This photo was actually taken at 3am, after brushing my hair for an hour. It became so matted and frizzy throughout the reception, which was my fault as I took out the style that Luna had created before the reception. It was fine for the first half of the reception, but by the end half it was terrible. I was having too much fun to care, and the photographer and cinematographer had left by then so no biggie!!
My necklace was perfect with the dress, thank goodness for eBay huh! My dad actually mentioned my love for eBay in his speech about me, and then called me frugal.
After our ceremony, the bridal party had photos in the Carlton Gardens & Treasury Gardens for a few hours. The weather remained perfect, albeit a little chilly. I did not notice the drop in temperature at all, it must have been because I was high on life!!
Before the reception, our bridal party relaxed and kicked back in the bridal suite as we had a dining room. It was massive. 2 bedrooms, dining room, living room, entrance room, big bathroom. Way bigger than our apartment!!
We enjoyed canapes and all the alcohol one could desire.
I was meant to take off my dress, steam it, and have it put back on, but it would have taken at least 45 minutes and that was the last thing I wanted to do, so I kicked on to the reception in a wrinkled gown - and didn't mind one bit!
As we entered the reception, we went straight into our first dance, to David Gray - This Years Love.
Our dance was cut short as the band forgot to plug the song in, so when they realised as we got on the dance floor and pressed play it was halfway into our song, and then S decided to cut the dance short, despite us taking lessons and having a full dance routine!!
Law, Sam & I
Our reception was held in The Bourke Room at The Hotel Windsor.
We had the blue lights put in, to create some more atmosphere when it became darker. Lights were the one thing that S wanted, and I was petrified that it would look cheap and tacky. As the room got darker, it looked like a winter wonderland!!
There was meant to be a lot more colour in the room, from the flowers, but they were much shorter and smaller than expected unfortunately.
Ohwell, I am a less is more gal anyway so no biggie.
My Highschool Girls
Susan, Law, Sam, Gabz, Sara & Lara
Lacey & I
Photo by
Lacey
We had a faux fake cutting for Adrian whilst I still looked remotely polished, and this photo was clearly taken at the real cutting! It's hard to see, but I am brandishing the cake knife hence my evil face.
I loved my dress so much, wrinkles and all. Perfection in my eyes.
Rose from Annette of Melbourne had told me it 100% needed to be steamed by the reception, I just didn't care.
Geefa is no dancer, so I lead him around the dance floor. When I taught him how to spin me, he couldn't stop spinning me and kept saying "Let's spin again!!". Later in the night I saw him spinning Jo around the dance floor also. So you can teach an old dog new tricks!!!
It was such an amazing night, I loved every moment of it!!!
I cannot wait to see our video and the professional photos.
It was so hard to get Max, Thomas and Raina into the shot!!! Raina had her back to the camera crying, Thomas was crying so Liz ended up in the shot. It will make a funny photo!
