REVIEW DW Feb 09 Show trends 3098 views

We spent a mouth-watering day, looking around the Designer Wedding Show at Battersea Park, London and were so inspired we thought we'd share some of the hot top trends.

Only the crème de la crème get to exhibit at the Designer Wedding Show, so while you are not likely to pick up a bargain, what you see is tipped to be top.

So what did we see? Masses of vintage style, from lacy-looking cakes and ditsy china hire at The Utterly Sexy Cafe to traditional canvas marquees with wooden poles. In fact, marquees were in abundance. At LPM Bohemia - The Tent Company there were stunning Indian marquees with block-printed linings and amazing Mongolian Yurts of all sizes, including a grand pavillion. At Beautiful World Tents, it was a bit more rustic with huge tipees on offer!

Wedding dresses were following the vintage trend too with genuine vintage dresses at The Vintage Wedding Dress Company and lots of vintage design influences in the new collections at Stephanie Allin, Jenny Packham and Sassi Holford.

Amongst our favourite finds for big budget receptions were the customized photo booths, complete with 'beauty lighting' and 'wind machines' to make your guests look glam from Boothnation and icecream tricycles with over 170 flavours of delicious Italian icecream in waffle cones from Ideas Box.