28th
Mar

Brides Seeking

by Polkadot Bride

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It’s time for another Brides Seeking entry!

Here’s how it works! If you can help on of our Brides Seeking out, leave a comment on this entry! Hopefully we can get every bride the answers she needs!

Bride #1 is looking for feedback for anyone who has held their at Warrawong Woolshed in Melton, VIC.

Bride #2 is looking for a bride to share flowers with and the cost of the arrangements! She’s ordered $1000 worth of flowers (There are white roses as bridal bouquets, red roses as bridesmaids and white tulips as the centrepieces.  Garden roses for the powder room.  White roses as lapels.) She’s marrying on Friday, 16th of April 2010 in the Royal Botanic Gardens in South Yarra, VIC at 11am followed by a reception at Lynch’s Restaurant, VIC. If you know of someone who would like to go halves in floral fees, leave a comment!

Bride #3 is looking for shorter wedding dresses available in Australia. She lives in NSW so would love to be able to find them locally!

Bride #4 is looking for green artificial flower brooches. She needs four, they can be any kind of flower, and they don’t even need to be brooches (she is happy to attach a safety pin)

Bride #5 is marrying in Maleny, Queensland on 21 May 2011.  They’re having a cocktail function and would like to arrange some hire lounge chairs for a “chill out” area for guests.  She’s seeking a company that can hire her said lounge chairs.

Bride #6 is looking for “Rose & Ruby” style dresses. Another sad fan of the beautiful gowns, she’s seeking mismatched bridesmaids dresses in neutral shades of french lace and silk and would love to go to the one place to find them!

Bride #7 is looking for Indian-style indoor tents (similar to Raj Tents in the US)

Bride #7 is also after florists around Sydney who do vintage/country/messy styles (hold the frangipanis and orchids!)

Bride #7 is also looking for terracotta/coral 1950s style bridesmaids dresses

Bride #8 is looking for a sale price, cheaper version or someone who can make something similar to the Lisa Brown Poppy dress for bridesmaids (currently $550- budget is $320)- based in Sydney

Bride #9 is wondering “We are doing a dessert buffet of all our favourite sweets such as little lemon tarts, Portugese custard tarts, baklava etc. This will be the dessert for the evening. We have approx 100 guests coming and I was wondering how to best cater for this i.e do we need to get one of everything for each person?”

Bride #10 is looking for a venue for her wedding! “Somewhere in Victoria with beautiful gardens. A large property where you can hire the entire thing out for a few days. around 8-10
bedrooms and the ability for it to just be us – no staff etc. We want to be able to cater ourselves and decorate ourselves as well. It also needs to have a little personality.”

Bride #11 is looking for any kind of white on white polka dot fabric available in Australia, Swiss dot preferably!

Bride #12 is looking for a website that sells used or inexpensive veils. She needs a cathedral-length veil (with blusher) with a lace border and would love to purchase it pre-loved to save some dollars.

Bride #13 needs to find shoes for her bridesmaids and junior bridesmaids,  they all will be wearing the same colour, the dresses are 3 quarters,  in which the colour is a soft lemon, and pink around the waist and with soft pink net showing on the bottom of them. She needs shoes to match, either soft yellow or soft pink. Have you seen any?

Bride #14 has recently bought a beautiful Akira gown for her wedding dress. She’s now in a complete pickle as to what colour her bridesmaids should wear. The dress is a red slip with white embroidered linen over the top, so it looks pink.

Bride #15 is trying to find antique wooden chairs for a wedding in Byron Bay. Does anyone know a furniture hire place specialising in antique/vintage inspired furniture?

Bride #16 is trying to design her own invitations but wants them to look professional when they’re printed. She’s on a very tight budget and wants to know if there is a cheap way of doing it? Does anyone know of somewhere she can take them?

Bride #17 is looking for large round paper lanterns in orange and grey, she’s also after brown kraft paper tin tie bags (for lollies). She’s planning a Melbourne wedding and trying to stick with local suppliers.

Phew! I know Polka Dot Bride readers are a resourceful bunch and I would *love* if we could help out each one of these brides! Have you seen anything, heard anything that might help our brides out?

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23rd
Mar

Are You A Bride Seeking?

by Polkadot Bride

brides seeking1 Are You A Bride Seeking?

We’re going to do another Brides Seeking on Sunday afternoon (28th March) to try and help a number of queries that have come in over the past little while!

If you’re in search of something for your wedding day (a dress, a vendor, another bride’s help, a question), please leave a comment here or contact us and we’ll post it on Monday morning!

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28th
Mar

Brides Seeking Edition #2

by Polkadot Bride

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Time for another round of Brides Seeking! To make it easy to find things, each Brides Seeking post will be updated with answers from the comments and emails- so check out the previous Brides Seeking for some answers!

Bride #1 I am in search of the perfect Tiffany Blue heels. I don’t want too high of a heel, preferable less than 3 inches. I want peep toes so that my manicured toes can be seen! :) Thank you!”

Bride #2 “I am trying to look for a diary of folder of some sort that can help with the organisation of weddings and has all the essentials within so you don’t miss the finer details. one that can hold who is doing what and quotes and also arrangements so that it’s in a neat tight package for the bride to keep with her if she is really busy.”

Bride #3 “I’m seeking dotted / flocked tulle similar to that used in Pronovias veils recently, in ivory. Thanks!”

Bride #4 “I am a Melbourne ‘bride to be’ thinking about DIY-ing the flowers for our wedding reception. Thus looking for wholesale suppliers of flowers + places where I could hire vases?

Also – looking for sources of white or green calligraphy pens or else, simply white or green ink cartridges…”

Bride #5 “I’m looking for ivory, pointy-toe kitten heel/short (ideally 1.5 inches or so) bridal shoes. It’s really hard to find glamorous ivory shoes that aren’t 3 inches tall! My fiance is only a little taller than I am, so I don’t want to tower over him, but I’m still a shoe-lover! Thanks!”

Bride #6 “Seeking a hair & makeup artist that has fantastic experience working with Asian brides in Melbourne. Not many out there have skills to NOT paint our faces silly due to our skin tone, shape of the oriental eyes, high cheekbones, etc. Have done as much research as I can and found a few average ones so just wondering if anyone has further recommendations? Thanks a million!”

Bride #7 “I am seeking a flat silver/pewter/other silvery metal cake stand that is big and strong enough to take a 10 inch/25kg cake, which rests on several little ‘feet’ rather than a single column stand. Have looked everywhere and cannot find anything suitable!”

Bride #8 “I am seeking bird cages – of all shapes and sizes!”

This post will be updated with answers as they come in. Remember- leave a comment or send an email to be in the next Brides Seeking!

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25th
Mar

Call For Brides Seeking

by Polkadot Bride

A new Brides Seeking call out will be posted on Saturday, if you’re in search of something for your wedding day send me an email or comment here and I’ll add it to the post!

I’m slowly updating the first Brides Seeking post with the “finders” so it’s easy to find!

Be sure to check the post if you have a question in it!

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