🎉 We Did It! Claire Sutton Named Businesswomen of the Year at UK Business Awards 2025 🎉
- Claire Sutton
- Aug 5
- 2 min read
We’re absolutely thrilled to share the news with you all! Claire Sutton, our founder and heart behind Wedding Belles Love, has been awarded Businesswomen of the Year at the UK Regional Business Awards 2025! 💖👑
What This Award Means to Us
Being named Businesswomen of the Year is a massive honour, not just for Claire personally, but for our entire team and community. It recognises vision, resilience, and leadership. Claire turned a dream into something real. She challenged industry norms by championing size-inclusivity and a body-positive bridal experience. And she’s grown Wedding Belles Love into a beloved bridal destination in Staffordshire — and soon beyond.
Small-Business Heart, Big-Business Impact
This award shines a spotlight on what we stand for:
💍 Empowering every bride with confidence and dignity
👗 Investing in a wide size range from 0 to 36, and now offering boutique training initiatives
🛍️ Launching off-the-peg bridal boutiques and supporting care leavers behind the scenes
🚀 Keeping the boutique future-focused, resilient, and community-driven
What the Judges Said
The UK Regional Business Awards celebrate small to medium-sized businesses that balance impact, innovation, and leadership. This longlist includes companies redefining their industries — and the judges highlighted Claire’s entrepreneurial drive, her genuine care for team and brides, and the brand’s forward-thinking expansion plans.
From Vision to Reality
Here’s a quick look at what Claire has achieved:
2020: Launched Wedding Belles Love with a dream and deep conviction.
2021-2024: Awarded multiple times, from Business Leadership to Body-Positive Boutique of the Year.
2025: Opened a second boutique with a social purpose, training care leavers in real-world retail.
2025: Businesswoman of the Year award, a true milestone.
Thank You for Believing
This award isn’t just for Claire it belongs to every bride we’ve supported, every guest who’s cheered us on, and every venue partner who believed in what we do.
From the bottom of our hearts: Thank you for trusting us, celebrating with us, and continuing to grow this dream. We’re just getting started, and the best is yet to come.
What’s Next?
Creating Opportunities for Care Leavers 💛
Winning Businesswoman of the Year has only strengthened our commitment to using success for something meaningful, and that means supporting care-experienced young people into employment. Our next boutique isn’t just about beautiful dresses (though there’ll be plenty of those!) it’s also being built as a training space where care leavers can gain real retail experience, build confidence, and learn skills that genuinely change futures. We’re working closely with social workers and local authorities to offer paid placements, mentoring, and life skills coaching, so that these young people don’t just survive, they thrive. This isn’t a side project. It’s a mission that sits right at the heart of Wedding Belles Love’s next chapter. 💫
Our new boutique, combining off-the-peg style with life-changing training programmes, is on the way
More podcast episodes, blogs, and real-bride moments headed your way
Continued focus on team development, partnerships, and award-winning service
Stay tuned because this just might be our most exciting year yet 🌟
With love and gratitude,Claire Sutton & The Wedding Belles Love Team💍
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