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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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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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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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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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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A Wedding Planner-Turned-Bride’s Dreamy Wedding We always beam a huge smile when a BCME reader sends us their REAL wedding submission, and you can imagine how our faces lit up when we realised that this wedding was sent in by a wedding planner – the stunning Mennat, over at Cloud Nine Events. Keep scrolling to see some gorgeous photos (captured by Celeste Van Rooyen Photography) of a fairytale wedding in Abu Dhabi, featuring pale hues and…
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A Dubai Wedding At The Desert Palm We are back again, with another stunning wedding held at the Desert Palm hotel, Dubai. Astrid (the bride) is originally from Switzerland and her husband, David, hails from the UK. Given where they are both from, it makes complete sense that they chose the lush green, expansive landscapes of the Desert Palm as their dream venue in Dubai. Both David and Astrid live in the UAE and we…
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A Thunder Storm Wedding in Dubai – {The Video} To round off my ‘Real Wedding’ features, I am posting my wedding highlight video, filmed by the rather brilliant Morning Jacket Films. The talented duo at Morning Jacket films filmed and edited our wedding highlight video and were an absolute delight to work with. I would highly recommend them to other engaged couples searching for a creative team to film and document their special day. We loved being part…
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A Thunder Storm Wedding in Dubai | {Part Two} Following on from part one of a thunderstorm wedding in Dubai, I am now going to talk you through the second part of our special day, captured in images by Goldfish Photography and Video. Once our Ceremony was over, during our cocktail hour, Adam and I headed down to the polo field opposite the hotel. While the grass was wet, it wasn’t full of muddy puddles (due to…
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A Classic & Elegant Wedding in Magic Malta Dubai-based British couple; Phioro Jewelry designer and founder Clare Pardoe tied the knot with her handsome beau James Elliot-Square during a week-long (destination) wedding extravaganza in Malta. The talented and creative Clare, designed hers and her bridesmaids jewelry, and designed her own master piece; her wedding gown. Below, Clare talks us through her special day, which combined classic elegance with modern twists. Vision for the day: We both…
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