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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Vanila Wedding Boutique in student collaboration If you’ve ever visited the JLT based boutique of our vendors Vanila, you’re certain to have noticed the light, airy and modern interiors that add a special something to this recently opened studio, going beyond the vast collection of beautiful dresses and accessories on display. At the BRIDE Dubai Show, we absolutely loved Vanila’s vendor booth, which wowed us by representing their boutique so accurately that it actually felt…
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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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 Get to know the wedding Pro! Every week, we will be shining the spotlight on our Bride Club ME vendor club members, allowing our readers to learn more about some of the best wedding vendors in town. Here, we’ll bring you everything you need to know about the people behind the businesses we recommend hiring to make your wedding day perfect. This week, we have the privilege of showcasing Helen Smith, Senior Artist Booking Manager at The…
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7 Ways You and Your Spouse Can Survive Recessions Entering married life is an exciting and pivotal moment for newly wedded couples, but it can also raise up questions related to money, joint accounts, saving for the future and so on. Here at BCME, we pride ourselves on bringing our readers informative and useful content that not only helps during the planning process, but also offers guidance and advice in preparation for the marriage itself. Our…
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Hello brides-to-be, We have some exciting news for those of you still searching for your ideal wedding venue. The stunning Park Hyatt Hotel in Abu Dhabi are putting on their second annual wedding showcase on the 3rd of May, and Bride Club ME are once again, proud media partners. At the showcase, you will see The Park Hyatt Abu Dhabi ballroom transformed into a dream wedding reception. In addition to the hotel showcasing all they can…
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They’re here!!! Our Bride Club ME launch photos!! We were waiting oh so patiently for them to arrive and are delighted with what was captured in celluloid. Our resident photographer and contributing writer, Alice Hartley, has done sterling of job depicting the joy and magic of the night. Snapping away, chatting with guests and launch partners, you would have all felt Alice’s presence behind the lens. Who else was papping away? The lovely Kelly Brbich from…
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