Featured - Real Weddings: Davina + Aaron, Vaucluse Amatuer 12ft Sailing Club, a Sydney Harbour wedding

On this oh so warm Spring day, the 10th anniversary Real Weddings Style annual for 2012 has landed in our mail box and we couldn't wait to rip open the package to see the beautiful spread on Davina and Aaron's wedding - a wedding we styled and created for them at the Vaucluse Amatuer 12ft Sailing Club by Sydney Harbour on a particularly blue, sparkly-water, sunfilled day.

 

Just like today.

 

Davina and Aaron wanted a fresh, romantic, white-and-green, rustic-meets-industrial feel for their wedding day, set as it was in an historic timber sailing club hugging the foreshores of Sydney's eastern suburbs. With jaunty red and white awnings over the club's deck, and red timber slat benches on site already, we picked up on this with red and white vintage fabric bunting from our hire range strung between the pylons of the pier upon which the ceremony took place.

 

White futon cushions from our hire range added a chic layer of comfort to the seating, and we created a ceremony altar with an antique french oak wine barrel, also from our hire range, topped with a large massed arrangement we created featuring succulents, peppercorn, dahlias, white roses and more. Under the eaves, a rustic red table was set up with two Tolix burnished rust chairs,

 provided a chic place to sign the wedding certificate.

 

Upstairs in the clubhouse, guests arrived to be met by the joyful sight of miniature etched french glass lanterns filled with vanilla scented candles hanging from an industrial ladder, wine barrels topped with collections of vintage glass bottles and zinc milk churns filled with white and green blooms, including dahlias, bouvardia and roses and a wine barrel bar from which the Form Over Function team kept up a steady supply of Veuve Clicquot champagne to the guests before, during and after the ceremony, with drinks enjoyed by the harbour until the sun went down and buses arrived to ferry guests to the reception at John and Peter Canteen, Carriageworks, Sydney.

 

Later we popped along to the reception, delivering all the flowers from the ceremony wrapped in sweet hessian bundles tied off with linen ribbon, laid out on zinc trays with leather handles - a surprise gift for guests when they departed after a night of gorgeous, gorgeous food,

 and lots of dancing.

 

Enjoy the pretty pictures. We'll be sure to post a whole lot more soon.

 

Alicia

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Photography: The Simple Things Studio

Event management, event styling, bridal party flowers, ceremony flowers, drinks service staff,

 and furniture, bar, glassware and prop hire: Form Over Function

Ceremony venue: Vaucluse Amatuer 12ft Sailing Club

Reception venue: John and Peter Canteen, CarriageWorks, Sydney

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Featured - Bride To Be: Jolene + Long, Bathers' Pavilion, Balmoral, Sydney + Bradley's Head Mosman - A Sydney Harbour wedding

event styling, styling and furniture hire, event management, ceremony and reception set up - form over function
bridal party, ceremony and reception flowers - form over function
photography - tealily
cake - faye cahill cake design
venue - bathers pavillion
stationery - by Jolene, the bride @ mamboism

Featured - Real Weddings: Julia + Jonathon I Gunners' Barracks, Mosman, Sydney I Pretty vintage and peony wedding

This very special issue of Real Weddings marks its tenth year of being on our newstands.

 And we're very proud that our work -- and the couples who have entrusted us to help make magic happen -- have appeared in every single issue of such a beautiful publication since 2002.

Here we share the wedding of the truly lovely Julia and Jonathon, from the latest issue.

The wedding took place at Gunners' Barracks, Mosman, on a warm and sunny summer morning by Sydney Harbour, followed by a lunch time reception that flowed into the late afternoon.

Julia came to us with a vision of a room styled to reflect the colours and mood of a pretty summer day, so we topped the tables in beautiful buttercup damask cloths from our hire range, used cream footed flower stands with cut glass bowls from our range to pick up on the chandeliers in the room and went on a deleriously happy buying spree at the Sydney flower markets to create lush bouquets of peonies, david austen roses, freesia and touches of dusty miller, and reception flower arrangements featuring exquisite dahlias, peonies, david austen roses, ivy berry, blackberries and more, in hues of pastel pinks, lemons, whites, creams, coral and sunkissed orange.

The ceremony, which took place under azure skies in the historic sandstone courtyard of the barracks, featured a large hanging vase with a massed arrangement of blooms as used in the bouquets and the reception, marking the point where the vows were exchanged. Overhead, glass baubles filled with nothing but dahlias in pastel shades were hung with a range of delicate ribbons in a range of pastel shades, and to the end of each pew were tied arrangements of dahlias, balckberries, ivy berry and more.

Enjoy.

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Exquisite images by Bailie Photography

Exquisite make-up by Christina Cleary

Featured - Real Weddings: Daini & Luke I Jonah's, Palm Beach, Sydney I A coastal chic wedding

Daini + Luke's Style File:

Photographer: McKay Photography

Venue: Jonah's, Palm Beach

Event design, styling, flowers, hire and management: Form Over Function

Dress: Amsale @ Angela Wilson