We are delighted to announce our involvement with the Liverpool Echo and Daily Post Bride of the Year competition. One lucky couple will win a once in a lifetime fairytale wedding, worth over £11,000.
Your wedding will take place at The Isla Gladstone, and will include a four course wedding breakfast for 40 guests, drink on arrival, a glass of wine per person during the meal and an evening buffet for 80 guests. This part of the prize alone is worth £6,000.
Wedding stationery is crucial and for the prize The Elite Invitation Boutique at The Printstore UK are experts. They will take care of everything from save the date cards to wedding invitations for day and evening, RSVPs, the menus, place cards, orders of service and thank you cards.
You’ll also win £750 worth of vouchers to spend at Coast, who have launched a beautiful bridal range of dresses. Prices start at £295.
The lucky couple will also win photography by leading wedding photographer Zoe Photography.
So, from the excitement of getting ready to the end of the speeches, our expert will be there to capture the day and afterwards present you with a preview disk of around 250 images, a disk of higher resolution images with printing rights and a coffee table album.
In addition to this you will also be lucky enough to have Marry Me Films record your special moments.
Includes full day coverage, from preparations to evening reception, a musical highlights ‘trailer’ capturing the most poignant footage cut to your favourite song and a main feature film customised to each bride and groom.
And finally!
We have donated our top wedding package!
Up for grabs is the bride’s hair and make-up (both a trial and on the day), plus hair and make-up for three bridesmaids and mum.
You’ll also win a ‘second look’ for the evening and a two hour 'Rouge Booth' set up at the wedding reception offering hair and make-up touch up's for guests.
And you’ll even be treated to a 'Pearl Package' hen party for up eight people at the Hope Street studio with a make-up lesson, make-up for all eight guests, light refreshments and a gift for the bride.
This alone would usually cost over £1,000, so if you are looking to organise your special day, why not enter?!
So how do you stand a chance of winning? It’s easy – just follow our step by step guide:
Complete the on-line entry form and tell us in 150 words why you should be our ECHO Bride of the Year.
Entry to the competition closes at midnight on Wednesday, May 11. All entrants must be over 18 and will be given a unique four digit reference number to identify the bride and for use as a vote number.
Photos will appear in a special online gallery on the “myecho” website from Wednesday, May 25.
Readers can then vote for their favourite bride by collecting tokens from the Liverpool ECHO and each bride can get online bonus votes.
Voting tokens can be collected in paper from Wednesday, May 25 until Saturday, June, 4.
All paper tokens must be received at the Liverpool ECHO offices by 5pm on Wednesday, June 8, with the appropriate paperwork. Voting tokens without the appropriate paperwork and/or received after this date will not be counted.
Five finalists with the highest number of votes combined online and token “votes” will feature in paper.
The winner will be decided by a panel a judges and announced in paper
And just to tempt you- here is a few images taken by Zoe Photography for the launch shoot, which featured in Wednesday's Echo. We loved working with Face of the Echo, Leanne Higgins, and we think she made a beautiful bride!!
