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…

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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.

You can always check out more of this prettiness by clicking on our vendor’s websites:

www.begitta.com | www.evhairandmakeup.com

The Dapper Groom at A Darling Affair

A Darling Affair 06/03/2014 0 Comments

We are loving all the amazing options for our Grooms out there at the moment. You probably know by now that we’re not your typical ‘top hat and tails’ kinds of girls… we love a bit of creativity and our Grooms are all over these stylin’ designs by Urbbana. You might also remember that we gave 2014 the title of the “Year of Colour” not too long ago, and that is creeping into our Groom’s attire too (which we couldn’t be happier about!). Check out these incredible suits that were on display at our Gold Coast Wedding Festival (we think our models look pretty awesome too!).

Thanks again to our official photographer, When Elephant Met Zebra, for these images.

Darling Dresses Down The Runway

A Darling Affair 06/03/2014 0 Comments

We’ll be showing off to you a series of the catwalk loveliness that appeared at A Darling Affair’s Wedding Festival. So take a walk down memory lane with us and imagine yourself in these flowing gowns and the gorgeous hair and make up styling. Pin it! or share it with your bridesmaids for your dream look for your big day.

Jennifer Gifford and her amazing bridal hub in Brisbane – The Brides Market and the flawless make up and hair skills by Khesahn and Elisse from The Beauty Case are the dream team behind this prowl down the catwalk. Images courtesy of our official event photographer, When Elephant Met Zebra

Please pop on over and visit their most beautiful websites…you won’t be disappointed!

The Brides Market | The Beauty Case

Late comers pull a rabbit out of the hat!

A Darling Affair 27/02/2014 0 Comments

Behind the scenes at A Darling Affair HQ our vendors on our mile long wait list might just receive an email saying at the last minute: “Your in!”

Planning an event sometimes there are things that happen to our vendors that are out of their control. For example, sickness, family stuff to sort out. Hey we’re all human and things happen even to the ADA team…(Carrie wasn’t even at The Wedding Festival herself!) So we are completely understanding and take this into consideration.

Now all that messy behind the scenes side, a part that you never see as the show must go on.We’d like to introduce you to two vendors who stepped up to the plate with flying colours. And boy did they put on a show for our lovely guests.

Birds of A Feather – Letterpress Co.

The Birds of a Feather Team work closely with you so you get what you want. They encourage you to bring in those samples, magazine clippings, sketches and Pins you’ve been obsessing over. They will bring your obsession to life and don’t worry they won’t think your crazy because they share that same passion for stationery just like you!

They just love their big machinery and the vintage letterpress graces their studio. Letterpress is a printing method where ink is literally pressed into paper using a heavy press. So if the grooms want a heavy machine to be involved in their stationery then Birds of A Feather Letterpress Co is the perfect match for you!

GC Flowers +

Krishna and her team from GC Flowers +, are hands down awesome. They are up for a challenge and are in for the action. This is professionalism at it’s highest level.

During her son and daughters wedding in 2013 Krishna saw a neach for affordable, unique supplies for special events. Her team of floral designers have over 30 years combined industry experience, having won awards for their floral designs. We were so lucky to have such a cheery team come on board for the A Darling Affair at The Wedding Festival!

Be sure to check out their websites! They’d love for you to stop by:

Celebrate good times come on!

Candice Wilson – Marriage Celebrant

Benjamin Carlyle Celebrant

Marriage Celebrant Ali

A Picture Speaks…

Adam Ward Photography

Josie Richardson Photography

Prue Franzmann Photography

Figtree Pictures Wedding Photography

When Elephant Met Zebra

Stylin’ Stationery

A Special Thank You to One Of Our Favourites!

Darling Dresses Down The Runway – Part 3

Some Sneaky Fun Behind The Scenes

Darling Dresses Down The Runway – Part 2

The Dapper Groom at A Darling Affair

Darling Dresses Down The Runway

Late comers pull a rabbit out of the hat!

Birds of A Feather – Letterpress Co.

GC Flowers +

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