Hire in Style<\/a>, a luxury wedding furniture and event hire company.<\/p>\nThe duo love being part of people\u2019s special days, especially the magical time of a couple coming together in marriage. They feel privileged to be part of people\u2019s love stories.<\/p>\n
Their own story is sweet and serendipitous. Hannah moved from England to be with her now-husband Chris, finishing the Business Management and Marketing degree she started in the UK at Curtin. As Chris lived in regional Kojonup, Hannah ended up rooming with Chris\u2019s cousin Jacinta in Perth, who was studying to be a dietician at Curtin. Little did she realise her housemate would one day become her business partner.<\/p>\n
The idea for Hire in Style didn\u2019t occur until four years later, when Hannah and Chris tied the knot. Though it was a wonderful, exciting time, there was one problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had my heart set on a traditional English wedding in my adopted country, but I struggled to source not just the marquees I wanted to make the occasion special, but all the tables, chairs and decorations\u201d says Hannah.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was available at that time was either hugely expensive or downright dull. So I began to import and track down what I needed.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur wedding was everything I had dreamed it would be.\u201d<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BWmzTz5HPgn\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link<\/p>\n
Hannah originally planned to sell everything after the wedding, but her business instincts told her there was a gap in the market. After a brief discussion with Jacinta, Hire in Style became a registered business, launching at a bridal expo in Albany.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we first started, our stock was primarily from my own wedding and rustic in theme, but Jacinta\u2019s investment enabled us to rapidly diversify our product range to suit a wider range of customers\u2019 tastes and expand into event and special occasion hire,\u201d says Hannah.<\/p>\n
Initially working out of a sea container on Hannah and Chris\u2019s block in Kojonup, an expanded range and rising demand meant they quickly outgrew it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hired an old mechanics warehouse in the centre of Kojonup, which needed a lot of work to bring it up to scratch as a high-end hire company\u201d says Jacinta.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first huge milestone was the opening night of our warehouse, getting to show all our family and friends what we had achieved. We felt like we had finally made it to where we wanted to be, and it was all worth the blood, sweat and tears.\u201d<\/p>\n
As business continued to thrive and they each started families, it was becoming impractical for the pair to be running all aspects of the business, from accounting, to customer service, marketing and even moving, delivering and setting up furniture.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got to a point where it was getting too much for us alone and we had visions and goals of where we wanted the business to grow, but with our growing families we knew we couldn\u2019t do it by ourselves,\u201d says Jacinta.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe demand for our furniture range was increasing, especially in the South West. We made the decision to expand our services to the South West area. We leased a bigger warehouse in Capel, expanded our stock range further and recruited a team to help us run the business.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the road ahead wasn\u2019t all smooth sailing.<\/p>\n
\u201cExpanding into Capel tested our stamina and resolve,\u201d says Hannah.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe rapidly learnt the hard way that some of our processes and protocols were lacking.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause we hit the ground running and have given birth to six children between us since starting the business, the lack of planning and initiating processes is probably the hardest lesson we have had to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2gr5NMjJgm\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link<\/p>\n
They took the setbacks in their stride and used them to improve the business and its processes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first two to three years were a very challenging time. But we feel that all the hard work and mistakes we have made along the way have all paid off and helped us to grow our business to what it is today,\u201d says Jacinta.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith our staff running the business for us, we are now able to step back from working in the business to working on it and we can manage our staff effectively being remote, which has given us more freedom and time to spend with our families.\u201d<\/p>\n
It still requires great dedication and passion to keep their business running while raising their families, but the support from one another gets them through.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are lucky we have each other and that\u2019s what really motivates me: being accountable to each other and not wanting to let each other down,\u201d says Jacinta.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe both live, sleep, eat and breathe our business,\u201d says Hannah.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are passionate about what we do, so this generates our creativity. We both lead on different parts of the business that play to our individual strengths.\u201d<\/p>\n
While their strengths are different, their love of being part of beautiful celebrations is shared.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love everything about being part of someone\u2019s special day, watching all the planning, preparation and hard work come together,\u201d says Hannah.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be able to bring a client\u2019s vision to life so they can have the most amazing and memorable day is the best feeling,\u201d Jacinta agrees.<\/p>\n
The duo aren\u2019t showing any signs of slowing down and still have big ambitions for the next steps in their journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth Jacinta and I want to grow the business, making Hire in Style a bigger and better version of the company today. We want to create an aspirational lifestyle brand, which is recognised not only in WA, but across Australia and we have plans to offer exciting new services this year and going forward,\u201d says Hannah.<\/p>\n
\u201cWatch this space!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From students to event style gurus \u2013 Jacinta Richardson and Hannah Robinson are bringing a touch of class to celebrations in the south west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4388,"featured_media":8162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-8161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":[{"title":"Business Administration","qualification":"Bachelor of Business Administration","link":"https:\/\/study.curtin.edu.au\/offering\/course-ug-bachelor-of-business-administration--b-busadm\/","description":"Develop broad business expertise in marketing, finance, HR, project management and strategic management.","faculty":"Curtin Business School"},{"title":"Event Management","qualification":"Bachelor of Commerce (Event Management)","link":"https:\/\/study.curtin.edu.au\/offering\/course-ug-event-management-major-bcom--mjru-evntm\/","description":"Gain skills in organising and promoting exhibitions, festivals, conferences, product launches and fundraisers.","faculty":"Curtin Business School"},{"title":"Management","qualification":"Bachelor of Commerce (Management)","link":"https:\/\/study.curtin.edu.au\/offering\/course-ug-management-major-bcom--mjru-mngmt\/","description":"Learn to take a leading role, manage budgets and staff, and deal with key business challenges.","faculty":"Curtin Business School"}],"credits":{"author":{"title":"Cahli Samata","url":"#","target":""},"photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Hire-in-Style-Feature-Image-1000x500.jpg","author_meta":{"display_name":"281716a"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 05:11:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}