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A bride and groom at their wedding, standing close together indoors at night, with the bride smiling slightly and the groom gazing at her.
A bride with purple hair and a groom in a velvet green tuxedo leaning nose-to-nose in a forest setting, surrounded by autumn leaves, with the bride holding a bouquet of flowers.
A wedding ceremony with two grooms in suits and the Celebrant in a beige dress standing under a floral arch, with candles on the floor, during evening.

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Kat & Will's Sunrise Elopement at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
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Kat & Will's Sunrise Elopement at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne

Every great wedding starts with a great love story, and Kat and Will's is one of my favourites. Eleven years before I stood with them at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kat was at a music festival in Marion Bay, Tasmania, having her fortune told by a festival clairvoyant. The prediction? That Kat's soulmate was somewhere in the very same campsite. Kat's first reaction was, understandably, disbelief.

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Sarah & Jean Paul: An Intimate Sunday Wedding at Recoleta
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Sarah & Jean Paul: An Intimate Sunday Wedding at Recoleta

Most couples default to a Saturday without ever really asking why. Sarah and Jean Paul didn't. They chose a Sunday afternoon, and it changed the entire mood of the day. There was no rush to beat traffic to a reception, no sense of a wedding wedged between other people's plans. Guests arrived relaxed, already halfway into weekend mode, and stayed relaxed. The light through Recoleta's upstairs windows had that soft, low, end-of-weekend quality that no amount of styling can fake.

As a Celebrant and MC I've married a lot of couples that felt like they were racing the clock. This one didn't race anything.

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