Planning a wedding in Dubai? One of the first and most important decisions you’ll need to make is when to get married. While Dubai is known for its year-round sunshine, luxury hotels, beautiful beaches and spectacular outdoor wedding venues, the time of year you choose can have a significant impact on your wedding day. From the weather and availability of venues to your overall wedding budget, there is plenty to consider before setting the date….
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Planning your dream wedding is an exciting journey, but when it comes to finalising the guest list, things can get tricky. Whether it’s due to budget constraints, venue capacity, or a desire for a more intimate celebration, cutting down the guest list is often necessary. However, this process can lead to difficult conversations and even hurt feelings. So, how can you reduce your wedding guest list without offending anyone? Here are five thoughtful and diplomatic…
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Embarking on the magical journey towards your dream wedding in the UAE is an exciting adventure, filled with love, joy, and, yes, a bit of planning prowess. We get it—the thought of budgeting can be a tad overwhelming, casting a shadow on what should be a sun-filled journey to your big day. Maybe one of you keeps a meticulous savings spreadsheet while the other quietly checks offshore sportsbooks odds between meetings. Fear not, for we’ve…
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Childcare Options During A Wedding After a small break following the birth of her baby (A big congrats from us!), we are super excited to welcome back BCME expert panel member and founder of Cloud 9 Weddings & Events, Mennat Al Hammami. This month, Mennat discusses a topic that can often be controversial when deciding upon your guest list: the inclusion of children. However, it needn’t be this way. Using her recent experience, as well…
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What would newlyweds in the UAE have done differently on their wedding day?  When you’re planning your wedding, people will always be on hand to offer their own experiences and advice about what worked well and what they might have done differently, not only on the day itself, but throughout the entire planning process. Perhaps you even have your own opinions about what to do and what not to do after attending various weddings as…
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Getting Organised! Regardless of the number of years they’ve spent dreaming about their wedding day, or the amount of (perhaps secret) Pinterest boards crafted over this time to offer inspiration, many new brides-to-be often find that as soon as they become engaged, what they thought they wanted goes out of the window. It seems to be the case that once marriage is a reality and plans need to be made, there are so many things…
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 2015 | Bride Club ME’s Favourite Features Now entering the fourth year since our website went live, and beginning a new chapter with the year ahead, Bride Club ME reflects and takes a look back at our most popular and favourite features of 2015. From organising our most recent ‘festive’ styled photoshoot with very little time to play with, and following the wedding planning journey of our gorgeous real bride contributor Barbaranne Heaton, who got married earlier this…
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Seven Things Wedding Photographers Love And Why In the midst of planning your wedding, you’re likely to have several people tell you how the day goes by so fast, with hours passing like minutes on one of the most important events of your life. Photographs are a beautiful reminder of this special day, which, believe us, will become a bit of a blur when you look back on it once it’s all over. For this…
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Preserve Your Cake And Eat It Too! When elaborate three-tiered wedding cakes became popular in the late 19th century, the bottom tier was served during the reception, the middle tier was given to guests to place under their pillows (to promote fertility), and the top tier was often left over. This gave rise to the idea of saving the top tier to be served as a sweet remembrance to be enjoyed on a couple’s one-year…
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The Cost of Hiring a Wedding DJ Here at Bride Club ME, we love to talk about “pretty” – we get immersed in lots of real wedding inspiration and swoon over the latest wedding gown trends, but we also get down to the nitty gritty and tackle subjects such as logistics, vendor costs and the inevitable difficulties faced when planning a wedding, whether it’s being held here in the UAE or somewhere else. Today, we…
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