Jewellery Reviews

I was just reading through the jewellery reviews on the website and was amazed by the number of positive comments, we do have the ability to edit or remove comments but I can honestly say we very rarely have to use it, and then it's just to correct little errors or reply to a comment made. When reading the comments you can almost feel the excitement of the authors, now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's just the jewellery that's making them happy, but you definitely know there's something up, and it really brightens up a dull Monday morning sharing in the new "bride to be's" happiness.
I was thinking about starting up an on line gallery where brides could upload their pictures after the wedding. I'm just not to sure if anyone would take the time to come back after the big day and go to the trouble of uploading pictures. If you've any thoughts pop a comment on here as I'd love some feedback. Obviously any pictures would be welcome, but shots of our jewellery or accessories would be most appreciated. I'll work on it over the next few days and post a link when I've got something working. To start it off I'll probably have to put some of our own pictures on it but hopefully if I email some past customers we might get some from others fairly quickly.

New 2008 Jewellery Range

We expect delivery of our new 2008 range of necklace sets towards the end of October. It'll take a couple of weeks to sort, photograph and list them all, so I'd guess they'll start to appear from the beginning of November on. There's some really pretty new sets arriving so have a look from November on and see what you think.

The set's will appear first at the link below, which lists all our new products.

New Bridal Gems Products

Latest Royal Mail Strike

The latest round of Royal Mail strikes are due to start on Thursday 4th October, the way the strikes are planned, Royal Mail staff won't be back at work until Wednesday 10th October and there's likely to then be a backlog for a few day. Although there's nothing we can do for our UK customers, we're pleased to announce that we will be shipping international orders through another carrier, and these should be delivered as normal. Unfortunately we don't have this option for UK orders as the final delivery is done by Royal Mail.

We do plan to process and pack all orders as normal during the strike, however from past experience we've found it best not to pass the packages to Royal Mail until the strike's over.
As crazy as it sounds, after past strikes the backlog hasn't been cleared in order of first posted first delivered, rather what appears to happen is the mail is simply piled on top of each other and the post on top is delivered first. This means mail sent at the beginning of the strike is likely to be the last delivered, and post sent at the end of the strike delivered first, honestly you couldn't make it up. With this in mind I've listed below the days we'll be posting over the next week, if however things change we will of coarse react as necessary.

Tuesday 2nd We'll drop orders off with Royal Mail as late as possible to catch as many orders as possible.

Wednesday 3rd No normal post, but we will post registered post for delivery Thursday.

Thursday 4th No Post

Friday 5th International orders only posted

Monday 8th No Post

Tuesday 9th No Post

Wednesday 10th All back orders will be posted as early on Wednesday as possible.

I'm really sorry for the inevitable delays which will happen over the next few days and hope it doesn't cause to much inconvenience.