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The colder months give you the perfect excuse to stay indoors and surround yourself with family and friends for winter gatherings. Host a lunch or dinner party for your loved ones and lay your table with earthy coloured dinnerware and table linen in soft natural fibers. Serve wintery delights in rustic oven-to-table dishes and keep the red wine flowing from...

Sophisticated, bold and striking – Meadowlark jewels are for free spirits who appreciate unique design. Meadowlark's latest offering, Meadowlark FINE, is a capsule collection of ultra luxe ceremonial rings, bracelets and earrings handcrafted in 14kt and 18k gold and platinum, and adorned with precious stones. Sharp angles, diamonds in moody hues, and stacking shapes set these engagement rings apart from...

  Based in Wellington, Mindy Dalzell of Twig & Arrow is more than your average florist. Transforming flowers, foliage and plants into breathtaking installations, arrangements and bouquets, Mindy considers herself more of a “botanical stylist” and when you look at her work, it is easy to see why. With great importance placed on all things natural, Mindy and her team...

Opening its doors last week - dangerously close to the Mildred&Co office - is The Caker’s new kitchen and café – Salon de Cake. For the first time ever, The Caker  (founded by Jordan Rondel) will be stocked Monday to Saturday with mouth watering mini cakes for the public to indulge in. Flavours will change daily and gluten free options will...

It may sound like a cliche, but our wedding day on the 20th of March was truly one of the best days of our lives. It was just how we imagined it - one big party with the people we love. And of course, we got to become Mr & Mrs McMath. Thanks to a mad rush to get myself...

Like so many things in life, you can't always comprehend something until you experience it firsthand. I realise now that this is true for when you become a Mother and now, also for when you become a bride. The irony is that the two of them are polar opposites - as a Mother your child comes first, and as a...

So it has been two months since I walked down the aisle (more about that day here) and I can't say that life has been any less busy than before, however, nothing can compare to the fortnight leading up to the wedding which was quite possibly the most hectic of my life. Seeing we only had eight weeks in total...

Short of any miracles being performed, I am relying on the benefits of a good skincare regime to have my skin 'wedding ready' in no time at all. After my skin consultation at Lucy & The Powder Room, I was recommended to boost my existing skincare routine with the Synergie skincare range which is a collection of highly active cosmeceuticals...

Getting married 8 months after having a baby isn't the most ideal situation as neither my figure, my exercise routine or my diet is back to normal...in fact, I often have to remind myself that I no longer have an excuse for eating cake, let alone a second piece. I've been very fortunate though that I have had a few...

Now that the initial panic of finding my wedding dress is over, the next job on the ever-growing 'To Do' list was to suit and boot the groom. Not needing to wear a suit for work, my fiance Gus has been holding off buying a new one until he had the perfect excuse for a beautiful, tailored-made suit. So off...

For the last few years I have been pinning and regramming wedding dresses like a woman possessed. Even before I was engaged I was doing this, which sounds very much like something Bridget Jones would have done, but as the owner of Mildred&Co I have at least had a valid excuse to do so. The only problem is that I...

So I am getting married in March this year and my fiance and I have only just started planning the wedding. Yes, that's right...we only have two months to somehow pull off an entire wedding. That's 58 days to be exact. This ridiculously short time frame is ironic, firstly because we have been engaged for nearly a year and a...