I could hardly contain my excitement Thursday as I was sooooo looking forward to spending the evening with all my brides and having a fun packed evening of  make up, cupcakes and fizz.

The evening started with a make up demonstration by Lisa Potter-Dixon, who discussed wedding make up trends and shared lots of great beauty tips and secrets on how to be a glowing and flawless bride for the big day.

The brides had a great time trying out blue and plum mascara, this sounds very 80’s I know but these colours looked amazing and really accentuate your eye colour and are a great alternative to black.

All the brides had a personal make over and overview provided with all the products and colours used for them to refer back to and were very spoilt as Benefit also kindly put another make up lesson free in every Tigerlily goodie bag.

The event was captured by the talented Tim Bowden who was also on hand to answer all photography questions for brides - it was also a great opportunity for them to meet the man behind the lens and view his fabulous wedding portfolio.

Marianne Johnson from Sweet Pea Flowers provided the most divine table centre, it was made up of 50 sugar pink avalanche roses on a cream vintage cake stand and was stunning. The brides were able to leaf through her vast portfolio and discuss flower trends and seasonal flowers to their heart’s content.

Natalie Leon from Passionate About Vintage had an amazing selection of vintage bags, necklaces, bracelets, earrings and headbands for the brides to try on and was advising on how to accessorise for your wedding day.

It was lovely for all of the brides to get together and have an evening discussing all things wedding and leave with a fabulous goodie bag filled with make up, chocolates and other treats.

Thank you everybody for coming and a special thank you to my fantastic fellow professionals for helping me put on such a fabulous event for Tigerlily Brides.

Photo Credits:

Tim Bowden Reportage Wedding Photography

I’m very excited to announce my Blushing Brides To Be Beauty Boutique on the 25th of June 2009 in partnership with Benefit Cosmetics and other wedding professionals.

Please see press release below for more information, local and national wedding press will be at the event,I am sooooooooooo excited and looking forward to seeing all my lovely brides and having a fabulous evening.

Press Release

Tigerlily Weddings, a London based wedding planning business is hosting a beauty evening for brides-to-be. Working with a range of businesses, the event will aim to showcase creativity, suppliers and wedding professionals.

Penelope Merricks, Creative Director for Tigerlilyweddings.co.uk has organised the event to offer brides-to-be the opportunity to have a make over, and make up lesson to learn professional make up tips for their wedding day. The brides will also receive professional photographs of their finished look and get to know some of the businesses they may well be working with on their special day.

Penelope said; “We are so excited to launch our 1^st Tigerlily Brides event to give the ladies of London a special treat! We are so lucky to work with a fabulous array of talented fellow wedding professionals and suppliers. Whether a bride is looking for beauty products and make-up artists, or floristry, cake makers, photographers, or even a wedding planner to ensure their day runs smoothly, our event will showcase some of our favourite suppliers.”

The event will be taking place on Thursday 25^thJune 2009 from 7.00pm to 9.00pm at Benefit. 338 Upper Street, Islington, London N1 and is strictly by invite only. For a complementary invitation please contact Penelope at Tigerlily by email info@tigerlilyweddings.co.uk.

We wanted to express our wedding creativity and design ideas and felt the blog would be the perfect place to showcase some of our work.

I hope you enjoy reading our ideas and that you find inspiration from these fabulous things.

Penelope