Our Wedding: Reception

We had such a fun time at our wedding reception, and I'm pretty sure our guests did too (if I do say so myself!) Our aim was to try and create many of the details of the reception ourselves, but for it to still remain elegant and sophisticated. We made our own wedding cake, stationery, table numbers, signing frame, wishing well, and so much more. The food was fantastic (thanks to Fix Restaurant and Wine Bar!) as was the rest of the venue, which made it so much easier for us to relax, and actually enjoy the night :)

Our Wedding: Getting Ready and Ceremony

Hello! We're finally back from our honeymoon and up and running again. We are both straight back into work, but I think that can't be helped. We did just have a one month holiday!

Dave and I chose to have our wedding in the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens. We'd always dreamed about getting married under a giant tree, and it worked out very well.

Despite being a fairly clear morning, when I arrived at the ceremony it was raining lightly. We were glad that the tree offered a little bit of protection from the rain. 

It was so lovely and heart-warming to have so many of our family and friends there to help us celebrate and enjoy our day, we couldn't have been happier.

One of the things that helped make our day such a memorable event for us was that so many of the elements of our wedding were done ourselves. I made my own hairpiece and shoes, and we both designed, printed, cut and packaged all of our stationery, including save the dates, invitations, menus etc. Looking back on these memories makes all of the work so worthwhile.

Wedding Details
Makeup: Eyedolize Makeup Artistry
Photography by: Josh Gow Photography
Flowers by: Green and Bloom

Honeymoon

Hello everyone :) Sorry about the lack of posts lately. We've been so busy with our wedding, then leaving for our honeymoon the day after! We arrived in Scotland today, and leave the day after tomorrow. We're about halfway through our road trip now. I'll leave you with some photos from our trip so far.

My Wonderful Bachelorette Day

Over the weekend I took some time off work to celebrate my bachelorette/hens day and night. Our wedding is less than three weeks away now, so things are about to get a lot more busy around here. Two of my bridesmaids, Esther and Merrin, spent the morning with me enjoying a champagne breakfast. 

Did you notice our cat Fang in the above photo? He was trying to sneak some strawberries!

After breakfast we drove up to Montville, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland to Flame Hill Vineyard for an afternoon wine tasting and cheese platter. Montville is a small town about two hours drive from Brisbane. It's also absolutely beautiful, and it's one of my favourite places to go whenever I have the time. 

I had such a nice day, and it didn't start raining until we started to drive home! After we got home we got changed and went out for cocktails, which was lovely, even though it was busy.

It's not too much longer now until I can blog about our wedding and honeymoon :) I can't wait to be Dave's wife.