VW beetle wedding car

Milton Keynes Wedding Show

October 1, 2015 by Jo Gosling

Morris the vintage VW wedding campervan and the Pear Tree Team had such a great time at the Milton Keynes Wedding Show last weekend!

Clearly Morris was very popular, but so too were the little Keepsake Bears that we took along, we have Morris Bear, Basil Bear and Bernie Bear….and no surprise to hear they each live in their own VW wedding camper van. The fabulous keepsake bears are the creation of Vikki at Blossom and Badger! For years Vikki has hand created keepsake bears out of children’s clothing (the sorts of clothes you can’t bear to throw away and end up storing in a box in the loft!!) but has now started to make the lovable bears out of wedding fabrics, including veils as a keepsake for your wedding day. Each bear is lovingly handmade, with your wedding date embroidered on your bear’s foot!

We love our bears, and they attracted so much attention at the Milton Keynes Wedding Show it was clear that you all loved them too!

For more details and to have a look at the monkeys, elephant, and lion designs too, pop over to www.blossomandbadger.co.uk prices start form £55.

Make-Up & Hair by Gemma

July 17, 2015 by Jo Gosling

I had the absolute pleasure of working with Gemma Howard, a professional make-up & hair artist recently when I was featured in the Daily Express (clearly I wasn’t trusted to do my own hair & make-up!) Well – as Gemma immediately started unpacking her vast array of exceedingly exciting make-up, we both started talking & that just didn’t stop until the minute she left!

It turns out that not only does Gemma work with newspapers but also magazines, film crews, theatres, television production companies and she also works with brides! The stories of Gemma’s experiences were amazing and entertaining, but her real passion is in making up brides for their big day. Now – we don’t often dish out recommendations but Gemma is a bit different…why? Because when Gemma applied my make-up she listened to exactly what I wanted…… I wanted it natural, not too over powering – and that’s exactly what she did, and I have to say I was overwhelmed with the results…..it was a relaxed, friendly but professional service, I was really impressed.

If you are looking for a Make-up and Hair artist why not get in touch with Gemma – although her salon is based in Birmingham she travels to brides across the country. So – have a look at her website www.make-upandhairbygemma.co.uk or give her a call 07961 828860

Pear Tree Weddings TV stars!

June 3, 2015 by Jo Gosling

Well, as if completing hundreds of weddings a year isn’t exciting enough – last week we were involved in two television productions!

Firstly Plum Productions the company behind Shed of the Year for Channel 4 came out to film our VW shed, and then Morris and Daphne attended a wedding on Friday that was filmed for ITV’s Lorriane Kelly show!

We are off for more filming with Channel 4 next week & then the production company will edit the footage for this summer’s Amazing Spaces series with George Clarke….we’ll be sure to let you know when the programs are due to be aired.

Nervous ‘Sheddie’

May 15, 2015 by Jo Gosling

With over 430 new entries in to Shed of the Year 2015 competition there are 2520 sheds with a chance of winning the highly prestigious title of Shed of the Year! And why does Pear Tree Weddings a vintage and classic VW wedding Hire company care about such things? ….because we run our Wedding VW Head Office from our garden shed….we kid you not!

On a wet August Bank Holiday last year the Pear Tree family turned it’s back on the fleet of wedding campervans and beetle put on old gear, took up a paint brush & paint pot each & began painting…..then over the following few weeks we painstakingly laid flooring, arranged furniture & lovingly populated our shed with all things VW.

So – voting starts on Monday 18th May! The judges will choose 4 finalists for the categories of Normal, Eco, Garden Office, Cabin & Summerhouse, Workshops & studios, Unique, Pub and two new categories Historical and Budget. The public will vote for their favourite in each category, with the finalists of each going through to this years’s Amazing Spaces Shed of the Year Channel 4 TV show presented by (the very lovely) George Clarke.

It’s a tense time, we’ve already had our 5minutes of fame having been in numerous National Newspapers & local press when the competition was launched early this year….BUT it’s been soo much fun we don’t want it to end yet….so we have fingers & toes crossed that we can make it through to the finalists for the Office Shed category.

Goodbye from a nervous Sheddie…..you’ll hear from us very soon if we get through….if it goes very quiet you can assume we didn’t make it to the next round!!

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