Our Wedding!by Amaru & Suzanne, November 23rd 2008
After several months in planning the day had finally arrived...
Suz
getting ready
The morning of the ceremony was an interesting one. Suz was staying at our hotel in the city while I was at home with my family. We were in constant talks with each other via phone, since it was raining and we had to decide if we should use plan B and have the ceremony indoors. There were even warnings about gale winds that afternoon....
Eventually, we decided against it, as we knew that there was a rotunda available at Observatory Hill that we could use in worst case.... we still wanted to be outside and in the end, we made the right choice!
As I was making my way into the city together with my family we noticed that the sky started to clear up and by the time I made it to Observatory Hill we had sunshine and blue skies, how perfect was this day turning out to be??
Suz and Julia
The Bride and her Bridesmaid
The ceremony was great, Zilia and Julia both did some readings and then we were pronounced husband and wife by our celebrant.... After signing the marriage certificate, getting hugs of congratulations and the obligatory group photos, we (the bridal party) took off, together with our photographer for some wedding photos around The Rocks area.
We spent about an hour or two getting some nice photos of all of us and just as we made our way to the reception place, the rain started to fall again.... we couldn't have planned it better!
Since there isn't much more to say, we just want to say thank you to everyone who helped us make our day a great one, thank you all for your generous gifts, thanks for allowing us to use your photos for our blog and a special thanks goes to our photographer Tim Pascoe.
Josh and Caitlin
Page boy and flower girl
Dad and I
Inspecting the knot...
Andrea and Denis
at Observatory Hill
Harry and Nelly
at Observatory Hill
The girls...
Lynda, Kristy, Jenny and Jane
Therese and Karen
played the music during the ceremony
"Love theme from Romeo & Juliet"
Romantic of course...
Waiting...
for the bride to arrive
The page boy and flower girl
make their way down the isle
Julia
making her way down the isle
There she is...
Suz and her father
Eric and Suz
walking down the isle
The father hands the bride over
...she's all mine now!
Our guests
at the ceremony
The bridal party
Let's get this show started!
Suz and I
joining hands...
The kids
are getting a bit bored =)
"Repeat after me"
We're almost there...
"You may now kiss the bride"
We are now officially married!
Signing
the marriage certificate
Our marriage certificate
Signed by us and our witnesses
Suz together with
Nicole and Julia
Congratulations
Hugs all around...
Zilia, Pär and Theo
Theo just woke up...
Therese, Kate and Kath
at Observatory Hill
Suz and Kate
with Julia and Michael in the background
Suz and I
on our way to the group photo
Family photos
with my parents
Family photos
with my family
Family photos
with Suz's parents
Family photos
with Suz's family
At the Australian Hotel
right after the ceremony
We stopped here so the photographer
could get some cool photos
The bridal party
having a well earned beer!
Our menu
at the reception
Our table
Plenty of drinks for everyone
Fathers speech
Suz's dad started with his speech
Fathers speech
My dad had his speech a bit later
Suz with
Kath and Kate
Three Sisters...
Suz, Karen and Julia
Eric together with
Therese and Kate
Kate and I
Kate was the best MC ever!
Mingling
From table to table
Andrea and Harry performed
"Quando, Quando, Quando" for us
Cutting of the cake
We ate it later back at the hotel room
Our first dance
as husband and wife!
Surprise!
Theo wanted to dance with us =)
The dance floor is now open
and my parents tore it up!