your wedding day! what was it like?

[trini246]

I thought that everyone could share there magical days with everyone

What was your fave thing of the day?

What would you have changed if anything?

Where did you get married? church? garden? registry office? eloped?

Did you have a wishing well or gift registry? or presents?

How many bridesmaids did you have? what dresses did they wear?

What were your table centre pieces?

Did you have a bonbonierrie? if so what was it?

What did you invites look like? did you make them or get them made?

Did you have a real or fake boquet? what flowers were they?

Anything else you would like to add feel free or even add photos

[*TripleJ*]

I thought that everyone could share there magical days with everyone

What was your fave thing of the day? getting married to the love of my life

What would you have changed if anything? maybe the weather but no one could change that

Where did you get married? church? yep links to pics in a sec

Did you have a wishing well or gift registry? or presents? wishing well and presents but i dont think anyone wanted to leave money so they gave it to my MIL

How many bridesmaids did you have? what dresses did they wear? 2 dresses in pics

What were your table centre pieces? pics

Did you have a bonbonierrie? if so what was it? engraved shot glasses

What did you invites look like? did you make them or get them made? i made them on my comp with purple paper

Did you have a real or fake boquet? what flowers were they? real orchids purple and these little white flowers girls with pink roses

Anything else you would like to add feel free or even add photos

PICS - Wedding
Reception

[feeb]

What was your fave thing of the day? everything was perfect but highlight was horse and carriage to arrive at wedding

What would you have changed if anything? Nothing

Where did you get married? church? ? registry office? eloped? Got married in a little chapel joined to reception centre in the Dandenong ranges called Lyrebird falls


Did you have a wishing well or gift registry? or presents? Flight centre and myer registrys and got some other pressies also


How many bridesmaids did you have? what dresses did they wear? 3 bridesmaids and they wore strapless dresses which were floor length with diamentes on bodice in Cerisse colour (burgundy, pinky, purple)

What were your table centre pieces? flowers and candelabras

Did you have a bonbonierrie? if so what was it? Littel hexagonal jars of SUGA lollies with our names and a heart in centre in a burgandy coloured rock with whiote centre and burgandy writing

What did you invites look like? did you make them or get them made? Were long and thin (think A4 piece of paper folded long ways into 3) that was size with a burgandy backing and then a pretty paper with a watermark on it on top pinned together with hearts, we made ourselves well me, place cards and thank yous on bonbonneires were same

Did you have a real or fake boquet? what flowers were they? Real flowers 2 types of pink roses, singapre orchids, symbidian orchids in a tear drop bridesmaids had posies with symbidian orchids and roses, groomsen had roses in button hole, DH a double rose button hole, Dads rose and mums courrsages with orchid and roses.

Anything else you would like to add feel free or even add photos cake 2 tier small fruir cake on top and large hazelnut mud cake on bottom with sugar flowers on cake, we kept top tier and also had a small cutting fruit cake for recption. Honeymoon we went to Long islland in whitsundays for 1 week and gold coast for 1 week. Stayed wedding night and next night in a gorgeous 3 story tree house with massive spa and gorgeous place in dandenong ranges.

Enjoy your day it goes way to fast!!!!!

[trini246]

JwithJ - wow your wedding dress is stunning i love the band around it!

what kind of cake did you have?

Feeb- your day sounds amazing & i cant believe you had a horse & cart..that would have been truly amazing too see love the sound of the girls dresses

[Muffy]

ok i havnt had my wedding yet (as im single its a long way of.... lol) but i want to share my IDEAS for my wedding

I want to get married in a nice church.
I think i will have a wishing well ( i already have everything i could possibly need)
I will have 3 bridesmaides (already have them picked) their dresses will be like this (and mine will be like that wedding dress)
My table centrepieces like this
My flowers will be oriental lillies

[Epacris]

Trini, thank you so much for asking!!! *mwah* I love to think about our wedding day, it was the happiest day of my life (until DS was born, and then DD, so now it's the third happiest day of my life) and it's still the best wedding I've ever been to.

In 2003 we got married at West Head lookout in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and had the reception at Cottage Point Inn, a restaurant on the water at Cottage Point.

I LOVE:
That we did so much ourselves (no professional photographer for example).

It was all about family, friends, food, wine and celebration.

I didn't wear white (I was in silver) and the bridesmaids and groomsmen didn't match.

My grandmother gave me my great-grandmother's wedding ring to use as my wedding ring (I got both dates inscribed on the inside).

The weather was perfect.

My mum hand-painted flannel flowers on every invitation (they were amazing).

Mum's a florist and she did the flowers, all natives with feathers and pearls and bits of driftwood.

DH had never made a cake before but decided he would make a three tier traditional fruitcake and ice it himself. And he did a great job too!

DH drove me, just the two of us, from the ceremony to the reception in our veteran car, a 1913 Wolsely.

Afterwards we went to a pub in Manly in our wedding gear with all our mates and got a kebab in the corso on the way back to our hotel.

I'll go and dig up some pics. BBL...

[*TripleJ*]

it was a bridesmaid dress and it only just fit lol coz i was 18 weeks preg and two weeks before i had the fitting lol didnt think i would get that much bigger lol

we had a fruit cake i didnt even eat any on the night and the icing was solid and DH had to help cut the cake well he had to push a lot harder lol

plus the wedding night we stayed in an awesome b&b with spa didnt get to sleep till 4am and we left the reception at 11:30

and honeymoon was sydney for the new years firworks and summernats starting new years day

[Nadine216]

What was your fave thing of the day? Just the whole day, but the best was when we were just pronounced husband and wife, we walked down the "isle" together and we had these little bubble thingies instead of confetti and we and our guests were surrounded by bubbles ... it was magical

What would you have changed if anything? I would have tried to talk to more ppl I was so caught up in the day that I did not do ANY table rounds to chat with my guests

Where did you get married? church? garden? registry office? eloped? We got married on a veranda at the beach under the misty sky. It was AWSOME!!!

Did you have a wishing well or gift registry? or presents? Oh, we asked for money .. I know abnoxtious (sp) but we had everthing except a stove and a washing machine and we could not afford it, so we asked for money and bought those two big items.

How many bridesmaids did you have? what dresses did they wear? I had two bridesmaids. They wore different dresses. My MOH wore a full-length low-back plain strappy yellow-gold satin dress and my sister wore a off-shoulder yellow dress that came to her knees that she made herself.

What were your table centre pieces? Rectagular glass fases with flowers (roses) and candles in them .. actually I can't remember exactly, because I just told the lady that did the flowers it had to look wonderfull and left it in her capable hands.

Did you have a bonbonierrie? if so what was it? I orderd mini carrot wedding cupcakes. They doubled as placenames and as bonbonierrie.

What did you invites look like? did you make them or get them made? I got mine made. It was a single sheet (A4 folded in 3 - that size) whitepearl card with a raised picture of a rose on top and written in silver swirly font, coverd in a sheer sheet of paper It was very simple, but turned out OH SO beautiful

Did you have a real or fake boquet? what flowers were they? Real roses, just roses and some green leaves around them and fake diamante buttons in between. I had a smaller version made that I can throw, so I don't mess up me own boquet.

Anything else:
We did not do the traditional bride's table. We sat with our friends and our parents with theirs.

I don't have any pic here, but I'll go and dig some out and upload them later

[HotI]

Did you have a bonbonierrie? if so what was it? Littel hexagonal jars of SUGA lollies with our names and a heart in centre in a burgandy coloured rock with whiote centre and burgandy writing

I had these lollies too, with our initials written into them. I still have some, wonder how long they last for?

[feeb]

I had these lollies too, with our initials written into them. I still have some, wonder how long they last for?

we still have jars also!!!! figure sugar sugar and more sugar couldnt go off easily!

[Tinks]

What was your fave thing of the day? I loved everything about the day. But my favourite part was when we were allowed to drive the wedding car back to the reception ourselves. We had the best time, it was lovely.

What would you have changed if anything? I would have had no bridesmaids like I originally wanted....Don't get me started!

Where did you get married? church? garden? registry office? eloped? In the park my Dad is the Ranger at, I also lived there when I was younger. We were marreid by a Minister who is a family friend.

Did you have a wishing well or gift registry? or presents? No wishing well due to religious relos but we requested money as a gift which we put towards a new washing machine.

How many bridesmaids did you have? what dresses did they wear? I had 3 Bridesmaids, they wore navy blue. 2 wore a pant suit kind of thing and the 3rd wore a dress I got off ebay for $23...long story.

What were your table centre pieces? We had a ****tail style reception with a chocolate fountain in the middle of the table.

Did you have a bonbonierrie? if so what was it? I didn't hae any

What did you invites look like? did you make them or get them made? I made my invites. THey were blue and silver.

Did you have a real or fake boquet? what flowers were they? Real flowers. I hat Tulips and Liliums (spelling?). THe BM's had tulips, I made the bouquets on the morning of the wedding.

Anything else you would like to add feel free or even add photos

I have some photos on my Facebook, I'm not really sure how to put them on here or how to make them so the world can't see them. So if anyone wants to see any just pm me and I'll send the link.

[trini246]

wow these weddings sound beautiful it makes me feel like i want to be there hahaha i just LOVE hearing about others weddings

Ok i will try to answer this best i can but as our wedding hasnt been just yet (its 116 days away) not that anybody is counting hahaha

What was your fave thing of the day? no idea yet

What would you have changed if anything? n/a

Where did you get married? church? garden? registry office? eloped? we will be married in the same church i was baptised & confirmed in..just to keep with tradition & to be different because everyone seems to be getting married in the gardens here

Did you have a wishing well or gift registry? or presents? we are hoping to have a wishing well but I feel bad asking for money but we have everything we need but we want to get a new kitchen table & dryer

How many bridesmaids did you have? what dresses did they wear? i am having 3 bridesmaids who will all be in the same dress but different colours..the colours are pink, green & purple (they are a pastel colour) however they will all have the same belt thing which is a butter yellow colour

What were your table centre pieces? our table centre pieces will be a 6 candle labra which will have 2 pink, 2 green & 2 purple candles in it..and some flowers around it

Did you have a bonbonierrie? if so what was it? our bonbonierries are a little photo frame which will be used to hold up the place cards then they can take then home..MIL is also giving a tealight candle thing to each family or something (im not too sure about that)

What did you invites look like? did you make them or get them made? we are making them ourselves but we bought the template from an invo place but we will print it ourselves. They are fold out ones which will have a frangipani backing (which will be typed on) hard to explain

Did you have a real or fake boquet? what flowers were they? I am having silk frangipanis its too cold here to have real ones but the silk ones look really nice

I think thats all i have so far! i dont know where to go on the honeymoon or whether to take DD or not

[Lisa]

What was your fave thing of the day?
Getting married to the love of my life. Honestly, both of us barely remember anyone else being there apart from each other.

What would you have changed if anything?
I would have chosen a better photographer, or used the money we spent on the photographer to buy an awesome camera and then have my BIL take the photos.

Where did you get married? church? garden? registry office? eloped?
We got married on a beach in Port Macquarie NSW

Did you have a wishing well or gift registry? or presents?
Wishing well

How many bridesmaids did you have? what dresses did they wear?
I had a man of honour, and 2 bridesmaids, my DH had a best woman and 2 groomsmen.
The girls wore mint green dresses.

What were your table centre pieces?
We didn't have centre pieces, instead we had shells & frangipanis scattered over the tables and edible rocks.

Did you have a bonbonierrie? if so what was it?
Yes, 2 heart shaped chocolates & a CD of our wedding songs.

What did you invites look like? did you make them or get them made?
We had them made. They were fairly simple with a mint green background, an ivory coloured piece that the writing was on, and a frangipani cover. We attached magnets to the back of them which came in handy for everyone.

Did you have a real or fake boquet? what flowers were they?
Real. My bouquet was an arm sheath which had white oriental lillies, frangipainis, singapore orchids and white lisianthums. The frangipanis were quite expensive at the time, they were $2.50 each as we were only weeks away from having them bloom where we lived.

[organicem]

What was your fave thing of the day? Being married to the love of my life.

What would you have changed if anything? Convinced my MIL to attend.

Where did you get married? church? garden? registry office? eloped? Rainforest.

Did you have a wishing well or gift registry? or presents? Presents.

How many bridesmaids did you have? what dresses did they wear? None, very small wedding.

What were your table centre pieces? Smooth rocks, leaves from rainforest created by my brother and samoan bestie.

Did you have a bonbonierrie? if so what was it? yes...trying to remember LOL.

What did you invites look like? did you make them or get them made? made them.

Did you have a real or fake boquet? what flowers were they? fake, cream and light pink roses with a small bluey coloured flower..i made it myself.

Anything else you would like to add feel free or even add photos [/COLOR][/B][/QUOTE]

Will have a look and post again.

[Lolli]

Hehe how exciting, I'm getting married in 40 days, and I love to talk about it

Where did you get married? church? garden? registry office? eloped? Garden of the place where we're having our reception, a big old sandstone house with sweeping staircases and a ballroom

Did you have a wishing well or gift registry? or presents? *sigh* a wishing well, much to my distaste. i'm not generally a big fan of them, but it's so much easier than a registry, more useful than presents, it was provided with the reception package anyway and most people expect them these days, iykwim? Noone buys presents for a wedding anymore.

How many bridesmaids did you have? what dresses did they wear? 2 in long wine red dresses, a kind of empire cut, with red shawls (we're all going to freeze our asses off. Looking to hire long capes instead but no luck as yet).

What were your table centre pieces? Willow sticks with fairy lights.

Did you have a bonbonierrie? if so what was it?Sort of. We're having cupcakes (made by a BB member- hi kitten2b Louise!) as a wedding cake, and people will be given them to take home.

What did you invites look like? did you make them or get them made? I ordered mine off the net and they are quite nice. Cream coloured with a gold embossed looking thingie on them. Simple, only a small piece of card with no stick on bits or anything.

Did you have a real or fake boquet? what flowers were they?Neither. We're having white hand muffs- you know, the fluffy 70's style things? Made by one of bridesmaids. I am going to get a throw away boquet though, to do the toss, but forementioned bridesmaid works at a rose farm, so I'll just get her to make me up a free one.

I'm trying really hard to keep everything as simple as possible. So far there's been minimal 'snowballing' (little issues turning into huge ones) but I'll keep you posted

[Erin_25]

What was your fave thing of the day?[/COLOR] The very end, when we got to go back to our B&B as[/COLOR] husband & wife & relax!!

What would you have changed if anything? Would have checked some details more carefully, had a prob with makeup & the zip broke on my dress had to get a dress maker to replace it & I was therefore very late for the church.

Where did you get married? church? garden? registry office? eloped? Married in a small Chruch in the Barossa Valley SA....just beautiful.

Did you have a wishing well or gift registry? or presents? Had a wishing well, got an amazing amount of money & were able to buy our bed & mattress that we will keep for years.

How many bridesmaids did you have? what dresses did they wear? 3 bridesmaids, they wore long dresses a 2piece....the skirt was black & the strapless top was black, white & silver stripes.

What were your table centre pieces? Hurrican vases with a big white canlde in them & dried red rose petals (same colour as mine) on the bottom.

Did you have a bonbonierrie? if so what was it? Yes, a big red love heart shaped lollipop...they made great deco's & were like 20cents each to buy!

What did you invites look like? did you make them or get them made? I had mine made, they were so simple & elegant that by the time I bought the paper, ink etc it was as cheap to have them made. Just whit square cut card, nice shiny stuff with info printed on it. Our names were in really fancy font & each main letter (eg first name) had a diamente in it (if that makes any sense).

Did you have a real or fake boquet? what flowers were they? Real flowers, mine were red & the bridesmaids had white.....it was exp but I now have mine framed & hanging in my bedroom.

Anything else you would like to add feel free or even add photos

[organicem]

Hi. Not sure exactly what a wishing well is but if you tell guests that you are planning on buying a new table and dryer most people would love to know that they can give you something that you need and contribute without you needing to feel bad.

Good Luck with your special day!!

wow these weddings sound beautiful it makes me feel like i want to be there hahaha i just LOVE hearing about others weddings

Ok i will try to answer this best i can but as our wedding hasnt been just yet (its 116 days away) not that anybody is counting hahaha

What was your fave thing of the day? no idea yet

What would you have changed if anything? n/a

Where did you get married? church? garden? registry office? eloped? we will be married in the same church i was baptised & confirmed in..just to keep with tradition & to be different because everyone seems to be getting married in the gardens here

Did you have a wishing well or gift registry? or presents? we are hoping to have a wishing well but I feel bad asking for money but we have everything we need but we want to get a new kitchen table & dryer

How many bridesmaids did you have? what dresses did they wear? i am having 3 bridesmaids who will all be in the same dress but different colours..the colours are pink, green & purple (they are a pastel colour) however they will all have the same belt thing which is a butter yellow colour

What were your table centre pieces? our table centre pieces will be a 6 candle labra which will have 2 pink, 2 green & 2 purple candles in it..and some flowers around it

Did you have a bonbonierrie? if so what was it? our bonbonierries are a little photo frame which will be used to hold up the place cards then they can take then home..MIL is also giving a tealight candle thing to each family or something (im not too sure about that)

What did you invites look like? did you make them or get them made? we are making them ourselves but we bought the template from an invo place but we will print it ourselves. They are fold out ones which will have a frangipani backing (which will be typed on) hard to explain

Did you have a real or fake boquet? what flowers were they? I am having silk frangipanis its too cold here to have real ones but the silk ones look really nice

I think thats all i have so far! i dont know where to go on the honeymoon or whether to take DD or not

[~Hestia~]

What a nice thread, good idea!!

Fave thing of the day - I loved my wedding day as we had complete control & as a result it was exactly what we wanted. DH & I are not fussy people so I love that our wedding was a reflection of who we are. It was small (about 35 guests) but felt very intimate & those who were there were important to us. I loved that DH was trying very hard not to cry & no one else could see that. I loved when DH kissed me before he was supposed to!! I loved leaving on the boat for our honeymoon to Tasmania afterwards - such an exciting feeling!!

What would I change - I wouldn't have used a photography student & spent the extra money on a professional. She took nice photos but lacked the experience. As a result I don't look relaxed & I feel a pro would've made sure I looked my best.

Where did I get married - A restaurant on the Geelong waterfront. We hired out the top floor. This meant it was very private & we had our own chef & staff for the day. It's hard to explain but where we 'got married' is a raised fenced part of the top floor, making it separate from the reception area. We were there first & everyone formed a circle around us. We had a candle ceremony so we were surrounded by candlelight. I also love that the co ordinator at this restaurant remembers us & gives us free drinks whenever we go there!!

Presents - After having lived together we didn't want any presents. We did need a new washing machine so asked for gift cards at a particular store, the generosity astounded us & we had much more than we needed. Some people were traditional & gave gifts instead though. Which I'm sorry to say we have never used!!

Bridesmaids - Nope, no bridal party at all!! We wanted it to be kept very simple. I don't like being the centre of attention either so walking down an aisle would've been my idea of hell!!

Table centrepieces - Didn't have a centrepiece but did have lots of candles everywhere - very romantic. From memory I think the restaurant had fake flowers on the tables too but I obviously didn't take much notice!!

Bonbonierrie - We didn't give one out on the day, we felt that as we paid for the whole thing (including the alcohol) it wasn't necessary. However we did a whole group photo at the reception which we sent out to everyone with the thank you cards. Everyone loved it & we also included any photos that the photographer took of them. The ones with kids especially loved these.

Invitations - I'm not crafty at all so I got ours done online. They were silver, that's all I can remember!!

Bouquet - I didn't have one. My thing is bags so I had a gorgeous little bag that I hung over my wrist for the day - got lots of comments. Plus I got to keep it!!

What about the dress? I LOVE pink so I wore a pink dress on my wedding day. I bought it at Myer. It's 3 layered - a slip & a latte coloured gauzy layer that hangs a couple of cms down from the dusty pink lace top layer. It has cap sleeves & a pink bow that goes around my waist. It really is beautiful AND I have worn it since!!

It's nice reading about everyone's special day. This has also made me remember my wedding day & all the things that made it special for us. Thanks!!