Prenuptial Agreements – What to include Recently, Dee Popat, our BCME expert panel member and Head of Family Law Department at James Berry & Associates, gave us the lowdown on the situation regarding prenuptial agreements, including their advantages and disadvantages. Below, in part two of Dee’s expert post, she carefully explains some of the things that you may wish to consider if you are going down the prenup route, and how to ensure that your prenup can adapt…
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How To Plan For Retirement As A Couple With so much going on in your life, it can often be hard to plan ahead for the next month, let alone for years into the future. However, your retirement, although it feels like a long way off, will most likely creep up on you in what feels like little more than the blink of an eye. Saving as a couple will ensure that when you both…
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Kelly Lundberg’s Style Advice for UAE based Grooms When it comes to planning what your wedding party are going to wear on your special day, it’s easy to overlook that person who is an equally important half of the couple, and who also happens to be the person you’re marrying: the groom. So many hours are devoted to dress shopping for the bride and discussing colours, fabrics and styles with the bridesmaids, that our poor…
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The Differences Between A Wedding Planner & An Event Stylist  One of the questions we are regularly asked here at BCME is the difference between wedding coordinators, planners and stylists. After all, it’s hard to know whose services to use if you’re not exactly sure about what each role involves. Luckily, our expert panel member and founder of Cloud 9 Weddings and Events, Mennat Al Hammami, is on hand to clear up the confusion and…
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Planning For A Baby After Marriage Once the excitement of your wedding becomes a happy memory and you are busily enjoying married life, your thoughts may naturally turn to starting a family. In Dubai, it’s common for married couples to plan on starting a family within the first two years of their marriage. Of course, no couple is the same and some may begin trying for a baby immediately, whilst others may not place having…
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Dressing Your Bridesmaids Back in February, Kelly Lundberg, our BCME expert panel member and founder of StyleMeDivine, gave her top tips to help brides-to-be find their perfect wedding dress. The choice of wedding gown is naturally first and foremost in a bride’s mind, but what about those other girls who will be standing by your side throughout the planning process, and, most importantly, on the big day itself? Your bridesmaids deserve to look and feel…
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Finding The Perfect Wedding Dress It’s one of the most exciting yet possibly most stressful elements of planning your wedding. Indeed, as soon as you announce your engagement, one of the things you’ll be asked most after “have you set a date yet?” will be about THE DRESS. Everybody will have an opinion, and almost immediately you’ll enter the minefield of designers, necklines and silhouettes! Thankfully, our new BCME expert panel member Kelly Lundberg, founder…
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Expert Advice – Marrying In The UAE Wedding planning is fun, exciting, and one of those rare opportunities when you can ‘shape’ exactly how you want your day to be, from start to finish. However, beyond the love, joy and happiness, a legal shift is taking place, changing both of your official statuses from ‘single’ to ‘married’. This inevitably involves a whole range of implications that you both need to be aware of, in order…
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Joining Forced And Aligning Your Goals Almost every bride-to-be will admit it; in the run up to her wedding day, it can be hard to envisage married life beyond the stunning gown, the beautiful flowers and the excitement of friends and family. Indeed, most couples will become so consumed by the big day itself that the ‘after’ in ‘happily ever after’ is temporarily forgotten in the midst of decision making, planning and general ‘wedmin’. Moreover,…
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Mylist.ae Partners With Tanagra Mylist.ae, the UAE’s leading wedding gift registry company, have recently joined forces with home decor store Tanagra, to officially launch their luxury gift registry division. Speaking on behalf of Tanagra, Carla Zaroubi Daaboul, Marketing Director says; Tanagra begins the wedding season with a fresh offering of wonderful Bridal Specials. For a start, we have partnered with online gift registry MyList. This is to assist couples and brides-to-be with ideas for wedding…
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