Girls trip ideas › Candle making
There are two kinds of candle people in every group: the ones who light one every night, and the ones still saving the good one for an occasion that never quite arrives. This is the occasion. Scents argued over, wax poured, and somewhere to stay for all of you.
Light the good one.
The group chat runs on headlines. The actual goss, the full version with the context and the facial expressions, has been sitting in a queue marked ’not over text’.
Candle making is where that queue finally clears. Hands busy, scents being sniffed and passed along the table, and an unspoken rule settling over everyone: whatever gets said over the wax goes into the candle.
Every one of you can name your favourite scent faster than your own postcode, and the girls could pick yours out of a crowded shop with their eyes closed. Most souvenirs end up in a drawer. This one ends up on your bedside table, bringing the weekend back every time you light it.
Every candle smells like the weekend, and every one of you knows exactly what went into it.
Scent first, then the whole night.
A candle making girls trip with My Ultimate is a hands on candle workshop with a host who guides every pour, built into a whole girls weekend with somewhere to stay, dinner and drinks.
In Sydney the studio is yours for the session, and it’s BYO. On the Gold Coast your workshop host comes to the apartment and the big table becomes a candle studio.
Everyone has opinions and most of them are wrong. Some go somewhere new; some head straight for the scent they’ve loved for years. Your host guides every pour, and on the Gold Coast the toppings are unlimited, so the wax roses and little hearts pile up.
The fresh candles go back to the apartment to set. Nobody lights one yet. It’s the most patience anyone shows all weekend.
A bottle of sparkling at a wine bar, then dinner on a rooftop in Sydney. Bubbly and share plates on the deck of a rooftop beach club on the Gold Coast. Somehow, the scents still come up.
On the Gold Coast a brunch platter turns up at the door the next morning. Everyone takes home a candle and very firm views on whose smells best.
Pick your city, pick your scent.
Each one is a whole girls weekend with the candle making built in: somewhere to stay, the food, the drinks and where to next, already in an order that works. Each city’s page has it alongside every other girls weekend there.
Prices are from, per person, for a minimum of six. Accommodation can cost more on busy dates such as school holidays, so we confirm the price for your exact dates.
Sydney
Candles and Catch Ups
Candle making in a private studio, BYO, then a bottle of sparkling at a wine bar and dinner up on a rooftop.
From $549 per person, minimum of six
What’s included
Gold Coast
Hot Wax And Hot Goss
Your candle making host comes to the apartment with signature fragrances and unlimited toppings, then bubbly and share plates on a rooftop deck, and brunch at the door the next morning.
From $449 per person, minimum of six
What’s included
Every kind of candle person.
It works for the friend with a candle lit in every room of the house, and for the one still saving the good one for best.
Hands busy, nobody performing, and a candle at the end of it.
The ’not over text’ stories finally get told, footnotes included.
Fragrance choosing is a full debate, and everybody wins it.
From the twenty somethings to the friends who’ve been to every birthday since school.
Everyone leaves with a keepsake that brings the weekend back every time it’s lit.
School friends, work friends and somebody’s sister. Nothing breaks the ice like a scent argument.
The rest of the weekend, sorted around the wax.
Every candle making weekend already works on its own. These are the things that sit beautifully beside it, and a few of them can be added to the weekends above.
Something to pick at while the wax sets. An extra on both weekends.
More on grazing deliveredA relaxation massage in Sydney, a day spa session on the Gold Coast. Extras on those weekends.
More on day spasMimosas and the candle verdicts. An extra on the Sydney weekend.
More on bottomless brunchFrom hot wax to the dance floor. An extra on the Gold Coast weekend.
More on nightclub boothsSomeone else pouring the drinks while the wax sets. An extra on the Gold Coast weekend.
More on topless waitersA tiny garden instead of a candle. Its own weekend in Melbourne, Brisbane and on the Gold Coast.
More on terrarium makingHands in clay instead of wax. Its own weekend in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
More on clay and potteryA canvas and a glass in hand. Its own weekend in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
More on paint and sipLight the candle, read the board. Its own weekend in Sydney and Brisbane.
More on vision boardsA scent of your own, in a bottle. Not in a My Ultimate weekend yet; candle making is the closest.
More on perfume makingThe small things the girls will ask about.
The Sydney studio is BYO, so the girls bring what the girls actually drink. On the Gold Coast the workshop comes to your apartment.
Fresh candles need time to set, so they go back to the apartment first. Hardest part of the weekend.
On the Gold Coast each candle is packed into a gift box. In Sydney it goes straight back to the apartment.
Somebody will want the candles-in-a-row shot. What goes on socials is the group’s call.
In their own words, exactly as written.
Booked it.
Went.
Loved it.
Already discussing round 2.
Normally on trips I'm the person carrying around all the booking confirmations and announcing when we need to leave.
This time I got to be in the photos.
That probably says everything.
My Ultimate has been creating unforgettable girls weekends since 2011, so we know a thing or two about bringing the girls together.
Same candle, a very different weekend.
Plenty of groups book a candle class and have a lovely couple of hours. Then everyone’s holding a warm candle on the footpath, working out where dinner is, and the best story of the day gets cut off at ’I’ll tell you later’.
A candle making girls weekend with My Ultimate has the apartment, dinner, the drinks and where to next already lined up around the workshop, so the candles set on the same bench and the goss gets its full run.
In your words, ready to paste.
Girls trip idea: a candle making weekend. We each make a candle to take home, then dinner and drinks, with somewhere to stay for all of us.
Gold Coast from $449pp, Sydney from $549pp. Who’s in?
https://www.myultimate-girls-trip.com.au/candle-making-girls-trip
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Where are we going?
Pick your city to see its candle making weekend beside every other girls weekend there, prices and all. Found the one? Check your dates.
MelbourneNo candle making weekend yetSee every Melbourne girls weekend
SydneySydney girls weekends
BrisbaneNo candle making weekend yetSee every Brisbane girls weekend
Gold CoastGold Coast girls weekendsWant to make something in Melbourne or Brisbane? Terrarium making, clay and paint and sip weekends run in both.
Know what the girls want? Start a Melbourne girls trip wishlist, or check available dates for your group or call or chat with us on 1300 339 734.
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Still deciding? See what pairs well with candle making, or pick your city and see the weekends.
A hands on workshop with a host who guides every pour, and a candle each to take home. In Sydney it’s a private studio, BYO. On the Gold Coast your host comes to the apartment with a signature fragrance selection and unlimited toppings, and each soy candle is packed into a gift box.
The two candle making weekends start from $449 per person on the Gold Coast and $549 in Sydney, for a minimum of six, with somewhere to stay included. Accommodation can cost more on busy dates such as school holidays, so we confirm the price for your exact weekend when you check availability.
Not at all. Your host guides every pour. The hardest decision is the scent.
Fresh candles need time to set, so they go back to the apartment to be admired from a respectful distance first.
Your own apartment, then dinner and drinks: a bottle of sparkling at a wine bar and a rooftop dinner in Sydney, a rooftop beach club and a brunch platter the next morning on the Gold Coast.
Not yet. Both cities have terrarium making, clay and paint and sip weekends, and every weekend is on the Melbourne and Brisbane pages.
Candle making with My Ultimate comes inside a whole girls weekend, with somewhere to stay. Pick your city to see the weekends in Sydney and on the Gold Coast.
Six for each weekend. Fewer than that? Let us know how many of you there are. We cater for groups of many sizes.
A lovely one. Everyone takes home a candle that brings the weekend back every time it’s lit.