The business of hiring designer handbags within the UK is relatively new and somewhat an unmeasured business idea. Though it grows profusely in America, Australia and South Africa, within the UK, it has been a slow uphill struggle to change the British philosophy of wearing hired fashionable accessories.
Strange, because hiring expensive and beautiful clothes is so popular in the wedding sector industry, and if you search on the internet for wedding hire, you will bring up more than one million hits to companies that supply everything from bridal dresses to morning suits, frock suits, dress shirts and shoes, so how is hiring designer accessories any different?
Is it the ownership factor which is the main driving point for the majority of women, for whom it may take years to afford a £1000 plus Louis Vuitton handbag? Then how often will you use it, will it soon become bag boredom and end up in its dust cover on the top shelve of your wardrobe. Taken down and dusted off once or maybe twice a year, and then your thoughts move to buying another cute designer number that has just been released.
So, does the hired designer handbag have a place at your wedding, just think of the outlay and time you have spent preparing for your special day, maybe fitting out everyone in the bridal party with a themed presentation to acquire that grand theatre of beauty. Then it comes to your guests, for whom you have less influence over and you hope that leaving it to their discretion that they come along suited and booted appropriately?
But, don’t forget they will be in your photographs that you will be treasuring for the rest of your life. Yes and old Aunty Dot will be there and at least she has made an effort with her frock, but that old handbag has to be hidden from the photographer’s lens! Wouldn’t it be nice to see on your photographs that your guests appear to have invested a little in your special day?
How often have you heard that a designer handbag hire business has been recommended to supply your guests with something that is presentable, fashionable and not embarrassing on your special day? It will also make your guests feel special, and they will soon become topics of conversation about what a great idea you had in asking them to hire designer handbags.
It is a relatively inexpensive exercise to contact the ladies (or gentlemen) attending your wedding and provide them with contact details of a designer handbag hire, the company will contact your guests on your behalf and provide personalised and appropriate communication about your wedding day.
You must not forget yourself of course, there is your going away outfit, and it is still about you and you need to feel great, look great and still save some money at the same time. Even after the glorious day, you will never have to have the same handbag again unless you really want to keep it, but that is a personal choice and an option that can be fulfilled.
The author, Roger Gregory is a partner at Voulue,www.voulue.com please visit our blog www.voulue.com/blog
