VENDORS WITH A LITTLE SOMETHING SPECIAL

Sometimes we come across a vendor who is so truly unique that we just can’t fit them in to any kind of mould.  For our Brisbane Fair, we have found three of the most wonderfully creative and fresh speciality vendors who all offer something incredibly beautiful and unique.

We can’t wait for you to meet them at the fair but for now, let us happily introduce them to you…

VESSEL AND VINE

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Brooke from Vessel and Vine has always been a maker of “things”.   She studied interior design and has a special love of gardening, so when those two worlds combined – Vessel and Vine was born!

Vessel and Vine offer handmade vessels to use as tea lights and place settings.  They are made using modern cement and can be tinted to any colour to match the styling and decor of your home or event.  They are super versatile and can be used on tables to display names or offered as favours for guests.  We love these little vessels and will definitely be stocking up on some for our homes!!

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GOLD WEDDING HIRE

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Tash is the mastermind behind Gold Wedding Hire and she brings something totally new and unique to the wedding industry.  Inspired by the gold styling trends taking the world by storm, she realised that golden cutlery wasn’t available for hire in Australia so she decided to take on the task herself!

Gold Wedding Hire currently offer four exquisite collections varying in style, with three gold options: yellow gold, rose gold and copper gold.   But keep your eyes peeled!  Tash plans on extending her range to include gold decor in the near future!

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FAIR LIGHT BLESSED

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Danielle began Fair Light Blessed originally as a marketeer selling a variety of indoor herbs and succulent gardens, however she was soon inundated with orders for succulent wedding favours and decided to go full time wedding.  Once she began she became completely obsessed with weddings and was able to transform her passion for gardening into a legitimate business.

Fair Light Blessed offers custom ordered succulent and organic herb wedding favours.  Each order is completely unique to suit their bride and groom’s personality, wedding theme and colours. As well as favours they will soon be launching a small range of hire items including their very cool 53cm tall succulent monograms spelling “LOVE”.

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To chat to these talented ladies about how they can help bring your wedding to life then make sure you come along to the fair!   Tickets are available right HERE! 

PINTEREST BROUGHT TO LIFE!

Pinterest is great for inspiration but sometimes you can get overwhelmed and we have some wonderfully talented and mind blowing stylists who can bring those images to life.

At the Brisbane Wedding Fair you will find high designed creative spaces stuffed full of the finer details of different styled themes to suit everybody’s taste.

Here’s just a sample of the businesses you will meet on January 17th just to wet your whistle.

PACK A PERFECT PARTY

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At the age of five Amey was setting tables, making place cards and putting together floral centrepieces from the garden for family dinner. Some career callings just can’t be ignored!

Amey works with her clients to create a cohesive and flawless version of their ‘Pinterest’ board.

Pack A Perfect Party provides for the whole celebration, offering and all inclusive, personalised, planning, styling and floristry service. There’s no better way to describe this business other than a ‘one stop shop!’

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MADE WITH LOVE CUSTOM WEDDING CREATION

Chris and Harmonie were planning their wedding and searched and searched for vendors all over Australia to see if anyone could provide what we were after – an exploding house ceremony backdrop. No one had anything like what they were after so Chris built it, and it was then that Made with Love created it’s first piece. After seeing the need and demand for unique pieces at affordable prices they just kept going.

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Made with love provides a unique service that custom makes wedding props – back drops, seats, entrances and 2D/3D free standing signs to the specifications of the client. Made with love also has pre-made items ready to hire today at affordable prices.

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HODGEPODGE HIRE

No more plastic chairs and tables. Hodgepodge Hire has unique tableware and furniture for weddings and events.

They are always evolving and adding new pieces to their collection as they know every bride wants their wedding to be unique. Here is just some of their glorious range available for hire

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Come to the The Brisbane Wedding Fair to be wowed by these fantastic set ups that will be on display xxx

Tickets available to buy online HERE so you can skip the queue on the day.

 

 

Minimal Stress Wedding Services on the Sunshine Coast

When we had planned our wedding we wish we had met these ladies and used their services.

Wild Heart Weddings would have made our wedding planning a breeze whilst we were both working full time and our lovely and supportive parents ran around checking out venues, caterers etc etc for us (you know the long list of wedding preparations and things to do that doesn’t seem to end). Bless their souls.

Emma from Wild Heart Weddings has all the information you need for a well run, organised and minimal stress wedding on the Sunshine Coast. She knows things about the coast and it’s suppliers that will save you many hours of searching on your own.

We also had quite a few nieces and nephews attend our wedding. Coming from a family of 5 and my husband from a family of 7. The children did their best to entertain themselves with the ribbons off the favour boxes and guessing what colour clinker they were going to get next. Miss Poppins Nanny & Babysitting Agency would have made the wedding a big hit with the kids and our family from the stress of keeping the kiddies entertained.

These services are so unique and they LOVE what they do. Like really LOVE it.

Here’s a little insight in pictures from The Wedding Fair so you can see a little bit behind the scenes of who they are and what they do with thanks to When Elephant Met Zebra.

 

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So. Many. PRIZES!

 

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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! 

 

Introducing our ‘FAVOUR’-ite vendors!

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FAIR LIGHT BLESSED

What is your wedding specialty?

I provide mini potted succulents as unique wedding favour option.

What is it that you love about weddings so much?

For most of us it is the only party we throw where we truly splurge on the most elegant decoration to make the entire event both beautiful and memorable to ourselves and our guests.

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

An animal petting farm to entertain the children in attendance.

 

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CONFETTI & CAKE

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

We are an online store selling everything you need for a gorgeous DIY event.

What do you love about weddings? 

They make people happy!

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

Pink! I’m a girly girl and pink makes me happy!

 

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MOTHER EARTH CANDLES

Tell us a bit about yourself…

Hi! My name is Megan and i specialize in making soy wax candles and melts for any occasion. I do what i do as it is a passion and something i love! I love being crafty and making people feel special.

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

A wooden board with keys hanging off it. A tag was attached to each key saying “Key to Success!” It was their ‘guest book’ and their guests wrote their personal message on there to the couple.

If you were a colour, which colour would it be and why?

Purple!!!! I’m a pretty spiritual soul at heart and i believe everything happens for a reason and there is always meanings behind everything.

If you looked up the meaning of purple it’s me in a nutshell.

Purple has a variety of effects on the mind and body including uplifting spirits, calming the mind and nerves and encouraging imagination and creativity.

 

Check out their gorgeous products online:

Fair Light Blessed  /  Confetti & Cake  /  Mother Earth Candles

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Introducing our STYLISTS!

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LOVE BIRD WEDDINGS

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

Lovebird Weddings is a boutique wedding planning & styling agency, creating Beautiful, Inspiring and Original weddings on the Sunshine Coast.

Décor has been hand-picked to reflect Coastal, Rustic, and Vintage styling. Furniture is custom-made to ensure exclusivity. Fabric pieces are hand-made, bespoke to every wedding.

The Lovebirds team is a passionate group of artists, stylists, planners, and lovers of love stories.

We’ll take you on a wedding journey that you will love forever.

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

The most beautiful and personalised and unique thing I ever saw was on one of my first weddings. It was a Jewish wedding, and traditional for the bride to hand-make their own chuppah (or canopy) to get married under. My bride had collected all the love letters from her beau and screen-printed them onto pretty fabrics, which she then sewed together, and in the seams she sewed in old coins and collectables from her family. The end result was super gorgeous, and so romantic. They said their vows underneath all those lovely love letters that reflected the strength of their relationship. It was this chuppah that inspired my own interest in sewing bespoke canopies for my clients, and I’ve created many of them over the past 6 years.

What do you do in your free time?

I’m a lover of travel and adventure, so if I ever get an opportunity for a few days off, I will always want to go exploring.

If I have just a few hours, then I’m usually found in one of the following activities…reading books, drinking wine with friends, trying out new restaurants, downloading new music, hanging out with my family, or sometimes just taking a good mag to the beach for some “me time”.

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Simply STyle Co

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

We are a husband and wife duo!

Simply Style Co is a wedding styling and event hire company based on the Sunshine Coast.  We love to create one of a kind weddings with simplicity and style.  We put passion, creativity, heart and soul in to making your wedding day an unforgettable memory, a story that will last a life time!

What is it that you love about weddings so much?

The creativity!  Gone are the days of chair covers and sashes (phew!).  Weddings now express who people are with their individuality and personal style.  We love that every wedding is unique and tells a story and expresses the love our brides and grooms have for one another.

What do you do in your free time?

I create. I am forever making, designing and trying out new things (making Jimmy build me things!).  I’m not a sit at home and watch TV kind of girl.  I love my amazing and supportive husband Jimmy, snuggling with my fur baby kitty, exploring and embracing our beautiful big backyard – nature!

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 Made to Match

MADE TO MATCH EVENTS

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

Well I’m an Event Planner & Stylist who just loves bringing your vision to life !  I specialize in wedding styling , dessert tables & lolly buffets .

I also have an ever growing hire service which includes a selection of vintage furniture & props.

I am passionate, creative & friendly and just love, love, love this industry.

What do you do in your free time?

I don’t have much free time as I have 4 boys!  But when I do you can find me scouring through op shops & scrap yards looking for treasure!

If you were a colour, which colour would you be, and why?

That’s a hard one as my pallet changes every five minutes !

At the moment I am loving radiant orchid  it’s colour makes such a statement .

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Cloud Nine

CLOUD NINE WEDDINGS

What is it that you love about weddings so much?

The fact that every wedding is totally different.  The bones are the same from wedding to wedding, but every time a Bride makes a decision on any of the details, her wedding takes on its own unique style.   We spend many months with Brides planning, styling and creating amazing wedding days.  These are like our babies and we handle each one with just as much love and care.

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

I’ve been doing weddings for over 20 years so I’ve seen just about everything from Elvis serenading a couple during their bridal waltz, a crazy gothic wedding which has a blood toast,  through to some of the most romantic moments that can be witnessed between a Bride & Groom .

If you were a colour, which would you be, and why?

I would be lavender, it’s my calming colour.  When things are crazy, the colour lavender is my calm place.

 

For more super stylin’ inspo, head straight over to our Stylists Website:

www.lovebirdweddings.com.au   |   www.simplystyleco.com  |   

www.madetomatchevents.com   |   www.cloudnineweddings.com.au

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Wedding Favour-ites

These two suppliers are ones that we just LOVE working with and the ADA crew has their products in our homes. We decorate our houses with a touch of “darling” vendors, we just can’t get enough!

Party Pony Designer Pinata’s

A Darling Affair has a massive crush on pinata’s – with the original pinata bash kicking off at our first ever wedding fair it is a tradition that lives on.

Our guests line up and go all crazy faced bashing the bajinga’s out of these awesomely crafted pinata’s. Brides and Grooms use them at their receptions. They can also be used as decoration hanging from the roof for a geo inspired wedding. Sometimes they are just too pretty to destroy!

Nicola has a brain that never stops creating. Tassels, Bunting, feathers and the list goes on and on! She keeps pulling off incredible displays and The Gold Coast Wedding Festival was not short of a shimmery spectacular.

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A whole load of sweetness

Cake and friends is always a great combination. The taste of the smooth mud cake melts in your mouth and you start eyeing of the persons piece next to you as you finish off the last morsels on your own plate. Ok i’m hungry are you?

Well feast your eyes on the sweet goodness that exploded onto the tables at The Gold Coast Wedding Festival. Food inspo at it’s best.

If your looking to book one of these ladies to bake, make and create your wedding cake or dessert table don’t take too long to decide. Some of them are booked months in advance!

Sweet Ruby Cakes

This lady can whip up anything. So much diversity on display…people spent a good while taking it all in at her display.

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Milk and Sugar Events

Your go to crew that will last a life time and will see you through all your occasions even after the big ‘I Do’s’.

Perfect for Baby Showers, Bridal Showers, Kitchen Tea’s, Birthdays, Engagements , Weddings, Mothers Day, Christenings, Bapitisms, Graduations, Hen’s day or just an excuse to catch up the with the girls. Keep their contact number on your phones ladies.

 

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Rebel is the best of the best. We can’t get enough of this lady. She knows her craft and delivers A class creations. As you can see the sample cake at the front of her stand was goggled up and crumbs were left!

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Perfectly Sweet

The ADA crew are just flabbergasted at what Perfectly Sweet comes up with…every time they make our jaws drop…and we mean EVERY TIME!

Desert table queens hands down! Boom!

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If your trying to stay off the sugar and have a detox, i think we might have might have sent you running to the fridge or you’ve opened up your office draw to have your sugar fix! Woops!

Images by: When Elephant Met Zebra

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Style It Up!

The important thing on your wedding day is to create an atmosphere that your going to feel comfortable in. Have surroundings that reflect your personality and to make it special.

A lot of brides think DIY is the way to go, only to find that they turn into ‘bridezilla’ trying to find the perfect table centre piece.

Don’t go down that path! Get a stylist! Hire that perfect piece or go all out and let them take it off your hands, but whatever you do BE INVOLVED and put your heart into the planning with your stylist.

Our recent Gold Coast Wedding Festival Stylists all have unique flair of their own. There was something to suit our brides and grooms individual taste.

None of them do the same thing as you can see for yourself below:

 

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Just like Autumn Grove Events sign says “hire me” and click on this link to find your fave stylist: https://adarlingaffair.com/gold-coast-directory/stylists/

 

Images by: When Elephant Met Zebra

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Stylin’ Stationery

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!

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Images by: When Elephant Met Zebra

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