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On Hitched.co.uk since 2025

Last update: October 2025

It all started with a love… & a creative passion to offer a personal hub for all event needs.

If you're concerned about your wedding budget, the impact of the cost of living, and how sustainable you can be, and you yearn for the Instagram-worthy wow that seems a dream away, then we've got you!

With the emphasis on design-led styling and consideration that every element of decor, florals, catering, and celebrations are cohesively unified, we will help you create an emotional connection through chic nostalgia-inspired decor that is carefully crafted with current and modern trends to enhance your day as a representation of your story. If you need partial or on the day coordination, then we will ensure that you have every confidence your day will run smoothly and stress-free, and our savvy approach, little black book of vendors, and negotiating skills will guarantee your dream wedding comes within budget without compromising on quality!

Supporting you with your decor, floristry, and coordination will mean one supplier to plan and correspond with, saving you time and budget. Furthermore, with no minimum spend, our services are tailored to your individual needs.

Specializing in dry-hire weddings, we offer flexible options:

1. You can simply hire and do it yourself (we will give you all the support to implement your design brief).

2. Have us do it with you and your helpers

3. Use our premium package, where we take care of everything for you.

Pieces can be hired individually, or use our service to create a bespoke package for your event. We offer everything from prop hire to centrepieces, furniture, garden games, draping, self-serve stations, and floristry. With 25 years in the industry, we love collaborating with our recommended (or your chosen) suppliers to bring your vision to life.

Planning a wedding can be daunting, but our on-the-day management is crucial to ensure that everything goes smoothly and is executed as planned. As your coordinator, we will take care of all the details, allowing you to focus on taking in all the precious moments of your day by handling all the logistics and potential issues; our attention to detail and problem-solving skills will allow you and your guests to relax and fully enjoy all you have meticulously planned. Our focus is on creating memories and being in the moment.

Our role in your celebrations can be at short notice or begin long before the actual day. Wherever you are in your planning, we engage in detailed discussions with you to understand your vision, preferences, and expectations.

We implore couples to support small businesses and advocate reinventing old, treasured, crafted, and unique items for timeless, themed, eclectic, or nostalgically romantic weddings and events. With an overflowing heart and soul, we put everything into our 'one-stop wedding hub' for planning, decor, and flowers and pass this love on to you with abundance.

Reduce the stress, time, and overwhelming feelings of your wedding planning by booking a discovery meeting to chat about how our expertise, passion, and services can assist you both. It is the ideal opportunity for us to get to know how we can fulfill your design brief and facilitate your wedding planning journey. In the meantime, take a look at more inspiration on our Instagram!

Dollys Vintage Tea Party, based in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, offers stunning decoration hire, event styling, and planning for the perfect vintage wedding.

  • Woman-owned

Frequently asked questions

Services you offer:

Wedding planner
Interior design and decoration
Advice service
Bunting
Aisle runners
Balloons
Candelabras
Crockery
Other (Planning and coordination Floristry Design and styling Supplier management Prop hire Transportation and set up upon request or Dry hire and DIY Afternoon tea catering, china and decor)

Products offered:

Ceremony back drops Vintage props Draping Floristry China and tableware hire Centre pieces Seating areas Garden games Afternoon tea catering Balloon installations Planning On the day coordination

What is included when hiring your services?

Transport
Delivery of the items
Assembling
Disassembling
Pick up

How far in advance should I contact you?

Our role in your planning can be at short notice, or begin long before the actual day, wherever you are in your journey, we engage in detailed discussions to understand your vision and expectations

Do you offer an online list of weddings?

Yes

What areas do you cover?

Cambridgeshire Hertfordshire Bedfordshire Norfolk North London Essex

How do you work?

We are committed to excellent customer service,exceeding expectations & treating every client like a dear & valued friend, my thrifty approach will also ensure that you get the most out of your budget

Operating hours:

Daily 9am - 11pm (we are night owls so happy to correspond out of day light hours)!

What are the forms of payment?

Bank transfers are our preferred method. We are flexible with installment payments. The balance is due 3 weeks prior to the big day. A retainer is invoiced upon making an order/booking
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Reviews for Dollys Vintage Tea Party

Lisa
Lisa Sent on 25/01/2026
4.8 out of 5 rating

The decor made a huge difference

Hayley is professional, kind, and a breath of fresh air in the "copy paste" bridal industry. The decor significantly elevated the wedding! I have zero regrets spending money on this!!! I trusted her style completely and knew she would run in the right direction with the ideas I had for the theme. Guests made extensive comments on how beautiful, unique, and relaxed the wedding was. The photographer said the decor made her job easy and she was happy to have such a beautiful setting. Hayley knew I disliked how the industry makes you feel forced into doing it their way. She had great ideas on how to cut costs and made things different. I am so happy I paid for her to take down and set the decor up, it was a huge pressure off of me. When surprise changed and uncertainty came up with the venue, I regretted not hiring Hayley as my wedding planner/ event coordinator. No matter how hard I tried, the cost of venues and good food is very pricey. Thankfully, all worked out perfectly and Hayley worked well with the venue staff.
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Rebecca Sent on 28/12/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Just the best!

Asking Hayley to do the flowers and styling for our wedding was absolutely the best decision we took. She ABSOLUTELY KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK!! I honestly don't even know how to say how delighted we were with everything.

The styling was absolutely spot on - exactly what we imagined, but better. She has such an incredible eye for how things will look, and had some great ideas that I would never have thought of.

The flowers were breathtaking, just the best wedding flowers I've ever seen. I've had so many comments about how stunning they were. I didn't think I was a huge flowers person, but I actually cried when I saw them.

Every detail was accounted for, and she absolutely worked her socks off to get everything finished in time (our venue had quite strict rules about set-up time). She was so easy to work with through the whole process as well. I honestly don't know how I would have got through wedding planning without her!

I would absolutely wholeheartedly, and without hesitation, recommend Dolly's to anyone planning a wedding or any other big event!!!
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Meet the team

Hayley  thurston
Hayley thurston
Owner

Dollys founder and creative director Hayley

Background:

BA Hons Arts degree |visual merchandiser | photographer |hospitality management |interior design.

The magic of my role in your event journey is to see the memory making unfold and the coming together of your loved ones in spaces that are designed for their experience.

I am committed to excellent customer service, exceeding expectations and treating every client like a dear and valued friend.

The thrill of finding a vintage treasure hidden in a charity shop or yard sale quickly developed into a keen hobby; my aim to fill our grade II listed family home with an abundance of history whilst meticulously renovating it. I now know these desires to have stemmed from a childhood spent in antique shops with my parents, together with an inherited love of the finery of afternoon tea that my nana Dolly passed on to me! Being a single mum of three it soon became clear that our little cottage just couldn't hold anymore 'treasures' and I realised that my passion had in fact, led to borderline hoarding. It’s true light bulb moments do happen, I had a feeling others would want ‘vintage’ in their lives too so….

Dolly's was born and I didn't have to part with a thing!

Who knew that 15 years later, still obsessed with reinventing old treasured items, the collection of carefully curated historical props would still be used for creating precious family celebrations and unforgettable events. Continually growing and changing with the times, but always designed uniquely and reflective of your story.

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ANCHOR BARNS, EARITH PE283PX Cambridge (Cambridgeshire)

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