Five Ways to Make your Guests Comfortable at your Wedding
Five practical ways to look after the people who came for you, with shade, food, seating and the little comforts that turn a long day into a kind one.
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Weddings I Do
Weddings
Checklists, traditions, and a few real wedding stories
Venue questions, planning notes, elopements and ceremony ideas from my work around Sydney. A chat in Balmain is still the best place to talk it through.
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Wedding Bands for Life ~ History of Wedding & Engagement Rings
The vena amoris, leather and ivory rings, and why some cultures wear the band on the right hand. A short history of the jewellery you will put on each other.
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Your Fairy Tale Wedding at Gunners Barracks
An 1873 sandstone mess at Georges Head, with courtyard, harbour terrace and a grass knoll below, and Waterford chandeliers if you take the dining room.
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Vaucluse House ~ Sydney's Beautiful Wedding Venue
Vaucluse House, a 19th century harbour estate with original gardens, lawns, Tearooms and a private pocket of palms and rock for the ceremony.
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Wedding Readings
How to pick a reading that sounds like you, whether poetry, scripture, or a friend’s testimonial, including Janet’s favourite, Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me to the End of Love.
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Something Borrowed Something Blue ~ Wedding Day Rituals
The old, new, borrowed and blue rhyme explained, with continuity, luck, and how brides still use an heirloom, a blue garter or something borrowed from family.
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Royal Vogue Weddings
Harry and Meghan, Grace Kelly, Crown Princess Mary, and a look at royal wedding style as Vogue Australia rushed a special issue to print after Windsor.
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Handfasting ~ A Wedding Ceremony
Handfasting in a civil ceremony, with a cord inscribed Devotio Nostrum In Aeternum, binding the vows without taking away anyone’s freedom to walk beside the other.
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Chinese Tea Ceremony included in Weddings!
Including a Chinese tea ceremony inside your Sydney wedding, a gesture of respect to parents and grandparents, written into the civil ceremony with Janet.
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Honeymooning in Venice
Venice after the wedding: slow coffee, an early gondola on a quiet canal, and how to see the city before the Grand Canal fills with ferries.
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Curzon Hall ~ One of Sydney's Amazing Wedding Venues!
Curzon Hall in suburban Sydney, with turrets, cedar stairs and three acres of garden, a castle setting Janet loves for both the ceremony and the photographs.
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‘All you have to do…to say ‘I Do!’ ~Sydney Weddings
Janet officiates one wedding a day so the couple gets her full attention, including a Blue Mountains elopement at Chapel Hill beside the river.
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