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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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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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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An Enchanted Real Wedding ~ Lebanon Weddings in Lebanon are almost always immaculately planned and mind-blowingly gorgeous. It’s in the Lebanese blood we think! The wedding we are featuring today is no exception, and due credit goes to the bride, who planned the whole thing herself. We are in love with the incredible outdoor venue, Domaine de Zekrit in Lebanon, which played host to the Dubai-based bride and groom Rana and Antoine. Nestled between the…
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Real Wedding ~ Anantara, The Palm  When we heard that the Anantara hotel was launching on Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah earlier this year, we immediately hoped we’d be able to cover a real wedding there one day. The time has finally come. Set among Asian-inspired architecture, with peaked roofs resembling Thai temples, this real wedding features a warm, hazy sunset and a very chilled bride and groom. It was submitted by Goldfish Photography and Video, and we…
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Meet the Dress  Bride Club ME reader Nermine Saadeh, originally from Syria, contacted us last month to tell us how happy she was to have found bridal boutique BELJOUR Bridal via our website – so much so, that she wanted to publicly praise the service she received. Shadi Watts, the founder of BELJOUR Bridal, is not only extremely passionate about her business and helping brides, she’s also incredibly sweet. Nermine married her Italian sweetheart Giovanni…
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 A Destination Wedding in Thailand A sizeable number of our UAE readers are planning a destination wedding abroad, with the most popular locations including Italy, Cyprus, Santorini, Sri Lanka and Thailand. If you’ve ever been to Thailand, you’ll understand its appeal for a destination wedding. Relatively close to the UAE (a 6-hour flight), Thailand has great weather and climate for the most part; weddings are cost-effective depending on your hotel/location of choice; Thai people are…
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A Retro Skate Park Engagement Shoot  Cool and quirky are two words that perfectly describe our latest engagement shoot submission, sent in by photographer duo Two Quirky. While we will never tire of beach or desert engagement shoots in Dubai, we love to feature something a little different. From the colorful graffiti wall on Jumeirah Beach Road, the retro skate park, to the casual bus shelter shot, we adore everything about this gorgeous shoot! Below,…
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A Glamourous Affair At The Ritz, Dubai The boys are back in town! One of our favourite international wedding videographers, Deneemotion Boutique Weddings Cinema + Photo, were back in Dubai recently, filming the wedding of Newlyweds Carol and John, who found Deneemotion via the Bride Club ME vendor club. Prior to their wedding, the couple met the Deneemotion team in the UK to discuss wedding preps and plans, while they were on holiday and are thrilled…
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When Bride Club ME vendor club members Goldfish Photography & Video sent us this real wedding submission earlier in the month, and mentioned that the bride loved Take That and incorporated the famous 90s’ boy band into her wedding, we knew we had to feature it! For those of you who don’t know who Take That are, click hereThe super-relaxed bride Melissa and her groom Simon are both originally from the UK and married at the gorgeous Montgomerie Hotel…
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