The wedding gift any bride will love
Long gone are the Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and Boxing Day parties. No more popping out to buy last minute presents or figuring out how you can manage to eat one more Christmas pudding at your nan’s. Outside the weather has turned grey and dreary. The umbrella has become our permanent accessory always perched on our arm like a second handbag. We find ourselves staring out the rain splattered window reminiscing about Christmas Day engagements and pumpkin spice lattes. But winter engagements bring about spring weddings. If you’re anything like us, your schedule will be jam packed. We can hardly wait to start wearing sandals and brightly coloured sundresses. With wedding come bridal showers and hen nights, both requiring gifts. Are you agonising over what to buy? The last thing a bride needs is three blenders or a mountain of tea towels.
Meet Brittney of Hangers Couture, an elementary school counselor turned entrepreneur. A fellow coffee drinker, obsessed with the new flat white from Starbucks, she makes hangers that are the perfect wedding or bridal shower gift. The idea started while she was visiting her family in Sweden. “There was a boutique in a small seaside town that had their clothing displayed on beautiful beaded hangers. When I returned home to the United States I looked everywhere for similar ones but had no luck” Brittney told us. In 2010 Hangers Couture was born!
Brittney believes in sprinkling closets with beautiful hangers. “Beautiful clothes deserve beautiful hangers” she says. We couldn’t agree more! These couture hangers are a unique gift. “They are beautiful yet practical at the same time…EVERYONE uses hangers. They help me keep my closet organised. All of my “fancy” tops and dresses are hung on beaded hangers so they’re easy to spot in my closet” she discloses. Brittney suggests the pearl beaded hangers, “They are for sure the perfect wedding gift, or even a gift from the bride to her bridesmaids. They are timeless and elegant.”
Brittney’s favourite part of the job is, after receiving the hangers, customers telling her they are more beautiful than they imagined. “The website truly doesn’t do them justice” Brittney tells us. Her ideal customer is someone that is looking for a unique gift to give. “Hangers don’t seem like a natural gift, but everyone uses hangers and they are beautiful too. It isn’t something that most people would buy themselves” she says. We love practical but beautiful gifts. There is nothing better than being able to use something every day that was given to you by someone you love. Her favourite part of a wedding is seeing the bride, then the groom’s reaction. “It’s truly a day when every woman glows” says Brittney. Her plans for the future of Hangers Couture are to continue expanding into the retail world and continuing to create fun new styles. We can’t wait to see what she comes up with.
Brittney is offering Your Coffee Break readers 20% discount on any pack of 5 hangers or more. Use discount code CB2015 when you checkout. Stock up on all of your favourites. And yes, they do ship internationally. In the words of mommy dearest, no more wire hangers! Opt for beautiful beaded ones from Hangers Couture instead.
