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Edinburgh Vintage Wedding Show – 2 weeks to go!
We are very excited here at Arabella Bridal HQ as we're busily working away on orders and also preparing for the oh-so-wonderful Vintage Wedding Show on the 20th October in the fabulous Edinburgh's Assembly Roxy venue. More info can be found on the VWS website...
New venue for fabulous fascinator making classes – perfect hen party idea!
We are delighted to announce that we have a new venue for our fascinator making hen parties - the wonderful Norton House Hotel & Spa! Norton House Hotel & Spa just on the outskirts of Edinburgh is a gorgeous and very luxurious country house hotel close to...
Edinburgh Fascinator Making Hen Party!
This weekend we tried out one of our new Fascinator Making Workshop venues - Hemma in Edinburgh - and it was fantastic! We were joined by 22 lovely hens who tucked into plenty of delicious prosecco, cakes and sandwiches and got extremely creative! The ladies came...
Pretty in Peacock…!
We have just received some lovely photos from a customer of her wearing her bespoke birdcage veil which Arabella Bridal made for her wedding earlier this year. Leanne's wedding colour scheme was very colourful with beautiful lime green, teal, blue and purples as...
Custom designs this week
A friend asked what I'd been doing this last week so I thought I'd share my answer with you all! We've been working on a few lovely custom designs recently. One is a gorgeous beaded lace head band with a silk flower embellishment which we can't wait to see in it's...
New Fascinator Making Classes website launched
Due to the high demand (about which we are DELIGHTED :-)) for our fabulous fascinator making classes, especially for hen parties, we have set up a new website devoted to the classes. www. fascinatormakingclasses.com will give you all the information you need about our...
Arabella Bridal – custom made perfection. Part 1…
Finding those perfect accessories to match your dream wedding dress can be fun, if you find them easily. If not, it can quickly turn into a time consuming, stressful, tearful time. Hours of trailing round shops. Hours of searching online. Hours of arguments with your...
Beckey’s Hen Fascinator Making class
Gorgeous countryside venue, sunshine, good food, plenty of bubbles, great company...and a fascinator making workshop. What more could a girl want??? That is just what the lovely Becky recently experienced for her fab hen party in the Scottish Borders. We were lucky...
Karen’s fabulous fascinator making class
We have been very busy recently at Arabella Bridal designing bespoke fascinators, hats and birdcage veils for brides, bridesmaids, wedding guests and mothers of the bride. However, that is not all we do - we also run fabulously fun fascinator making workshops which...
Real Bride – Kate’s beautiful lace fascinator
Back in January we blogged about a bespoke design we'd made for the lovely Kate who wanted a bespoke piece to go with her gorgeous Pronovia dress. We were contacted by Kate just 3 weeks before her big day so we had to work quickly to design and create for her a...
Real bride – Smiles galore. Donna’s bespoke French bandeau
Love love love. We think this may be our smiliest bride yet. We absolutely LOVE these photos of Donna and Kieron. We met Donna at a wedding fair last year and designed a bespoke French bandeau veil for her and, if we do say so ourselves, it looks AMAZING!! Donna - you...
Real bride wearing our Christina tiara
We are delighted to have received a photo of an Arabella Bridal bride wearing her beautiful Christina tiara, together with some very kind words. Kayleigh had this to say about her experience with Arabella Bridal: "Thank you very much for all your help choosing my...
The Great Gatsby brides
In celebration of the launch of The Great Gatsby in the cinema with all it's wonderful costumes and oh-so-amazing dresses and accessories we thought we'd post some Great Gatsby-style photos of our products. The first couple of photos of our products Maya and Naomi...
Featured product of the week – Elise vintage style comb
A beautiful silver comb with diamante and pearl accents. This gorgeous piece will finish off your look perfectly giving a hint of sparkle. It is a very elegant piece and with the combination of diamante and pearl will compliment a wide range of dresses. This...
Winter wonderland wedding – Arabella Bridal makes the news…
We have received from a customer an amazing wedding story. Claire wore our beautiful vintage bridal alice band Isadora for what turned out to be her rather chilly big day. Claire and Ruairidh had a very, very white wedding as the article below shows. Their white...
Sparkling bride.
A while back we shared some pictures of a bespoke piece we made with some of our followers here. We are delighted to now have received photos from the beautiful bride wearing her bespoke design. Raluca had a bespoke piece made, based on our Layla design, but...
Bespoke fascinator for Harriet
We have received a couple of photos from a customer of her wearing her bespoke piece. Harriet wanted something simple, with satin roses and pearls. We created her a small piece, with ivory roses and an ivory birdcage veil which went beautifully with her dress and...
Bridal belts – 10% discount offer
A trend we are increasingly noticing in recent months is the popularity of bridal belts. Bridal belts are a great way of adding a little extra something to a dress - showing off, or creating, a bride's feminine waist - whether that's by showing off a lovely little...
Pretty in lace – real bride
We recently received some gorgeous pictures from a customer wearing her bespoke version of our Evette fascinator on her wedding day, finished off with a lovely simple tulle birdcage veil. Julie wanted something simple and not too lacey to avoid clashing with the lace...
Melville Castle photoshoot featuring our Florence and Patricia fascinators
Two of our lovely fascinators were recently used in a photoshoot at Melville Castle near Edinburgh. The photos look amazing and we are delighted to share them with you! First of all was our lovely vintage alice band Florence, and our feather and lace fascinator...
Fame! Vintage Wedding Show
Oooh - fame....A little mention for our owner on the Vintage Wedding Show's blog page! http://vintage-wedding-show.posterous.com/handmade-bridal-millinery-and-accessories
The Vintage Wedding Show photoshoot
Last week the lovely Mel Jarron, organiser of The Vintage Wedding Show, and her very talented husband, photographer Dom of Duke Photography, used some of our birdcage veils and fascinators for their photoshoot for the upcoming Vintage Wedding Show (Edinburgh on 17th...
Product of the week! Marielle with birdcage veil
And our product of the week this week is.....our beautiful Marielle fascinator, with an optional birdcage veil. Marielle is a beautiful silk flower fascinator with a crystal edged pearl effect centre. It comes on a clip so can worn on it’s own or with a birdcage veil...
Layla bridal birdcage veil for an Irish bride-to-be
We were recently contacted by a lovely bride-to-be in Ireland who wanted a version of our Layla birdcage veil in a slightly darker ivory colour, which we duly created for her and posted off to Ireland this week. Looking forward to seeing her wearing it with her...
Scottish Wedding Directory prize winner’s bespoke comb
This week we created and posted off a gorgeous silver and pink comb, won by a competition prize winner from a competition we ran in the Scottish Wedding Directory last year. Jacqui chose our lovely Elise bridal comb, but asked us to make it unique for her by adding in...
Another bespoke birdcage veil completed!
Very excited about our latest bespoke birdcage veil. We made this for a lovely bride to be who is going to be wearing this absolutely gorgeous Pronovias shift dress - We used some similar beautiful satin cord effect lace to tie in with the detail on the dress to...
Bespoke bridal birdcage veils and fascinators
Just wanted to post a little note to remind everyone of our bespoke service. This service allows you to have designed for you a unique design of headpiece - whether that's a birdcage veil, a fascinator, an alice band. As this is designed just for you, it gives you...
Product of the week – Lara
And our product of the week this week is.....Lara This is a beautiful silver and rhinestone comb in a leaf design. Perfect for those looking for a simply yet elegant finishing touch. Approximately 8cm long. Can be worn on it’s own or with a birdcage veil. A...
Product of the week!
This week our spotlight product is....drumroll....Sienna. That means that there is 10% off of any order of this product for this week only.** This gorgeous silver beaded vintage style alice band has proved extremely popular over the last couple of months (we...
Fascinator Making Workshops – Hen Party Idea
FEBRUARY 2015 OFFER - FOR ALL BOOKINGS WITH DEPOSITS PAID IN FEBRUARY - BOOK A HEN PARTY FOR MORE THAN 15 PEOPLE AND GET A FABULOUS "BRIDE-TO-BE" GIFT BAG WORTH £95 FOR FREE!! Design and create your own fascinator or cocktail hat Join us for an afternoon...
20% off sale for December 2012!
NEWS FLASH!! We currently have an amazing 20% offer running, until 31st December 2012. This entitles you to 20% off ANY order over the value of £35 made between now and 31st December 2012. This applies to all bridal and non-bridal birdcage veils, fascinators, vintage...
Arabella Bridal now being stocked in Lily and Lace bridal boutique
We are very excited to announce that Arabella Bridal fascinators and birdcage veils are now being stocked in the lovely Lily and Lace bridal boutique in Edinburgh. Lily and Lace shall stock a range of our products including some vintage style alice bands and...
New products
Just added a few new birdcage veils, fascinators and vintage style alice bands to the website including Rowan, Vanessa, Evette, Daisy and Clova. All available now! x
Past Customer Photos
We thought it would be nice to make up some little compilations of some photos sent by our past customers. We've put a couple of little compilations together this morning - watch this space for more to come. If you see any birdcage veils or fascinators that you like,...
Edinburgh Wedding Fayre Stall
Some pics of our little stall at the Corn Exchange Edinburgh Wedding Fair. It was such a great weekend and so nice to meet so many lovely brides-to-be 🙂
Arabella Bridal in Las Vegas!!
Some of you may remember several months ago we posted a photo of a stunning bespoke sparkly silver birdcage veil and fascinator that we designed and created for a bride-to-be getting married in Vegas. (Here's a reminder of the work of art!!): We are delighted...
Bridal comb and tiara range
We are very excited to add to our website our range of combs and tiaras. We have been selling these for quite a while now at wedding shows and fairs and they have proved to be very popular, but have only just managed to get a chance to add them to our website!...
New bridal fascinators and hats!
We have just added 3 new lovely fascinators and bridal cocktail hats to our range. First of all Violet - a stunning hand-made silk covered pillbox hat, with a very elegant twist. This can be worn on its own or with a birdcage veil. You also have the option of adding...
Real Bride! Esther’s bespoke 1950s silk bow birdcage veil
We were excited when were contacted by Esther a while back with a query about making a bespoke silk bow birdcage veil for her. Esther explained that she had very short hair so was a bit concerned about what would work for her (a very common query that we get). No...
Real Bride! Joanne’s beautiful white birdcage veil
Yeah! We LOVE receiving photos from our brides!! We are very excited to have received some photos from one of our lovely, lovely brides Joanne from her August wedding. We are particularly excited about these photos for a few reasons. First and foremost, because...