Once again, we will be celebrating Small Business Saturday this weekend – on Saturday 4th December. Launched to encourage shoppers to shop in their local high street, it supports local businesses – often small shopkeepers who operate from a single store. We all know retail has had a tough couple of years – with many […]
If you’ve regularly been reading our blogs, you may remember an article from December last year when we looked at three young couples whose wedding plans were disrupted by COVID-19. Obviously they weren’t the only ones, since we had a busy summer 2021 with mothers of the bride and groom and their guests visiting our […]
With Ebor Ladies Day hurtling towards us next week, we thought it would be an idea to feature some of our lovely customers who have bought our beautiful hats and fascinators for previous race days – including for Royal Ascot. While we may not still have these particular beautiful headpieces in stock, we do have […]
While we pride ourselves on being the go-to hat shop for mothers of the bride and groom, we also love to create fabulous hat and fascinator designs for race-goers. Racing is certainly in our blood at Simply Devine – we first opened our doors in 2004 to coincide with Royal Ascot moving to York during […]
Hurray – We’re back to normal – or at least as normal as we can be in these strange times! We know things are looking up for brides and grooms – and their mothers – because we’re busy in the shop again. We’ve had glorious weather, though this may change in the coming weeks, and […]
It’s been tough 18 months, hasn’t it? And I’m not just talking about the wedding industry. We’ve isolated, we’ve furloughed, we’ve worked from home and businesses have gone under. Even worse we’ve seen family members struggle with illness and we’ve lost loved ones. Times are still fragile, but July brings hope of restrictions eased and […]
The good news for weddings is that things will soon be back to normal (hopefully!) We are delighted that customers are returning to the shop with their wedding outfits – most of which they have had in their wardrobes for the past year – to find the perfect co-ordinating hat or fascinator. For the moment, […]
A recent survey by Confetti Magazine and the National Wedding Show conducted during October found that a staggering 92% of weddings had been postponed during 2020. We recently wrote about how this had impacted on the wedding industry in general (see previous article) but we didn’t take into account the human cost of postponing a […]
We don’t need to tell you how devastating this year has been for the economy. While many people have been furloughed and paid to stay at home, many more businesses have gone into administration as shops were forced to close and only essential stores were allowed to trade. Of course, the huge giants of industry […]
Simply Devine is a wholesaler selling to other boutiques and hat shops as well as a retailer, so our planning cycle for our new collection begins a year in advance. We start in around January/February looking at the colour palettes of special occasion wear for the following year, to ensure that our hats and fascinators […]