Our wedding was surely a fairytale which played off in the beautiful landscape of Kameeldrift. With a rustic Italian scene this was surely memorable. Nothing compares sharing true love with family and close friends. With our strong Christian beliefs, celebrating and worshipping made it more valuable. From the Ceremony all the way to the reception there wasn't one dull moment will laughter filling our hearts of course some tears had sneak its way during our day. This is the happiest I've ever been.
Yes, we had a two part, our first 6 days we spend our days as newly weds in the Beautiful Drakensberg. We had booked a beautiful forest lodge in Underberg. The scenery was just breathtaking. We filled our days with hikes, amazing food from the wide selection of restaurants in Nottingham Road and craft activities. Our second part was in Magaliesburg were we booked accommodation in a beautiful ranch for 4 days. Here we spend most our time relaxing and enjoying the wild life. We visited a beautiful rhino and lion reserve and had a wonderful game drive and cave exploration. We spend our last couple of days home enjoying the married life.
I had no specific look. To me it was a mix and match between my great variety of Pinterest pins. I always admired a beautiful medium length haircut as I am a hairdresser myself. Majority of brides allow their hair to grow for length for an upstile, for me having short or medium hair is just as beautiful. My hair was and is a beautiful platinum blond which we had a simple cut with accessories. We curled it with a simple wrap around French braid. I love rose gold which is probably my favorite Colour if one can call it a Colour. All my jewelry had rosegold including my wedding ring where we interpret my makeup to add to that. We did not go into detail with langerei with a simple stick on bra and white lace Brazilian underwear. My shoes was the first item we bought which was rosegold and medium length heel. After fitting approximately 10 wedding dresses I fell in love with my wedding dress which was provided by Whimsical bridal. This dress was a combination of a A-line and princess cut which had a beautiful flow. The detailed top was a show stopper.
We got married in the beautiful landscape of Kameeldrift. The wedding venue is called La Mathil wedding village which portrayed a beautiful rustic itialian/Greek scene. With lush Gardens and water features the photo possibilities are endless. Most of the guests stayed overnight as the venue had beutiful rooms for accommodation.
I only ate healthier and exercised when I got time. I have a very busy schedule and my free time went into planning the wedding.
We have had it very lucky as most of the furniture and some decorations was included in our wedding package. The venue have lush gardens, beautiful vines and flowers growing on the exterior and some vines even growing within the chapel. Due to this flowers wasn't that necessary. We still invested in additional flowers which brought everything together. We had flowers running down the isle and all our tables with center pieces ranging from roses, gypsies, proteas and vivid colored pink flowers. These flower center pieces filled beautifully home made glass jars with fairy lights that set a real fairytale scenery.
Our Colour scheme of the wedding was white, pink and rosegold. The Groomsman had white shirts, flower patterned bow ties, pink flower pins, pink suspenders, matching pink socks and Chino pants. Unfortunately due to the look we were going for we didn't get everything at a single location. We had to travel numerous times and visit different stores to get the right pieces to fit. We had the same situation with my husband's look. He wore a white shirt, flower pattern tie, Chino blaser, pink partly leather suspenders, pink Chino pants, pink socks and brown pointed shoes. His accessories consisted a rose gold Aviator watch, silver diamond earrings, rose gold tie pin and a pink rose flower shirt pin.
I wanted my bridesmaids to be able to wear the dresses again and didn't want it to go to waste. I ordered the dresses from a merchant I found on Facebook, Saartjie se klerekas.
From my church, Doxa Deo in Hartbeespoort. Kobus Windt.
We were very concerned about getting the right photographer and had viewed numerous profiles. Finally we came across RPG Snapshotz. We fell in love with her way of creating beautiful images. She made our day extremely special. We've taken a special package which contained a 1 hour engagement shoot, 10 hours on the wedding day with 2 photographers and a 2 hour photo booth on the the wedding day. This package consisted of 300-400 edited images, A4 hard cover photo book, x2 A5 photo books, an engraved crystal USB, a A2 canvas and a edited 5 minute highlights video.
Unfortunately we did not hire a extra person to coordinate the wedding as our wedding package with the venue came with a wedding coordinator.
We have had no special transport to the wedding. My husband transported himself to the venue and I have spend the previous night at the venue.
The venue had its own catering service which were included in the wedding package. This consisted of a three course meal and several beverages that ranged from Lemonades, sherries and cocktails.
I must say that I'm truely blessed as my husband has some experience in graphic design. He designed all our art and print work from invitation, menus, seating plans and more. We used Postnet to print all these beautiful artwork
We definitely had an amazing reception. We didn't go for dancing lessons but surely practice our dance routine at home. This still keeps me smiling as I enjoyed every moment of it with my husband practicing and choreographed our routine together. Our DJ was billed with the total amount of our wedding package and he was amazing and had beautiful lights and a smoke machine that just made the reception even more special.
