A British Expat Wedding in Dubai | Video Highlights Earlier this year, you read all about the wedding of Melissa and her groom Simon, both originally from the UK. Melissa and Simon married during a beautiful outdoor blessing ceremony, at the gorgeous Montgomerie Hotel in Dubai and it was all captured on film and camera by the creative team over at Goldfish Photography & Video. You might remember that Melissa in particular, has just a…
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How To Pick Your Wedding Photographer As many of our readers know, we often call on the experts for wedding planning tips and advice. Today, our BCME expert panel member in the area of photography, Maria Sundin, offers her top tips on choosing your wedding photographer. Hello BCME brides! You’re almost there. Beautiful dress – check. Awesome husband-to-be – check. Wedding date – check. Venue – check. Once you’ve started planning your wedding, and have…
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Wedding Colour Scheme Choosing wedding colour schemes can be tricky, and we appreciate that every bride-to-be could use a little inspiration. On a weekly basis, we scour the net, searching for stunning wedding colour scheme combinations, that will help inspire your big day. Today we offer a mood board, with a fresh spring/summer vibe: Green Apple & Peach This mood board was found on the awesome website www.theperfectpalette.com. The Perfect Palette is a blog dedicated to exploring…
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A Guide To Wedding Flowers | Part 2 We posed a question to our readers a while back on our Instagram page. What features would YOU like to see on Bride Club ME? By popular demand, a guide to wedding flowers was one of the top requested feature ideas. Following on from part 1 of our guide to wedding flowers, floral designer and founder of Flowers.ae, Martin O’Gara, continues to offer advice on popular wedding flowers and their seasons….
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A Guide to Wedding Flowers We posed a question to our readers a while back on our Instagram page. What features would YOU like to see on Bride Club ME? By popular demand, a guide to wedding flowers was one of the top requested feature ideas. We can understand why too. When I was engaged, deciding which flowers I wanted was quite a task. Not all of us are botanists and know what blooms work…
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Garden Party Wedding on Marina Island, Dubai A beautiful bride, a stylish groom, a traditional church wedding and a gorgeous garden party reception on Marina Island at Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club all feature in today’s REAL wedding post. Super talented photographer Melissa Beattie captured the day’s events with her soft and romantic imagery and some amazing images of Dubai’s evening skyline. Below, Melissa talks us through photographing the wedding of Mike and Heather, both…
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Jeff Pink, CEO of Orly and originator of the French manicure I recently had the privilege of meeting the originator of the French manicure, CEO of Orly and trendsetter in the nail industry Jeff Pink! Jeff was in Dubai to attend the Beauty World ME exhibition, where he launched the latest 2014 ORLY collections – the 2014 Summer Collection (BAKED), the 2014 Fall Collection (SMOKY) as well as the Argan Oil Collection and the Rich Renewal New…
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J’ Adore The Desert It was a hot summer’s day in Dubai when photographer Tasneem Al Sultan, videographers Renaud Santos Moro, Niane De Sa and I roamed the dusty roads in search of a scenic location for Marina and Clement’s pre-wedding photo-shoot. The back story here is interesting. Having worked on our styled Great Gatsby shoot last summer, the incredibly talented and kooky Tasneem (or Tess, as I call her) contacted me to ask if I’d help with a pre-wedding…
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Wedding Colour Scheme Choosing wedding colour schemes can be tricky, and we appreciate that every bride-to-be could use a little inspiration. On a weekly basis, we scour the net, searching for stunning wedding colour scheme combinations, that will help inspire your big day. Today we offer a mood board, with a sophisticated and unique edge: Coral & Mauve. This mood board was created by the Michelle at the awesome website www.pocketfulofdreams.co.uk. Pocketful of dreams are UK based wedding…
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The Diary Of A Real BCME Bride Back in April 2014, the gorgeous Salwa Chamsi-Pasha visited us at the BCME stand at BRIDE Dubai, and excitedly told us she was engaged to marry her beau this October in Jordan. Having a natural passion for event management and a desire to document her planning process, Salwa suggested writing for Bride Club ME. We loved the idea and are delighted to introduce Salwa’s first bridal diary feature on Bride Club ME, we are also honoured to…
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