‘The One’

As promised here is the update on Gemma’s wedding dress and following on from my previous blog. I am also posting this just after a nearly Royal Wedding has taken place. There are definitely some details on Pippa’s dress that are similar to Gemma’s wedding dress if you look at both dresses, although I hear Pippa’s Groom didn’t wear Birkenstocks (Brogues are soooo last year!) …check out the photos below.

I found Gemma’s wedding dress at Marks and Spencer and came in under £100, it is a gorgeous ivory lace skater style dress, with a scalloped hem and scalloped sleeve. It has an illusion neckline, which is the perfect neckline for her shape. Being petite, even long wedding dresses from petite ranges, tended to swamp her and with tulle skirted dresses, there was just too much fabric, which overpowered her. Gemma has got great legs, so we knew we were looking for something just over the knee or mid calf length.

When it came to the shoes, I suggested she could go for a bold colour, which works great with a shorter style dress and, she had already been considering coloured shoes. She saw and fell in love with a pair of royal blue Rachel Simpson shoes and because they had both diamante and pearls on them, it was easy to to choose jewellery to match, she went for pearl drop earrings and a pearl bracelet from Accessorize and the diamante and pearl hair accessory was from Debenhams. The colour blue from the shoes, was used as a loose colour theme for the wedding, on ties, nails and bracelets. Her Bridesmaids chose their own blue dresses, even though they live hundreds and thousands of miles from each other.

Hair was by Claire at Luxurious Hair and Beauty Gemma did her own make-up, she is a Beauty Therapist after all.

(NB avoid doing your own wedding make-up if you are cack- handed, drunk or emotional and definitely avoid, if you’re all three)

Finally Gemma had Russia lash extensions by Bella at Satin Beauty and nails by Crystal Nails.

And the finished result was that Gemma looked absolutely stunning, she reminded me of a glamorous Hollywood film star, think young Sophia Loren or Elizabeth Taylor.

…Dave scrubbed up well too.

The sun shone and it was an amazing day.