Archive for the ‘From the wedding planners’ Category

As we all know news being spread by word of mouth, normally travels the fastest. Whether you’re discussing the brilliant movie you’ve just seen, your embarrassing message you sent on Facebook, which you thought was private, turns out you wrote it on someone’s wall… or that girl who used to go to school with you and got pregnant by the woodwork teacher, and is now selling jams outside the Spar on Saturdays… Point is, news travels fast when it’s being told, discussed, whispered or shouted, by mouth.

So, the aptly named events company who definitely needs no introduction in South Africa, By Word of Mouth made my task very easy!

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Splendid Affairs is a wedding decor company specialising in bespoke wedding decor – something personal, unique, stylish and always glamorous. The inspiration behind this table was  vintage glamor coupled with the latest trend of using cut glass, crystal and silver as a prominent wedding decor items. The flowers are kept to the minimum and the focus is placed on other decorative items. Each table can have different items displayed, which you can keep as sentimental keep-sakes from your wedding day to treasure forever.

The Rock Around The Cradle Day 1 was today, and the weather was miserable. Luckily, the gorgeous fire at Toadbury Hall warmed everyone up. The mood at Toadbury Hall was cheerful despite the rain. The couples were invited to chat to the co-ordinators about their wedding plans, and meet a few suppliers too.

One of the treats in store for the couples was an impromptu shoot with a professional wedding photographer Annalene Rautenbach of Moments By Annalene with fun props, after Sam of Lashline Make-Up touched up ladies make-up.

Splendid Affairs is a free bridal publication packed with inspirational ideas, wedding planning tips and real life weddings.

This month’s bridal fashion shoot took place at Shepstone Gardens, featuring bridal wear by Dimity and Wedding Connexion. Sam Scaife of Lashline exercised her make-up artistry on our models, whilst  Kat Forsyth’s photographic talent can be seen throughout the pages of this digital magazine.

This wedding magazine is put together by Evegenia Poplett of Splendid Affairs Wedding Planning Company.

Click here to read it.

This brilliant wedding magazine is FREE and packed with great advice for brides palnning their own wedding.

Great professional advice, real weddings, stationery ideas, wedding flowers and decor and much more!

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Arum Lily is an elegant and beautiful flower. It is highly effective in creating modern and beautiful arrangements. The drawback is that in South African coloured Arum Lilies are scarce and it is often difficult to guarantee that a bride would be able to source Arum Lilies in any other colour but the traditional white and green.

This often limits its use for the brides with other colour schemes, but I have a perfect solution to this problem:

By using beads and crystals you can colour co-ordinate this gorgeous flower to suit your wedding colour scheme.

Once the excitement of your engagement settles a bit, you will probably feel incredible pressure from the anticipating looks, expecting phone calls and other forms of targeted attention from your friends all waiting to be asked to be your bridesmaid.

Most of my clients  were looking for guidance and asked what is an acceptable number of bridesmaid. This is a difficult question to answer and many factors need to be considered. You bridal party may be as small or as big as you wish. Perhaps you have many close friends, and perhaps it was your childhood dream to be each others bridesmaids. However, if you are in your 30s, chances are that you could be happier with one Matron of Honour, or a smaller bridal party.

However, another important factor to consider is your budget. If you wish for your bridesmaids to wear traditional matching dresses and accessories, then it is the bride’s responsibility to pay for the garments to be either purchased, or made. Do not forget that your bridesmaids will require a professional make-up artist and hair stylist on the day of the wedding too.

If you can afford this, then you are extremely lucky and your dilemma ends at being honest with yourself  and having the courage to ask only your truly dear friends or family members to be in your bridal party, and not feel guilty over your decision. Read the rest of this entry »

Bling Cake Toppers

Wow, feels like forever since I last posted on here sorry guys.  Been diagnosed with a baby lol! and just got over all the sickness and tiredness but promise to load more in the future.

 So this is my new fab find:) they certainly didn’t have these unusual toppers when I got married  I have noticed a big trend in the last few months for unusual cake toppers and the ones with the couples fishing, shopping etc are so expensive and I think are R750!!!!  So I thought I would look around and see what else was out there.

I looked at ordering one for my friends wedding off a website in London and they were 99 POUNDS – ouch!  So I thought I would get someone to make them for me
Email me: mrsmack@iafrica.com if you would like some more info.
They really are divine and you can custom make them
Blinged with crystals makes these initial cake toppers are a fantastic way to enhance any special cake whether it be a wedding cake, an anniversary cake or even a special birthday cake. This initial could show your married name initial and two smaller initials to show the first name initials of the bride and groom.

Wedding cakes are important parts of a wedding celebration. It is something that represents your style, and it adds pizzazz to your wedding celebration. Finding the right cake topper for the perfect cake is not going to be hard anymore. With these Bling Crystal Monogram Cake Toppers your cake will be the one of the many parts highlighting you special day. Each Blinged Monogram Cake topper is a custom art piece, and is handmade.

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