shayna bloomer's israel wedding {hairs and makeups}

After 5 long hours of hair and makeup, I looked and felt like a superstar! I totally got the star treatment and I have to say I could really get into this!  I had extensions, a few more eyelashes thrown in, layers upon layers of makeup that somehow ended up looking like I was naturally born that way, and the messy side bun of my dreams! No wonder celebs look the way they do! Thanks to Sharon Pur {the hair genius} and Sigal Grushka {the make-up genius} for such an amazing experience. I had so much fun with them and am currently plotting another reason to hire them again! But fear not...it won't be for wedding #3!
Here are a few shots of the process that Sharon took throughout the day!

Look at her glorious makeup kit!

She starts with the eyes and then goes on to create a base on the rest of the face...see the shadows she creates under the makeup that accentuate all the right areas? So that's how you get a vogue cheek!! She has such delicate artist hands too...she just lightly brushes the face with all the patience in the world!

My team!

A sneaky shot by photographer Shahar Drori...it totally looks posed but I swear it wasn't!

The finished product! My perfectly beachy makeup and my coveted messy side bun!

shayna bloomer's israel wedding {the design!!}

Thanks to our wonderful designer Golan Peretz who amazingly took all my design ideas and put them together so perfectly! It was a hard thing for a Bloomer to do, to let go and let someone else decorate her own wedding {!!!!} but it was really an amazing experience to feel what other brides must feel when they hire us to put their dream into reality. I've never been in that position before and basically all I had to do the day of the wedding was go for a little dip in ocean and then sit through 5 hours {not joking!} of hair and makeup!

Here is the stunning final result of all those inspiration pics I've been posting for the last year!

This is the view when you entered the venue. The chairs are bent over because it was really really windy and they were trying to keep everything from blowing away but you get the picture! We used cream coloured linens with mocha coloured overlays. The napkins were orange and the flower pots were the same colour orange. Orange bougainvilleas were not easy to come by so we alternated between the orange and white.

Me and my Father-in-Law {hee hee...sounds funny for the first time!} having a little chat before the ceremony. But I wanted to show this picture because I love how all the colours play together and you can see the surrounding landscape. It is so beautiful with the bright green grass, the vegetation and the sea! This does not happen in Canada!

Finally...our aqua glass wedding favor put to use! They were a big hit and the perfect splash of colour for the table!

We had various types of white "alternative" seating throughout the venue. I love these white vases with orange Lizianthus flowers.

These couches and coffee tables surrounded the dance floor and used the same potted bougainvillea from the dinner tables. I love those bright orange pots against the white!!!

Our chuppa! He wrapped small branches around the chuppa structure, added a white piece of fabric on the top and hung the glass balls that we used for the wedding favors. Perfect simplicity!

Even the bar is beautiful!

{All photographs by Shahar Drori}

shayna bloomer's israel wedding {part iii}

Got them!! We drove to visit our awesome photographer {Shahar Drori} yesterday to pick up our hundreds of photos! He is such a fun and amazing person, wish he was in Canada and we could hang out all the time! He has an incredible talent for capturing amazing candid moments. Looking through the pictures gave me a chance to see the wedding I didn't get to see that night! I don't think he missed one moment and I'm so grateful. So here is a just a mere few of my favorite photos at first glance. I thought I'd stick to the ceremony and party today and forego design specific photos...I deserve a little guilty pleasure every so often I think!!

These two shots are so fabulous...they made D have his back to me so he couldn't see me and then caught him as he turned around and saw me for the first time. He is adorable!

Yup...that would be Shayna Bloomer jumping in her wedding dress and heels!

One last quiet moment before the chaos began!

Need I say more?!