Festival Brides knows even the most lustworthy bohemian dress, spectacular setting or floral installation, can’t trump the feeling of glowing, radiant and the best version of yourself on your wedding day.

Healthy Luxe Bride is a new addition to the UK’s bridal scene and one that is set to inspire brides to embrace the best of London’s wellness scene as part of their wedding experience. From boutique fitness studios to pretty pink yoga mats and hot activewear – it’s about indulging in London’s epic fitness scene and making your wellness journey as epic as your wedding day.

Starting in Australia, the home of all things uber healthy and founded by creators of a leading boutique designer wedding gift registry, Healthy Luxe Bride delivers wellness with luxe boho style – from Wedding Morning Yoga, Healthy Hen Party Experiences and 8 Weeks to Glow wellness program for brides to their wedding wellness events.

We chat with founder Jacqui Scruby all about her unique business and the many wellness workshops she has to offer….

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO START HEALTHY LUXE BRIDE?

We created a lifestyle brand that combined our passion for health and wellness and beautiful styling and created services that didn’t exist in the wedding industry but that we felt would enhance a bride’s wedding experience – and ultimately her wedding day.

Owning a gift registry, we witnessed our brides crash dieting and trying to ‘lose weight’ for their wedding and with both my business partner and I having a health background, it pained us to see this approach. It didn’t make sense to see brides depleting themselves of nutrients before their wedding day and looking too skinny with lacklustre hair and dull skin and then kick off the day with alcohol before noon.

To be honest, we were also tired of going to hen parties where we were expected to overindulge in every way. So we decided to offer a hen do experience that we’d want to go to and that focused more about being inspired with your girlfriends than getting trashed.

While there were fitness and diet programs –  there was no bridal wellness offering that went beyond losing weight for your wedding or that made the experience as luxe as every other wedding prep process. London has some of the best trainers, luxe fitness studios and leading wellness experts so it’s exciting to bring Healthy Luxe Bride here.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A HEALTHY LUXE BRIDE?

A Healthy Luxe Bride sees their engagement as an opportunity to embrace a healthy lifestyle – for beyond their wedding. Naturally getting engaged gets you thinking about looking amazing on your wedding day, but it’s about taking that and using engagement as a catalyst for lifelong change and having a fun time indulging in the best of London’s wellness scene in the process.

A Healthy Luxe Bride isn’t just one who wants to be healthy – it’s a girl who appreciates luxe settings, beautiful styling and consulting with the best.

WHAT DOES HEALTHY LUXE BRIDE ENCOMPASS?

You don’t need to be engaged to be inspired about health, wellness and all things pretty via our blog and instagram. A girl’s journey with us may start by arranging her friend’s healthy luxe hen party.

A newly engaged bride might attend one of our fun and inspiring events such as a our indoor cycling Bride Ride at Digme Fitness, our Supper Club Bride Wellness Nights or our Sunday morning yoga sessions at Mews Bridal in Notting Hill.

Inspired to be the best version of herself and wanting the best wellness experience possible, she might join our exclusive 8 Weeks to Glow Wellness Program that has a huge amount of support from a range of experts.

A for the most important day of all – starting it off with our Wedding Morning Yoga.

WEDDING MORNINGS BE LIKE… WEDDING MORNING YOGA!  TELL US ABOUT THIS SERVICE

It’s not hard to work out why this is our most in demand service. Wedding Morning Yoga is ultimate way to start the best day of your life. Our yogini comes to you – your hotel, home, manor or castle, with pretty mats, juices (or coconuts) and most importantly banging beats. Our signature Yoga to the Beat sequence is a dynamic vinyasa flow to an uplifting curated playlist that can’t help but move you. It’s all about embracing your excitement and energy and channeling it in to something greater – an emotional and physical and multisensory experience with your bridesmaids.

The experience is designed to completely transcend you, be fun, spiritual and grounding – to literally leave you with euphoric tingles. The sequence is specifically designed to awaken your body for maximum body awareness, alignment and posture to set you up for elegance and grace. There is also a strong focus on breathing, to connect you with your breath to help manage your emotions and nerves during the day. Throughout the sequence and in the following Goddess chat over a nourishing juice, our yogini provides practical mantras and skills for a yoga mindset to enhance your wedding day – from being mindful in every moment and encounter with guests, to letting go of expectations and frustrations and being truly grateful for the day, however it unfolds.

This is not your average yoga teacher taking you through an average sequence – its a multisensory immersion that is designed to enhance the best day of your life.

DO YOU HAVE A FAVOURITE TRACK FOR THE WEDDING MORNING YOGA?

There is nothing more uplifting than opening the flow to Sunshine by Tieks.

WHAT IS YOUR APPROACH TO HEN PARTIES?

We are all about creating a next level creative and wellness experience that is the ultimate way to bond with your girl gang. Although there’s huge variety in what a Bachelorette Day can entail – we have some key principles that underpin all the experiences.

1. Luxe Settings: It’s all about indulging in beautiful spaces, interior design and epic styling. Our style is boho luxe and we’ve only selected the venues in London that best compliment our brand and approach to styling – no high end glamour.
2. Multisensory Experience: Each of our experiences is designed to ignite all your senses – from beautiful settings and styling to nourishing food, inspiring playlists, creativity and tactile activities to the beautiful fragrance of essential oils. Everyone leaves feeling connected and truly inspired.
3. Access to London’s best: We’re all about seeking out the best and we offer London’s leading creatives and health influencers to run our bachelorette experiences – from cult trainers to celebrity nutritionists.
4. Indulgent Extras: Whether it’s matching designer workout kits, workout braids, flower crowns or green juices – we have multiple ways to enhance the bachelorette experience.
5. Capturing the Experience: There aren’t many days where you’re with your girl gang, feeling relaxed, connected and inspired and looking like glowing beauties in luxe settings. This is a truly special day and so we capture the memories and include a beautiful matrix of edited images of your day.

WHAT DOES A HEALTHY LUXE BRIDE HEN PARTY LOOK LIKE?

Wow – this depends on the bride and her girl gang.

For the wellness bride we offer Yoga Goddess Workshops followed and or interactive nutrition workshop as you make your own granola.

For the beauty bride we have a natural beauty masterclass lead by influencer Becky Crisp aka @wildspiritnaturally who takes you through a fun interactive workshop as well as discusses nutrition for glowing skin and hair.

For the creative bride we have contemporary weaving workshops with the @peasandneedles or flower crown workshops where girls can bond through creativity.

And for the #fitfam bride – kick off with chats and pre-ride shakes while you get your hair workout braided before launching into a fun exclusive spin class at one of London’s luxe Digme Fitness where you battle it out to epic beats with a leaderboard to up the intensity.  

RUMOUR HAS IT YOU HAVE SOME EXCLUSIVE INVITATION-ONLY OFFERINGS FOR THE RIGHT CLIENT…. TELL US MORE

Upon application, we can provide bespoke high end offerings including an exclusive cult Skinny Bitch Collective class by celebrity trainer Russell Bateman or a Q + A supper club with best selling author and celebrity nutritionist Eve Kalinik to name a few.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR 8 WEEKS TO GLOW PROGRAM AND HOW IT DIFFERS FROM OTHER PROGRAMS

Our 8 Weeks to Glow package is designed specifically for brides focusing on not just nutrition and fitness but also skin and lifestyle and most importantly educating, empowering and inspiring each bride..

An our experts who designed the program are not just qualified in their field but have been brides themselves and have worked in the wedding industry for years – so they get it.

Our approach to nutrition is not just as a tool for weight loss but to celebrate its power to reduce bloating and improve health issues, regulate hormones and nourish your body for radiance – including clear and glowing skin.

Our approach to fitness is focused on getting results, getting excited about your fitness experience and achieving balance for a banging body that’s also full of energy. A big part of that is working out at Digme Fitness which is one of London’s leading fitness studios that also has beautiful fitouts and an awesome supportive clique.

Then there’s our passion for beautiful skin. While beautiful makeup and a designer dress can have you dressed like a princess – we want you to feel confident enough that you’d wow the crowd even if the makeup artist didn’t show up or you were left with nothing but a white sheet to wear. Becky Crisp aka Wild Spirit Naturally has a treats each bride to a treatment during which she explains the benefits of non toxic, organic and natural beauty products and eating for glowing skin as well as a follow up natural makeup session.

All these elements are then supported with a high level of support with one-on-one dedicated health coach to create a healthy lifestyle, ditch bad habits and make lasting change and access to a private facebook group to have support of other brides.

For more information on Healthy Luxe Bride and the genius well being experiences they are offering, please visit their website or email Jacqui: hello@healthyluxebride.com

Image Credits: Hannah Blackmore Photography; The Story Of Us; Wild Spirit Naturally; Peas and Needles 

 

Big Well Being Yoga Love

Laura xx