Bassam & Sarah are two souls that love fun. Fun was the theme of their wedding (along with Love Actually and various Disney/Pixar tunes). Naturally I
had to shoot their wedding, because, after our first meeting, we could not stop talking about How to Train Your Dragon 2, and how Stoic's beard was awesome (more awesome than the first one)..... and how amazing the graphics were. Oh yeah and speaking of amazing, their wedding day was amazing, awesome and FUN!!!
I started off the day with Sarah, her mum Sue and her nan at Peppers, Clearwater. My friend Lucy Harvey was on hair and Selina Nunn on makeup. These two make a great team!
Sarah wore two dresses on her wedding day, on the left a traditional white gown but on the right - the party dress in lemon! (Would you believe she made this dress? Such a clever girl. She does admit she had some help but she's still very clever).






Squidgey!!!! (Not her real name).

First Sarah gets into the lemon dress for some photos....



And now for the wedding dress...
What a beauty!




I love these shots of Sarah, just collecting her thoughts before she sees Bassam.
Bassam was getting ready with the help of his brother, Gus and the wonderful Tegan Johnson (Tegan Johnson Photography) was shooting the boys. Looked nice and relaxed over there!
Yes, you have to have your tongue out when doing this.
I LOVE this shot of Bassam - nice one, Tegan! Looking sharp, Mr Maghzal!


Then it was off to the ceremony where guests were waiting and chatting. They chose to get married at the Cockayne Memorial Gardens (in the Botanic Gardens) and it was such an intimate little setting and the day was beautifully overcast.
Sarah and her mum and nan had to walk a little way from the carpark - so why wear your heels when you can wear perfectly good jandals?














So while the guests were making their way to Langdale Vineyard Restaurant, the newyweds and I made the most of our beautiful surroundings.







As I mentioned above, these two love to have fun. And fun they did have!


Back at Langdales, Tegan was making some amazing ring shots! I couldn't decide which one to use, so I'm putting these all in the blog!
Sarah & Bassam MADE this cake! And believe me, it was YUMMY!

Hieeeeeee!!!
Time for a quick tractor ride before dinner...



Bit of a Titanic moment....
The food (Lebanese) was ah-MAZING!
And then we popped outside for a quick backlit shot (we were denied a beautiful sunset so opted for this instead which I LOVE).
The speeches were short and sweet with plenty of laughs and LOTS of love.

Thanks so much for the opportunity to get to know you two over the past few months. It was such a beautifully magical day and we had a blast, actually. xxx
VENDORS:
Celebrant:
Andrew Deyell
Reception Venue and food: Lauren Carmichael and Gaby at
Langdale Vineyard Restaurant.
Transport:
Corporate Cabs
Ceremony venue:
Botanic gardens (CCC).
Bride's dress x2: The Bride and Jeanette Sinclair at
House of Chantilly
Mother of the groom dress: Jeanette Sinclair at
House of Chantilly
Wedding rings:
Julian Harding
Music: live saxophonists Claire Elliot and Perry
Photographs:
Angela Penn supported by
Tegan Johnson
Cake: Made by the groom
Dance lessons: Marcela Diacono.
Bride's hair:
Lucy Harvey
Bride's make up and spray tan:
Selina Nunn
Brides nails:
e-nails
Brides hair piece: Lorraine at
Grace & Lace
Flower girl hair piece: Bride
Ring pillow: Bride
Table runners: interior Flair
Wedding party accommodation:
Peppers Clearwater
Flowers (bride and flower girl bouquet, button holes and corsages): Aromaunga Baxters Flowers - Bridle Path Road
Groom and best man tuxes:
Ballantynes (Joe Black).
Bride shoes:
Etsy