Seraphim Couture

New boutique Seraphim Couture, will open its doors at the end of May and for the first twenty brides there is a great discount of 20%. On top of that, every purchasing bride between May and the end of October enters a draw to win a week’s honeymoon in Villa Vouno, a luxury mountaintop villa in Crete.

Thursday 12 May 2016

How it all began:
Around seven years old, my parents bought me a little battery operated sewing machine. Christmas that year was spent making a seven year olds version of high couture for Sindy dolls (I am showing my age here!) They might have had a few disastrous haircuts, but, I had the best dressed Sindys in Northern Ireland. Time progressed and the dresses became life-size, done only as a hobby.

When my twin daughters came along, a new generation of dolls were there to dress (This time Barbie) and the girls themselves loved fashion and especially princesses, as all little girls do; so together, we three girls made Barbie dolls into the best dressed girls as well as fashioning two princess gowns that were worn until they would fit no more.

Fast forward a few years and a school formal was fast approaching, so out came the drawing board. Via Social media, their dresses received tons of compliments and indeed enquiries as to where they had been purchased! As they love fashion and talk about opening their own store someday, I decided I would open up myself. My USP was to be Irish designed and manufactured clothes, however, even though there are lots of great Irish designers, no manufacturers exist; sad considering the textile industry that Ireland used to have. After months of research I decided on a bridal boutique, with a long term aim to bring in my own designs (The make currently being negotiated in the UK),eventually moving manufacture to the Ards peninsula.

The boutique is called Seraphim Couture (The highest form of angels), and is located in Greyabbey Co. Down, famous for the ruins of its abbey. Built 1193 by Alffreca De Courcy in thanksgiving for a safe journey, she was called ‘The Angel of the Ards’; so the name is a nod to history, as well as a nod to my own personal journey. As there are already lots of wedding businesses in the village, with my arrival the village really is turning into a one stop shop for brides!

Seraphim Couture will open its doors at the end of May and for the first twenty brides there is a great discount of 20%. On top of that, every purchasing bride between May and the end of October enters a draw to win a week’s honeymoon in Villa Vouno, a luxury mountaintop villa in Crete.

Thursday 12 May 2016