1. Tell us a little about Flora and Grace... what you do?
Flora and Grace is situated in Waterloo Street, Clifton where we have created a unique, bespoke wedding stationery business. Everything is handmade in our studio, situated at the shop where we stock beautiful cards, papers and embellishments to create stunning wedding and reception stationery.
We aim to give our clients excellent customer service in a very pretty environment where we will look at budget, style of stationery, colours, papers, cards, embellishments, wording and fonts for your wedding.
Bespoke doesn't necessarily mean a large price tag, we have something to suit all budgets.
We have also just introduced a new ‘of the peg’ range for those clients with shorter timescales. We don't charge for consultations or design and pride ourselves on a pricing structure that is competitive with any wedding stationery found on the internet.
2. How did you get started?
We had ten years experience organising and delivering exclusive weddings at our stunning Mediterranean venue in Cyprus we decided to leave the sunshine and bring our vast knowledge of weddings back to the UK. Whilst living abroad we set up a stationery business with a view to continuing this when we arrived back in the UK.
3. Your shop is beautiful, how long have you been there?
Flora and Grace is fast approaching it’s first birthday , we opened at the beginning of February 2012.
4. What services do you offer?
At Flora and Grace we offer a free no obligation consultation and design service for wedding and reception stationery.
As well as invitations we make save the date cards, RSVP’s, table plans, place cards, table names and numbers, guest books, menu’s, post boxes and thank you cards.
Shortly we will be adding personal and social stationery to our collection and a small quirky range of retail stationery items.
We are also in the process of sourcing some more beautiful crystal, diamante and pearl embellishments to add to the small collection we currently use on our stationery and our heirloom/jewellery bouquets which is also a new product being made in the studio for 2013.
5. What is your most popular service/product?
Our most popular product for 2012 was our pocket fold invitations especially for those clients who needed to put a lot of information into the invitations for their guests. Our clients love to see and feel the quality of our papers and cards used in their stationery and being able to mix and match colours, cards and try our beautiful embellishments has proved an invaluable part of our excellent customer service.
6. Tell us about yourselves!
We are Alex and Kim a husband and wife team who own Flora and Grace in Clifton where we also live.
In my previous life I worked for the prestigious Asprey and Garrard the Crown jewellers in London's Mayfair.....this has since reverted back to Asprey London you can find this iconic store on the corner of New Bond Street.
I had five fabulous years as hospitality manager and VIP chef to the worlds rich and famous but decided to move on to pastures new taking on a new position looking after brides and grooms in our beautiful Mediterranean venue in Cyprus.
Alex had an equally demanding career in London before living abroad working for one of the large multinational companies setting up some of central London’s finest gastropubs/bars awarding him the title of 'Business Manager of the Year'.
Finally, after ten years of living and working in sunny Cyprus we have returned to the UK to be with our family and friends and of course to set up Flora and Grace.
Kim Kim Koniotes
Flora & Grace
0117 974 3421
I think we can all agree that these two are highly qualified for the job... go and visit their beautiful shop as part of your wedding planning and see what they can do for you.
Photo's by Alexander James Wedding Photographer
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