With everything you need at hand to live a luxury lifestyle, it is easy to see why this village is becoming so popular and I can totally understand why Edward has opened his salon in this pretty village. It is the perfect place to entice his celebrity clientele to, as well as providing an exemplary, luxury hair and beauty experience to his quickly growing local customer base.
I met Edward through his work on shows at London and Paris fashion weeks, and he continues to work with a group of high flying business leaders and celebrities. Owning his own salon was a long-term dream and within a short time of opening, he won the Essex Salon People’s Choice award. He has now expanded the business with a team of highly qualified specialists, which also includes the new Be Beautiful beauty salon and I will be popping back soon to try their new ‘Million Dollar Facials’ – that’s the result not the fee!
Next door to Edward Taylor is another award-winning business, Stock Florist, a beautiful flower shop selling the finest hand cut flowers in Essex, which won the British Wedding Florist of the Year 2018. Owner Sam Raindle has always been passionate about flowers, so when the opportunity came along in 2014 to transform an empty shop into a beautiful flower shop she went for it!
Sam explains that her and her husband “discovered the empty shop whilst walking through the village and he mentioned how beautiful it would look like a flower shop. He was right, if you could draw a perfect location for a flower shop; Stock would be what you sketched out.
The narrow streets, the old houses full of character, the locals who always stop to say good morning. I really couldn’t have pictured it better in my mind. Stock is the wedding capital of Essex. There are four very special and very different wedding venues close by. People travel far and wide to come here, though, because there’s something so romantic about Stock”.