Nestled in the hills between Mijas and Fuengirola with stunning views over the coastline, is the location of an extremely popular restaurant which has been running for years, the Valparaiso.

Since 1984 Valparaiso´s charismatic owner, Raffaele, has welcomed hundreds of famous people to his establishment and as you enter you are whipped back in time to the glamour of the 80´s and 90´s.

The walls of the reception are adorned with framed photos of famous faces who have frequented this restaurant from James Hunt, the racing driver, to Cilla Black and more recently the Beckhams.  There are so many famous faces it is really quite a sight to see.

The charming restaurateur, Raffaele, works his magic to make sure visiting his restaurant is a romantic experience and always hands out red roses to the ladies, me included!  Often during planning this wedding I rocked out of there with a red rose between my teeth!

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I can never contain my excitement when we receive professional photos of our work 🙂

Marijana contacted me last year to hire us for the styling and decoration of her wedding to the rather dashing Roberto.

Now this wedding was going to be held in a fabulous Castle in Carmona.  I was sold!

Carmona is one of my favourite towns in Spain so I jumped at the chance to organise another visit to this magical town and, a bonus, spend time here creating a beautiful wedding.  This town holds such a special place in my heart as I was fortunate enough to take my beloved father there for his 80th birthday weekend, not knowing he would never make his 81st, special times and wonderful memories.

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Having posted about what we are seeing as one of the latest fashions for weddings we thought we would work up the marble theme a bit more. This helps us as we get our creative hats on to look at styles, colours and designs for our weddings.

I created this inspiration board this evening from Pinterest to look at this style in detail.

For me marbles are quite a cold medium to work with.

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After a very hot day in September, I have lovely memories of sitting down in the evening as the dinner started and just thought WOW, it really was a dream fairytale wedding.  Everything was beautifully lit and twinkling away and our guests were enjoying a superb meal after a beautiful ceremony and cocktail.

I was utterly delighted, along with being rather charmed by the Maitre D who also apparently managed to weave his magic charm with the mothers and aunts of the bride and groom, according to Kareemah afterwards :)!  (more…)

We love our weddings, our clients and making fairytales come true and nothing beats opening up your emails to find a fabulous testimonial from absolutely delighted clients.

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Yayyyy, here we are on our new shiny space and our new blog!

We are so excited with our new website and a million thank you’s to Yummp Design Studio in Fuengirola for putting me out of my winter misery and creating me exactly the website I had dreamed of! (more…)

It is not often I start hyperventilating whilst scouring the internet for new ideas but known for the love of glitter and all things sparkly you can imagine my reaction having fallen onto Pearls and Pastries on Etsy.

Bowled over with sequin hangers and those confetti baubles, needless to say have ordered the Tshirt, I would rather be playing with glitter along with a hanger!  Sadly could not order those fabulous confetti baubles so will have to try a bit of DIY for the Christmas tree.

Do hop over to have a look, if you are looking for fabulous bridesmaids pressies ideas the sequin hangers are perfect.