Alec and I were guests at our first Scotalian wedding this weekend, held in the crypt at St Mary’s Cathedral.
Congrats guys, on a gorgeous, fun, wedding, and what I know will be a fabulously happy marriage.
A wonderful way to finish up the Christmas period, with my friends Mel and Keeva’s wedding. The weather has been gloomy this week, and was overcast for Mel’s wedding on the 27th too, driving us indoors for the ceremony. It was a ceremony with a glorious view though – overlooking the harbour, framed by the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The ceremony was lovely, the reception lots of fun, and we met a bunch of super-nice people. What a fabulous day!
Congratulations guys, thank you for including us in your amazing day!
Somehow I managed to get Alec to agree to a pre-wedding shoot with the dogs. I was super-keen to get some really nice photos of our little family as I have few if any that are really nice quality, and the pooches can’t be involved in our wedding at all.
We met our wonderful photographer, Vincent Lai, at Bicentennial Park for an hour of pooch fun.
I just love the photos – here is a small selection of my faves.
The final destination – Singapore, for our dear friends Beverly and Chris’ wedding.
Arriving in Singapore was quite a shock to the system. It was so hot and humid, it was like swimming through the air to try and get anywhere. In light of the weather, I could see why the national past times are eating and shopping.
We arrived in the evening, had a relaxing night, then spent the next day with the bridal couple for their hens and bucks days.
Brunch was followed by manicure and pedicures, and then high tea! What a gorgeous day.
The next day, Saturday the 8th, was the big wedding day. I was honored to be asked to be one of Beverly’s “sisters” for the day, which meant we arrived at Bev’s aunt’s house early in the morning to participate in the claiming of the bride ritual, as well as getting to observe the tea ceremony.
The reception was fabulous fun and a great way to end the day. The evening was punctuated with touching slideshows, particularly one from Bev’s parents, which made several of us shed a few tears.
With no obligations today, we were free to relaaaax.
I thought it would be a great idea for another bush walk – this time up to the top of the mountain on the island to admire the amazing view. It was about a 9km round trip, so it was a decent effort at exercise on another super steamy day.
The day started hot and humid, so we decided to go on a bush walk through the national park lands to see Coconut Beach. When we asked staff for directions, they looked at us with some puzzlement … which we later realised to be because they were wondering why we would want to trek though the bush on a day so humid most people didn’t leave the pool?!
The walk was beautiful. Extremely hot though, so we were sweating profusely after about five minutes of walking.
Our walk was a bit longer than expected and we indulged a little too much at lunch – making us almost miss the wedding. A stressful half hour ensued where we washed sea salt out of our hair, threw on clothes, and ran up several hills in our party clothes to make the ceremony. We were on time, but were sweating a lot! On the plus side, if gave me a chance to try out my strategy with my new silver slingbacks that refuse to stay on. I bought some ribbon and tied them around the shoe – and they stayed on like a dream, even running – uphill!
After the 2pm ceremony there was a gap of three hours before the reception, so we went back to the room, showered again to remove the sweat, and relaxed. If felt much better getting dressed again in the cool early evening with plenty of time to spare.
After a week of tumultuous weather, Saturday was stunningly perfect for my good friend Isis’ wedding – especially since it was to be held outdoors!
The ceremony as held at Observatory Hill in Sydney, in a rotunda. The view was stunning, so it was easy to see why it is such a popular wedding location.
Isis is Indian and her now-husband, Matt, is a Kiwi, so together they had a wedding that was a bit Indian, a touch Kiwi and a lot of Aussie.
A lot of the ceremony was in Hindi I believe, so we didn’t really know what was going on. It sounded amazing, whatever they were saying!
After the ceremony we had time to kill so we stopped by La Renaissance Patisserie Francaise in Argyle St at the Rocks for coffee and, erm, snacks.
Making their entrance.
After the cruise we went to Opera Bar with the bridal couple and friends for more celebrating. We watched the sun go down and had lots of laughs as the bride and groom were able to unwind and enjoy themselves.
Fresh from our Japan trip we drove up to Newcastle for Kristy and Kade’s wedding. I didn’t take many pics – I was all photo’d out after taking over a thousand pics in Japan. No captions needed I think – lovely day, beautiful couple, awesome veggie food. Great day!
My dearest Shelby is getting married! I am so happy for her and so excited! We spent Sunday in full-wedding mode, flicking through bridal mags, looking things up on the internet and watching the best wedding movie of them all, Muriel’s Wedding. Shell and I have loved Muriel’s Wedding for many years, so it provided the perfect background for the pigging out (oh yes, there were lollies!) and wedding-overload.
Even though Shell has her ring, we ended up looking at jewellery sites anyway. I found a few pieces that I thought were just beautiful. I don’t want to look at the prices, I just want to appreciate the exquisite designs from Canturi and Tiffany.
I can’t believe how much cakes cost! I can’t find a pic of the amazing bird cage cake we saw, but we also checked out these. The first one is taken from a illustrator who designs amazing cards and more in the design below. Beautifully done.
This one was a bit of a surprise. A little saucy for a wedding perhaps?
I also introduced Shell to my fave website, Etsy, where they have an amazing wedding section where you can get the most amazing handmade things like invitations, stationary in general, cake toppers, jewellery, table decorations and more.
