Rainy day love films

A Darling Affair 13/04/2014 0 Comments

It’s been a beautiful rainy day here in not so sunny Queensland, whatever you do DON’T turn on the TV – grab a blanket, snuggle up with your sweetie pie and watch these gorgeous loved up couples brought to you by some amazingly talented film makers from the Gold Coast Wedding Festival.

You may even have a tear or have a giggle whilst your watching…we don’t know what you’ll feel because there are sooo many awesome emotions that happen when “LOVE” is involved.

Now that’s a lovely Sunday evening we’d say…

Yellow Bull Media

Moose & Co. Wedding Videos

Save The Date Wedding Cinematography

Jasper and Ruby Visions

Tick something off your planning list tonight and email one of these talented crews to join in our your wedding day and preserve it forever on film.

Photo Booth Madness!

A Darling Affair 11/04/2014 0 Comments

To send you into the weekend we thought we’d get into party mode. Photo booth’s are the icebreaker for your darling guests.

Watch them transform from timidly finding their seat at the table seated next to a stranger to bosom buddies by the end of the night.

Look at the tom foolery that went on at the Wedding Festival. It never hurts to prep yourself and steal a pose from one of these guys below!

WARNING! What happens in the booth DOESN’T stay in the booth.

The PhotoBooth Guys

Check out their awesome on the spot instaprinta!

Visit The Photobooth Guys Website…you won’t be able to watch their film only once…we watched it once..twice and mmmm maybe three times!

Have a rockin’ weekend all you brides and grooms to be!

Accessorize, Accessorize, Accessorize!

A Darling Affair 04/04/2014 0 Comments

Simple or elaborate, it’s up to you as a bride and your wild imagination when it comes to accessories.

Darling florists, jewellery designers and a specialty lingere gown supplier showed imagination and creativity at The Wedding Festival. They turned up the dial a couple of notches to show couples the diverse accessories you can have to add the wow factor to compliment or make a statement with your gown or your grooms dapper outfit.

Get your eyes ready for a diverse inspiration overload! There’s something for everyone’s taste packed in this blog post.

Homebodii

Wedding Flowers By Julia Rose

GC Flowers Plus

Grace Bijoux

Jump on over to their websites if something caught your attention! xxx

Images by: When Elephant Met Zebra

Celebrate good times come on!

A Darling Affair 03/04/2014 0 Comments

Yep this is the biggest celebration of your life. You found the one and they found you! What’s the chances of that?! It’s actually pretty awesome when you stop to think about it.

Time to make it official! So your going to need one of these: A Celebrant!

So here’s A Darling Affair’s check list for celebrants:

– listens to your wishes and doesn’t go off on a tangent.

– is just as invested in the moment as you both and often sheds a tear

– is about you as a couple and not a performance about themselves.

– is down to earth and genuine and just plain awesome.

Get a celebrant that you like – you may just need a celebrant for a future date….wink wink.. they often do baby namings too 🙂

These guys stole our hearts at The Wedding Festival and we hope they steal yours too!

Candice Wilson – Marriage Celebrant

Candice just feels like “home” to us. Pull up a chair and you will feel her warmth. She’s one of those ladies that you you feel like you’ve known her forever. Her set up at The Wedding Festival spoke volumes about her. Sweet, personable and endearing.

Benjamin Carlyle Celebrant

If you want your husband to be feel comfortable then Benjamin Carlyle is your man. We have worked with Ben at a couple of fairs now. He is a family man with a tribe of kids and knows what it means to be committed.

Ben is a guy who’s passionate about life and who also loves a good surf. Chuck in a guitar and he can serenade the bride down the isle. He’s not cheesy, he’s actually ticks that down to earth box and has an awesome sense of humour.

Marriage Celebrant Ali

Ali is just plain cool. The end! Cool hair, cool vibe, cool beau – who she adores – who has an awesome beard. She has energy and spark and just loves weddings and being a celebrant is her dream job. You’ve gotta love someone who loves their job.

So if you think your a cool, artistic and adventurous fun loving couple you have loads in common with Ali.

Ali’s tag line is: Throw your heart in front of you and dance ahead to catch it. Oooo we do like a lovely dance or two!

Do yourselves a favour and”Follow your heart” you darling lovers out there and visit the websites of these wonderful vendors with a click through here:

https://adarlingaffair.com/gold-coast-directory/

Sending love your way xxx

Images by: When Elephant Met Zebra

A Picture Speaks…

A Darling Affair 03/04/2014 0 Comments

One picture is all that is needed to take your breath away.

A Darling Affairs photographers at The Wedding Fair had set ups with loads of images – not just one – on display of their past brides & grooms. They took our guests breath away that they had to stop for a minute and get it back.

It is an essential factor when choosing a photographer for your wedding day that you connect with the photographer and their images. Now it’s your turn to get a sneak peek and swoon over their displays and get a feel for their personalities through their shooting style.

Adam Ward Photography

Adam from Adam Ward Photography is a pleasure to be around. He has a soft natured personality and produces crisp, clean and refreshing images that evokes emotion.

Adam says, “When it comes to shooting you’re wedding, I want you to be able to enjoy the day with your friends and family in a natural and relaxed way, so for the most part, I’ll just let you do your thing and I’ll do mine. That way I can really tell the story of your wedding day.”

Josie Richardson Photography

Josie is sweet natured. She is experienced in both digital and film and it has really made her appreciate every shot, making her more skilled behind the camera.

Josie describes her style of being “predominantly documentary. I prefer images of people being themselves during a real and un-orchestrated moment. Most of us are not models or actors and so on, we are … everyday people.”

Josie is all about “the moment”…your moments through out your wedding day.

Prue Franzmann Photography

Prue has a fun personality. With her gorgeous smile and bright sparkly eyes she will win you over, so we can’t show a picture of you here otherwise we wouldn’t be fair to the other photographers and you’d book her straight away.

So we’ll just let her photography do the talking!

Figtree Pictures Wedding Photography

Soft, whimsical and natural is the words we would use to describe Kristy and they are the same words we’d use to describe her photography. Her camera and the way she see’s through it and captures images of her couples is an extension of herself. She is “obsessed with weddings” as she says herself.

Her display really speaks clearly of her wonderful photography.

When Elephant Met Zebra

Brian lives and breathes his photography. His branding represents himself and his wife: Brian the Elephant dreamer and Sheena the little Zebra. WEMZ is for wild, fun, romantic and creative souls. You will often see Brian taking on the character of a lion, climbing an object to get “the” shot.

Brian has a different edge to all his work and he is always up for anything, just you name it.

Head over here: https://adarlingaffair.com/gold-coast-directory/photography/

to link up to their websites.

ENJOY! xx

Images by: When Elephant Met Zebra

Stylin’ Stationery

A Darling Affair 25/03/2014 0 Comments

When we carefully selected our paper magicians for our recent Gold Coast Wedding Festival, they had to have originality in technique so we could fully give our brides and grooms inspiration and maybe even a invitation that they had never thought of before opening their eyes to the WOW factor!

Here’s a round up of the diverse styling/stationery these wonderful vendors put on show. If you see something you like contact them and say “i want that one!”

Sunshine & Confetti

They say “if it’s on paper we can do it!” and you better believe it. We have had the pleasure of working with this lovely lady on a shoot and if your looking for invitations to suit your “theme” Boom! She will knock your socks off! Oh and she also does wedding styling. Yep a lady who does it all!

Fox and Fallow

These guys are the creators of our awesome signage we have dotted around our fairs. “Creative Ink & Dust” is their tag line and the word creative is not to be used lightly when it comes to them. They are a husband and wife team and love oozes out from them onto the paper or boards they design for you. A class awesomeness at it’s best!

Peachy Flamingo

Who needs paper anyway when you can “totes” have a bag! This peachy keen lady prints on ANYTHING! Paper, fabric, awesome personalised cake toppers and wedding aisle backdrops. I’m sure if she was looking at your face she would love to print something on that too!

Kowhai Kreations

If you want a keepsake or a family heirloom this is your go to lady. Kowhai creates canvas prints for your wedding and more. A reminder for generations down the track…yes your babies and grand babies not just for your own home.

Birds of A Feather – A Letterpress Co.

Specialising in letterpress, a printing method where ink is literally pressed into paper using a heavy press. They do love their creative freedom and branch out to wooden invitations, albums and much more.

Be sure to pop over to their websites to research them more! We would but we’d be there for hours because of our stationery addiction!

Sunshine and Confetti – Fox and Fallow – Peachy Flamingo – Kowhai Kreations –Birds of a Feather

Images by: When Elephant Met Zebra

A Special Thank You to One Of Our Favourites!

A Darling Affair 13/03/2014 0 Comments

Here at ADA HQ there is always a flurry of things happening behind the scenes. Between the three of us, the ADA machine rolls on every day of the week, churning out pretty things for our Darlings to feast their eyes on. What you probably don’t realise, is that we have a select bunch of incredibly talented people who work their butts off to ensure we have the best of the best to show our Darlings. One of the hardest working, and most talented would be Brian from When Elephant Met Zebra (WEMZ).

WEMZ joined us at our Sunshine Coast Fair in 2013 and fast became a good friend of ADA. We loved his enthusiasm, his ridiculously fun Photo Booth and his swoon worthy photography skills. Before long, we had signed him up as our official photographer for 2014. WEMZ is for the fun, romantic & creative people out there. They love to play, love to dream and love to create the impossible. They know how to cut through the clutter and capture a rare and special moment. We’ve seen Brian work a few times now and his passion for his work is contagious. Every time we see the photos from our shoots or events with Brian we feel like kids on Christmas Day… we are constantly faced with the problem of having too many awesome photos to chose from (a problem we LOVE to have!). We love his work so much that our own Darling, Emma, has booked him as her wedding photographer this year!

We’d like to send a big warm and gooey THANK YOU to Brian for all of his hard work so far this year!

If you haven’t checked out When Elephant Met Zebra yet then do yourselves a favour and put this task at the top of your to-do-list. Here are some of our favourite shots so far…

Darling Dresses Down The Runway – Part 3

A Darling Affair 12/03/2014 0 Comments

Today we’re putting a sparkly spotlight on our third fashion parade from our recent Gold Coast Wedding Festival. By the time our third parade was taking place the atmosphere at our wedding festival was electric. Our Darlings were enjoying the live music, the delicious food and having a great time chatting to our vendors (who were also enjoying the food & music!). There was a lot of love in the air and this fashion parade left a lot of people wanting to know more about Bohemian Brides, a beautiful new store just around the corner from The Wedding Festival. Gorgeous gowns are available to order in store at Bohemian Brides. Designers of these dresses shown below, from designer Pia Gladys Perey and the lovely lace gown is by Watters. Stunning hair and make-up by The Beauty Case and amazing florals by GC Flowers +.

If you’re wondering who took these smokin’ hot photos then head right over to When Elephant Met Zebra!

For more awesomeness check out the websites Darlings!

www.thebeautycase.com.au | www.bohemianbrides.com.au | www.gcflowersplus.com

Some Sneaky Fun Behind The Scenes

A Darling Affair 11/03/2014 0 Comments

Do you guys love photo booths as much as we do!? They add such a fun vibe to any event – especially a Wedding Festival! One of the awesome photo booths at our recent Gold Coast Wedding Festival was the cute and funky When Elephant Met Zebra booth. Brian (the boss man over at When Elephant Met Zebra) doesn’t just take spectacular wedding photos, but he can also provide one of the most fun and interactive props to any event… our Vendors loved this thing so much that we couldn’t keep them away on the night!

Here is a little behind the scenes fun at A Darling Affair – all photos below are either vendors, models, helpers or Darlings… see if you can guess who is who!

If you were there on the night taking happy snaps then head here to find your cheeky photos: http://whenelephantmetzebra.pixieset.com/ada/individuals/

Darling Dresses Down The Runway – Part 2

A Darling Affair 10/03/2014 0 Comments

If you were at our Gold Coast Wedding Festival then you’d probably already know all about our four interactive fashion parades. You would have seen our models strut their stuff in their gorgeous gowns and then perhaps you had a chat with them, got to see and touch the gowns up close, perhaps you took a few photos of the dress and spoke to the designer too? If not, don’t feel too sad, we’re about to give you another look at our second fashion parade that took place that night. This one featured stunning gowns by Begitta and our models we made (even more) pretty by Elina Valttila.

Thanks again to the amazing, incredible and all round nice guy Brian from When Elephant Met Zebra for these photos.