LOVE Re-opens! Here’s What You Can Expect…

LOVE re-opens
Emma Draper

By Emma Draper

23 March 2021

Here at LOVE we have been devastated by the recent and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit us so terribly hard nationwide. We were, of course, very sad to close our doors temporarily over lockdown. It’s certainly been the hardest challenge we’ve had to face as a business, as it has been for our beautiful LOVE brides who have been faced with changing their much anticipated and carefully chosen wedding days.

So, it goes without saying that we are thrilled to be reopening, getting back to preparing our existing LOVE brides for their big day and the business of finding our future LOVE brides the dresses of their dreams!

It has always been our ethos that shopping for your wedding dress should be the best shopping experience you’ll ever have. Which is why we have come up with a carefully thought out plan to keep us all safe, whilst still giving you the ultimate LOVE experience.

What to Expect

Each bride, at the time of booking their appointment, will receive a copy of our LOVE Experience Guide that they will need to sign. This document explains what we are doing and what you will need to do, ahead of, and during your appointment. This is all about making sure you know what to expect, so that we can keep everyone safe and focus on giving you the full LOVE experience from start to finish!

Before your appointment with us we will just need you to have a look through our gowns via our Pinterest board and pre-select up to 5 dresses which you would like to try on during your appointment. This way, as we are quarantining, steaming and sanitising dresses in between appointments, we can ensure your preferred dresses are available for your appointment. Don’t worry though, you will be able to try more dresses than this, it just gives our expert stylists a chance to throw in a few wildcards that you may not have thought of yourself!

As we are already ‘by appointment only,’ a lot of the government recommended safety measures have been very straightforward for us to implement. We are already fanatical about cleaning at the best of times to keep our beautiful store and dresses pristine, and we can assure you that we will still be smelling of our favourite scents from The White Company and Diptyque (with a twist of anti-bac and hand sanitiser) until further notice!

You can also expect a hand sanitisation station, complimentary face masks, and a full clean down of the boutique in between each appointment.

At LOVE, currently, for the safety of our brides, their guests and our stylists, and in accordance with government guidelines and the risk assessment we have carried out, we can currently still accommodate a maximum of one guest with a bride to their an appointment. We’re not out of the woods yet unfortunately, however we hope to be able to raise this to an additional guest once lockdown is lifted further. And even post June, we will need to ensure adequate social distancing to ensure everyone’s safety and do our bit to avoid any further ‘non essential retail’ closures. In normal times we have always recommended bringing no more than 2-3 guests with you to an appointment anyway, as we have found in our experience that too many opinions tend to be overwhelming and stressful for a bride, and fingers crossed we will be able to raise our guest numbers to our ‘normal’ level in the very near future.

Hello New Dresses!

We’ve also been busy, behind the scenes, stocking our rails with the most impossibly beautiful wedding dresses. You may have seen a sneak peak of these beauties on our Instagram page but just wait until you see them in person!

Our collection includes stunning dresses from Made with Love, Enzoani, Sassi Holford and Savannah Miller. Making your pre-appointment choices even more important to help narrow down your search!

As so many couples look forward to beginning the exciting process of planning their weddings once again, we have been inundated with appointment requests for when we reopen from 12th April.

If you would like to book an appointment with us then please email hello@lovebridalboutique.co.uk along with more details about your wedding (wedding date and venue) plus any favourite dresses that you’ve seen from our collections and we can get you booked in with us as soon as our diary allows!

Thank you so so much for your patience, we can’t wait to welcome you back to LOVE and get you excited about your big day again. We’ve missed you!

Love, Emma x