Marquee Perfection at A Darling Affair

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If you were one of the lovely Darling’s who joined us at our recent Sunshine Coast Wedding Fair then you probably would have noticed something veeeeeeery different this year… I’m talking about that big, beautiful marquee we had erected on the back lawn. We filled it up with beautiful vendors and a gorgeous lounge area and then we created atmosphere with some sweet live music. Mother nature joined the party by providing some warm winter sunshine and with all these forces combined – we had a spectacular new area for people to oooohh and aaaahhh over.

If you’re wondering where you can get your hot little hands on one of these magnificent marquees then head right over to Perry’s Hire. These guys have been on the Sunshine Coast for more than 30 astonishing years now! We were so happy to welcome them to our fair this year and we were also very grateful for their assistance with bringing our marquee vision to life by adding gorgeous silk lining and amazing chandeliers! Here are some images of our models hanging out in the marquee area from When Elephant Met Zebra.

Styling Perfection by Simply Style Co.

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We think our Sunshine Coast Fair this year looked prettier than ever before… between the sun drenched chapel, the warm and buzzing atmosphere in the back hall and the chilled out vibes in the marquee, we pretty much had all bases covered. Our guests could mingle and enjoy the day with lots of yummy food to eat, lovely live music and pretty things to look at all around.

We have a big fat thank you we need to make to the very inspiring Simply Style Co who managed to transform the grounds into some kind of sweet magic on the day. You may have noticed the gorgeous lounge set up where our models hung out in the marquee? Or those fantastic chairs and lawn games at the fashion parade and the front of the chapel? And we’re sure you managed to get a glimpse of the very cool stall set up for Hello May… all of that (and more) came from Simply Style Co. We LOVE these guys and we’re sure you’ll love them just as much as we do… if you need a stylist for your wedding then drop them a line right now.

In the meantime, here are some images from When Elephant Met Zebra of the beautiful event styling on the day…

The Afternoon Fashion Show – A Wrap Up

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Just in case there wasn’t enough prettiness on display for you at our Sunshine Coast Wedding Fair last weekend, we thought we better provide you with ANOTHER fashion show at 2pm for you to feast your lucky eyes on. This parade featured stunning gowns from the local Judy Copley Bridal, who also provided that amazing dress for our promo shoot earlier this year. Our models got to enjoy the company of the very bubbly, fun and talented girls from The Beauty Case who were in charge of hair and make-up for the afternoon parade and our handsome men were lucky enough to be dressed again by the supremely talented Urbbana.

More amazing photos from When Elephant Met Zebra are about to make your morning so much more enjoyable!

Introducing the MAGNIFICENT Twig and Grace!

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Twig & Grace this year was our major floral designer for our Sunshine Coast Fair, so we knew that things were going to be taken up a notch… but what Dezley, Michael and the team created on the day left our jaws scraping along the ground. These guys worked tirelessly to transform the entrance to the chapel along with the fashion parade area and we were squealing like kids on Christmas morning when we saw it come to life in front of our eyes.

Inside there was an explosion of colour! Their vintage french bike with the gorgeous wooden cart on the front overflowed with flowers that created a beautiful fragrance in the chapel. It was a glorious delight to the senses of both smell and sight and if you could eat their display you would!

Outside was a whole other story!

The lush greenery looked incredibly beautiful (we have never seen greenery used this way before – usually it’s a filler in your bouquet). It created the perfect backdrop for the day. If you’re anything like us, you just can’t get enough of how amazing the fair looked this year.

We have never met a more organised and professional business in the wedding field, as they should be with years of experience in the industry under their belt with amazing personalities to match. If you are a creative soul you should really visit them in their store in Cooroy and stay for a cuppa and discuss all your wedding floristry needs.

THANK YOU TWIG & GRACE! We love you. Can’t wait to work with you again!

So enough of our chatting we’ll let the images speak for themselves.

All of these items are available to hire from Twig and Grace so go hit up their web site and give them a call today!!

http://www.twigandgrace.com/

Images by: Twig and Grace & When Elephant Met Zebra and Marion Jonkers Photography

The Morning Fashion Show – A Wrap Up

A Darling Affair 24/07/2014 0 Comments

Were you one of the faces in the big crowd at our 11.30am fashion show at our recent Sunshine Coast Wedding Fair? If so, you would have seen first hand how amazing our models looked with fantastic images from When Elephant Met Zebra the stunning girls were dressed by Begitta (two of these dresses were brand new and made their debut from the new “White” range!) and had their hair and make-up done by the fabulous Sass & Niki and Boudoir Blush. Our very dapper male models were decked out in AMAZING suits by our favourite – Urbbana.

A HUGE thank you goes to Twig and Grace for the AMAZING fashion parade fit out. An amazingly solid wooden arbour construction fitted out with gorgeous greenery cascading down thew posts is available from their hire range as well as the pallet wall structures. The magic that they created transformed the exterior of the building to a completely new space. The team can create your dream wedding with no doubt. Don’t bother doing it yourself.

When the fashion parade was over the crowd followed the the models down to the marquee and lounged in the Bridal lounge by Simply Style Co for our guests to have a closer look at the beautiful gowns.

Don’t panic if you weren’t able to make the morning show Darlings, we’ve got all the images of the prettiness right here for you to feast your eyes on.

Fun in the Sun in Woombye!

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Saturday 19 July was the day and The Chapel, Woombye was the place… and you came out in big numbers to support our biggest and best wedding fair yet! With over 50 of the freshest and most creative wedding vendors the Sunshine Coast has to offer we braved a chilly morning for an early set up and the wedding fair God’s repaid us with a stunning, warm and sunny day. We saw some of you who came through the gates at 10am still wandering around, enjoying the food, music and pretty stalls three hours later!

Our incredibly talented professional photographer When Elephant Met Zebra was on hand all day capturing all of the pretty little details so that we could have a lifelong memento of such a wonderful day. Today we are sharing some of those images with you! If you haven’t booked your photographer yet then we can’t recommend Brian from WEMZ highly enough… go straight to his website and book now. You will LOVE the results.

Thank you to all our wonderful vendors and to all of the Darling’s who came through the gates with open minds and hearts. And a very special thank you to Simply Style Co and Twig and Grace for all their amazing work in bringing the fair to life with beautiful styling, floral work, arch ways and lounges – the Chapel has never looked so good!

Keep your eyes peeled to the blog over the next few days Darlings as we post more recaps from a beautiful day in the sun.

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So. Many. PRIZES!

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Image credit: When Elephant Met Zebra

This year’s Sunshine Coast Wedding fair is our BIGGEST and BEST yet! We’ve got more than 50 vendors spread out across the Chapel, the Hall and the Marquee at The Chapel, Woombye and lots of them are offering up awesome prizes and promotions on the day… seriously, just LOOK at how many prizes and promotions there are on the day!

MAIN PRIZES

Begitta – FREE wedding dress to the value of $1,500

Urbbana – $500 voucher to go towards a suit

MORE AMAZING PRIZES

With Love Stationery & Design – A grey linen guestbook and your choice of either notelet or advice cards in any colour

Wild Heart Weddings – Quick Start Wedding Planning Package valued at $500

Love Note – Personalised Ceremony Entertainment (Pre ceremony:To set the tone for your day we will play 20 mins of acoustic music while guests arrive. Ceremony: Live performance of 3 songs during your ceremony) Valued at $580

The Photo Booth Guys – Free Insta-Printer Hire valued at $580

The Curious Caravan – Win a $50 off voucher for the curious caravan event feature packages

Willow & Sage – A free E-shoot with 25 images high resolution print ready on USB along with a guest book for signing with 25 images inside

Cloud Nine Weddings – Free Wedding Ceremony Package (see Cloud Nine for details)

Confetti & Cake – $50 Gift Voucher

Kayla Marshall Hair – Free trial for a bride and one bridesmaid

JR Music – Voucher for $150 off your wedding entertainment package

Love My Food – Gourmet picnic for two (delivered) valued at $120

PROMOTIONS ON THE DAY

The Curious Caravan – Free babycino for the kids with the purchase of a regular or large cup

Coast Wedding Creations – 10% off all bookings made on the day and 7 days after the event

Made to Match Events – Receive complimentary hire of any Made to Match items of your choice when you book the “I’m Getting Married” wedding package valued at $300

Frozen Sunshine – Book a Frozen Sunshine package on the day and they will customise your sticks for FREE.

Miss Poppins – Book on the day to receive 50% off your booking

JR Music – 50% off your wedding package if you book on the day

Confetti & Cake – 10% off bulk order of 50 or more wedding favours with free shipping

AND – on top of this there are heaps of other promotions and prizes being run through our vendor stalls on the day… so make sure you visit EVERYONE to see what’s on offer!

How to be in the draw? Just bring your smiling face along to our fair on 19 July at The Chapel, Woombye – click here for tickets!

Food glorious food at The Wedding Fair!!

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Not only will your eyes be filled with goodness but also you bellies. We have some of the yummiest and unique tastes in town at The Wedding Fair July 19 so you can have a spot of lunch with us.

A gorgeous delightful picnic lunch, fun mouth watering ice blocks in the winter sun and some warm drinks to warm you up afterwards. Don’t forget to bring your penny’s – no atm on site.

Here are our awesome foodies to tell you all about what they produce:

FROZEN SUNSHINE

How was Frozen Sunshine born?

Frozen Sunshine is the lovechild of a chef (Jamie) and a product designer (Natalie). We take the best local and seasonal ingredients and turn them into delicious iceblocks. We love dreaming up new flavours based on desserts, cocktails and happy memories.

What is your favourite thing about weddings?

Our favourite thing is to do at weddings is hitting the dance floor and mingling. It’s definitely the place where you really feel the love!

If you a colour, what would you be and why?

If Frozen Sunshine were a colour it would have to be yellow, because of the colour of sunshine, happiness, fun and creativity.

THE CURIOUS CARAVAN

In a nutshell, tell us about you and your caravan…

I’m Naja, a vintage-lovin’ gal. I’ve combined my love of coffee and vintage in converting my 1957 ‘Peggy Sue’ into a luxury organic fair trade coffee, tea and treats van with vintage styling. I transport her to markets, events and parties in Brisbane and beyond. She’s perfect for hire as a whimsical photo booth, for photo shoots and a coffee fix for you guests of course.

What is the most unique thing you’ve seen at weddings?

I’ve seen some fantastic ideas such as using a vintage type writer for the guests to write messages on to the bride and groom. Very vintage!

LOVE MY FOOD

Tell us about your food glorious food!…

I create interactive food, made to share for relaxed, fun weddings or gatherings. All the food in my picnic crates are made by me and are original recipes.

I also started the first picnic restaurant in the world where we only take bookings for underneath tree’s and eye masks are provided for afternoon naps.

What is it about weddings that you love so much?

I love people sharing food, and every time is see the guests faces when they receive their picnic crate, it’s like Christmas! My business started when i catered for my own wedding and shared my love of picnics and now i get to enjoy sharing it with more and more fun brides.

The most amazing thing you’ve seen at a wedding?

At one wedding i catered for, the groom delivered the ring via a falcon that flew down and landed on the brides hand and she had no idea it was planned!

Bring your penny’s along to the fair (no atm located on site) and have lunch with us!

Yum! Yum! Get on over to their websites in the mean time:

Frozen Sunshine / The Curious Caravan / Love My Food

Introducing our Wedding Venues!

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Both of the venues that will be exhibiting at the Wedding Fair JULY 19, The Chapel Woombye and The Lakehouse Sunshine Coast are places that A Darling Affair has worked closely with and have done some gorgeous styled shoots on location. Come and visit them at the fair and discuss more of your dream wedding day.

You could always get married at The Chapel and then have your reception at The Lakehouse! The best of both worlds. WIN/WIN!!

THE CHAPEL WOOMBYE

John is the owner, pastor, celebrant and all round good guy at The Chapel Woombye. We love this place because it’s a blank canvas and you can decorate this place to your hearts content. John very much lets you just go at it. Not many places let you have full creative control and that’s why we keep going back for more, more, more!!!

When you come to the fair you will see why we have fallen in love with this lovely white chapel and it’s nooks and cranny’s that make it a stylists dream come true.

The Chapel Woombye Shoot: Dress Judy Copley Bridal Photography When Elephant Met Zebra Styling Wholehearted Studio Flowers Willow Bud Hair & MUA The Beauty Case Suit Urbbana Picnic Love my Food Shoot Concept A Darling Affair & Little Owl Events Location The Chapel Woombye

THE LAKE HOUSE SUNSHINE COAST

Kellie, The Lakehouse’s venue manager has been married for 17 years and is more in love with my husband, every year!

“I believe in love! I believe in happy-ever-after. Weddings are a significant time in people’s lives and I feel privileged to be a part of such a blessed event”.

Kellie can co-ordinate an inspection of the venue, provide packages and quotes for you beautiful, newly engaged couples and work with you to design a wedding day ceremony and reception that you will remember forever.

The Lakehouse Shoot: Photography Shutter & Lace Styling & Stationery Sunshine & Confetti Makeup Tasleema Nigh – Makeup Artist Suit Urbbana Dress Made with Love – Unique Bridal Collection Hair Liberty Hair Design Location The Lakehouse Sunshine Coast Shoot Concept A Darling Affair & Little Owl Events

Introducing some very SPECIAL-TY vendors!

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WILD HEART WEDDINGS

In a nutshell, who are you and what do you do?

We plan and coordinate awesome weddings! We have a fresh, fun and professional approach to wedding planning and can offer as much (or as little) help as you need. You might also know of us as Little Owl Events – we’ve just gone through a BIG re-brand and A Darling Affair will be our first public outing as Wild Heart Weddings, so we’re pretty excited to show everyone the new look.

What is it about weddings that you love so much?

The ceremony, the speeches and the dancing. We are usually pretty involved in our client’s lives that by the time the wedding day rolls around we feel like we’re watching our friends get married, so there are usually always a few sneaky happy tears during the ceremony and speeches. And the dancing – who doesn’t love it when one of the groomsmen decides to do the worm in his boxers and bowtie only!?

This gig gives pretty good job satisfaction – there aren’t many jobs out there where you get to work with people who are happy, excited and in love day in and day out.

What do you do in your free time?

Three words:

wine | cheese | music

MISS POPPINS

In a nutshell, who are you and what do you do?

Miss Poppins is a boutique nanny & babysitting agency, focused on providing a unique service for those couples who wish to have children be a part of their big day. From kids tables, to age-appropriate activities, games and off-site babysitting in hotels or homes. We are there to make sure that Mum & Dad enjoy the wedding, knowing that their children are being entertained and supervised by fully qualified nannies.

What is the most unique thing you’ve seen at a wedding?

The brides best friends performing one of her favourite songs for her and the groom. Three talented singers, an acoustic guitar, a violin, and a very emotional crowd.

What do you do in your free time?

Plan lots of exciting ideas for Miss Poppins, eat yummy food, explore and spend time with my wonderful boyfriend.

Don’t forget to check out these speciality vendor websites for more info on these awesome services:

www.littleowlevents.com.au | www.misspoppins.com.au