About Velvet Store

Velvet is a family business, set up in Brighton in 2000. We have 2 lifestyle stores in Brighton and Hove selling a range of furniture, home accessories, gifts, wedding decorations and favours. As well as selling French style and shabby chic interiors, gifts and clothing we have also been providing Sussex brides with beautiful accessories and decorations for 11 years through our stores.

Due to huge popularity and demand we are bringing a much bigger selection of wedding lovelies to a wider audience through our website. Our two beautiful lifestyle stores sell everything from furniture to clothes but carry only a small wedding range, this website is the place to see our huge range of wedding decorations and favours as well as our interiors and gift ranges.

Our first store started out selling gifts and accessories and over the years we have expanded, selling everything from furniture, lighting and mirrors to clothes, accessories and lovely wedding things. Velvet was launched in 2000 by husband and wife Nick and Emma Harrop and Emma's Mum, Iris Draper, we are very much a family business with Emma’s Dad George (aged 77) still a very active member of the team, we have a fantastic team of 20, many of whom have been at Velvet for years and years!

The buying team spends a great deal of time sourcing new and original products from all over the world, from hundreds of different suppliers. Our website is updated with new stock on a regular basis. If you can't find what you are looking for do call or email, we may well be able to find it from our suppliers!

We constantly push the boundaries of retail excellence with new stock arriving daily, beautiful displays and shop layouts and a huge mix of gorgeous products appealing to all ages and tastes. This, along with our passion for customer service helped us win 'Best Independent Retailer in Brighton and Hove 2007 and 2008' and 'Independent Retailer of the Year South and South East 2008', the online launch of our wedding range in 2010 resulted in a nomination for ‘Best Wedding Details’ in the Perfect Wedding Awards 2011 .

Even as our business grows, we remain a family business at heart that really cares about our staff and customers. Our team enjoys working here and that transpires to give the shops a lovely atmosphere.

Velvet and Weddings

We want your wedding to be the best day ever and will always go the extra mile to help as much as we can. Here's what some of our lovely customers have said about their Velvet Wedding experience:

"Your website is also fantastic and I love all items that you sell...absolutely lovely and the site is so easy to use."
Miss G Beaton via email

"LOVE LOVE LOVE all of your items by the way so glad I found the site have been telling everyone to take a look, many thanks and kind regards."
Beth Powell via email

"I ordered from your website and received my goods on time for a homecoming celebration.  Special thanks to the Velvet team for their excellent service and special efforts - I greatly appreciate it."
Lynn Spence via email

"First class service from the @VelvetStore team today, thank you for being so helpful xxxx"
@BohoEvents via Twitter

"The Marquee on my wedding day looked so amazing thanks to Velvet, from the bunting to the photo holders to gorgeous tea lights and the wooden Union Jack flags, all my guests said it looked like a celebrity wedding!!"
Lorna Jenkins via email

"I have just ordered loads of hanging hearts, LOVE letters, butterflies, birds and parasols. Emma Jane was so helpful and it was like Christmas when I opened all the packages. I can’t wait to get married!"
Natasha Bagiolo via email