OUR WEDDING DRESS DESIGNERS

At Lily Jacobs we have a stunning selection of wedding gowns, from some of your favourite designers including Madi Lane, Allure Romance, White Rose, Sophia Tolli, Mark Lesley, Romantica of Devon and a range of beautiful gown for our curvy brides. Our wedding dresses range from £800 to £2500 and our sample dresses start from £299. Book your free VIP Bridal Experience!

FIT TO PERFECTION

What makes Lily Jacobs Bridal Boutique a little different? We have an amazing team of experienced in-house seamstresses that ensure you’re walking down the aisle in a wedding dress that fits to perfection!

Meet the Team..

Abi Currer has 12 years of experience in dress making. She’s worked for the prestigious ballroom dance company Chrisanne Clover and has made dresses for popular TV shows such as Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing on Ice.

Becky Andrews is a popular bridal seamstress and has worked with brides for over 8 years. Becky has passion for ensuring our brides look and feel perfect on their special day.

ABOUT US

We are Lily Jacobs a luxurious bridal boutique located in the historic town of East Grinstead, West Sussex. We welcome brides to be from across Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Our exclusive boutique prides itself in having a fun, welcoming and personal approach to helping brides find the perfect wedding dress. 

We have a wide selection of wedding dresses to suit whatever bride you want to be. Whether you’re looking to be a bridal trend setter or always dreamt of channelling your inner princess, we want to be the boutique to help you on your bridal journey. We also stock a beautiful selection of veils and accessories to help bring your vision to life! 

We believe every bride is unique so we want to tailor this exciting event around you, starting with your very own VIP experience offering complimentary drinks and nibbles for you and your entourage.  Book your free VIP Bridal Experience!

LOVE FROM OUR BRIDES

I came here for my first wedding dress shopping trip and it was such a wonderful experience! Both ladies in the shop were so supportive, enthusiastic and informative! The dresses were beautiful and they had a good selection! I would highly recommend!

Rosanna

Highly recommend Lily Jacobs Bridal, I had a wonderful experience with Tanya looking after me. You can tell she truly cares about her brides and wants to find them the perfect dress.
I was quite nervous about the dress shopping process, but Tanya made me feel at ease and her shop is the nicest one I visited.
I bought my dress from Lily Jacobs and am extremely happy with the whole experience.

Kate

Interesting Facts About Hastings

Introduction

The first mention of Hastings is found in the late 8th century in the form Hastingas. This is derived from the Old English tribal name Hæstingas, meaning ‘the constituency (followers) of Hæsta’. Symeon of Durham records the victory of Offa in 771 over the Hestingorum gens, that is, “the people of the Hastings tribe.” Hastingleigh in Kent was named after that tribe. The place name Hæstingaceaster is found in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for 1050,and may be an alternative name for Hastings. However, the absence of any archaeological remains of or documentary evidence for a Roman fort at Hastings suggest that Hæstingaceaster may refer to a different settlement, most likely that based on the Roman remains at Pevensey

History of Hastings

Evidence of prehistoric settlements have been found at the town site: flint arrowheads and Bronze Age artefacts have been found. Iron Age forts have been excavated on both the East and West Hills. This suggests that the inhabitants moved early to the safety of the valley in between the forts. The settlement was already based on the port when the Romans arrived in Britain for the first time in 55 BC. At this time, they began to exploit the iron (Wealden rocks provide a plentiful supply of the ore), and shipped it out by boat. Iron was worked locally at Beauport Park, to the north of the town. It employed up to one thousand men and is considered to have been the third-largest mine in the Roman Empire. There was also a possible iron-working site near Blacklands Church in the town – the old name of ‘Ponbay Bridge’ for a bridge that used to exist in the area is a corruption of ‘Pond Bay’ as suggested by Thomas Ross (Mayor of Hastings and author of an 1835 guide book)

General Info

The start of the Norman Conquest was the Battle of Hastings, fought on 14 October 1066, although the battle itself took place 8 mi (13 km) to the north at Senlac Hill, and William had landed on the coast between Hastings and Eastbourne at Pevensey. It is thought that the Norman encampment was on the town’s outskirts, where there was open ground; a new town was already being built in the valley to the east. That “New Burgh” was founded in 1069 and is mentioned in the Domesday Book as such. William defeated and killed Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon King of England, and destroyed his army, thus opening England to the Norman conquest.

Hastings was shown as a borough by the time of the Domesday Book (1086); it had also given its name to the Rape of Hastings, one of the six administrative divisions of Sussex. As a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a “bailiff, jurats, and commonalty”. By a Charter of Elizabeth I in 1589, the bailiff was replaced by a mayor.

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