattern Sourcebook by Drusilla Cole. 

Rachel is also the brains behind The Wedding Blog Designer. She has a range of bespoke wedding stationery, journals, blogs and decorations that she’ll be bringing to this years’ Fair. 

With her Wedding invitations, she can incorporate personal photographs and wording into the wedding design to create a bespoke invitation. They’re a fantastic idea. Each invitation is full colour front and back, and each order delightfully and individually vintage.

Her wedding blogs are a wonderful on-line resource available for the wedding couple and their guests too. No more bits of paper falling out of your wedding invitation, instead you can use your wedding blog to include everything; the wedding list, details of the church and reception venue, maps and directions, local accommodation and transport, contact details, details of the stag and hen nights, and a display of wedding and honeymoon photographs. It’s got all your wedding details in one place!

You can find out more about her products and designs on her website, check out the wedding blog designs here and find her on Facebook and Twitter.  Oh and do make sure you come and visit her at the Fair.   She’ll be exhibiting her 'Wedding Bells' Fairy Lights - a string of 20 fairy lights for indoor use. The 'Wedding Bells' gift set comes in a variety of designs and is packed in a white box with a clear perspex lid. Lovely.

Meticulous Ink

We’re delighted to welcome back Meticulous Ink for our next Bristol Vintage Wedding Fair.  Owned by Athena Cauley-Yu, stationery designer & typesetter, and Charlie Cumming, illustrator & printer, Meticulous Ink is a traditional printer and fine stationer based in the heart of artisan Bath.

With backgrounds in typography, illustration and design, both Athena and Charlie are passionate about stationery. They offer a completely bespoke stationery service, ensuring each invitation they design fits your wedding perfectly. You’d prefer a hand-drawn invitation?  They do that too.

  

Your wedding invitation is the first introduction to your guests and Meticulous Ink can help set the tone, letting friends and family know whether it’s a traditional, relaxed or more outrageous event. Taking their inspiration from vintage posters and books to modern designers across the globe, your wedding stationery will be as unique as you wish it to be or as classic as you prefer.  From the choice of letterpressed, engraved or embossed paper to the style of print, each item will be a completely individual, unique design.  From Save the Date cards to the Order of Service, they can customize and print every element of your wedding stationery in whatever format and colour, however elaborate you want.

Everything they produce and sell under Meticulous Ink is designed, printed and finished entirely in Bath on their beautiful vintage presses that date from 1870 to 1960, which help them achieve that authentic vintage style.

At our Fair in March you’ll have a chance to meet Athena and take a look at the meticulously designed wedding stationery samples. She’ll also be bringing along their latest range of hand-printed greetings cards, which you’ll be able to buy on the day.

Oh and did we mention Athena designed and printed this years Bristol Vintage Wedding Fair poster?  We love it and we know you’ll love Meticulous Ink.