Dianne & Chris were married at St. Helen's RC Church, Auckland followed by a reception at the fantastic Wynyard Hall. Both are brilliant venues, and it was great to be given permission to photograph the ceremony by the Father who was conducting the service. We've photographed a few weddings with a full catholic mass, it's always very atmospheric with all the incense smoke.
We'd met with Dianne, Chris and their daughter Imogen at the start of June for their pre-wedding meeting & photoshoot and it was great to see them all again on the wedding day.
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Dianne very kindly answered these questions for the blog:
Wedding date - 30th June 2013
Venue - St. Helen's Church, Auckland & Wynyard Hall
Dress - The wedding Dress is from “Wild Brides at Heart” bridal shop Durham and the designer was Madeline Gardner.
Accessories - My jewellery was a wedding gift that I received from Chris on the
morning of the wedding, and it is Tiffany, the shoes were a gift from
Shaneen (Bridesmaid)
Suits - Bakers Tailoring Middlebrough, Paul at Bakers offered a top class service and the suits were nice and light weight for the summer heat.
Which of your suppliers would you recommend? - We were really happy with all of our suppliers and would recommend every one of them…. We would highlight the following…
Our
wedding band
Hip Operation they were amazing, came highly recommended
and well worth the money, they filled the dance floor all night with
their energetic performance and kept our guests entertained with a range
of music to suite everyone, easy to see why they won best band at the
National Wedding Awards!!
Wynyard
Hall is a fantastic venue and it’s easy to see why couples continue to
be drawn to the hall, we felt a little let down by Wynyard in the
planning stages, however both of our master of ceremonies on the day
were superb, ourselves and our guests were well looked after and they
made sure our wedding day ran like clockwork.
Audley Travel organised our honeymoon, they were outstanding, we had a
dedicated travel advisor, Angela who helped us decide on our itinerary.
We had a direct number for her and it was only ever Angela we spoke to
regarding our trip, not a thing was overlooked, we received plenty of
information regarding the area we were traveling to and what we would be
doing, they even offer a honeymoon gift list service.
Last but not least
Simon and Alison……. Wedding photographs are the one
thing you keep and look back on in years to come, and they have to be
right!! Simon and Alison were great to work with and made us really
relaxed, having the pre wedding ensured we had an idea what to expect on
the wedding day. Having Alison on hand as a second photographer was
also a real advantage, enabling the wedding to be recorded from two
different perspectives, a big thanks to everything you did on the day.
Honeymoon - The day after the wedding we headed off to
spent a night at Rockliffe Hall near Darlington, prior to departing for
our Honeymoon the next day. Rockliffe Hall was fantastic, we spent time
in the Spa and had dinner evening, after such a busy wedding day it was
so relaxing to spend time together alone prior to departing on
Honeymoon. We flew with Emirates from Newcastle via Dubai to Singapore,
we spent two nights in Singapore, before a further flight to
Yogyakarta, on the island of Java in Indonesia, here we spent three
nights, visiting some of the Hindu and Buddhist temples in the area.
The highlight of this part of the trip (apart from the 4am start!!) was
the trip to the Buddhist temple at Borobudur, where we watched the
sunrise over two of Javas volcanos.
On
the next section of the trip we flew to Kalimantan, in the Indonesian
part of Borneo, from there we boarded a klotok, (a traditional river
boat) and headed off into the jungle, we spent three nights in Borneo,
stayed for two nights in a jungle lodge and one night on the klotok in
the middle of the rainforest. We visited three of the orangutan feeding
stations including the famous camp leakey. One of the orangutan’s
encounters was a bit too close for comfort, when one wandered into the
visitors centre, and decided it wanted to empty the contents of our
rucksack!! Luckily the rangers soon tempted it away with some peanuts!
After
three nights in the Jungle we were ready for some luxury, we flew to
Bali, where we spent 6 nights, 3 in central Bali (Ubud) and 3 nights by
the beach in Seminyak. The accommodation at the Chedi Club in Ubud was
first class, the hotel only has 20 villas so the place is very quiet
private and relaxed, the hotel is surrounded by lush green paddy fields
which you look out onto, from your private pool.
Favourite memory from the day - At the end of the wedding speeches, we received a surprise gift from
Imogen, with the help Victoria (of one of our bridesmaids) she had
recorded a lovely poem, this was then played back for all our guests to
hear. It has to be one of the most emotional moments of the day, there
was hardly a dry eye in the room when the cd came to an end, even the
wedding co-ordinator from Wynyard admitted she had a tear in her eye!!
We were then presented with a framed copy of the poem along with a
picture drawn by Imogen and some photos from our pre wedding photo shoot
with Simon and Alison. We owe a big thanks to Victoria for all her
hard work in making our day one to remember and helping give a gift that
we will treasure forever.
Advice to other couples - Plan ahead, and give
yourselves plenty of time to organise you big day…….. the one thing we
did not want to was have a last minute rush of jobs that need completing
in the week before the wedding. Most elements were sorted out on plenty
of time so we could just enjoy the build-up to the big day without the
stress of loads of last minute jobs that needed organising.
One
tip for the Groom’s… buy or hire a spare shirt to get changed into
prior the evening reception, it can get pretty warm in a waistcoat and
jacket all day (especially in the summer), being able to have a quick
freshen up and put on a clean shirt was a big bonus.
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