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One Year Today

Today is our One year Anniversary. Thank God it wasn't as hot last year as it was today! 43 degrees is not a nice temperature to get married in! But we braved the heat and headed up to Hahndorf (a small German settlement) for so lovely lunch. But alas, the heat overcame us and we retreated home to sit in the air conditioning and watch cheesy movies.

I can't believe it has already been one year! It has gone so quickly and I have loved every second of it! I love my husband so much and I can't wait to spend many many more years with him by my side.

Who said getting older wasn't fun!

Yesterday we had my sister in law's thirtieth birthday party. A Hawaiian Luau! So we all donned our tacky Hawaiian shirts and plastic flowers and lay around in the sun drinking coronas eating fresh hot sausages off the barbie and having huge water fights. A Perfect summers day!

Australia Day

I love Australia Day. Its all about friends, food and sun. And with this year's public holiday falling on a Wednesday (and so having to work the next day), I couldn't think of any better way of spending the day than sitting on a beach relaxing.

A Type of Love

If i wasn't going to be an interior designer, I would have become a graphic designer, because typography makes me smile. It gives me that excited feeling of when you fall in love at first sight. I recently purchased these prints through Made by Girl

And I, myself am currently working on a couple of typography prints to give to my husband for our first wedding anniversary (paper). Check out Mary&Gabrielle blog for my current inspiration for the project!

New Year...New You

The past few months have been quite hard. I think sometimes life gets to a point where you feel like everything is going wrong and you are forced to reset and start again, and as the same for many people, the New Year is my chance to reset and get back in control of my life and work towards a happier me.Jarrod and I met up with his family on the beach today. A perfect temperature and you could have mistaken Henley Beach for being a tropical island the water was so clear and blue. What a great start to the new year.

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The Pen Life

Now its not too often that I think a video is amazingly done, but this is incredible. I could imagine doing something like this for a music video or even a Save the Date or Thank you Video for a wedding. Its all done in stop motion. Have a look and watch the whole thing because, its just Great! Thank you Fort&Field for sharing...

GO HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO

Down at the bottom of the Forest with the Fairies...

I adore this signing table. I have always loved earthy weddings - timbers, hessian, terracotta pots, twine, ferns, moss, black boards, brown paper and vegetables. If I could get married all over again this would be my main inspiration image and the location where this wedding took place would be perfect. Down at the bottom of the garden with the fairies...
view more of this quirky wedding here

So he lost it...

Yep, 8 months in and Jarrod's already lost his wedding ring. I told him, 'if you keep taking it off you'll lose it!"....and he did....Men! HA! When I lost my ring in the car once I was freaking out trying to frantically find it, and although I know he is really cut up about it but it doesnt seem to phase him as much as I thought it would. Is it just a man thing? That wedding rings are just rings? I know some married men who don't wear their wedding rings, some because they work as labourers and some because it feels weird. How do you feel about your man wearing a wedding ring?

More Summer Picnic Wedding Photos

I thought I should hurry up and get all our favourite wedding photos up because for too long I have kept them from you. There are A LOT. Here are some from the Bridal Party shoot.

SMILE!

Some of my favourite photo booth photos from our wedding...

Getting ready - The Girls

I remember perfectly how I felt that morning as I met up with my three beautiful bridesmaids for breakfast. i would be lying if I said I wasn't a little nervous with excitement, but I was mostly calm. Jarrod and I saw it as just another day on which we just happened to be getting married and having the biggest party of our lives! You see, Jarrod and I have always been a casual, relaxed and social couple and we both knew that the day was going to reflect exactly who we were.
One of my favourite photos is of my Grandma timidly watching us getting ready from the doorway. She kept asking me if I was sure she should be there because it was such an honour to her to be a part of our day.
The perfume I wore was Must De Cartier by Cartier which was the perfume my mother used to wear. When she passed away a few years ago I found just enough of it left in her old bottle and I knew I would remember her by wearing it on my wedding day.
My Dress was a one off design by amazing Adelaide based designer Lixa Emanuel. The dress was a milk coloured tulle with intricate French beading around the bodice which I got to pick. The 'bling' shoes as I call them were from Gary Castle.
Make sure you head over to Mary and Gabrielle to see some photos from the ceremony.

So much going on!

Wow! I have to say this is all very surreal. Not only am I seeing my husband's and my face in my favourite wedding magazine, but I'm now seeing our faces on one of my favourite blogs! 100 Layer cake have just posted about our wedding on their site... Crazy. When I decided that I wanted to design and style weddings and start up a business, most of my friends and family thought that it was just "another one of Gabrielle's big dreams" and it is only because of the support and shared passion from Mary that this dream is now unfolding into reality. We cant wait to share our visions and style with everyone and hopefully inspire a more creative wedding market in Adelaide and perhaps push new boundaries in events throughout Australia.
Make sure you visit me here at A Summer Picnic Wedding over the weekend, because alongside Mary&Gabrielle's series of posts on our wedding (going from getting ready to the details of the reception), I will be making more personal accounts of the day and sharing with you the details and stories that Jarrod and I felt really made the day ours.

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Some travel photos...

1&2 London and Sommerset, England
3 Paris, France
4&5 Paris, Latin Quarter, France
6&7 Antibes, South of France
8&9 Rome, Italy