Romantic Fall Watsons Bay Wedding
I've never met a wedding I didn't love, but this cultural beauty takes that love to a whole new level. Think soft regal updos with the prettiest of blush bouquets alongside the dreamy design elements (you might even recognize this backdrop). Grab a front row seat to the day captured by Victor From I Love Wednesdays right here!
From the beautiful Bride... Our wedding was held in the warm spring of 27 September 2014 at Watsons Bay, Sydney. We had a Vietnamese tea ceremony held in the bridal suite where families from all over the country flew in to Sydney to attend. I wore a traditional Vietnamese wedding dress, studded with red sequins. Prior to the tea ceremony, Jason and I exchanged letters about our feelings for the day and our hopes for the future. After the formalities were completed, we changed for the official ceremony in Robertson Park, Watsons Bay and Jason and I gave gifts to the bridal party.
I created the wax paper backdrop from baking paper and cotton thread, which hung across the old fig tree in Robertson Park. The wax paper backdrop was discovered from a previous SMP feature.
The aisles were lined with baby's breath and because my husband and I enjoy playing games, and we met through playing games, we had a white cart with drink dispensers of mana (blueberry cordial) and health (raspberry cordial). Wedding programs revolved around our love for all things fun and quirky; it detailed the time we spent together, information about the day and the bridal party. The bouquets and buttonholes were created by my cousin.
My nephew twins carried down the "Here comes the Bride Sign", which our stylist made by screen printing on a piece of cotton canvas and painted black writing on top. It added a little quirk to the day, as on the back it said "Last chance to run!". After exchanging vows and the rings, the best man read a poem by Dr Seuss, and we were off to the location shoot, where we took our shoes off, chilled out, an climbs rocks and walked through forestry to take some intimate shots. It was so peaceful to get away from the crowd for an hour!
The reception followed at Watsons Bay Hotel on the Top Deck. There were pre-dinner cocktails and canapes as guests mingled to music played by one of Jasons's old breakdancing instructor, who is a DJ. The cake was a four layer chocolate and hazelnut torte, alternating with a strawberry watermelon cake with rose scented cream which we cut to the music of "Cut the Cake" by Average White Band whilst the sun was setting. The cake toppers were pegs purchased from Etsy and hand painted by myself. The seating plan consisted of hand stamped kraft tags pegged to twine against a white easel for guests to take a polaroid picture and swap the polaroid picture for their escort card. It was super fun to make the seating plan and at the end of the night we had a picture of every guest.
I found these fun "advice cards" from http://www.lovevsdesign.com/blog/words-of-wisdom-cards-printable-template for guests to give us advice for a happy marriage, it was an alternative to a guest book, and by the end of the night we had some really hilarious responses and a lovely Polaroid of everybody.
My husband is an avid fisherman, so I created the table numbers to represent our love for fishing. I hand painted white wooden fish found from Etsy and tied them with twine to a wooden fishing pole (which were varnished branches from our bougainvillea tree in our backyard), they sat in open jars with white pebbles and seashells.
Place cards were hand stamped by myself and tied with a piece of lavender.
Our first wedding dance was a swing dance to the music of Tape Five - Cool Cats in Town. Jason use to be a break dancer and I love dancing, so we decided to steer from the classical waltz and do something fun for our first dance. I found my dress from ASOS and it fitted perfect for the dance, especially the twirls we were doing. The flip was a last minute addition!
The candy buffet was an alternative to traditional bombonieres. We hired jars and purchased milk and white chocolate lollies to create a candy buffet. There were bride and groom strawberries dripped in chocolate and raspberry macrons baked by my cousin. The lolly bags were stamped using our monogram we found from http://www.shopantiquaria.com/anchor-monogram-stamp/. It was the same stationery we used for our wedding invitations.
At the end of the night, we took flipbooks and danced until we were dizzy.
I created the wax paper backdrop from baking paper and cotton thread, which hung across the old fig tree in Robertson Park. The wax paper backdrop was discovered from a previous SMP feature.
The aisles were lined with baby's breath and because my husband and I enjoy playing games, and we met through playing games, we had a white cart with drink dispensers of mana (blueberry cordial) and health (raspberry cordial). Wedding programs revolved around our love for all things fun and quirky; it detailed the time we spent together, information about the day and the bridal party. The bouquets and buttonholes were created by my cousin.
My nephew twins carried down the "Here comes the Bride Sign", which our stylist made by screen printing on a piece of cotton canvas and painted black writing on top. It added a little quirk to the day, as on the back it said "Last chance to run!". After exchanging vows and the rings, the best man read a poem by Dr Seuss, and we were off to the location shoot, where we took our shoes off, chilled out, an climbs rocks and walked through forestry to take some intimate shots. It was so peaceful to get away from the crowd for an hour!
The reception followed at Watsons Bay Hotel on the Top Deck. There were pre-dinner cocktails and canapes as guests mingled to music played by one of Jasons's old breakdancing instructor, who is a DJ. The cake was a four layer chocolate and hazelnut torte, alternating with a strawberry watermelon cake with rose scented cream which we cut to the music of "Cut the Cake" by Average White Band whilst the sun was setting. The cake toppers were pegs purchased from Etsy and hand painted by myself. The seating plan consisted of hand stamped kraft tags pegged to twine against a white easel for guests to take a polaroid picture and swap the polaroid picture for their escort card. It was super fun to make the seating plan and at the end of the night we had a picture of every guest.
I found these fun "advice cards" from http://www.lovevsdesign.com/blog/words-of-wisdom-cards-printable-template for guests to give us advice for a happy marriage, it was an alternative to a guest book, and by the end of the night we had some really hilarious responses and a lovely Polaroid of everybody.
My husband is an avid fisherman, so I created the table numbers to represent our love for fishing. I hand painted white wooden fish found from Etsy and tied them with twine to a wooden fishing pole (which were varnished branches from our bougainvillea tree in our backyard), they sat in open jars with white pebbles and seashells.
Place cards were hand stamped by myself and tied with a piece of lavender.
Our first wedding dance was a swing dance to the music of Tape Five - Cool Cats in Town. Jason use to be a break dancer and I love dancing, so we decided to steer from the classical waltz and do something fun for our first dance. I found my dress from ASOS and it fitted perfect for the dance, especially the twirls we were doing. The flip was a last minute addition!
The candy buffet was an alternative to traditional bombonieres. We hired jars and purchased milk and white chocolate lollies to create a candy buffet. There were bride and groom strawberries dripped in chocolate and raspberry macrons baked by my cousin. The lolly bags were stamped using our monogram we found from http://www.shopantiquaria.com/anchor-monogram-stamp/. It was the same stationery we used for our wedding invitations.
At the end of the night, we took flipbooks and danced until we were dizzy.