Chic & Stylish Weddings
Chic & Stylish Weddings -
The cute couple of today’s wedding met on an airplane on the way to Thailand, traveled together and became friends. This friendship after many years, led to the most beautiful love story. Asleigh and Adam created a vibrant wedding full of color, flowers and fun! They shared with their guests moments of joy, emotion and a lot of laughs. The decoration of the reception was amazing with the chic details, the fresh flowers and the hanging fairy lights that created the perfect, romantic atmosphere. Wish we were there!
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
“We met on an airplane on the way to Thailand. I was on a girl’s trip and he was on a boy’s trip. We ended up staying at the same hotel on the first night and then traveled the entire 3 weeks with their group and became great friends for many years. We were friends first and only started seeing each other many years afterwards. I thought he was pretty annoying when we first met and we didn’t really ‘click’ at first”, the bride shared with us.
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
“He proposed in Noosa at our favorite restaurant, he had hidden the ring in his pants for a huge walk beforehand so that I wouldn’t suspect anything in his pocket.”
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
“My most important advice for creating and maintaining a strong relationship is keep laughing, don’t let things get too serious. Communication is so important, and listening to the other person and respecting their point of view, even when you don’t agree, is also pretty pivotal.”
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
“I wanted my wedding gown to be quite fitted, but also have a really long train with embellishments without being too traditional. My brief was ‘no lace’ so instead we used a range of appliques and different mesh materials to get a more modern take on a traditional dress style.”
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
“For the decoration we wanted lots of color, lots of fun, lots of greenery. No white and green styling in sight. Everything had to be vibrant and colorful.”
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
“A lot of the styling was DIY, we were very hands on! From the beginning, I came up with all the concepts and then my mom and I brought them all to life over the next few months. My mom was amazing, she is really talented and so she handwrote all the place cards and table numbers, she hand-painted 80 sets of oyster shells as makeshift salt-and-pepper shakers and trawled the internet for weeks just to find the right vases for our table settings.”
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
“We also got a bit DIY with the menu and asked the venue to create one canape that was my favorite food (fish tacos) and another that was Adam’s (hot chippies). We then made little toothpicks that either said ‘from the bride’ or ‘from the groom’ on them. Also my aunt, uncle and cousin were incredible. My uncle runs a family nursery so he arranged the shipment of about 16 Oak Trees into the venue. The ceilings were really high and the room was massive so we knew we needed a bit of height in there. We wrapped them all with fairy lights and the end result was just incredible. Also, because I had created most of the styling myself, I couldn’t be there on the day to set up so my talented cousin managed the entire bump in and bump out including styling a huge 2.4m tall flower wall which formed a backdrop for our DIY photo booth.”
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
“My favorite moment from the day was our first dance, definitely! We love to have fun and we are always the last ones on the dancefloor together so that was a moment that truly represented us. We danced to Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars and the energy was just so electric and upbeat – our guests literally jumped into the dancefloor halfway through to join us.”
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
“My advice to future brides is to not get too caught up in the styling of it all. People can go way, way overboard with it all but at the end of the day if you can nail all the big ticket items like the ceremony, the speeches, food and the music, no-one is going to remember what color the tablecloths were, or whether there was Aesop soap and heaps of candles in the bathrooms or not. It’s really easy to get so caught up in the detail, but on the day, none of it even matters.”
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
Photography : Darin Collison Photography
