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
x
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
