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.
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
Last edited by Nadine216; June 15th, 2009 at 11:16 PM.
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
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i love the band around it!
I was so caught up in the day that I did not do ANY table rounds to chat with my guests
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