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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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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Questions To Ask Your Potential Wedding Planner Planning a wedding should fill you with excitement and not be a stressful affair. However, it can easily turn into the latter if all of the factors involved are not considered carefully and well ahead of time. A wedding planner can help you to achieve your perfect wedding vision by working closely with you to ensure that every aspect is covered for your big day. So with this…
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A French shabby-chic-style wedding in Abu Dhabi Oh my, today’s real wedding post is simply stunning – but, then again, we expect nothing less when the images come from fine art wedding photographer Melissa Beattie. Newly wedded Mr and Mrs Tarabout are originally from southern Germany and the south of France, yet chose to recite their ‘I dos’ in Abu Dhabi at St. Andrew’s Church, followed by a beautiful reception at the Ritz Carlton Hotel…
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A fairy-lit black-tie wedding on the creek Our favourite magazine editor, Helen Spearman of Good Magazine, got married to her beau recently and we are super stoked to bring our readers the low down on her special day. Helen has always been a big supporter of Bride Club ME, and when we heard she was due to wed, we were more than happy to advise. Being a staunch supporter of home-grown talent herself, it was…
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Keep Calm: It’s a Destination Wedding in Thailand Today’s real wedding submission had me tearing up with joy. Submitted by recently wed Kameliya, a Dubai resident originally from Bulgaria, this has to be one of my favourite destination weddings that we’ve featured so far. Kameliya married her multinational (Serbian, Austrian, Moroccan, Sudanese) British-born groom Tariq during an intimate ceremony on the tropical island of Koh Samui in Thailand. Themed using the famous ‘Keep Calm’ quote,…
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Get To Know The Wedding Pro Every week, we shine the spot light on our Bride Club ME vendor club members, allowing our readers to get up close and personal with some of the best wedding vendors in town. Here, you can learn more about the people behind some of the businesses you may hire to help make your wedding day perfect! Above right: Clare Ebbs, Managing Partner at Aghareed. Photo credit: Enchante Studios This week…
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