Creatiques are a multi-award winning Bridal Boutique, based in the heart of Southsea. With over 28 years of experience within the Bridal Industry, co-owners Andrew and Robert Pearce and their small team of highly trained and experienced Bridal Consultants offer a personalised, one-to-one appointment to each and every bride. Within a beautifully furnished surrounding, home to over 130 handpicked sample gowns, the team pride themselves on their longstanding ethos – ‘From the first step through the Creatiques door, to your first step down the aisle’.
Home to over 130 hand selected bridal gowns from the UK’s top designers Justin Alexander, Maggie Sottero, Eliza Jane Howell, Sottero and Midgley, Sincerity Bridal, Lillian West and Mark Lesley, Creatiques offer a personal, appointment only service within the beautiful surroundings of their award winning boutique. Offering sizes from an UK 8-36, and house the largest selection of designer wedding gowns in Hampshire. The Creatiques Team are all highly trained and experienced with all aspects of their beautiful sample gowns; and have over 25 years worth of expertise when it comes to dressing all shapes and and house the largest selection of designer wedding gowns in Hampshire.
Creatiques also offers a ready to wear collection, this collection is available to take away with you at your appointment at upto 60% off RRP.
OUR BRAND NEW MOTHER OF THE BRIDE/groom and occasional wear collection is available in sizes 8-28 our ranges are from Ella boo, Lizabella and Labella, the “in” boutique opens in June 2020, and hosts three exclusive designers along with matching hats, percher’s, fascinators and accessories.
THE SHOP
This stylish, spacious Boutique has three elegant and completely personal fitting areas. Each area has comfortable seating for the Bride plus two others and is surrounded by rails of beautiful gowns.
Not only do Creatiques specialise in bridal gowns, but the boutique also offers ranges of hand-selected accessory pieces, veils, tiaras and shoes from designers and brands including Ivory and Co and Daisy Day. The teams at Creatiques really do go above and beyond for each and every bride. “From the first step through the Creatiques door to your first step down the aisle…”
In-house seamstress is available for our brides in the boutique on Thursdays and available by appointment only
MEET THE TEAM
Co-owners, founders and the faces of Creatiques; The Boys have a wealth of bridal and retail knowledge and are a well respected force within the Bridal Industry. Having dressed Brides for over 26 years, The Boys have been told on more than one occasion that they ‘Know how to dress a woman!’
Rob
Brides adore Rob’s chilled out, and calm personality. He is an absolute genius when it comes to the retail management side of the business, and is rarely phased by anything. Rob is a window dressing extraordinaire, often taking something unsuspecting but creating a masterpiece of a window display, generating “oohs and ahhs” on the other side of the glass. Rob has 30 years of Retail Management experience, and is a firm believer in finger spacing- much to the Creatiques Teams dismay! Rob loves a huge array of music, and is often in charge of the Creatiques playlist; which after a long day of fittings can result in some interesting dance moves…often including veils; very Pans People-esque.
Andrew
Passionate and precise, there isn’t much Andrew doesn’t know about a wedding dress. Starting Creatiques all those years ago in a small workroom in his house, Andrew not only fronts the award winning business and is a bridal hair expert (having an onsite hair stylist is a real asset to our brides, he knows hair and what would look best on your wedding day CHECK OUT HIS WEBSITE www.thehairdresssir.co.uk) but is also renowned fashionista within the industry. Andrew will stop at nothing to deliver a second to none service to the Bride’s and this shows in his persona. In his spare time (not that there’s much of it mind) Andrew enjoys cooking up culinary delights, which he has proved rather fabulous at; so much so that in 2013 Andrew reached the semi-finals of ITV’s ‘Food Glorious Food’ as his very glamorous alter-ego The Fabulous Miss G. As Miss G, Andrew has since gone on to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for Hampshire based charities, and Queen Alexander Hospital.
Claire
I have been sewing all my life, making costumes and outfits for myself. I studied sewing at college but didn’t start working in bridal until 2003. I was lucky to work with designers Stewart Parvin, Stephanie Allin and Sassi Holford. In 2010 I was Manager of Stephanie Allin’s London store and responsible for fitting all her London Brides and red carpet gowns. In 2018 I moved to Fareham and in 2019 started working with Creatiques. I love my job and working with Creatiques is just fabulous.
Betsy
Betsy is a woman of many talents and is the newest member of the Creatiques team. Betsy is also a ‘bride to be’ and loves nothing more then chatting all things wedding, sharing advice and ideas with fellow brides. When Betsy is not wedding planning and working with our brides she is busy juggling her many careers. Over the years Betsy has worked internationally as a singer and tribute artist performing in 5* resorts and music venues. Betsy now specialises in the Vintage decades and yes she sings at weddings too. Betsy is also a passionate Yoga teacher and offers corporate, 1-1 and group classes online and in person across Hampshire. So if your in need of a little Zen Betsy is on hand to keep you cool, calm and collected.