BY TERRY X LYDIA ELISE MILLEN

Hello Everyone,

If you know me well you will know how much of a fan I am of Lydia Elise Millen, she was the first blogger I started following and she lives in my home town of Milton Keynes and we should always support locals in my opinion.

I know this is not a Wedding post and is not part of WEBTOBER, but this product will see fast I think and I am not even sure If I will definatley get my hands on it, even my friend today said god helps us if you don't get hold of this product as that will be one sulky Elisha.

If you follow Lydia then you will know she loves BY TERRY and has been an advacote for them since she started her channel so in my opinion is was only a matter of time before there was a collaboration that we could all hopefully get our hands on.

The Signature Glow Palette has three powders, now please do not quote me on this because I am literally working off of a picture, I think it include a Bronzer, Highlight and Blusher. Hopefully if I get my hands on it then I will add a new section of this post confirming the shades, pricing ETC. The price has not been confirmed to date but I have purchased a few BY TERRY products including the sun designer palette which was £67 so I can imagine it will be around the same price point.

This product is launching exclusively at Selfridges, there has been a Meet & Greet set up for this launch at the BY TERRY palette bar but this did sell out quite quickly where the public that attend will get to shop the product first and then it will be launched online and in stores, I think this will either be Wednesday evening or maybe Thursday.

I have included the link to by all other products from BY TERRY at Selfridges, once I have the direct link to the new product I will update this post.

http://www.selfridges.com/GB/en/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/FhBrowse?freeText=by%20terry&srch=Y

I will be creating a separate post with all the BY TERRY products I love and own and what I would recommend of you are quite new to the brand and want some advice on what is best to purchase.

Until next time.....

Elisha-The E Diaries

*Since this post I have found out that the palette is retailing at £90 and is actually not available via the website, you can only purchase it in any of the Selfridges Stores.

Wedding Shoes

Hello Everyone, 

I am happy to inform you that the wedding shoes have been purchased, for a few weeks now but  we have been so caught up in wedding planning and I also wanted to save the post for WEDTOBER, if you hadn't of guessed from the picture above they were purchased from Jimmy Choo.  

As we all know I am terrible at making a decision and I knew deep down it was never going to be an easy process. Me, my mum and the bridesmaids went and spent the day in London and saw too many shoes (I know there is no such thing) but my brain was frazzled. We even went to Shoe Heaven in Harrods and I was still unsuccessful. I tried on shoes from Manolo Blanik, Dior, Christian Loubatain Ted Baker, Carvela and still nothing tickled my fancy. I do have to admit I did have minor breakdown in the middle of John Lewis – I knew in that moment I could not settle for a pair of shoes – especially on my wedding day. So in that moment I knew my shoes had to be designer, I know its not for everyone and I am certainely not judging anyone else about where they get their shoes from (my spare pair for photos are from primark) as I don’t want to ruin my wedding shoes if the weather is not playing ball with me, I just knew that if I didn’t get a designer pair I would be settling and I didn’t want that to happen on this occasion. 

So my and my lovely ladies ended up on New Bond Street around 6.45pm losing hope to be honest and in desperate need of food, when we stumbled across Jimmy Choo, now if you are on the look out for any shoe, not just wedding shoes then you should visit Jimmy Choo, I only looked on two floors and I am pretty sure they have many more. The have a whole bridal floor if this is what you are on the hunt for.

I tried on about four or five pairs of shoes which I will include below, obviously I will not be including the final pick as I would like to include these in a post wedding blog where I show you a breakdown of everything. What I will say I thought that I would go for a very fancy glitzy pair but I have chosen the most simple, classic and elegant pair of shoes I have owned in my life but I just love them and they take my breath away every time I open the box.

Here are a few pairs that I tried on: 

Romy 85 With Tiara-£675

Lang-£525

Abel-£675

Romy 85-£495

Joan 85-£675

So if you are on the hunt for your wedding shoes then I can definitely say you cannot go wrong if you choose to SAY I DO IN CHOO. 

Elisha-The E Diaries

Shop This Post: 

Romy 85 With Tiara:  https://www.jimmychoo.com/en/bridal-boutique/bridal-collections/bride/romy-85/platinum-ice-dusty-glitter-pointy-toe-pumps-with-crystal-tiara-ROMY85ARR0C6137.html?cgid=bridalboutique-bride#start=1

Lang: https://www.jimmychoo.com/en/bridal-boutique/bridal-collections/bride/lang/ivory-satin-sandals-LANGSAT080002.html?cgid=bridalboutique-bride#start=1

Abel:  https://www.jimmychoo.com/en/bridal-boutique/bridal-collections/bride/abel/ivory-satin-pointy-toe-pumps-with-crystal-detail-ABELSTV080002.html?cgid=bridalboutique-bride#start=1

Romy 85:  https://www.jimmychoo.com/en/bridal-boutique/bridal-collections/bride/romy-85/platinum-and-flamingo-ice-glitter-dégradé-fabric-pointy-toe-pumps-ROMY85VOG0C6362.html?cgid=bridalboutique-bride#start=1

Joan 85: https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/jimmy-choo/joan-85-embellished-pumps-p000000000005939337

By Invitation Only

Hello Everyone,

I thought I would start with this post on WEDTOBER as it not the most positive post, but this is wedding planning and as many brides will know its not all fun and games and I have alway said that I will be honest on this blog.

So whilst the wedding planning is going full steam ahead, it doesn’t stop the little niggles and stresses that will arise. I can honestly say that this is the most stressed I have been in the whole process, the good news is that we have done so much, the list we have left to do is long but the jobs are small compared to what we have done so far.

However my stress is actually nothing to do with the planning, it’s to do with the people. Now the situations I am about to discuss with you won’t be read by the actuall people that are involved but I will not be disclosing names for obvious reasons. I honestly don’t know if any of you that have planned weddings have gone through this but I have three main points that I am going to touch on and they are all about the invites.

Only days after getting engaged I was faced with the insufferable question of “I am invited, right?” to which my response was usually I do not even have a venue or a date so I have not even thought about a guest list. Obviously you know the most important people you want there but I hated the expectation that you may not have spoken me in the last 6-12 months but now I am getting married, you wish to be my best friend and guarantee yourself an invite.

When we have sent the invites out to families and one of the adult sibling are unavailable to make it, there has been an assumption that the invite can be retained and assigned out to someone else at the sole discretion of the original invitee (or parent of). I don’t think there is quite a clear understanding that when that invite is declined, that invite reverts back to us and it is then our decision as to what is done with said invite, just because it was sent to them does not mean that you can get to decide what is done with it.

Then you face the problem when you only invite certain members of the family and not others, no believe me I am not ashamed to admit it, some people have been invited tactfully, by this I mean some people have been invited to take care of the older generation with health problems and others so that people are not in attendance on their own and do not know anyone else.

The last issue that I am going mention that I am facing (as its not on his side), is that I have not invited certain family members that I have not seen in over 5 years but they are just expecting to be invited as the are classed as family. I have always been of the opinion that friends are sometimes more of a family than my actual family and I do not like the expectation that I will not invite these friends to make room for family that I have not seen in the whole time that I have been with Adam - in fact he even asked on one occasion "who are these people on the draft invite list?".

So now we have come to the end of my mini breakdown, which I do apologise for, but I would love to hear from any of you that have had the same or a similar problem, even if it’s not invite related I would be really interested to hear what stressed you guys out. Until my next wedding post which I promise will be much more positive.

Elisha-The E Diaries

WEDTOBER

Hello Everyone,

I have a very exciting announcement to make in reference to my blog.

As you may have guessed from the title, in October it will officially be the 6 month countdown until the wedding and I wanted to do something special, as closer to the time all the last minute planning will inevitably take me away from my blog for a few days.

So throughout the month of October all my blog posts will be wedding related.

Now I know my site is not 100% ready yet but I think its ready for some posts to celebrate this occasion, I still have some work to do with the design and just some fine tuning and would welcome any feedback you wish to give me on what you would like to see.

So what posts can we expect to see in #WEDTOBER I hear you ask?

• Bridesmaids Dresses
• Veil Shopping
• Bridal Hair Accessories
• The Wedding Weight Debate
• How Much Should You Share In The Lead Up?
• Wedding Shoes
• Wedding Hair
• Wedding Make-Up

If there is anything you would like to see included in WEDTOBER, then please do contact me and I will try my best to incorporate it within the month. I have also not put a schedule in as to when I will post, but I think I will be posting at least two a week.

I look forward to receiving any ideas or feedback from you lovely people- Let the Wedding countdown begin.

Elisha-The E Diaries

Welcome To My New Page

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to my new Blog Layout. I would firstly like to take the opportunity to welcome any new visitors to my site, I hope you like it and I can assist you with a honest consumer opinion on the make up on the market at the moment. I am also launching WEDTOBER in, you guessed it OCTOBER as it will mark my 6 month countdown until my big day. If you are an existing follower then I hope you like the new layout and still enjoy it as much as you hopefully did on my last page. I have many exciting posts coming up including the following: I will be adding pictures to my page in due course, I am currently awaiting to have some amazing shots down my dear friend Rich Ropke from Rich Ropke Photography, I will leave his link below, make sure you go and check him out. He has recently had a gorgeous baby girl so I am waiting patiently for my cuddles and photos. I also in time would like to add a shop my wardrobe area on the page but I am unable to do so as the company that supplies this element basically need me to be more successful on my socials and on my page, I am sure in time my brand will grow and I can show you all my gorgeous picks. Whilst I do not have this function, in every post, I will include all the link for anything featured within that post at the bottom of that particular post so you can easily access the items I am raving about. If I could ask a very small favour of you all and if you like my page, please head on over to my Instagram account which you can access in the top right hand side of the screen and click follow as this is a separate account from my personal one and I need to build a following base. I would be very grateful if you could just spare a few moments of you time doing this for me. Hope you all enjoy the new layout and if there is anything you would like to see me feature in the future then please contact me via the contact me link. Elisha-The E Diaries