The Moat House, Acton Trussell
10 May 2015
Myself and Gemma from Dream Bridal Hair were contacted by a bride in distress. Unfortunately she had not had a positive outcome from a previous hair and makeup trial. She came across us after a recommendation from her seamstress and luckily we had the date free.
Gemma and I were messaging Lisa for a few weeks before we finally met her at the trial. Lisa initially only booked me and Gemma for herself as her mom and daughter had been put off from the previous trial.
We completed the trial and Lisa was happy with us doing her makeup and hair for her wedding, so much so that her mom and daughter wanted a trial.
Lisa married Jon at The Moat House which has been one of Staffordshire’s most popular wedding venues for the last 25 years. Located alongside the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal in the picturesque village of Acton Trussell, the venue is set in stunning grounds and surrounded by tranquil waters. The moat house is certainly one of my favourite venues because I had my wedding reception there 8 years ago.
The wedding theme was cornflower blue and vintage in style.
I arrived at the Moat House on the morning of the wedding to Lisa and her step daughter Charlotte outside very nervously excited and also tired from having an unsettled crying baby in their room next door. We went into the Moat House where I discovered they had a lift - after 8 years of knowing the Moat House yet not knowing there is a lift. Years of struggling up the grand staircase has come to an end hahaha.
We all got settled in and got my makeup kit out then made a start on the beautiful Charlotte who wanted a Kylie Jenner look.
While I was doing her makeup we were joined by our third partner in crime Laura from Laura's Mobile Hairdressing to blow dry and style the mother of the bride. And Gemma started to style the hair of Lisa. So everybody was having something done, and enjoying a glass of champagne.
For Charlotte's makeup it was pretty simple as it was more about the eyeliner and the lips so I created a very simple eye using Makeup Geek "Beeches and Cream" eye shadow and creating a subtle crease using the lighter colour of my Motives eyebrow palette, on the lid I lightly applied Vanilla eye shadow from MAC. I then used a piece of tape to help me create a sharp flick and then lined the rest of the eye to the desired shape then lots of my favourite Max Factor mascara.
I used Mehron prep skin as a primer as Charlotte experiences super shiny/ greasy skin, then used Estée Lauder "Doublewear foundation" and set with powder. I used my Anastasia Beverly Hills contour palette for contouring and highlighting. I used MAC's Melba blush and finished off with MAC's Sore Lip Pencil and a little touch of Angel lipstick to the center.
Charlotte loved her makeup and was very happy with it.
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| Charlotte the Bridesmaid |
The flowers were delivered from Lavender Flowers, Penkridge and were beautiful white roses with cornflower blue flowers. They looked gorgeous and Lisa was over the moon with them. After seeing the flowers Lisa wanted to see how the ceremony room was looking but was worried about guests of the wedding who were checking in seeing her. However the excitement got the better of her and she risked it. She managed to sneak a peak and even saw the cake. She had Vintage individual cakes which were made by Amerton cakes in Stafford.
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| Wedding cake from Amerton Cakes |
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| Beautiful flowers from Lavender Flowers, Penkridge |
She was one happy lady and couldn't wait to come back and tell me about the room.
I then did the makeup of Lisa's mom who by her own admission and rightfully so is a perfectionist, so I was quite nervous about doing her makeup. I primed her face using Smashbox photo Finish primer and used Urban Decay's eye shadow primer potion. Her mom was wearing a blue Jacque Vert suit for the wedding so I used my YSL eyeshadow palette in Tuxedo which looked amazing with her eye colour and complimented the suit colour, I then lined her eyes using Estee Lauder's brown eyeliner pencil then finished the eyes off using my favourite mascara.
Lisa's mom had beautiful skin and only needed a small amount to even tone out so used my favourite MAC's face and body foundation set with Powder and applied blusher. I finished with Estée Lauder lipstick in Potent and MAC fix+.
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| Mother of the Bride |
Lisa's hair was finished and I was then ready to do her makeup.
Lisa's hair and dress was very 1940's vintage so we needed to go down that route with her makeup.
Her eye makeup was pretty simple. I used Urban Decay's Eye shadow Primer Potion and used my Urban Decay Naked Basics palette to even Lisa's eyelids, then using MAC's Naked Lunch eye shadow on the eyelid. I used Bobbi Brown gel eyeliner in Black to create a wing, applied my favourite mascara then individual lashes.
Lisa was blessed with her mom's good genes and her skin was beautiful. I used Estée Lauder Doublewear foundation and powdered with MAC mineralize powder, then applied MAC's 'dainty' blusher.
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| Lisa the Bride |
There was a lot going on in the room by the time it was ready for lipstick so I applied MAC's 'Lady Danger' Lipstick. At the trial when I suggested red lipstick to fit in with the theme of the wedding Lisa said no as she didn't suit the colour at all, so a nude lip colour was used. I was messaged later on in the week by Lisa to say she'd gone into a MAC store and tried on a number of red lipsticks which just confirmed they didn't suit her. But a theme is a theme and 1940's vintage wouldn't be that without red lipstick. So as Lisa was occupied with what was going on in the room I then applied the red lipstick, which looked amazing on her. I do believe that because she'd got her hair styled 1940's and the rest of her makeup was 1940's it all came together nicely. I was mega nervous showing Lisa the finished look as she didn't see me put the red lipstick on her and especially as we were running out of time too and everyone was panicking a little, but she loved it. She 100% loved the red lipstick and the rest of the makeup. It was a hit!
We were joined during all the madness by Les from Barry James Photography who took some of the wedding jewellery peices and shoes for photos.
The last hour came very fast upon us and was panicking a little as we had been held back a little bit earlier, but luckily the last hour went very slowly. We seemed to get a lot of stuff done in that hour. Gemma and myself helped by transferring all of Lisa bags and wedding items like her dress etc into the bridal suite. Lisa and Charlotte got into their dresses and last minute adjustments done. Lisa looked radiant and very beautiful. Lisa had her dress from Adele Louise Bridal and is a Justin Alexander design. Both Charlotte and Lisa's dresses were very similar as they wanted to be as much the same as possible. Lisa's mom used to be a seamstress so made the bridesmaid dress herself and was also on hand during the wedding planning to help with alterations.
Everything looked so perfect. The registrars came to the room to give the pre wedding interview and then we were ready to go down.
Les from Barry James Photography took some pre-wedding photos and some gorgeous photos on the grand stair case.
I wanted to see Lisa into the ceremony room so left my packing up till after.
Lisa was greeted by Gaynor, the Moat House's wedding coordinator, at the bottom of the stair case to ensure Lisa was happy with everything then handed her over to Ben who escorted her to the special red carpet entrance of the Ceremony room. I turned my camera on and started to video Lisa, she walked into the room with the song "million years" by Christina Perri andI managed to get her walking down the isle which was amazing, I was lucky I could see so many smiling faces looking at Lisa walk down to Jon.
And she was gone. I couldn't wait to get back and view the photos of the morning.
Lisa and Jon are going on Honeymoon to Pathos, Cyprus.
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