Finca Amalur | The Love Story of Gemma and Josh

July 1, 2024

Planners: Sunshine Weddings Spain

Venue: Finca Amalur

Decor and Flowers: LemonFace

Hair: Flavia Hair

Makeup: Eva Gabriella

Brides Dress: Eva Lendel, Love Bridal – tailored to make it unique 🙂

Bridesmaids Dress: Pretty Lavish

Videographer: Wild Love Artists

The Dress

Love Bridal was my final stop on a 8+ shop of searching for the perfect dress. I wanted something to complement the glitz and glam of Josh’s suit and found Love Bridal had the perfect range of dresses. The dress itself had an overlay of tulle, I had a vision that if the front panel was removed by a gifted tailor, you would be able to see the extraordinary beading and detail underneath which was originally covered. I also made many other changes to the dress including straps, sleeves, gloves etc. so it’s a dress that is now truly unique. It was a gamble but going with my mum and her seeing the vision too helped massively!

Hair

Flavia did me pin curls and big Hollywood waves which held all evening and I have such thick hair, she is incredible at what she does and she had so many of us to do but bossed the timings!

Makup

She is honestly incredible at what she does! Genuinely the best makeup I ever have had

How did you meet

We met as friends 7 years ago, through Josh’s brother.. We then went on holiday as friendship group to Los Angeles 5 years ago, he asked me on a date to Venice Beach during the holiday and we just knew from there.

How did Josh pop the question

Post covid we went on our first holiday together to dubai, Josh had enlisted someone to set up huge marry me sign on a secluded area of the palm which was just magical! He’s the king of amazing surprises.

The Venue

We absolutely loved our canape hour along with our guests. In fact everyone loved it so much that if we were to do it again we would have an extended canapés hour in replacement or traditional meal / starters! The reception party itself we had an amazing dj (Dj Kieron J) and host / mc singer in Louis Valentino. We would highly recommend a host who can sing throughout an event rather than just a few songs as it ensures the vibes are going throughout the whole entire night!

The Aisle

Before going to the venue I was an extremely nervous bride and was full of anxiety as I don’t like being in the spotlight, but when we got to the venue and I could see him and as I started to walk it all went away when I saw his smile beaming at me at the end of the aisle. It felt so special, so romantic and everyone said we just was so focussed on each other in the moment it was like no one else was there.

Unique Items

Everyone absolutely loved the Polaroid placeholders we did instead of normal name tags. We selected childhood memories and fun times had with all our guests which made everyone laugh as they sat down to their seats and reminisce altogether on shared memories.

The Kiss

First kiss was a flurry of kisses plural I think! We were both so into the moment we can’t remember 🙂

Decor

Lemon face deco absolutely smashed all things decor – from a kids corner which everyone loved to amazing tropical bright and bold colours with the bouquets, centrepieces and ceremony aisle, to table decor and a beautifully put together welcome corner full of flip flops, favours and sun hats (which absolutely everyone used!) the end result was stunning and everyone complimented how they have such a luxury feel to the wedding in how they did it and what they did. They are magicians who can transform a venue into looking something completely different and better than you could dream of.

Cocktail Hour

We absolutely loved our canape hour along with our guests. In fact everyone loved it so much that if we were to do it again we would have an extended canapés hour in replacement or traditional meal / starters! The reception party itself we had an amazing dj (Dj Kieron J) and host / mc singer in Louis Valentino. We would highly recommend a host who can sing throughout an event rather than just a few songs as it ensures the vibes are going throughout the whole entire night!

The Video and Photo Team

Rebecca, Noah and Jerome were absolutely amazing as a photography and videography team on the day. Highly professional, their timings were all to the dot, they didn’t let us forget about a single photo opportunity or moment with our loved ones, immediate friends, family and bridal party so I know there’s nothing we’ll look back on and regret that we didn’t have – and that’s all because of them; their approach; their input, their effort in to ensuring our memories are captured. Plus, Josh and I are quite shy non-photo beings in day to day life but because of them, how friendly they are, personable, encouraging and fun, we just embraced everything and their creative input into having some different styles to the photos and videos We both loved the fact that we chose them and they were part of everything. Genuinely lovely people to work with.

Thank you Gemma and Josh you were AMAZING


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