Wedding postbox

yorkshirebride2013

Hey

I really want one of the white/cream/ivory Royal Mail style postboxes - but can't find any in North Yorkshire. Does anyone have any ideas for where to get one?

Thanks

74jax

Type in wedding box on ebay. Ours was £3.99 aand we then added ribbon and typed up the front.

I'm on my fone so can't link to ebay but will at work.

On my 'wedding for 3k' thread there's a photo.

74jax

Today I've made our postbox. I ordered the box off Ebay (I think) and have printed off the front and mounted on card then added some red ribbon.


This is from the tread - is this the type? If so Ebay will help loads. Or do you mean the actual post boxes - again I've seen them on ebay but hire is around £60 a night - look fab tho

trinity_enigma

If you want the 'proper' one rather than the cardboard one then I think you'll have to look at venue decorators to hire one. We are having one through ambience venue styling which is a franchise type thing so tere should be someone local to you. Just try googling it.

74jax

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wedding-Post-Box-genuine-Cast-Iron-Royal-Mail-FOR-HIRE-/251280576196?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Celebrations_Occasions_ET&hash=item3a817d4ec4#ht_387wt_958
This is a propor one, currently £35 to hire on ebay

Or there's this type to buy http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wedding-Post-Box-Gifts-Cards-Camera-Secure-Wooden-Handcrafted-Table-Top-Keepsake-/121118643164?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Celebrations_Occasions_ET&hash=item1c333bd3dc#ht_311wt_958

or again to hire - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wedding-Card-Post-Box-Wedding-Gifts-Table-Centrepieces-/140985416473?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Celebrations_Occasions_ET&hash=item20d362bb19#ht_691wt_958

katie1812

We bought ours from Hobbycraft. It was a plain ivory post box, cost about £4 I think and then we bought some purple ribbon and made it look pretty! Lots of people commented on it, and it was so cheap and easy to do!
One thing I would say which someone said to me before our wedding, make sure it has a big enough slit for the cards! Else you could end up with hardly any fitting through.

74jax

katie1812 wrote: »

One thing I would say which someone said to me before our wedding, make sure it has a big enough slit for the cards! Else you could end up with hardly any fitting through.

*Mental note to go home and check the size we have on ours.........*

yorkshirebride2013

Thanks everyone, I haven't been on for a few days but will check out everything suggested!

Bella73

We made ours out of a photocopy paper box. Covered it with pillar box red paper and then made a hole for the "letters" to be posted through and then I went online and copied the layout of what is written on a proper postbox. It looked fab and everyone loved it.

Cheap and cheerful, we have kept all the wedding cards inside it ever since. We had to cut it open but as we had asked for dollars and vouchers it was nice knowing nobody could open it on the day and our Best Man put it in our room during the evening party.

loopylouc

If you check out facebook for wedding groups in Yorkshire there are quite a few venue dressing places that hire these out. One is Bridebay I think or might be Bride Bay and they have a cream one that looks like a vintage post box in cream.

juliep58

there are some really fancy ones on a craft website i frequent. no idea of price etc but the website appears to be http://www.distinctiveweddingpostbox.co.uk/

ps i am not linked in any way to this site and as i say i have no idea of prices.