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Alison Hargreaves Guides for Brides Bio
Alison Hargreaves Updated:
8th of March 2023

Being the best at what we do, we always receive amazing feedback from our businesses. Here are a few of the best testimonials we have collated over the years...

“The Guides for Brides listing has helped to develop more genuine wedding enquiries and increased wedding venue bookings” - Winters Barn

“If you need to increase your wedding enquiries Guides for Brides can make a significant difference” - Loseley Park

“Guides for Brides provide an amazing platform for promoting our venue. They have an efficient and productive site and also happen to be a wonderful, friendly team!” - Emma Deeley - The Tythe Barn

“Guides for Brides Spotlight listing has massively raised the number of quality wedding enquiries and helped our business to stand out from the crowd” - Eynsham Hall

“I always receive excellent advice about ways to improve my wedding listing and good service from my dedicated account manager at Guides for Brides” - Ashridge House

“We are absolutely delighted with the results we have had since advertising in Guides for Brides. Bookings are up, interest is high, and referrals from the Guides for Brides website are consistently in the top 10. Great value, an attractive website, and lovely people! Many thanks” Simon Orr, General Manager, Hedingham Castle:

"Advertising with Guides For Brides has worked well for us as a venue - hence why we continue to do so many years down the line!  As an advertiser we feel very looked after and constantly kept in the loop with how we can improve upon our advertising and Social Media accounts and increase our exposure.  Great value for money!” The Tythe Barn

"We love our Spotlight advert with Guides for Brides. We upgraded with John and within 24hrs of launching our updated advert, we received a new enquiry. The whole process was really easy and John was on hand to give us advice on how to update our webpage.”  Milton Hill House

“We have been advertising on Guides for Brides since 2009. We get a large number of high quality leads from the site and our account manager has always been on hand and extremely helpful.” Moor Park Golf Club - 2018

Supplier Reviews

“Since advertising with Guides for Brides my wedding businesses has seen growth year on year” - Julia Evans Photography

“I have tried other advertising options, but I receive much better quality wedding enquiries from Guides for Brides”- The Cotswold Tailor

“After looking for different ways to grow my wedding business, my wedding enquiries have increased significantly since I advertised with Guides for Brides” - Nigel Chapman Photography

“Guide for Brides stands well above other channels of advertising, 17 years of advertising with them says it all.  Balloontastic Ltd has benefited enormously through the 5 Gold Star client testimonials. You MUST advertise with this Company. Well Done Team!!!!” Richard Adams - Balloontastic

“Advertising with Guides For Brides for the past 24 months has seen Croxfords turnover double this Season. This is value-investing at its best and a superb return on our advertising budget – thanks to all at GFB for a job well done!” Suzan Croxford, Croxfords

“Thank You Guides for Brides for helping to me to grow my business. When I first had the website built 5 years ago it was my listing on carriages/wedding transport Hertfordshire that brought in a lot of my bookings for that year and the following year. I now have listings in different areas and the wedding cars are extremely busy – I would say money well spent advertising with Guides for Brides” Deborah, Classic Wedding Limousines

“Thanks to GFB we have just secured a summer wedding for the editor of one of the UK’s leading rural lifestyle magazines.  Obviously we are delighted to have been chosen for this very prestigious appointment. If we ever needed more proof of the power of advertising then this is it.  Croxfords only advertise with GFB; money well spent – I should say so!” Suzan Croxford,  Croxfords

“Both my partner and I are really happy with the service we are getting from Guides for Brides.  I am happy to say that we have a 90% success rate from couples who have been referred by your company, which is fantastic! I know we have much work to do, as always, with our presence on your website and we are very grateful for your advice which keeps us on our toes. Full time Wedding Photography is an enjoyable and demanding business and long my are relationship with your company continue.” Peter and Marion Hughes - Take A Look Photography

“We will always have a soft spot for G4B as it was they who brought us our very first wedding. When one launches a niche product which breaks the mould somewhat, one needs all the help one can get. Happily, 4 years on and 150 weddings later, Kemp & Kemp Catering are stronger than ever and delighted to be able to thank G4B for all their help to us - and of course to all our wonderful brides.” Richard Kemp - Kemp and Kemp Catering

“The Cotswold Ensemble is a long-established group of musicians, mostly providing string quartets and string duos for wedding, receptions and parties. Over the years we have advertised in various ways – specialist magazines, online and in other platforms. Our constant mainstay, with best value for money & most helpful staff, is without doubt Guides for Brides.” Fiona Hedges - Cotswold Ensemble

“London Legend Wedding Cars have advertised with Guides for Brides for many years and are consistently happy with the results. Without a doubt this long established directory is streaks ahead of the competition and really does deliver the business! It is always a pleasure to talk to the team and to work with them towards a common goal, more bookings!” London Legend Wedding Cars

“Ever since HeadSpin Videography was founded, we have been using both the Guides for Brides website and the printed booklets for promotion. We receive a constant stream of enquiries with a high conversion rate to bookings. We have tried many of the other wedding websites and publications that come and go, but many of these appear to be a complete waste of time and money, giving little response, and they disappear again later. Guides for Brides offers not only effective promotion, but also a personal service with a series of innovations, keeping the Guides both useful to Brides and cost-effective for advertisers. We will undoubtedly continue to advertise with Guides for Brides into the future.” HeadSpin Videography

“B&M Videos have been advertising with Guides for Brides for some time now and are delighted with the response that we have received from this wedding website. We check our stats on a regular basis and Guides For Brides always brings in the most hits. As videography has now become a very competitive market advertising on this web site gets results.” B&M Videos

“I would just like to thank Guides for Brides for all of their support and help over the years; they’ve been fantastic and we have received a huge response from our web advertising alone. We feel that the Guides for Brides Website is an amazing user friendly, free resource that is absolutely packed with information. Making it a must have for marketing our wedding floristry business. We receive a large number of quality leads from our Platinum Website advert every year which makes advertising on the site extremely good value for money.” 

“My advert on Guides for Brides has worked brilliantly with anything from 80 – 120 click throughs to my website every month. A great return for just £145 a year! I am really pleased with the response to the Guides for Brides ads I have – I have had 17 bookings this year as a result of it!!” 

“After using your site for many years now, we find the service easy and effective to use. The service that you provide emailing us direct with the leads is fantastic. “I have been using Guides for Brides for about 3 years now and their service has become an important part of may sales and marketing effort. For me the Guides for Brides website (portal) provides useful targeted exposure for my work, and I have been very satisfied with the results so far.” 

“The Cake Fairy views Guides for Brides as a window into Wedding Shopping. Your site is fresh and modern and very informative, which makes it so much easier for brides to navigate. Being on page one of the cakes in Berkshire section ensures i have the best coverage for brides looking within this area.” The Cake Fairy

“Thank you Gill and team at GfB for all your assistance with our advertisement. You are always so professional and helpful and I would highly recommend anyone within the wedding industry to seriously consider advertising in one of the Guides for Brides as it does help to spread the word about one’s business” I receive regular valuable leads via guidesforbrides.co.uk, and the staff are fantastically helpful and efficient” 

“Guides for Brides has been the most successful advertising that I have done! We’ve advertised our tipi hire business on guides for brides since we’ve been going and we get a huge amount of referrals from the site. Our premium plus listing allows us to stay at the top of our category, which means everyone who’s searching for a marquee in Devon will see us first! The listing is really thorough, allows us to show photos, videos and really show people what we’re all about, it’s fantastic!” Marquees in Devon

“Brides Travel has been very pleased to advertise with Guides for Brides for the last 8 years. It is a well known leading company for expert information to all new Brides. We have also used our own services for some of the staff! Very pleasant company to deal with.” Brides Travel

“As I retire from professional harp playing, I feel I must write to express my gratitude to your wonderful team for their care and dedication to my special work as an essential part of a wedding day. Your staff became friends ready to solve any problems, and my memories of busy, stimulating wedding fairs are very happy ones. I always advise young musicians to contact Guides for Brides if they wish for an indispensable advertising package. All good wishes to everyone in the office.” 

“Bathsheba's Wedding Ceilidh and Barn Dance Band has been advertising with Guides For Brides for about ten years and we have always found the staff to be friendly and helpful but professional in all their dealings with us. It is rare for them not to be available on the telephone but they always promptly return calls if unavailable and reply very promptly to emails. They are knowledgeable about the wedding industry and their advice has been very useful to us. These attributes are extremely important to us. Guides for Brides is Probably the biggest and best Wedding Directory in the UK.” Bathsheba's Wedding Ceilidh and Barn Dance Band

"Guides For Brides is a brilliant platform for Amazing Venues to use for their wedding marketing due to their large database and popularity within the wedding industry."

"Guides for brides is a well-known and established directory that have never failed to meet our marketing and advertising needs. Over the years we have worked with Guides for Brides they have provided endless support, and given us some amazing features and advertorial offers."

Send us your feedback as we would love to hear from you, either email your dedicated account manager or Jackie at info@guidesforbrides.co.uk

Alison Hargreaves Guides for Brides Bio

About the author


Alison Hargreaves

Alison has been advising brides, grooms and bridesmaids for more than 25 years. She has an unrivalled knowledge of the British wedding industry and frequently appears on podcasts and expert panels. She regularly attends international wedding conferences to keep the UK at the forefront of wedding planning trends.

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