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We met through a mutual friend at the Woollahra Hotel in Sydney’s east 5 years ago. It certainly wasn’t love at first sight. In fact, neither of us was very impressed with the other at all. Thankfully, we ran into each other again a few weeks later and unexpectedly hit it off (perhaps because it couldn’t have gotten much worse!). We agreed to go on a date a few weeks later and have been by each other’s side since.
Magdalena — Jorge is from Angola, I’m from Germany, and we live together in Cape Town, where we met a few years ago. We both share a love for the city we chose as our home, and spend our weekends at the beach, wine tasting, hiking and eating out.Â
To get our guests to interact and mingle we printed each guest a task on their menu to do throughout the night, this was anything from doing a shoey out of the groom’s shoe to taking a shot with someone you just met.
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We sat down on one of the bridges and talked about our future, and how we wanted to get married and have children one day. It was definitely a defining moment for us and our relationship. We might have also been abducted by aliens soon thereafter, but that’s another story for another time.
Din — To me, it wasn’t a single moment but as time went on anytime I thought about my future she was always part of it. You suddenly come to the realisation that life without this person won’t be what you want it to be, so I dirtied my knee and popped the question.
Intimate, classic, and timeless was the key vision for the wedding day, I wanted a day that we could look back on in decades to come and admire the elegance and beauty in the simplicity.
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 I always thought I would get married covered in lace. I’m Sicilian, it’s one of our traditional crafts! I went to a few different ateliers, tried many lace gowns, and… The spark just wasn’t there. Then we went to a multi-brand atelier in Milan, where I laid my eyes on a simple, sleek princess gown made of stiff silk. It was like Belle’s iconic yellow dress in Beauty and the Beast but in white. The sleeves, the train, the folds. Everything was just perfect. I didn’t cry, but my mother and cousins who were there with me did, so I knew I had made the right choice, then and there.
On surface we have quite different personalities and interests, but I realised very quickly that we complemented each other and that he was my person.
Nerida – Hamish works in infrastructure – planning roads and trains and the like – and I’m a clinical psychologist. We have a shared passion for going on adventures, but we’re equally happy being social and active or just curled up on the couch with a great glass of red, a cheese platter and a great movie! We also have a shared love for anything Nicolas Cage because his movies are so terrible that they are amazing.
