THE GOLD COAST WEDDING FESTIVAL – WRAP UP

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The Gold Coast Wedding Festival was just amazing if we do say so ourselves.

It was the perfect weather for the end of Autumn as the industrial venue – Rabbit & Cocoon – is a market style set up with both inside and outside areas. The venue was filled to the brim with the most talented and incredibly friendly wedding creatives on the Gold Coast and beyond. It was set to be a fun night you could feel the anticipation growing in the air.

The bands starting cranking just after 5pm when our guests had knocked off work and headed to the festival to have a great night of wedding planning fun. The brides and grooms to be were cheerfully interacting with our vendors, some who are new to the scene and others who have been perfecting their art for years.

The wedding festival had loads of inspiration, colour, laughs and action with a mammoth fashion parade that was maxed out around the red carpet and orchestrated by The Beauty Case team and Interlaced Media. Our guests had eager eyes checking out the finer details of the beautiful gowns and tailored suits not to mention the models from Katz Management. The Fashion parade featured local and interstate designers. We are so excited that we have vendors traveling from other parts of Australia, like Suzanne Harward Designs, to be a part of the action.

With bellies filled with delicious food and drinks, guests and vendors mingled together like they had been friends from way back. The night went off with out a hitch and we couldn’t have been happier for yet another A Darling Affair event to go down in history as an ‘affair to remember’.

Special thanks goes to our ever so supportive and hardworking sponsor Hello May. We love that they come to our events and get to meet all you beautiful guests and their readers up close and personal. Also a HUGE thanks to When Elephant Met Zebra who works themselves to the bone capturing the wonderful night on camera.

Thank you all for coming. We loved seeing your smiling faces!

We hope you found the perfect wedding supplier for your big day!

There will be more in depth details and images to come of who was at the event and what they do this week. So stay tuned xx

Men! Men! Men!

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A Darling Affair’s events are not just for the ladies. We have husbands that come to our events and help out behind the scenes so we know that we have to keep them entertained too, otherwise they would be bored. With this in mind our fairs are anything but boring for the male kind.

We cater for the grooms needs and look for vendors who they can relate to and can provide them with a unique service. We are so pleased to bring them quality suits and accessories created by our vendors. It is an investment that they can use over and over again at different events and parties they attend after you both tie the knot.

URBBANA

Sam the creative director and owner of Urbbana (pictured in the centre) is just wonderful. We have worked with him on all of our fashion parades and photo shoots since A Darling Affair was launched. His suits and how he puts them together never ceases to amaze us.

This is a man who can dress you for success and knows what he is talking about.

Urbbana’s tagline is: ‘URBBANA is an expression of luxury, a brand that bases its reputation on excellence and quality of all products from the elegant fabrics to exceptional stitching’.

WOOD & BEAU

What do you get when you couple a creative fashionista with a second generation barber? Something incredible, that’s what.

Wood&Beau is a Gold Coast based brand created by Nicoletta Sagripanti & her husband Joey D’Adderio. Inspired by their European background and sleek dapper styling. Wood&Beau is about being stylish and individual. They create handmade wooden bow ties.

Each piece is created with passion and pride with additions to the collection regularly.

MADE WITH LOVE – JEWELLERY DESIGNERS

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A Darling Affair’s humble beginnings came with a passion for handmade local arts and crafts. We are avid supporters of hard work and love for a person’s craft in the wedding industry. These two wedding vendors have these qualities overflowing from their very soul.

One of us in the ADA team has a sense of awe when it comes to jewellery making. Have you ever made a piece of jewellery from scratch? Have you visited a jeweller’s workshop? Well you are in for a treat on Friday night when you meet these adorable women at the Gold Coast Wedding Festival.

You will know that every piece that they have made has been touched by the creator’s hand when you put it on. These women craft custom pieces for your wedding day to make you feel extra special, to make you feel like a woman in all her glory.

FRANKLY MY DEAR

Australian duo Samantha Martin and Amber-Jade Scherrenberg’s Frankly My Dear Store has made their mark on the Australian jewellery scene with a love and friendship that has allowed the brand to flourish in the most intimate of ways.

Frankie was born in 2012, sparking not only an indescribable amount of joy in the founder of Frankly My Dear, Samantha Martin, but also, inspiration. Sammi found a synergy of creativity, style along with her love of working with her hands that has consistently transcended through each unique piece.

Amber-Jade Scherrenberg stood alongside Sammi on her wedding day and she continues to stand by her with an incredible talent for developing business’. A Bond University graduate, Amber has joined forces with her dear friend of eight years and former co-worker to continue to create quality and most importantly, memorable statement pieces.

Stemming from an insatiable desire to make every woman feel beautiful, each Frankly My Dear piece is hand made with integrity, love and a bohemian influence that are affordable, unique and above all a reflection of pure friendship.

MEEKZ CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY

Jemica, from Meekz Contemporary Jewellery has always been passionate about art and design. She studied fine art and trained to become a qualified jeweller. Relocating to the country to be with family, Jemica found home and was able to transform an old horse stable into her studio and pursue her jewellery full time.

Meekz Contemporary Jewellery offers a range of handmade recycled jewellery that is ethically responsible and follow environmentally friendly practices. Inspired by fashion design, costume jewellery and urban geometric form, Jemica creates custom pieces that can be individually personalised to suit your needs.

Jemica also provides a unique experience by holding a one on one masterclass for couples. Why not begin your new journey together and create each other’s unique wedding band. Now that is so beautiful!

BRISBANE FASHION PARADE – PART 2

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The lunch time crowd at The Brisbane Wedding Fair hung around and grabbed their seats early for the next installment of the 1 of 3 fashion parades. Each fashion parade featured a new bridal gown designer and this time it was Anna Dutton Couture‘s turn to wow the crowd.

Anna is located in Mackay and flew in for the event – however in saying that she works a lot with Brisbane brides and loves the variety in clients that she has in the broader area.

Black Jacket Suiting joined the parade line up with the brides-to-be looking closely and imagining their grooms in them as the guy models were strutting their stuff – or were they just checking out the guys? Either way the models looked great in them.

The Beauty Case was on hand for touch ups on the make up after round one and also Aleesha Darke – A Fashionable Hair Life, both working their magic all over again. Both these teams were professionals at the highest level, relaxed and calm and knew their way around their brushes so the models from Mystique Model Management looked gorgeous in the crazy heat wave that hit Brisbane that day.

These gorgeous images were captured by the When Elephant Met Zebra photography team and we are so excited to look at them again and relive the whole experience. For some of you this is the first time seeing these images – maybe you couldn’t make it to the event – so enjoy! x

A special thanks goes to Interlaced Media for their backstage support and also to Autumn Grove Events for supplying the gorgeous tree that created a beautiful backdrop to our fashion parade. xx

Brisbane Fashion Parade – Part 1

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Well, well, well.

Brides and grooms-to-be came out in full force for the first fashion parade of the day and we couldn’t have been more pleased and what a show it was. It was just stunning and one of us from the A Darling Affair team even shed a tear because of the beauty of it all.

Autumn Grove Events set the scene with their inspiring and jaw dropping hand crafted vintage tree filling the room as a backdrop to our parade and it’s available for hire too!

Jennifer Gifford Designs showed off her gorgeous award winning gowns. Textures, patterns, lace, fitted and flowing gowns, floated down the runway on our gorgeous models giving a fantastic diversity of designs that Jennifer tailor makes to her brides and their individual tastes.

Combined with the fantastic ever flawless make up of The Beauty Case, giving you a ‘real brides make up’ look up close rather than ‘parade makeup’ and hair by Aleesha Darke – A Fashionable Hair Life, our brides-to-be could really get inspired by the variety of styles.

We certainly don’t forgot the men in our lives, and the suits made to perfection by Urbbana were also centre stage and are of high quality that was easily evident on the catwalk.

The parade went off without a hitch thanks to the efforts of Interlaced Media and their calm, behind the scenes approach for such a huge event.

We highly recommend all these vendors and have worked with them all in the past and couldn’t be more happy to show them off to those who attended on the day and also to those that couldn’t and are still searching for their special day. Presented in gorgeous photo’s taken by our hard working photography sponsor – When Elephant Met Zebra – we hope you get inspired all over again and find your perfect wedding professional.

Models credit: Mystique Model Management

A Darling Affair’s – Summer Garden Inspiration

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Just in case you missed it on Hello May we decided to give you another peek at the gorgeous Summer Wedding inspiration shoot that we put together with a talented team of wedding professionals located in the Brisbane region.

Brian from When Elephant Met Zebra captured the images perfectly and is a master behind the camera.

Hope and Lace Wedding Planning & Events put together this whimsical garden fresh bouquet full of blooms of every description. Coupled with the flawless makeup and hair by Khesahn from The Beauty Case and her delightful team. Our model’s lips were matched with the colour of the poppy bright roses in the bouquet.

Now you can’t do a bridal wedding shoot without a awesome suit and a gorgeous dress. So the creative geniuses that we love working with who have passion and drive for their craft are Urbbana – men’s suits and Jennifer Gifford Designs.

All these wonderful suppliers will be showcasing their talents at the Brisbane Wedding fair January 17th so head HERE to get your tickets online to get in the express lane at the entrance and skip past the crowds.

See you at the fair!! xx

The Fashion at A Darling Affair

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Aside from the two spectacular fashion shows on the day, we also had a lot of other bridal fashion on show at our Sunshine Coast Fair – and not just for the ladies either! If you didn’t get a chance to see what our creative and unique fashion stars were offering up on the day then fear not Darling – here is a little recap in images to get you through your day.

Thanks to When Elephant Met Zebra for the photos below featuring the stalls from Begitta, Urbanna, Judy Copley, Ivie White and the very cool Cooper Brothers.

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!

The Morning Fashion Show – A Wrap Up

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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.

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!