It’s Laura!! Yay! And this week she is getting a little serious.. we’d love to hear your thoughts on dieting as a bride or groom :-) XOXO Lou
Image by Anna Clarke Photography
Before I start, I’d like to congratulate my fellow Real Bride Adeline. She only went and got married last weekend! I’ve seen one of the official photos and she looked absolutely beautiful and so happy. Huge congratulations, lovely lady!
This post is going to be a bit more serious than my usual flippant offerings as I need to talk about the dreaded W word. Weight.
I bought a second wedding dress this week. An emergency-back-up-what-if-I’m-too-fat-to-fit-in-dress-number-1-dress.
If you’ve been following my planning journey you’ll remember that I bought a dress by a well known designer, 2nd hand on ebay. It was a fraction of the cost I would have paid for it if it had been new and I was really happy with it. Aside from the teeny, tiny fact that it’s a size too small…
I have weight issues. I have never maintained my weight at a set level for any significant period of time. I am always either losing weight or gaining it.
My relationship with food is terrible. I use it as a crutch when I’m sad/angry/stressed and I use it as a reward when I’m happy.
I’m actually quite good at dieting when I put my mind to it and I have, in the past, lost upwards of 3 stone by following slimming world and the like.
In November, when I bought dress number 1, I was a size 14. My efforts to get into dress number 1 started in January and since then I have gained 5lb. Suffice to say it’s not going well. (more…)
So here it is, my final post as a Miss. As of this Saturday, I will be Mrs Tye! These past 6 months blogging for Whimsical Wonderland Wedding as a bride-to-be have been completely special to me. Not only do I have something I can look back on whenever I get that pang of misery that the day has been and gone, but I have also made some wonderful friends and have been opened up to a world of people who are creative, stylish and want to talk weddings all day long (what’s not to love!)
I also hope that my blog posts have been interesting and helpful to you readers. I know that in my planning I have looked to others for inspiration and help in finding suppliers, so I hope I have done the same for you! I’d also like to say a HUGE thank you to Lou for letting me write for her wonderful blog and for making me feel like ‘part of the family’! (more…)
I hand you over to Adeline this morning… can you believe Adeline is getting married in under 2 weeks now?! Ekkkk… anyway Adeline shares with us her second hen do today, flapper girls fabulous.…. XOXO Lou
Maybe it’s a little greedy or possibly a fantastic idea to split your time between family and friends, but it is clear that the second (or third) hen party is now becoming a regular date in a bride-to-be’s diary! I am here to admit (and share) that I am one of those brides to be!…
I decided to have two hen parties for a number of reasons. The first because I really wanted to have a weekend away with my best girlfriends! I haven’t had this opportunity before and thought that a hen weekend would be the best excuse! It also meant that we could drink a lot and the girls could make me do whatever they wanted without me being embarrassed in front of my mum! That is where the second hen party came in! A classier affair that my mum and other family members and friends could attend with all embarrassing acts and stories left behind in Brighton!
This hen party was planned by one of my lovely bridesmaids, Emily. She put so much thought into this day and it suited me completely! If you have been following my previous posts and our WWW photoshoot on South Farm, I am the ‘vintage bride’, so the 1920’s hen party that Emily had planned was the perfect fit for me!
Emily had managed to hire Elle Hitchens vintage make-up artist to do my make-up for the day. Elle was a make-up artist I had wanted to hire for my wedding day, but was already, unfortunately booked up! I allowed Elle to do whatever she wanted with my make-up, with dark eyes and a deep red lip. She did my full make-up and then touched up the eye make-up and lips of all the other hens. She did a fantastic job, especially as I never wear dark eye make-up. It was lovely to have her do my make-up, although I am now hugely disappointed that she is not free for my wedding day!
Whilst Elle was doing my make-up, the 1920’s costumes and props were out and the girls all had fun playing dress-up whilst afternoon tea was served!
The girls provided me with a complete costume of a cream flapper dress, head band, feather for my hair and feather bower! Emily had even bought some hair crimpers, which completed our look!
We then had a ‘full of giggles’ photoshoot by the wonderful Oxana at Blissful Wedding Photography. She edited the photos to give them a vintage finish. We had lots of fun and I think all the girls look great! It was really nice to get some photos with my mum too as I can’t remember the last time we had any photos of the two of us taken!
The girls whisked me away after for dinner at the Glass Boat in central Bristol and then took me off to The Cube to see the Cabaret of Curiosities. Everyone at The Cube were dressed in clothing from the 20’s through to the 60’s. We fitted in perfectly! I couldn’t believe that Emily, with the help of other hen Helen found a cabaret for us to go to that fitted in perfectly with our theme!
All that is left to do is to share the photos from our shoot with you and now get married!.…
Whimsical Wonderland Weddings (The Bride Diaries Photoshoot) from Simon Clarke Video Production on Vimeo.
And here we have it the last of The Bride Diaries Photoshoot installments… the behind the scenes action. Before we get to it i just want to thank everyone that helped put together the day, it was truely wonderful, thanks for making my first involvement in a professional shoot so fun!
Thanks so much to everyone for their lovely comments too. I really hope the three girls felt pampered and special and more confident about their wedding photographs now.
So i leave you with the gorgeous film above from Simon Clarke Video Production who really captured the feel of the day. It makes me oh so emotional, yet with a huge grin left plasetered on my face when i watch it hehe! And below some more amazing shots from Anna Clarke Photography as we were getting ready. These two were just brilliant on the day, i cannot rave enough about them.
If you are looking for wedding vendors for your wedding, i wholeheartedly reccomend everyone involved in this shoot, so do check out the credits at the end.
I hope you have enjoyed this series and enjoy seeing us lot hard at work ;-)
And so today i bring you the last of The Bride Diaries Photo shoot images… sob sob.
We had the main photoshoot images here, Adeline’s vintage look here, Kelly’s classic look here and now it’s lovely Laura’s turn.
Laura was our quirky and bohemian bride. With her first look more of an alternative style and her second look a little more boho. We really did have a dream team on this shoot! Thanks so much again to Anna Clarke Photography for her images :-) And look out for some behind the scenes action later, including an amazing film.
Here is what Laura had to say about the day;
“I hate having my photo taken and I’m pretty much guaranteed to hate 90% of all pictures of me, which is weird given that I keep volunteering to be on the wrong side of the camera!
It’s always interesting as a photographer to be in front of the camera and it doesn’t hurt to be reminded that it isn’t, initially, always a comfortable experience as you’re generally a bit nervous (I blame those hideous school portraits where you were plonked on a freezing cold bench and forced to grimace while your little sister bawled her eyes out).
Luckily as well as being amazingly talented, Anna and Simon were lovely and put us all at ease straight away.
We had a lot of fun, although I won’t lie it was freeeeeezing and there was a fair bit of teeth chattering going on in between shots!
And don’t get me started on the pigs….
So who knew that if you stand among a whole load of farmyard animals that a few of them might actually try to bite your toes?! I didn’t. I haven’t seen the super talented Simon’s video yet but I do hope he’s cut the scenes of me running around the pig pen shrieking….
Thanks so much to the lovely Lou and Alex for organising such a brilliant day and thanks to all of the other suppliers who were involved. And thanks to the pigs for the teeth marks in my yellow wellies. Bad pigs.”
For her first look Laura wore an the unusual yet beautiful Amber Headpiece by What Katy Did Next and the gorgeous White Duchess Halterneck Dress by Vivien of Holloway.
Laura had an unusual and striking hair style for the shoot created by Wonderful Wedding Hair. Here Sharon tells us how she created Laura’s do;
“I have met Laura a few times and worked with her on occasion and I am actually doing her hair for her wedding day.
For laura’s first look we wanted to use the Amber Headpiece by What Katy Did Next as it really seemed to fit in with the location. I precurled , added some backcombing for it to sit in front of and then arranged the rest of the hair around the headpiece , backcombing the curls to give it some texture. A quiff at the front completed the look.”
The fabulous Make Up by Katy beautified Laura on the day, here Katy tells us how she created Laura’s make up look;
“For Laura, I wanted to focus a bright splash of colour and decided on a subtle yet bright ombré lip. This meant I had to keep the rest of her make-up clean and subtle. So for her eyes, I stuck with very soft muted shades of grey to add a little definition and went to town with the lips. Using 2 different lip pencils I started with a dark pink, Laura Merciers Petunia all around the edge of the lips. Because this is so much the focus of the look, I really wanted a perfect lip so I then ran around the edge with a concealer pencil to ensure it was a really clean line. I then took a bright coral lip pencil, Mac in Synch and filled in the centre of the lip. The set the base for a 2 tone finish. I wanted to use a product with hugely strong pigment and the only option for me was OCC Lip Tar. I then layered on Memento mixed with Animé and using a tiny amount I carefully and sparingly layered this over the dark pink portion on the lip pencil. Then using a bright coral gloss, Pink Grapefruit by Laura Mercier I filled in the central portion of the lip.
A light flush of pink on the cheeks balanced it out without over powering.
This look is not for the bride who loves nudes and naturals but is great for those wanting to add a little flash of bright on the big day!”
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