image courtesy of The Royal Wedding
Tonight (Australian time) many world wide will be watching Prince William & Kate Middleton get married in ‘the wedding of the year’. I am one of the few who won’t be watching. I’ve got nothing against weddings and nothing against the Royals (I loved Diana & Charles’ wedding) but there is AFL on and this house tends to go a bit AFL made over winter… well hubby does anyways. So I will be over at Three Little Princesses taking part in the Royal Wedding Pyjama Party and finishing off the pressies I’m making for Mother’s Day.
Since the world has gone a little mad for weddings, today I thought I’d share the story of my wedding day. warning there are a few images
I can’t find the photo but I spent all morning of my wedding day going between Mum & Dad’s couch & the toilet. I had been sick for the past three months with gastro. Yup I planned my entire wedding while I had gastro & was working. Anyways, after a quick trip to the doctors and a shot to quell the queasiness I was off to the hairdresser with my best friend & bridesmaid to get our hair done then out to the gorgeous Historic property of Brickendon to get prepared.
This gorgeous cottage was where we got our makeup done and did some pre-wedding photos with our amazing photographer Philip Kuruvita. I He’s not intrusive & the photos and our wedding album are gorgeous!!
We wrote most of the ceremony ourselves and included quite a few pagan bits and pieces in (but not enough to offend any of my Christian rellies) and lit 5 candles (2 for those who couldn’t be with us, namely those who had passed on, 2 family candles and 1 unity candle symbolising the joining of 2 families lit from the family candles)
That’s my bff & bridemaid. I owe her so much. Thanks Lisa, you have no idea how much u mean to me 
Our reception was held in the barn at Brickendon and was a lovely buffet meal, not that I ate much as I was starting to feel a bit ill again.
We cut our cake (a yummy mud cake cooked by Mum and decorated by a friend)
and of course there were speeches (& lots of tears) and signing our engagement photos which had been framed (another Kuruvita shoot)
oh and we had a crockenbush for desert (I ate some of that, yum)
and lots of pressies.
After which we took off for our first night as a married couple, staying in this gorgeous little cottage.
then off to Queensland for a week for our honeymoon. So that’s our wedding story. I can’t believe it’ll have been 5 years in November.
Brickendon is such a gorgeous spot to get married. The location certainly made for a stunning backdrop to your photos. I love a photographer who’s not intrusive too. Makes such a big difference to the end product, I think.
You made such a beautiful bride too. Just gorgeous.
It’s incredible how quickly times flies, isn’t it?
Thanks for linking up to the Royal Wedding Meme. 🙂
Oh it is a beautiful place and you looked radiant, oh I just love weddings!
Never would have guessed from the pictures that you were sick that day! You look so happy 🙂