We've been meaning to post a few wedding photos for a while now so here we go
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| the beautiful bride |
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| the beautiful flowers! |
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| the marquee at Glencorse |
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| our fav cake of 2011 |
Monday 10 October 2011
Wedding Flowers
Hi,
We've been meaning to post a few wedding photos for a while now so here we go
These photos were from Emma and Simons wedding earlier in the year at Glencorse House which is one of our favourite venues. Emma very graciously passed on some of her shots for us to use on our website and her mother gave us one of the nicest thank you letters we have ever received.
We've been meaning to post a few wedding photos for a while now so here we go
Wednesday 5 October 2011
Fame - for all the wrong reasons!
About a week ago I was listening to Victoria Derbyshire on 5 live when they started to do a story on online dating fraud. Basically guys were meeting women on dating sites, making them believe it was a genuine romance and then trying to get money out of them.
My ears pricked up because we were, unwittingly, part of that same scam. A guy called 'Jake' had started ordering flowers from the website and sending them to various women that he was involved with through dating sites. We only noticed after about the 3rd order when he placed a double order going to two seperate woman, both with romantic(ish) messages. We thought he was some kind of jack the lad/international playboy and although we felt a little grubby taking the money were also glad of the business - it is a recession after all!
This continued for a few weeks and at this point we were definitely feeling more and more uneasy about the whole business. It came to a head when one of the recipients of the flowers got in touch to say that she believed she was being conned by this guy and if that was the case she thought we were probably being done too.
Lo and behold, Jakes many romantic purchases had all been made with stolen credit cards and all his potential love targets were merely marks waiting to be fleeced. We soon discovered to our dismay that we bore full responsibility for all of the transactions and had been taken for a £400 ride.
Anyhoo - when I heard the story I got in touch with Victoria via twitter and told her our angle on the story. She got back asking for more details and before I knew it I was sitting, shaking, in a radio car with head phones on, a host of different voices in my ear and a bloke called Ewan sitting opposite me.
I heard the show start, George do the sport and then there was a bit of weather and then Victoria mentioned my name. I gulped, told myself it would be just like having a gossip with one of our customers and jumped into our story. It was a little hairy and I was fairly nervous at first but it got easier as time went on. One of the other retailers that was on had been hit for a lot more than my paltry £400 so that made me feel better in a weird sort of way :)
They had a guy on from World Pay who I think did a pretty poor job of justifying his companies stance, or lack thereof, on fraud prevention. I definitely felt a lot better grilling him than I did recalling our own story.
I name dropped our company once by accident but Victoria was good enough to do that for us a couple more times through the course of the show. I listen to 5 live pretty much every day so it was an interesting, and ultimately satisfying experience being directly involved. The staff there all made it as easy as they could for me and I had a little more chat with them via email afterwards which was nice.
If nothing else good came of the whole fraud saga at least i got to go on national radio!
My ears pricked up because we were, unwittingly, part of that same scam. A guy called 'Jake' had started ordering flowers from the website and sending them to various women that he was involved with through dating sites. We only noticed after about the 3rd order when he placed a double order going to two seperate woman, both with romantic(ish) messages. We thought he was some kind of jack the lad/international playboy and although we felt a little grubby taking the money were also glad of the business - it is a recession after all!
This continued for a few weeks and at this point we were definitely feeling more and more uneasy about the whole business. It came to a head when one of the recipients of the flowers got in touch to say that she believed she was being conned by this guy and if that was the case she thought we were probably being done too.
Lo and behold, Jakes many romantic purchases had all been made with stolen credit cards and all his potential love targets were merely marks waiting to be fleeced. We soon discovered to our dismay that we bore full responsibility for all of the transactions and had been taken for a £400 ride.
Anyhoo - when I heard the story I got in touch with Victoria via twitter and told her our angle on the story. She got back asking for more details and before I knew it I was sitting, shaking, in a radio car with head phones on, a host of different voices in my ear and a bloke called Ewan sitting opposite me.
I heard the show start, George do the sport and then there was a bit of weather and then Victoria mentioned my name. I gulped, told myself it would be just like having a gossip with one of our customers and jumped into our story. It was a little hairy and I was fairly nervous at first but it got easier as time went on. One of the other retailers that was on had been hit for a lot more than my paltry £400 so that made me feel better in a weird sort of way :)
They had a guy on from World Pay who I think did a pretty poor job of justifying his companies stance, or lack thereof, on fraud prevention. I definitely felt a lot better grilling him than I did recalling our own story.
I name dropped our company once by accident but Victoria was good enough to do that for us a couple more times through the course of the show. I listen to 5 live pretty much every day so it was an interesting, and ultimately satisfying experience being directly involved. The staff there all made it as easy as they could for me and I had a little more chat with them via email afterwards which was nice.
If nothing else good came of the whole fraud saga at least i got to go on national radio!
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