Today I am so excited to announce a very very big competition!
I recently wrote about the brand new designs coming out of this family owned company– the family who brought Henry Roth (Henry Weinreich is the mentor on Australia’s own Project Runway!) and Michelle Roth to the world!
Now they’re back, designing a fresh new range for Henri Josef website and they’re partnering with Polka Dot Bride to give away one of their gorgeous wedding gowns to one lucky Australian bride to be!
What’s The Prize?
A gorgeous wedding dress by Henri Josef website. A strapless gown with a lightly embellished bodice with Swarovski and fresh water pearls cinches in waist and flows out to a soft taffeta skirt with tulle inlay and soft back sweep. Deliciously divine! The dress comes in White, Ivory, Gold and in sizes 2-30. The gown is valued at $AU1400 and will be in your choice of White/White, Ivory/Ivory or Gold.
How Do I Enter?
This competition is all about inspiration boards! Inspiration boards are one of my favourite things in the wedding world. You can pull together every element of a fabulous wedding to create a real feel for the event. Check out any wedding blog and you’ll see plenty of these- you can check out previous Polka Dot Bride boards here.
To win the dress you must create an inspiration board around the gown. Rustic or formal, country or city it’s up to you! If you’re not an inspiration board kind of girl, we’re also going to accept ‘written’ versions. Describe the setting of the wedding, tell us the mood- tell us a story! Your entry must be emailed to win@polkadotbride.com.au by 12am Australian Eastern Standard Time, Monday the 2nd of June 2008
Once the close date has passed, Polka Dot Bride readers will be asked to vote on their favourite entry. The three entries with the highest votes will be passed onto Henry Weinreich who will choose the winner!
How Do I Make An Inspiration Board?
You can make a board using any graphics program like Photoshop or Paintshop. A very easy way is to use an online tool called Mosaic Maker where you can upload your pics and create a simple but effective board. Otherwise there is a fantabulous tutorial written by Mrs Lemon at Weddingbee using Photoshop, a collage creator over at flickr tools and an easy drag and drop board creator at Polyvore
Here are your images to play with. Your board or story does not have to include all the images. It does also not have to incorporate orange flowers as seen with the model. Please credit all sources (I.e instead of ‘Google images’ try and find the exact source) and link to them. If in doubt, it’s best to leave it out!
So here’s the gorgeous dress that is up for grabs! (and the images you can use- the board must contain at least one of these!) You can also see the gown on the Henri Josef website.
Who Can Enter?
Entry is open to all Australian residents aged 18 or over. International entries will be accepted however they will not be eligible for the prize.
What Are The Conditions?
Information on how to enter and prize forms part of these conditions of entry.
The competition is open to Australian residents. Employees of Polka Dot Bride and Henri Josef are not permitted to enter.
The competition will commence 5th of May, 2008. Entries close 12am Australian EST on 2nd of June, 208 This is a game of skill and chance plays no part in determining the winner. Each entry will be individually judged based on literary and creative merit. Judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
The prize is valid for 12 months from the date of winners announcement and will be the size of the closest measurements on the Henri Josef size chart. The size will be determined through bust, hip and waist measurements.
This prize does not include alterations.
Henri Josef will make direct contact with the winner upon the announcement. The prize includes shipping and insurance within Australia.
The prize is not transferable and can not be substituted for any other Henri Josef product.
The prize must be claimed within 12 months of initial contact by Henri Josef Australia. If no contact is made within 12 months, the prize will become null and void.
No responsibility is accepted for any variation in the value of the prize.
The best entry, as determined by the judges, will win Henri Josef dress design 21589 The prize is valued at $1400.00 Unless otherwise stipulated, all other costs that are associated with redeeming the prize are the responsibility of the winner.
No responsibility will be accepted for late, lost or misdirected entries.
The Promoter shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever which is suffered (including but not limited to indirect or consequential loss) or for personal injury which is suffered or sustained, as a result of taking the prize.
All entries become the property of the promoters -Polka Dot Bride. The Promoter reserves the right to use the content of any entry for the purpose of future promotions or blog content.
Questions? Email mspolka at polkadotbride.com.au
This competition is now closed.
That’s a gorgeous prize!
hi,
i am interested in joining but then i am not australian. i am a malaysian. can i still join this contest and win the gown cause it look so beautiful?
Can someonr please tell me the email to send my entry to the win at polkadotbride.com email is not working for me am i doing something wrong??
Hi Courtney
Instead of “at” use @ and remove the spaces. Apologies- I’ll make that clearer!
This dress says to me, a thousand cream roses and candles, horse and carriage, large church with dark timber features, garden reception, autumn, rich chocolate desert.
I am looking for the white-on-white polka dot material, as close to the Michelle Roth ‘Maya’ tea-length wedding dress as possible, so I can make my own dress. I fell in love with this dress but it’s out of my price range. Do you know of any places you can direct me that I can, perhaps, purchase the fabric? Also, do you know where I might find this dress for sale used? I have looked and looked online but I can’t find anything. Thank you very much.
wow.. what a gorgeous site. excellent competition too. will be back for sure. elizabeth xx
What a beautiful dress and excellent idea for a competition.
Regards,
Zoe
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hello my name is Renee and my partner John, we’re deaf…
I just wanted to tell you about my life!
I have been on pensioner since i was 16 and half years old my partner John have been work so hard and he work at city and he is doing scaffolding he love it but too much heavy sometimes he don’t like it but he really need money to feed our family he is not full time he just causal this job, We got four children, Maxine 12 years-old, Jessica 11 years-old, Samantha 7 years-old & Emily 3 years-old we live in housing communities ( department of housing) for 6 years because it’s cheap Rent, We always want is best of our wedding day will be cost about $50,000 and another we always want going oversea for our honey moon to remember forever and best our of day from our wedding day! it’s like fairy tale dream that i love it’s from cartoon show!
I saw mags wedding clothes so beautiful i wanted so badly but i don’t kind have money for bought this wedding clothes and look like i have to bought second hand or Hire for the wedding clothes, and try to find free park to get wedding and try to find very cheap for get the cake and dinner room after wedding i don’t want do that i want special of our wedding day of my fairy tale dream that i always want get very old church with red Capet on it so i can walk in, and wear beautiful wedding clothes, my three of bride maid i could love them to wear very light of pink clothes and i would love my daughters be flower girls but i can’t afford for everything in my dream! I would like your help with my dream for our special wedding day and honey moon we always wanted going to Paris (oversea) but i wouldn’t afford for it we might end up stay cheap hotel… any Quinton to ask me and you’re welcome to ask me anything i would love to help you out! i hope you read this about my life… i always been poor for years and years that how i met John from online and few weeks later he fly to here and he come from New Zealand and two weeks later we fell in love, he is the best man and i always called him that he is my best and favor man rest of whole in my heart i will never forget what he did to me and he always support me a lot when i having bad day or problem with my ex! that’s why i love him and i want best day for him from our wedding day! i live stupid cheap house but it’s worth for us to live because we can’t afford private rent too much cost for us to pay out… so we accept to live our cheap rent but i only ask for best and my dream and fairy tale beautiful wedding day just for once we will never forget and we will always remember forever rest of our life… i don’t ask too much for help i only come here to tell you about my life how i feel being poor and hard work with four children and we got heap of bills and we already have bad name on the credit, everything we are try our best to pay them off but we always wait for our tax return so we can pay them off bit in the moment, number one is worse that we always spend on foods my children eating a lot in the moment and bills cost me too much as well, our heart is only hopefully to win of wedding day and honey moon with five star and spend money too so we will be happy and my dream are going come true rest of my life i would love it please read slow and think how i feel about this with my own life i took risk life with small money and not spacial and beautiful, fairy tale of my dream for the wedding day & honey moon!
Thank-you very much for understand this!
Have a great day and take care of yourself! keep smile 🙂
Lots of love Renee!
(my e-mail is renee79@live.com.au)
hello my name is Renee and my partner John, we’re deaf…
I just wanted to tell you about my life!
I have been on pensioner since i was 16 and half years old, my partner John have been work so hard and he work at city and he is doing scaffolding he love it but too much heavy sometimes he don’t like it but he really need money to feed our family he is not full time he just causal this job, We got four children, Maxine 12 years-old, Jessica 11 years-old, Samantha 7 years-old & Emily 3 years-old we live in housing communities ( department of housing) for 6 years because it’s cheap Rent, We always want is best of our wedding day will be cost about $50,000 and another we always want going oversea for our honey moon to remember forever and best our of day from our wedding day! it’s like fairy tale dream that i love it’s from cartoon show!
I saw mags wedding clothes so beautiful i wanted so badly but i don’t kind have money for bought this wedding clothes and look like i have to bought second hand or Hire for the wedding clothes, and try to find free park to get wedding and try to find very cheap for get the cake and dinner room after wedding i don’t want do that i want special of our wedding day of my fairy tale dream that i always want get very old church with red Capet on it so i can walk in, and wear beautiful wedding clothes, my three of bride maid i could love them to wear very light of pink clothes and i would love my daughters be flower girls but i can’t afford for everything in my dream! I would like your help with my dream for our special wedding day and honey moon we always wanted going to Paris (oversea) but i wouldn’t afford for it we might end up stay cheap hotel… any Quinton to ask me and you’re welcome to ask me anything i would love to help you out! i hope you read this about my life… i always been poor for years and years that how i met John from online and few weeks later he fly to here and he come from New Zealand and two weeks later we fell in love, he is the best man and i always called him that he is my best and favor man rest of whole in my heart i will never forget what he did to me and he always support me a lot when i having bad day or problem with my ex! that’s why i love him and i want best day for him from our wedding day! i live stupid cheap house but it’s worth for us to live because we can’t afford private rent too much cost for us to pay out… so we accept to live our cheap rent but i only ask for best and my dream and fairy tale beautiful wedding day just for once we will never forget and we will always remember forever rest of our life… i don’t ask too much for help i only come here to tell you about my life how i feel being poor and hard work with four children and we got heap of bills and we already have bad name on the credit, everything we are try our best to pay them off but we always wait for our tax return so we can pay them off bit in the moment, number one is worse that we always spend on foods my children eating a lot in the moment and bills cost me too much as well, our heart is only hopefully to win of wedding day and honey moon with five star and spend money too so we will be happy and my dream are going come true rest of my life i would love it please read slow and think how i feel about this with my own life i took risk life with small money and not spacial and beautiful, fairy tale of my dream for the wedding day & honey moon!
Thank-you very much for understand this!
Have a great day and take care of yourself! keep smile 🙂
Lots of love Renee!
(my e-mail is renee79@live.com.au)
Hi Renee
I have replied to the email you sent.
x
Ms Polka