Our Friends
We understand the importance of working with great suppliers that you can trust. We are fortunate to have worked some truly excellent people, so here are a few of our genuine recommended suppliers;
Recommended Caterers
Dine Events are one of the North’s leading Catering & Event Management companies. Dine are superbly placed to provide whatever hospitality you wish for. Take a look at their venues page which boasts some of the finest marquee sites in the north of England.
Good Food Story Catering pride themselves on being a true Yorkshire caterer. Sourcing fine local ingredients, they create the perfect menu for each client and deliver it on the day with a friendly team. Based just outside Skipton, GFS work across Yorkshire delivering a range of high quality events.
Yorkshire Party Company are based in Ripon and have been established for 25 years. The team even have their own brand of soup!
Crackerjack Barbecue is your one stop shop for everything barbecue! Andy Annatt and his award winning team are renowned for offering a brilliant range of barbecue based menus. Andy’s menus are all perfect for those looking for something a little less formal!
Recommended Bar Services
Mix & Twist are based in Leeds and London, providing mobile bars and cocktail bars at events across the country. The M&T team are hugely experienced, polite and entertaining – they ensure everything is taken care of so that you can enjoy the evening!
OneTen on Tap is right up our street! Essentially it’s a very cool Land Rover Defender that’s converted into a bar, dispensing craft beers. The ultimate mobile bar..
Equipment, Furniture & Loo Hire Companies
AV Matrix. These guys are absolutely awesome audio visual specialists who work across the UK (they also have that huge glitter ball that Kylie uses in her concerts!). Take a look at their social feeds to see the latest events they have worked on.
Event Hire deliver great quality catering equipment and furniture hire across the UK.
Plush Flush – Superior quality loo hire.
Classic Chambers Loos – Exclusive mobile loos.
Nomadic Washrooms With a fabulous range of Shepherd’s Hut style luxury toilets and showers, the loos from Nomadic Washrooms ensure your loo blocks are a feature to be proud of at your event! Think rustic wood panels, copper taps with rustic washbasins and quirky milk churns for the urinals – they even offer an accessible loo and shower unit in the form of a vintage horse trailer! Based in Wales, they travel across the UK.
Brilliant Industry Experts
Brides Up North – encourages its readers to think local and to support the fabulous wedding suppliers on their own doorstep. Every supplier, styled shoot, real wedding or industry expert the team feature is based in the North of England.
Rock My Wedding. We are so proud to have been selected to feature as a marquee supplier on the fabulous Rock My Wedding. You can see some of our most recent weddings that have been featured on the site here.
Festival Brides – a fantastic website for anyone planning a more relaxed, festival style outdoor wedding. Take a look at the directory for a host of great suppliers who will help you style your day perfectly.
Event Planners
MAVE Wedding & Events is a newly formed Events Planner based in Yorkshire. We worked with Suzy on her Wedding in 2019, and are delighted that she’s now offering a full planning & PA service!
Studio 81 Events – we’ve worked with Laura on several weddings; her knowledge & expertise within the events industry ensures that each event is seamlessly planned and delivered with style. From large scale weddings to intimate celebrations, Studio 81 Events can do it all. Laura is based in Worcestershire and works across the Midlands and UK.
Kook Events – April is based in North Yorkshire, but working across the north east and UK; her eye for detail and creative flair is guaranteed to take your event to the next level.
The Village Green Events Company – Claire was one of our Brides a few years ago and her wedding was simply amazing (as you’d expect from an event planner)! She is based in Sheffield but works across South Yorkshire and the rest of the country.
Emma Jane Events are based in Cumbria, working throughout Lancashire and the North West. We’ve been fortunate to work with Emma on a few events now and her planning and eye for detail really does make all the difference!
Top Florists
Leafy Couture offer flowers that really are stunning! We are often lucky enough to work with Sarah and her team at our Wedding Showcases in Spring.
The Rarified – Joanna and her team are based in Ripon, and work throughout the UK delivering stunning florals wherever they go!
Daisy Hoban Floral – Daisy specialises in modern wildflower style, with creative colour flair!
Recommended Wedding Photographers
Damian J Bramley of DJB Photography is one of Yorkshire’s leading and most well respected wedding photographers. His natural simple style and approach and meticulous attention to detail sets him apart from others.
Natasha Cadman – we absolutely loved the photos from a beautiful wedding in our Sailcloth tent that Natasha shot. We’ve used quite a few of Natasha’s images throughout the site, and would highly recommend her.
Ian Martindale Photography provided us with some of the amazing shots from Laura & Rob’s Wedding at home in Cheshire. His pictures of the day, including the Sailcloth tent in the evening are some of our absolute favourites!
You’ll spot lots of gorgeous photos from Jane Beadnell on our site too. Jane photographed one of our beautiful double tented weddings in 2019 and we absolutely love those images.
