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We are going to have our reception and ceremony at Bram Leigh. Will have approximately 100 guests and most from overseas.

Wedding colours were red, white and black, this theme featured throughout (starting with the wedding invites a few months back, then on the wedding day with the flower colours, stationary and reception room décor. The first dance of the night was to one of the first songs Nathan sung and played on his guitar to Rebecca just before they were a couple (“Hero” – by Enrique Iglesias), and last song of the night was “Kissed by a Rose” by Seal, which was picked out as it would be lovely but also funny as Nathan’s surname is Rose – everyone had a good ol’ laugh to this, but all jumped onto the dance floor for a dance and sing. As soon as we got out of the front doors of the Church, we had the biggest smile on our faces – I was actually laughing. When you have wanted something for so long and then at the point when you have just gotten it, it is such an amazing feeling! All elements had personalised touches – from the centrepieces created by Rebecca and her family (submerged rose centrepieces) to the table name cards (Survivor – Reality TV program – theme named) down to the red beaded love heart on the side of the brides dress (made the Friday before the wedding to add a little ‘wow’ factor). Our cake topper was a clay figure replica of Nathan and Rebecca, as well as their little dog Louie. Funniest Moment was at the reception when my NZ family was the entertainment of the night. They were running around collecting the LED lights from the centrepieces, placed them into the bonbonniere bags and were throwing them around in the bags, placing the lights down their shirts, up their sleeves (to give them muscles)

We had such an amazing day with all our family and friends! At our ceremony my Irish nana and aunty read an Irish Wedding Blessing and Rob's Fijian dad and cousin read a Fijian blessing, it was such a lovely way to incorporate our heritages. We read vows that we had written for each other and were showered with rose petals as we walked back down the aisle as husband and wife. We danced all night at our reception and took photos in the photo booth we hired. When the night ended we didn't want to leave, we were having such a great time! It was such a special day.

Our day was everything we could of imagined and more! We got married at Brookleigh Estate in the Swan Valley in Western Australia. Our theme was flowers and my maid of honour and bridesmaids all made our bouquets, centrepieces and ceremony chair flowers the day before the wedding! Our ceremony was full of laughter and our whole day was relaxed and beautiful. we had a acoustic musician sing for the ceremony, i walked down the aisle to Somewhere over the Rainbow and our guests enjoyed his music for pre-dinner drinks and canapes!

Our day was magical the weather was raining before lunch then all of a sudden the sun was shinning. We got married in a beautiful garden in the Adelaide Hills and the reception was at my parents house set up lovely. There was nothing that went wrong we had a beautiful ceremony that included a candle ceremony then the ceremony was complete, had photo's and went back to the reception. At our reception we had 110 people and the theme was romantic with heart shaped bottle stoppers for the ladies and casino decks of cards for the males they we all rapt with these. We had a balloon ceremony at our recpetion where we both said a few words about the people that couldnt be there to help share in our special day and let the balloons go, then we wrote on one of the balloons our names the date and our phone number to be called once the balloon had landed. The whole was a dream come true enjoyed every minute of it the groom and groomsmen looked very nice and the bridesmaid looked stunning in their purple cocktail length dresses and i really loved my wedding dress aswell. I must say the whole day went way too fast but loved every minute of it.