HAIR & MAKEUP SPECIALISTS

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Two crucial elements to a brides day, is her makeup and hair. With the restless and excited sleep the night before your big day, you really need to be in the hands of a professional to touch up, conceal and most importantly beautify your face and rustle up that bed hair into something glamourous.

It’s one big day you can go all out and really treat yourself and your bridal party to the most wonderful make over. It’s such a fun occasion with loads of giggles, laughs and tears when your getting ready. You need to have wonderful hair and makeup artists who love what they do and make you feel comfortable and look a million bucks.

PEEKABOO MAKEUP

The gorgeous ladies from Peekaboo are not only makeup artists but they do the whole shebang! Yep that’s right, makeup, hair styling and spray tanning. It’s really clever of a bride to book one company who is a trick of many trades rather than having separate businesses who don’t know each other and who have different visions for your wedding day style.

Peekaboo Makeup have been featured in many of the on trend bridal magazines with some stunning photo shoots up their sleeves. Just check out their facebook page for a quick sample of their exceptional and flawless styles and looks.

The team are bright, bubbly and love what they do and will make your wedding preparation morning a whole lot of fun. Just let their hands work their magic and you will be one glowing bride!

BLISSFUL MAKEUP

Karla from Blissful Makeup is just the sweetest thing. Pleasant and soft natured, her personality transfers over to the makeup skills she has mastered.

Working alongside many of Brisbanes’s finest in the wedding industry, Karla is constantly exposed to what’s on trend and what the modern day bride is after. She will understand your taste and preference in make up, and will achieve a flawless and stunning finish on your face that will accentuate your finer features.

Karla is always gushing over her lovely brides that she gets to work with. You can see the real weddings she has worked on over on her facebook page and the joy that she gets out of her work. So if you haven’t picked up on it already, we think Blissful Makeup is amazing.

VELBELLA

Now Velbella is something unique and different all together. You can either be a total DIY bride or get the ladies from the Velbella to work their magic on you.

Let me explain. Velbella specialises in the makeup technique of airbrushing. You can either purchase one of their air brushing kits and do it yourself – which is a great investment for your future events that you attend well after your wedding day OR if you don’t feel 100% confident the team can come to you and beautify you and your bridal party.

Check out their website for more details about their products and kits available for purchase.

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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

HAIR AND MAKE UP BEAUTIES

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THE BEAUTY CASE

Khesahn and her amazing team behind The Beauty Case have worked hard and long creating a business that not only makes people look good but feel good as well. The great thing is they offer BOTH hair and makeup.

The Beauty Case girls bring a lot of fun, positivity and really bad jokes to your wedding day pampering. When they finish your hair and make up they just don’t pack up and go home they are there to help you get dresses and help Mum or Dad pin that damn button hole on. They have been around plenty of weddings and photo shoots to help you get it just right.

Honesty is their best policy when they do your hair and make up – they tell you if it’s not going to work, look bad or simply you just don’t have the features/enough hair to do it – they want you to be upfront with them and hope that they make you comfortable to do so with them.

PEEKABOO MAKEUP

Peekaboo is a culmination of years of study and interest in all things beauty and glamour.They provide hairstyling and makeup to suit a bride’s unique vision of her day. From vintage glam, to the more natural or even a modern inspired look.

Peekaboo don’t get too caught up in the industry of hair and makeup – they are all about getting to know their brides, their vision and making it happen!

VELBELLA

Lauren and Rebecca decided to combine their sole trading businesses and create Velbella – specialising in hair and airbrush makeup artistry.Now they have a team behind them creating beautiful looks for brides and their bridal party.

What makes Velbella unique is that they have for sale their own brand of airbrush makeup kits and products if brides want top do their own makeup on their wedding day. The products are light wearing, long lasting and flawless!

Come and have a chat with these hair and makeup artists about what would suit you and your wedding day ideas. You will also see the handiwork of The Beauty Case team in all 3 fashion parades as they are our official makeup artists for The Brisbane Wedding Fair.

So tell your bridal party and bring them down next Saturday to the Old Museum to help you decide on all your beauty needs for you big day xxx

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 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!

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

Blushing Bride to Be

A Darling Affair 16/04/2014 0 Comments

One of the Darling’s – Carrie – is going to a special event tonight – we’ll fill you in later – and she wishes she had one of these amazing teams living in her back pocket.

The makeup and hair artists from the Gold Coast Wedding Festival.

What we love about these teams is that we have no problems with leaving them to work their magic on our models without us hovering over their shoulder. In short they work magic and when we come back after running around at the fair and stop to watch the fashion parade ourselves we are always blown away.

These experienced teams have qualities we adore. Funny, personable, kind, great listeners, and pleasing to the eye – we mean come on your going to spend your most exciting morning of your life with them getting ready. You need to be able to speak your mind and feel at ease with them.

Take it from one of the Darling’s who had a make up trial for her wedding that made her eyes look like a panda bear. So if you don’t want that experience, then these are the ladies you are looking for: