Bride For A Day

I got to live every little girls dream on Thursday by playing dress up in designer wedding gowns for the Adelaide Fashion Festival.

Tomorrow Brides Of Adelaide Magazine is holding a 'Bridal Runway Fusion' fashion parade, so to give everyone a sneak peek of what will be on on show at the parade Kelly and I from Glam (along with Filip from Fashion Squared) filmed an episode of Glam TV.

I got to wear three amazing gowns by Suzana Lucci, Paolo Sebastian and Malachi Empire. Check out the video below.

You can still buy tickets to the fashion parade here.

Behind The Scenes At The Central Markets

Am I the only person who gets so overwhelmed by the Adelaide Central Markets that I tend to go back to the exact same stalls every time? 

It turns out there is a solution. 

I love the Central Markets so I jumped at the chance to take a tour of them with Central Market Tours, fellow Glam Adelaide writer Gianni and and Celebrity Chef Matt Moran. Also because I never turn down free food. Never.

Central Market Tours was a great way to discover a lot of hidden gems at the markets and visit stalls you never would have noticed before. Including discovering the best shallot pancakes I have ever tasted.

 I was expecting Matt Moran to be scary and intimidating like he is on Masterchef but he was actually very nice and surprisingly down to earth. He also followed me on Twitter which pretty much means we are besties now (free dinner at Aria?).

He's spent a lot of time in Adelaide recently and seemed to really enjoy it here. I was also super impressed that he was tweeting and blogging as we went as part of TQUAL (tourism quality).

Usually I am the only person on their phone 24/7.

You can read his TQUAL tick tour blog here.

The markets tour may seem like something only tourists would do but it's something fun to do next time you have people visitng from interstate. I guarantee you will discover a host of things you didn't know about the markets. 

I also got to go into A ROOM OF CHEESE. It was pretty much an out of body experience.

Melbourne Via Instagram

I went on a long weekend holiday to Melbourne last month and literally all we did was eat, shop and drink.

I've written more about it here on Glam Adelaide. 

Next time I'm going to try and do something a bit more cultured, like see a play or go to the art gallery. I lie, I'm not going to do that.

I did get really into instagraming the crap out of my photos when I came back though.

I love Instagram and I take it very seriously. I don't like to upload random shitty photos, I like to try and keep the quality high! I may or may not need to get a life...

Follow me on Instagram @genwhaites

Hilton High Tea

High Tea seems to be really in fashion right now. 

But how many people can say they have had High Tea in Rundle Mall complete with an Eiffel Tower made of ice!

The Hilton puts on High Tea every Saturday and Sunday and the hotel and Harris Scarfe held this event in Rundle Mall last week. 

And I can tell you that the cakes were made extra sweet by the jealously of the onlookers.

Even though we were lucky enough to be served Veuve Clicquot, I was very impressed by range of teas on offer. The Hilton actually has a tea sommelier - a whole employee dedicated to tea who said 'there is an art to tea'!

If you would also like to be jealous of my High Tea experience also, check out some of my photos below and maybe get some inspiration for hosting your own High Tea. 

Girl About Gown

It seems like everyone these days has a blog and I felt left out. So here I am jumping on the bandwagon.

I think blogs are a bit self indulgent so I'll try not to sound too wanky. However, I do enjoy talking about myself and all the awesome things I get to do because of my job.

My name is Gen Whaites, I'm 22 and I'm a journalist working for the website Glam Adelaide in Adelaide, South Australia.

I've just finished University and moved out of home. All these amazing, exciting and scary things are happening and I don't want to take it for granted that my life will probably never be this way again.

Hopefully this you can take something away from this blog, even if it's tips on what not to do in your first real job.  

Otherwise I hope you just enjoy joining me on the journey of trying to figure my life out. And probably failing.

If you like fashion, shopping, pretending to be a domestic goddess, books, movies, drinking, partying, travelling, homewares, DIY or anything vintage, we'll probably get along just fine!