WARWICK AND AMANDA'S WEDDING

A massive photo share tonight as I share the photos from Warwick and Amanda's wedding.
It was a perfect day.... you couldn't have asked for better weather..
We had had three weeks of very cold weather, and then on this particular day the sun came out and the day was warm.
It was the first day in three weeks that I didn't need to wear a coat.... Good thing too as my outfit for the wedding was short sleeved.  I didn't even need a jacket at night.

Not only had it been cold, but we had had rain too for at least the week before the wedding,  and it rained again the day after the wedding..

I truly believe that God blessed them with the perfect day...

The ceremony was held in Bulimba in this beautiful little church..

The beautiful Anglican church at Bulimba

Warwick with his two nephews who were pageboys....

The pageboys

 The Groom and Bestmen waiting patiently for the Bride

Warwick and his best men

Sarah was an usher at the wedding, so I made sure that I got some photos of us together whilst she was waiting for guests to arrive....

Sarah and I

We were entertained by the very talented "A Classical Occasion".  Anna has the most beautiful voice...

A Classical Occasion played during the service..

 The Bridal party arrived in this vehicle.....

The Bridal Car..... Pure Luxury

What a stunning Bride.... Amanda looked gorgeous..
The Bridesmaids looked stunning too.

The Arrival of the Bride.....

 The Groom and bestmen waited patiently...
Warwick kept looking back towards the door.....

An eager Warwick as he waited Amanda's arrival...

The Bridesmaids  and  pageboys enter

Entry of the Bridal Party

Then they closed this again.....

The door was closed again.... where was Amanda...

Once the rest of the Bridal party were at the front of the church, this door opened again to reveal Amanda and her Dad...
Heading down the aisle.

A very proud Dad escorts his much loved daughter down the aile

Warwick's sisters both took part in the wedding, doing the Bible readings....

The Bible Readings....

Merv gave the message to the happy couple and did a wonderful job.

They couldn't keep their eyes off each other.....

 The Bridesmaids and flowergirl  looked on....

The Bridesmaids and flower girl

And the minister from Warwick's old church performed the marriage ceremony....

The wedding ceremony

Exchanging of their rings.....

Finally they are pronounced man and wife.....
A Classical Occasion" performed for us whilst they signed the register.....

Doing the legals....

 Profiles of the Bridesmaids looking on..

Bridesmaids

Introducing Mr. and Mrs. Warwick Mellow to the congregation....

The New Mr. and Mrs. Mellow

The congregation were gathered out in front of the church, so that we could a group photo with the Bride and Groom...
Unfortunately there were lots of shadows, so I am not sure how these group photos will turn out...

Photos taken out the front of the church...

Then it was time to do all the group and family photos...
They started with the Groom's family.
First off it was photos with Warwick's Mum and sisters...

Family photos with Warwick's Mum and sisters...

Family shots with Warwick's Mum and sisters.

Then there were photos with Warwick's Dad and family

Photos with Warwick and his Dad's side of the family

With Warwick's Dad and stepmum....

The it was time to get both his Mum and Dad and sisters for an original family photo....

Photos with both his Mum and Dad....

 Time to pull all Amanda's family together for family photos....

Belz family photo's.......

Our good friends Ian and Ros....

Ros and Ian Belz

Belz family photos...

Belz sibling photos..

Extended family photos of Amanda's extended families... All the Uncle and Aunties and cousins...

Belz and Follent family photos...

Amanda and Warwick also had their photos taken with "A Classical Occasion"   They are a really talented group and really made Amanda and Warwicks day very special by their performing...

Photos with "A Classical Occasion"

Will the formal photos were being taken,  I managed to sneak in some photos of some special couples and friends....
Photos of my two and my gorgeous grand daughter Willow....

Sarah and Willow with Pete...

Photo of Anna... Amanda's matron of honor... She was also a bridesmaid for Sarah.
They girls are still all very good friends...
Anna and Barry are expecting their first child in November,  so had to take some official pregnancy photos for them.

Barry and Anna Morris....

  Managed to get these crazy photos of  Pete and one of his old house mates....

Sam and Pete

Managed to get some nice shots of Amanda and her Mum Ros, and her flowergirl, who is also her niece Nicki....
Love these shots of them.

Lovely photos of the bride with her Mum and Dad and flowergirl.

Amanda wanted photos with Sarah,
And I wanted photos of Anna, Sarah and Amanda..
Love these shots that I got of them all...

Photos of Amanda and Sarah and Anna....

These girls are always crazy when they get together....

Amanda., Sarah and Anna... good friends...

Photos of Sarah and Willow,   and Sarah and Anna....

Love all these girls....

Amanda and Warwick had their reception accross the river at St Eve's at Teneriffe...
Beautiful spot right on the river bank...
All we had to do was walk down the end of the street at Bulimba to catch the ferry here...

Catching the ferry to the reception..,

 We caught it right on Sunset.... it was just beautiful cruising on the river at night with all the city lights....

The service at the reception was amazing..
The staff were continually coming around and clearing the table and refilling our drinks..
We were so well looked after...

Amanda's cake was beautiful.

Cutting the Cake...

Had to take photos of it all...

 They also had a lolly bar....
Beautifully set out,....

Cake and Lolly bar...

 Photos of wedding guests...
Only posting those of people that are our friends...

Pete's table

Sarah's table and close friends...

Photos with good friends and family

Follent  Table....

 Time for the speeches...
The Bride's family gave and entertaining speech..
The Matron of Honor gave a great speech much to Amanda's embarrassment at times.
It certainly bought grins to our face.
The Bestman gave a great speech too...

Speeches...

 Time for the Bridal Walz,,,

Bridal Dance...

 The Bridal party joins in...

Bridal party joins in....

Then everyone else joined them on the dance floor...

Everyone on the dance floor.

 Of course I wanted to get photos of my kids having a great time..
I managed to get quite a few photos of my pair enjoying themselves on the dance floor. 

Pete and Sarah dancing

Sarah enjoying herself....

Pete enjoying himself...

Pete and Sam really getting into the dancing...

 Then it was time to get some photos of the girls all together.,..

Photo of very good friends...

It was a great wedding...
We left at 10.30pm and it was still in full swing...
I missed the throwing of the bouquet, but we had a baby to get home too.
Willow was being babysat, and we knew the couple that were looking after her had an early start the following morning...
Ast it was we didn't get home until after 11pm.
It was a great wedding...
Very special... I have know Amanda since the day she was born..
We have been good friends with her parents since before they were married.
In fact, her mum got dressed at our place and had her wedding photos taken at our place when they got married....
Amanda has been good friends with Sarah all her life...
She feels like part of our family..
It was a real honor to celebrate her special day with Her and Warwick...

One more wedding to go..
We got an invitation to another wedding at the end of August....
Think that will be if for the year then..
Lots of weddings this year....