Wedding WELLBEING Luxury Yorkshire-based self-care brand Nourish + Flourish has expanded its best-selling range with five new expert-curated wellness boxes, designed to support women through every chapter of life. Created by registered nutritional therapist Donna Peters, the new additions include: The Nourish Box (the ultimate all-rounder, which allows you to customise your box to support you at any age and stage); The Menopause Box; The Sleep Box; The Pregnancy Box and The Female Founders Box (specifically created for busy women in business). Each box combines natural, functional wellness products sourced from high-end British brands, with expert guidance, helping busy women prioritise their wellbeing in a practical way. From beautiful mindfulness journals to luxurious body oils, high-quality supplements and premium herbal teas, each product is handpicked by Peters with a clear therapeutic goal in mind. Find out more at thenourishandflourishbox.co.uk A FIX FOR FAST FASHION Fling is an in-store fashion rental service based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, making fashion rental more accessible and affordable. Founder, Chloé Mead, launched the concept in September 2024 with a vision to battle the risks that online rentals pose such as not knowing whether an item fits or feels good to wear, the lack of refund for a bad fit, along with the minimum rental terms and shipping costs, all of which create barriers for consumers looking to be ethically fashionable. Chloé now offers in-store appointments where women can come in, shop comfortably, and rent pieces that they know fit them and feel gorgeous in. Shoppers can rent pieces for as little as one day, making it the ideal option for brides, wedding guests and mothers-of-the-brides and -grooms. This sustainable business goes one step further by utilising the wardrobes of local women, working with them to supply the items they no longer wear but never want to part with forever. These women, Fling’s ‘Lenders’, make profits from their items time and time again, so that revenue goes back into the local economy and the brand isn’t putting extra pressure on the environment via further demand on fashion production. Find out more at flingfashionrental.com hannahlunn.co.uk WHAT A BANGER! More and more brides are starting to embrace a quirky tradition to ensure sunshine on their wedding day by burying sausages the night before! Indeed, what began as an old wives’ tale has become a TikTok sensation, with bridesto-be planting sausages in flower beds, lawns and fields, all in the name of love and good weather. Yorkshire sausage maker HECK decided to join in on the fun with its new Bride’s Lucky Sausage. Specially created for wedding season, the wedlock wiener is made to the food firm’s best-selling pork sausage recipe, which brides swear by as their lucky charm. Often along with their bridesmaids, brides are burying their raw sausages late in the evening before the big day where it’s meant to plant good weather. “I buried one the night before our wedding and the sun shone all day,” says Mica Keeble, who now has two children and five happy years of marriage behind her. “It sounds mad but it worked for me.” So, if you’re desperate for a sunny ceremony, find yours at heckfood.co.uk. Anything’s worth a go right? ©Jack Tate 8
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