ON DISPLAY

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Boy oh boy, do we work with some creative people!

Our fantastic vendors at the last Brisbane Wedding Festival did it again! With amazing stalls and gorgeous displays, these talented teams make it easy to invision and create the perfect backdrop to your dream ceremony or reception.

 

HODGEPODGE HIRE

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Hodgepodge Hire is a vintage furniture, tableware and props hire business based in Brisbane. With interesting pieces and loads of options, they supply those hard to find, individually selected items for your event. They can help supply items for your photo shoot, wedding, engagement party…. Hodgepodge Hire are the ones to go to for any kind of affair. Injecting it with their creative flair and cool vintage style, they are sure to turn your celebration into a unique and memorable atmosphere.

 

EVENT LETTERS

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Event Letters is Brisbane’s signature provider of life-size, illuminated, freestanding letters providing only the finest quality for your event. Event Letters does nothing by halves, from the size of their letters to the impact they make at your event. And just to add to the WOW factor all of Event Letters props are dimmable and have the ability to change colour to suit your events theme!

 

GOLD WEDDING HIRE

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Luxury is the first word that comes to mind when talking about Gold Wedding Hire.

Strongly believing that everyone deserves a touch of elegance and class to their wedding or event, Gold Wedding Hire offer a range of gold cutlery at an affordable price. Featured in Hello May, White, The Bride’s Tree and My Kitchen Rules (just to name a few…), this flourishing business continues to grow in momentum.

 

Event images thanks to Rob and Lizzie

VENUE HOPPING PT. 2

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Searching for the perfect wedding venue or on the hunt for a dreamy honeymoon location? Look no further because we had some of Brisbane’s best and most sought after venues on display at the last Brisbane Wedding Festival.

With prime locations and drop dead gorgeous decor, these amazing spots will blow you away. Just a few of our fantastic vendors, take a peek at their awesome displays.

 

BRISBANE RACING CLUB

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It’s easy to fall in love Brisbane Racing Club’s old school charm and nooks and crannies. You will discover something new around every corner and it’s exactly what we look for when we hunt out venues to hold our events. A good blank canvas ready and waiting to be filled with wonderful wedding suppliers and inspirational creations.

With different indoor and outdoor locations to choose from at the Brisbane Racing Club you can have your ceremony, photo’s, sit down reception and night time festivities all in the one place.

Jacqueline Moore is the lovely lady behind the scenes when it comes to booking your wedding at the Brisbane Racing Club. Jacqueline is lovely, down to earth, quick and efficient, thinks outside the box, on top of current trends and is up for a creative challenge.

 

ALEX PERRY HOTEL AND APARTMENTS

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Alex Perry Hotel and Apartments is a product of a meeting of the minds when an Australian fashion icon and local Brisbane developers and investors recognised the symbiotic nature of timeless, tasteful design, while also providing comfortable, unique boutique style accommodation on a scale not previously attempted.

Opened to great public and industry acclaim in October 2015, this amazing location has quickly risen to the top of the specialty accommodation market in Brisbane.

Classic, yet edgy design, blended with modern technology and supported by friendly, professional service, ensures an A List experience for each and every guest.

 

MODA EVENT PORTSIDE

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Known for being one of the finest event locations in Brisbane, Moda Events has the romance and elegance that couples are looking for. With an award winning cosmopolitan menu and the highest standards of hospitality, this amazing venue offers a memorable experience for you and your guests.

Popular for it’s quality of design, majestic views, modern decor, themed lighting and private balcony, Moda has a reputation for dedicated service from staff that cares about making your event positively perfect.

With a long-standing team of dedicated hospitality professionals, the kitchen at Moda is headed up by award winning chef Stephen Nado who has been with them for over eight years.

BLUSHING BABES

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Our darling vendors from the Brisbane Wedding Festival know how to make a girl feel good!

These beauty dream teams are experts at making a bride feel her most beautiful on her big day. From makeup, to nails and beauty treatments, this talented group of ladies are the glam squad that you’ve been waiting for.

 

BOUDOIR BLUSH

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Boudoir Blush is a dedicated and passionate salon that services everything the Beauty Industry has to offer. Owner Melita has been directly involved with every leap and bound Boudoir Blush has encountered to date. Working in the industry for several years gaining experience, she made it a goal to run her own business. With a vision, she was able to create a salon that is elegant and peaceful, creating an atmosphere that is sure to relax and de-stress.

Melita is also highly sort after for her skills in the wedding and special occasions make up field, having been a finalist in the ABIA (Australian Bridal Industry Academy) awards the last two years running. Wanting to keep it in the family, her sister Jacinta has joined the team of Make Up Artist’s for Boudoir Blush, and together they can offer complete packages to lovely brides desiring to enhance their big day. Both Melita and Jacinta regularly attend master class training with their makeup product of choice , Napoleon Perdis, to ensure that they are up to date with the upcoming trends of the season.

 

 

VERY BERRY COLLECTIVE – JAMBERRY NAILS
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In 2010, Jamberry burst onto the beauty scene and the DIY, at-home application and incredible variety of designs caught on quickly and a new era of nail art was born. With over 300+ unique designs, Jamberry nail wraps makes it easy to express your own signature style.

There’s no avoiding the fact that on your big day everyone will be looking at left hand! With over 300 nail wraps in an incredible variet of designs, plus over 60 lacquers and gels, you can caustomise, pair and layer your Jamberry creations to design a look that is all your own. So extensive is their range, they can work with you to create a suite of coordinated looks for you and yours, with something to suit everyone from the youngest flower girls to the greatest of great grannies.

 

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Peekaboo Makeup Artistry is a freelance team of experienced makeup artists and hair stylists with a love for fashion-forward and classic beauty. With a strong belief that every woman deserves to look her best self on her wedding day, their philosophy is to enhance your natural beauty through defining and accentuating your unique features and style.

Specialising in perfection makeovers, they use only the best of products. With brands including Napoleon Perdis, St. Tropez and Naked Tan, you’ll be left feeling like you’re glowing inside and out.

Combining hair and makeup with their love for all things pretty, these girls are a wedding dream team in their element! Based in Brisbane, while also servicing the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast areas, Peekaboo Makeup Artistry cater for parties between 1-12 people.

 

Event images thanks to Rob and Lizzie

GORGEOUS HEADWEAR

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Every bride dreams of looking her best on her wedding day. And a beautiful dress needs beautiful accessories.

The A Darling Affair team are lucky enough to be able to work with some amazing designers, seeing their creations take shape is amazing! These crafty ladies create beautiful head pieces that are almost too gorgeous to wear…almost.

Whether you’re a gypsy goddess, modern muse or beach babe, these vendors have the piece for you.

 

CHRISTIE MILLINERY
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Introducing the oh-so fabulous Christie Millinery, a multi-award winning professional Millinery service, specializing in bridal and special occasion headwear.

Each Christie headpiece is unique and elegantly hand crafted by Certified Milliners, ensuring quality Millinery that will last a lifetime.

Not only beloved in the wedding industry, Christie’s millinery designs have donned Royalty and won many awards, including the national Oaks Day FOTF finals in Flemington, Australia.

Whether it be a traditional veil, Mother of the Bride Hat or Bridesmaid headpieces, Christie Millinery is dedicated to creating your dream headpiece.

 

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Komorebi Bride was born from a desire to create a luxurious line of head pieces designed for a bride to express their inner gypsy goddess.

Komorebi Bride uses only the best materials, including top quality sterling silver, genuine gemstones and fresh water pearls. These amazing creations are a luxury items that is made with the utmost love and care, to be treasured and passed down to others.

Also offering a custom design service, brides are able to work exclusively with the designer to create their own unique and perfect headpiece for their special day.

 

BOW AND LACE

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With a desire to bring something new to the local bridal market, Bow and Lace offers simple elegance with pieces that compliment your look instead of overpowering it.

All pieces are 100% handmade with love, precision and care from amazing designers to bring a delicate touch to your big day.

Bow and Lace care not only about quality, but also functionality, simplicity and beauty.

 

Event images thanks to Rob and Lizzie

FOODIE HEAVEN

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Great food is the heart of any party.

Our fantastic vendors from the last Brisbane Wedding Festival are catering extraordinaire’s! With delicious food and beverages on display, they made it easy for guests to have a taste of what they could be enjoying at their own wedding or event.

WINE & DINE’M CATERING

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Wine & Dine’m live for celebration.

With an innovative and fresh style, they develop creative catering ideas for unique occasions, from an intimate backyard engagement party, to large marquee weddings.

With some of the most creative caterers in Brisbane, their enchanting menus, personal touches and ability to entwine every couples story through food and beverage are a must for anyone looking for the ultimate catering team.

 

SAMBA CATERING

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Calling all foodies! Introducing the one and only Samba Catering Co.!

The brainchild of Brazilian chef  Samba, his experience of cooking in busy restaurants and working in the catering industry made it only natural for him to pursue his dream of having a business of his own. Together with his lovely fiance Krystal, they decided to take a leap of faith and create and business that they truly believe in.

Samba’s love for cooking is infectious. Specialising in Spanish Paella and Brazilian BBQ, his passion and talent show in his dishes and in the faces of full and happy customers.

 

GATHERING EVENTS

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For Gathering Events, it all started with Jen and Adam’s love for the open road, vintage caravans and old-fashioned celebrating!

Based in beautiful Brisbane, this Husband and Wife team love a good road trip and travel far and wide throughout Queensland and Northern NSW to offer a complete pop-up bar service for your event.

With Jen having over eight years of event and hospitality management and Adam being a true jack of all trades, this darling duo are accompanied by a crew of super talented and fun bar professionals.

 

Event images thanks to Rob and Lizzie

PHOTO BOOTH FUN

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Who can resist a photo booth, am I right? A splash of fun at any event, this entertaining option is a unique and different way to capture the mood and memories from your big day.

The last Brisbane Wedding Festival had some of Queensland’s most loved photo booth vendors on display. Needless to say… they were a massive hit!

 

INSTA KOMBI

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Insta Kombi is a mobile photo booth built in the back of a lovingly restored 1974 Volkswagen Kombi. Fully equipped with professional equipment, the booth is fully stocked to help you create beautiful memories of your big day.

 The perfect backdrop to capture those fun and special moments, Insta Kombi is amazing for outside venues and with a bit of forward planning can be easily taken into inside spaces.

The most loved photo booth of its kind in Queensland, their amazing set-up is sure to be a guaranteed hit at your next event, whatever the occasion may be.

 

THE SELFIE STATION

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The Selfie Station was born out of the eagerness to create new photo and video experiences, combined with its potential to evolve as an approachable and highly social memory sharing tool it will keep your guests, smiling from ear to ear!

It wasn’t long before The Selfie Station was capturing smiles on the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. The Selfie Station is the only one of its kind in Australia, its slimline and unique design adds class and elegance to every event.

The Selfie Station is the next generation in photo booth technology and continues to capture long lasting memories, one flash at a time. It is not your average photo booth; with so many options from green screen technology, filters, sketch booth, video messaging, slow motion videos, animated gifs, instant uploads and prints and so much more.

 

IN THE BOOTH

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In The Booth quite literally  started with a blank piece of paper and a pencil. The idea began out of a need to design a booth that encompassed the retro style and inexplicable joy of a 1950’s arcade photo booth, while still having all the quality and benefits of modern imagery. Not only have they designed a booth that looks stunning in any venue, it also captures gorgeous three quarter length pictures to ensure not a single detail is missed.

With an amazing team of helpers, the guys at In The Booth go above and beyond for every single client and guest. Launching in 2009, In The Booth have attended over 8000 event and have seen it all. This quick thinking team have endless Plan-B’s up their sleeve to save the day from any last minute mishaps. Their focus is to maximise on detail and minimise on stress. Perfect!

In The Booth in now Australia’s leading photo booth franchise with offices all over the country. While they are constantly developing new product to meet the changing needs of their clients and their industry, the iconic booths have remained identical to that very first sketch on that piece of paper.

 

Event images thanks to Rob and Lizzie

 

 

CRAFTY CREATIVES

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There’s something about beautiful stationery that just sets the whole mood of a wedding or event.

Our super talented vendors from the last Brisbane Wedding Festival know how to make a big impact no matter your style or budget. These creative teams work alongside couples to bring to life the first glimpse that guests will see of their theme and vision for their big day.

 

SEPTEMBER CREATIVE

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For Tamara, September Creative began from a desire to see beautiful, nature inspired wedding stationary and to provide budget conscious couples the option of stunning ready-to-post options, as well as the opportunity to have their wedding stationary custom designed for them. Offering two distinct services allows happy couples to have the beautiful wedding stationary of their dreams.

In the business for close to ten years, Tamara is a self-proclaimed colour and typography addict. Gathering inspiration from interiors, galleries, outdoor adventures and vintage science books, she is incredibly passionate about design and believes that stationary sets the tone to your big day. She is able to create wedding stationary that truly reflects who you are as a soon-to-be married couple and give your guests a sneak peek the incredible day that you have planned.

 

LOVE EVERYTHING

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Created in 2012 by Amanda Woods, an English born graphic designer who jumped hemispheres and now resides in Noosa, Queensland. Amanda has a true passion for designing all things beautiful and injects a love of style into everything she creates. Love Everything began with Amanda designing invitations for family and friends. One little idea lead to big dreams and Love Everything was created to share her designs with everyone.

Love Everything is their to celebrate that special occasion, decorate that new home and style those memorable moments.

With beautiful stationary and art prints, Love Everything has something for any style or theme.

 

Event images thanks to Rob and Lizzie

 

 

TURN IT UP!

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A great band can bring together any crowd  and can even turn someone with two left feet into a boogie master.

The last Brisbane Wedding Festival had some of Brisbane’s favourite bands, pumping awesome tunes and getting feet tapping. These powerhouses of funk know how to get a group movin’ and grovin’ and are a must for any big event.

 

THE WHITE TREE

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This powerhouse of a business has taken over the wedding industry. Under one creative roof The White Tree offers live band, photography and film services featuring some of Australia’s most talented artists.

With a band line up and set list that can be customised to suit your budget, tone of your event and your preferred music genres, The White Tree Band typically perform chilled background tunes early in the evening, acting more as atmospheric mood music, then can quickly transform into a highly energetic dance band for later in the night (when the guests have had a few more drinks!).  For the dance sets, funk and rock classics are always a crowd-pleaser, as well as killer new music – keeping guests satisfied, no matter their age or music tastes.

 

LOVE NOTE MUSIC

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When a close friend asked Ange to sing at her wedding, she wanted to surprise her with something a little out of the ordinary. Unable to find a song that perfectly captured who they were or the awesomeness of their relationship, she decided that she needed to write the words herself. Not only surprising them with their very own original song on their wedding day, she also recorded the track for them to keep forever. (Is it just us, or does Ange sound like the coolest friend ever???)

Dan and Ange are Love Note Music, a Sunshine Coast based, acoustic live music duo who specialise in creating the perfect mood for your Sunshine Coast, Brisbane or destination wedding. Whether it’s performing acoustic covers with a unique twist for your ceremony, cruisy afternoon sets for canapé or cocktail hour, relaxed music or getting the party started at your reception, Love Note make sure that every moment of your day is accompanied by a great vibe.

 

LARK MUSIC

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A Darling Affair’s Wedding Festivals would just be a plain old boring ‘wedding expo’ if it wasn’t for the killer festival party till you drop sounds that Lark Music produce!

The band’s standard offer includes 180 minutes of live music across a 5 hour period, plus all music between sets taken care of and some basic MC duties. They can provide you with anything from a solo acoustic artist, our standard five piece lineup, up to a rocking ten-piece band, featuring both male and female singers, guitarist, bass player, drummer, latin percussionist, keyboard and brass (saxophone, trumpet and/or trombone).

Basically Lark music has any musician you want right at their finger tips and you just need to decide what vibe you want for your unique wedding celebration. Lark Music promises you a live soundtrack that you and your guests will never forget!

 

Event images thanks to Rob and Lizzie

CAKE IT AWAY!

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Creamy, crumbly, sweet or spongey, whatever your preference these talented cake makers are wizards in the kitchen!

This lovely bunch are just few of our fantastic vendors showing off their amazing creations at the last Brisbane Wedding Festival. Decadent discs of risen wonder, their cakes are almost too good to eat.

 

HANSEL AND GRETEL CAKES

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Hansel and Gretel Cakes started with the love of all things sweet and founder Megan, may be the sweetest of them all.

Using quality products and having a flair for detail, Megan brings stylish cakes and desserts to the Brides and Grooms of Brisbane. With a belief that your wedding cake should be a reflection of you and your big day, Hansel and Gretel Cakes offer modern and unique designs to suit any style.

 

PETAL & PEACH BESPOKE CAKERY

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As a one-person operation, Rebecca is the Chief mixer, stirrer, baker and creative at Petal & Peach Bespoke Cakery.  Her commitment to each creation through every step of the process and her natural inclination to be a perfectionist mean every single cake that leaves the Petal and Peach kitchen is absolutely filled to the brim with love. The service that Rebecca provides is completely personalised and every cake is made with all the style and sophistication of your vision.

Rebecca oversee’s every process from discussing and understanding your cake brief, building flavour combinations (that will absolutely blow your mind), baking, constructing, decorating, delivering and styling your masterpiece.

 

VELVETEIR

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Are you dreaming of a sweet-filled party or reception? Velvetier make the most divine custom cakes, petite desserts and treats of all descriptions. Whatever your occasion, their delicious delights will make it even more special.

Velvetier lovingly handcraft dazzling cupcakes, macarons, cake pops, biscuits, brownies and celebration cakes for any event and can ensure that the treats of your choice can be customised to the theme of your big day.

 

Event images thanks to Rob and Lizzie

FLOWER POWER

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Beautiful flowers can transform any wedding and these amazing florists are the queens of their craft.

With expert skills and talent practically oozing out of their pores, this amazing group will turn anyone into a true romantic when they spy their breathtaking arrangements.

Just a few of the amazing floral stylists on show at the last Brisbane Wedding Festival, these ladies know flowers!

 

MADAME BLOOM

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With years of experience working as a visual merchandiser, Shannon knew that it was time to make a leap to her true calling. Training and gaining work experience in bustling Melbourne, it wasn’t long before Shannon brought her talents to sunny Brisbane. After a few years and lots of weddings in this climate, she is a pro at knowing of whats going to last and what won’t.

A one woman show, Shannon’s love of flowers knows no bounds! Each Madame Bloom order is lovingly considered and personally customised to suit both budget and style.

 

PRIMULA FLORAL STYLING

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If you looked up Flower Power in the dictionary, you’d find a big picture of Primula Floral Styling underneath. The floral arrangements that Eliza is able to create is nothing short of breathtaking.

Primula grew from her love of all things romantic, loose and wild and she found weddings to be the perfect occasion to celebrate the inherent beauty of flowers.

Since entering the wedding industry in 2012, Primula have become dedicated to sourcing flowers and botanicals that truly stand out in a crowd. Whether it’s bringing you Victorian garden roses loaded with a scent that will make your heart skip a beat, or foraging locally for lush, sprawling foliage that mimic our wild surrounds, Primula designs feature the kind of botanical curiosities that will have you (and your guests) leaning in for a closer look.

 

BOUQUET BOUTIQUE
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One of Brisbane’s most sought after florists for wedding flowers, the Bouquet Boutique team are known for creating concepts that are on-trend and tailored to the bride’s vision.

Headed by creative director Geraldine Hore, a floristry design expert and educator who has impeccable taste and an eye for design. With more than a decade experience in the florist industry, Geraldine’s expertise spans native flower cultivation and export, to floristry design. She combines her greatest passions – creativity, nature and interior design- to produce outstanding floral visions that are at the forefront of fashionable floristry.

 

Event images thanks to Rob and Lizzie