The wedding will be held in the Hilton Brighton Metropole’s Ambassador Suite - a delightful room decorated in muted tones of greys and purples with inlays of mother of pearl. The Ambassador Suite is situated off the main foyer of the hotel, with an arched ceiling incorporating a stunning art deco style hand painted central dome. This grand but intimate room has its own wedding license enabling you to hold your wedding ceremony in the grand surroundings of the room. The adjoining Sandringham Room acts as an excellent receiving area for your guests and has its own licensed bar.
The Metropole also offer a special wedding package for your guests wishing to stay the night, stay in one of the hotel’s 340 bedrooms, 75 with stunning panoramic sea views.
You will be allocated a dedicated wedding planner to make sure your wedding day is faultless. With their attention to detail, they promise to work with you to help and guide you where necessary to ensure your wedding day is your dream day.
The Brighton Hilton Metropole are providing the following Win a Wedding prizes:
Ambassador Suite Room Hire
Menu tasting for the Bride and Groom
Overnight accommodation on your Wedding night
Dedicated Wedding Planner
For 50 guests:
Glass of sparkling wine on arrival
Canapé reception
Three course Wedding Breakfast
Half a bottle of wine per person
Glass of sparkling wine for toast
With a reputation built on great service, unique designs and a boutique approach, Ocean Bride offer dresses for all tastes and budgets. They aim to make choosing your bridal gown an exciting and enjoyable experience that you will cherish forever. A small team of designers are on hand with expert advice to help find the perfect gown for you – whatever your shape or size. Each and every one of the stunning gowns are designed in-house, and the boutique only stock their own labels - True Bride, Nicki Flynn, True Bridesmaids and Luna B.
Ocean Bridal Studio will help our lucky bride (or bridesmaids!) find the dress of her dreams, with up to £1000 to spend in store. .
Established in 1997, Red7 have 17 years worth of experience and ‘know how’ in creating a honeymoon experience that you will cherish for a lifetime. Red7 Honeymoons offer only the best handpicked resorts and locations, and are alive with passion, romance and excitement, and memories that will live on for ever after.
Red 7 Honeymoons are giving you the chance to make your honeymoon dream become a reality with up to £3,000 to spend. From a romantic desert hideaway to a cruise around sunkissed islands, they have the tailor-made packages that will send you to honeymoon heaven.
Mamma G’z is a Brighton based company that produces exceptional cakes made from the finest ingredients. Be it a large celebration cake, box of personalised cupcakes or even sweet trees, with local delivery on offer customers have the opportunity to have their order delivered right to their door.
The winning couple will receive a bespoke wedding cake tailored to their specific requirements, with an endless choice of flavours and designs, anything is possible. Whether it be traditional, contemporary or a more quirky cake, Mamma G’z will bring your vision to life.
Wedding in a Teacup has just won the Wedding Ideas Award for Best Special Touches – and their inspirational and eclectic website shows why! The online boutique supplies the kinds of finishing touches needed to create a unique and truly special day – from printed cotton ribbon to recycled card favour boxes. Their quirky Stationery moves away from formal and into gorgeous artwork including romantic hand-drawn illustrations and keepsake charms.
Wedding in a Teacup is providing £300 for the winning couple to spend on stationery, favours, décor, gifts… the choice is yours!
Ginger Lily is a bright, welcoming and contemporary florist near Preston Park in Brighton. They specialise in weddings and creating ‘wow’ factor designs from small jam jars to huge martini vases.
Ginger Lily Florists are experts in creating stunning and unique wedding arrangements and bridal party flowers, and will listen to your ideas during an in-depth wedding consultation to come up with eye-catching flower designs, bespoke to you.
The prizes on offer to the lucky winning couple are; one brides bouquet, three bridesmaids bouquets, five buttonholes, two corsages and one top table arrangement.
Award winning photographer, Darren Cool, is diverse and highly experienced in many areas of the industry. Darren has enjoyed worldwide success with his work appearing in magazines, newspapers and advertising across the globe, and is now throwing a lot of his energy into wedding photography. He is dedicated to achieving the best results for every customer and feels there is no bigger boost than handing over life long memories to a couple!
There are few more celebrated names in the British Hairdressing industry than Trevor Sorbie and no better place in Brighton and Hove to get beautiful hair than at the fabulous Trevor Sorbie salon on Nile Street. The award-winning team of Stylists and Technicians have all been handpicked by Trevor Sorbie MBE and trained to a meticulously high standard. The outstanding team of wedding hair experts provide the very highest level of service and are dedicated to providing each client with hair that is as much of a personal statement as their wedding dress. Trevor Sorbie’s wedding team is headed globally by Ian Carmichael, a highly experienced professional who is also HRH The Queen’s personal stylist. The Brighton team of expert wedding stylists includes award winning Art Director Adele Baldwin, Top Stylist Fergal Doyle and Stylist Robyn Gargan and award winning colour experts Sam Chapman and Jade Hider.
On the big day, the wedding stylists at Trevor Sorbie Brighton will work with you to ensure your hair is perfect. The Bride-to-Be will receive a full hair consultation, plus an award-winning cut and colour. The Trevor Sorbie team will also provide wedding day hairstyling for the Bride-to-Be and a full blow-dry service for three members of the wedding party.
Wedding Rings Direct is a family run Brighton-based jewellery company specialising in helping brides and grooms find their perfect engagement and wedding rings. Their website is designed to guide brides and grooms through the process of finding their perfect rings, and a Brighton showroom is open to visit for individual, pre-booked appointments. Brides and grooms can also choose to use a unique sample service, where they are able to borrow up to 10 silver rings ensuring they are completely happy with their size, profile, width etc. before purchasing their actual rings.
Wedding Rings Direct’s bespoke service allows couples to design their rings completely from scratch alongside the in-house jewellery designer, or bring together elements of certain designs they like from the collection on the site. Also offered is a shaped to fit service, which allows you to have your wedding ring made to fit perfectly next to your engagement ring.
The winning couple will receive a pair of wedding rings, up to the value of £1500!
Founded in 1851, Moss Bros remains the top destination for smart menswear in the UK, providing the option to hire, buy or go bespoke. A carefully edited selection of seasonal suiting with a range of classic, contemporary and fashion styles sit alongside sharp dinner suits to offer a breadth of cloths and fits across many brands including DKNY, French Connection, Ted Baker and Savoy Taylors Guild.
For those special occasions, Moss Hire offers a vast array of morningwear and tuxedos making them the nation's leading suit hire specialist. Whether you require classic tails or contemporary dinner suits, Moss Bros can accommodate all colour palettes and tastes – as they have done for eight generations.
Moss Bros will be supplying the lucky groom with formal hire up to the value of £155 and complementary piece of mind assurance worth £8.
Eclipse Leisure is part of the award-winning Red 7 travel group. The team specialises in putting together the very best stag and hen events. Now they have teamed up with The Argus to offer dynamite and memorable packages for both the Hen and Stag.
The Brighton Hen Night ‘Boys of your Dreams’ package offers one of the most exciting nights out in Brighton. The Dreamboys have attracted rave reviews from many a hen party, and after a welcome cocktail and buffet, the real fun begins. The charismatic strippers are well worth the wait – they know how to work a crowd and they’ll work you up into a frenzy. Guest list entry follows into a top Brighton club will allow you to dance away until the early hours.
The hen and stag nights will each be for up to a 12 people with a value of up to £500.