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 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.

Nomad Catering – James and his team provide fantastic food for events and weddings across Leeds, Harrogate & Yorkshire.

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!

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!

Navy Tux Events are based in Cheshire and we’ve worked with Stacey and her team on several events. Her experience, eye for detail and ability to organise and remain calm in any situation makes a huge difference!

LMJ Weddings & Events – the awards and testimonials on Lauren’s website alone are a huge indicator of the value that she brings to her couples and clients’ events. Working across the North and UK, she’s also fabulous to work with.

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.

Daisy Hoban Floral – Daisy specialises in modern wildflower style, with creative colour flair!

Fleur Couture – for high end florals in the North East, Holly’s floral design and event styling is utterly beautiful. Head to her website to see more..

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.