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Wow.  It’s been the best few months ever!!  The Groom’s Room not only bagged the title of The Wedding Industry Awards ‘Best Menswear Retailer 2015’ for The East of England back in November but in January we proudly attended the national awards in London at The Café De Paris and were awarded this title for… Continue reading It’s Official – Best Menswear Retailer in the UK!!!

Christmas Song Staff 2014 Happy New Year everyone …. So 2014 flashed by!!!  Christmas is done and the Wife and I have dragged the decs down, how about you?  Hope that you all enjoyed your festive season?  As usual we ate and drank way too much but really enjoyed the Christmas break, especially celebrating with Arabella our… Continue reading Happy New Year! Here’s to 2015

June is always a hectic but brilliant month at the Groom’s Room, we start getting into a LOT of fabulous wedding celebrations which is always fantastic – the shop has a real buzz about it and our complimentary cold beer fridges enjoy a real hammering! Unusually though the month kicked off for me and my… Continue reading An all Inclusive Belly!

So my Wife (and biz partner) Abi says to me ‘Rob; suit and boot this man, make him look gorgeous, we’re doing a shoot at Spains Hall in Essex (for their marketing) and he’s our model….’  In comes Sam and being a model it wasn’t difficult to help him look good, a likeable chap, good… Continue reading Spains Hall Photoshoot

So where an earth does time go? It feels like 5 minutes ago we were eating Christmas pudding and now here I am eating unnecessary quantities of Easter chocolate!! Time certainly flies when you’re busy suiting and booting customers!! Well we’ve well and truly settled into 2014 and it’s shaping up to be another fantastic… Continue reading Destination ‘Wedding’

Well as usual we were packed to the rafters with appointments on Saturday, we had the great time meeting new 2014 and 2015 brides and grooms and we really look forward to looking after the rest of the lads in their parties sometime in the future…. Loved meeting Karl for whom we put together a… Continue reading Great Grooms! Great Suits!

So we’re sitting at dinner one night and my Wife Abi says she has an idea and that she wants to raise money for the ‘Help For Heroes’ cause.  I ask what she’s thinking we’ll do and she says ‘Oh, you know, just throw a small party, make it a wedding dress based themed night and hopefully… Continue reading Help For Heroes Charity Bash

So during a massively busy week of new menswear suit hire appointments for 2014 weddings my Wife Abi pops into my office to tell me about her latest apparently ‘ingenious marketing suggestion’.  I probably rolled my eyes but would have cautiously listened with interest.  It was to participate in ‘Worker’s Playtime’.  A live radio quiz… Continue reading Radio Days – The Groom’s Room on ‘Worker’s Playtime’

The Groom’s Room at Abigail’s Collection is pretty passionate about delivering an ‘experience’ to our customers and really we do genuinely strive to be the best that we can be.  Entering business awards is something that we’ve always enjoyed doing.  We like to be assessed and tested against other businesses.  It keeps us on our… Continue reading Award winners and proud …

Is it me or is there yet another increase in destination weddings?  We’ve had an exciting flurry lately of new Grooms shopping with us for their weddings abroad, I’m slightly envious, they’ll have guaranteed sunshine and a pool to sit at whilst they nurse their newlywed Hangover! We’ve got lots of options for Grooms and… Continue reading Destination; Sunshine Wedding