Australian Wedding by Pobke Photography
Our hats (or headbands or whatever else may be atop our heads) are off to this lovely Australian wedding captured by Pobke Photography. It is beautiful for so many, many reasons, one of which is the easy elegance of it all. It’s as if this day came together PERFECTLY without a hitch. AND are you ready for this? Most of it was hand-crafted by the couple and their family and friends. Now that is insanely impressive. See the whole day in one pretty place. Yep, were talking about the gallery.
see the rest of this pretty day here!
From the Bride… When we thought about what we wanted from our wedding we new we wanted our day to be fun, a reflection of us, our relationship and faith, with a rustic DIY country feel as well as fit within our small budget – I think we pulled it all off! We were married not far from home in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia. We had a garden ceremony at The Vintage Golf Course, which was then followed by a garden party next to The Vintage Club House. The Vintage supplied all the garden games (the game signs were made by my father) and was actually one of the reasons we chose them as a venue. Plus the groom was excited that we got to ride around on the golf carts!
Our friends and family really helped bring our day together and keep it all under budget – my bridesmaid and friend helped make our invites, friends from the states kept sending over packages, my aunt helped decorate our cake and made macaroons for our dessert bar and my dad made pretty much everything else you see. On the day friends and family members gave Bible readings, two of our closest friends and bridal party members lead us in worship, Morgan’s uncle married us, we had our parents pray over us and we wrote our own vows – which were a surprise to each other on the day. It all made the day very personal and sweet. On the way to the reception we were in search of a dry country field for our wedding photos and found the perfect setting with the perfect light (the photographers were so excited!) – although I ended up climbing through a barbed wire fence in my dress with the help of the groomsmen to get the photos you see here! It was another funny moment!
Our reception was held at Margan’s Winery – we fell in love with the barrel room at Margan’s Estate as soon as we walked in and knew it was where we wanted to have our reception. It was so moody and rustic it hardly needed any decorating! My mum helped me make the hessian table runners and the flowers were brought wholesale and arranged in an assortment of jars by us and the staff at Margan’s – saving us a lot of money! The photo booth was definitely a highlight at the reception. We hung some Amy Butler fabric from our photographer’s stand, supplied a wooden crate full of empty picture frames and my dad helped me create chalkboard speech bubbles in different sizes. No one was ready to pack up at the end of the night (particularly our photographer, Christine!) and we got some very funny responses. Everyone also loved the dessert table and it was pretty much cleared out before dinner had even begun! My dress was a satin gown with a pleated tulle overlay and croqueted lace flowers which we sourced from New York. I found a dress which I fell in love with which was out of my price line so my dress maker, Kelly from Kel-Leigh Couture, helped me take the elements I loved and created a new gown – which I think turned out even better and was so me! Kelly also made my silk flower headpiece and veil and I purchased my shoes for under AU$100 from zappos.com. The girl’s dresses were made by a friend of a friend and the boys outfits were from Roger David. I made the boutonnieres myself from hessian, feathers, wire and buttons from All Buttons Great and Small. A lot of other items were sourced from my trip to the states earlier in the year, lots of online shops and Etsy. One of our highlights from the day was actually leaving our reception. We had a sparkler send off and everyone gathered on the lawn outside and we ran to the car as our friends and family whistled and clapped. We ended up getting to the car before the sparklers ran out and so we turned and ran back down again. We had also forgotten to do the garter and bouquet toss and now took the time to do it. We then drove away in my brother’s 1958 convertible Bug-Eye Austin Healey Sprite, complete with a Just Married hessian banner (made by the groom) and tin cans trailing behind. The perfect end to such an amazing day captured so beautifully by Pobke Photography!
Photography: Pobke Photography / Event Design and Planning: Bride / Ceremony Location: The Vintage, Hunter Valley, New South Wales (Australia) / Reception Location: Margan’s Winery, Hunter Valley, New South Wales (Australia) / Invitations: Bride / Hair + Makeup Artist: Amanda of Bellus Hair / Dress: Kel-Leigh Couture /
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Love this!! Where did you get those adorable white flats? I've been looking for something just like that and cannot find anything!!!
Good, Good, very good!! I am Brazilian. I don´t speak very well english. But Iam here!
I will go wedding and I like to see marriage photographs to have ideas.
I do not read what you write, but see the photos!! They are pretty!
Good, Good, very good!! I am Brazilian. I don´t speak very well english. But Iam here!
I will go to marry and I like to see marriage photographs to have ideas.
I do not read what you write, but see the photos!! They are pretty!
Great feature. Impeccable style captured impeccably by the wonderful Christine.
wow. i am a HUGE fan of christine's work, and this wedding is so perfectly captured. kudos to everyone involved in planning it... it's just perfect!
Love the details. The buttons on the cake is so cute. Love the photography for sure! Beautifully photographed!
These photos are amazing. I love how this was captured. Gorgeous.
Beautiful wedding! I NEED to know where your bridesmaids dresses and groomsmen suits are.....exactly what I have in mind for my wedding but can't find anywhere! Please help!
Incredible photos. The soft lighting is really nice. If these two are working together on this - the are quite the Creative Couple!
I want to to traveling now :)
That CAKE! I've never seen one with antique buttons before, it looks amazing!
Really good damn shot, its look so natural, and the charm of people really show up..
Ack! So excited to see KT and Morg's wedding photos on here! They are the sweetest couple you could ever hope to meet and it was a delight to help Katie on the US side of the wedding, helping source items and then shipping boxes of goodies to her. You couldn't have picked a more adorable couple or a more beautiful wedding to feature. :)
This is beautiful! I love her hair and really like the idea of the vases hanging from the trees... very creative!
What a day! The day looks so peaceful, romantic, and elegant! Love the muted colors :)
LOVE the romantic feel of this wedding. The buttons are an excellent touch. Note to self....buttons are fantastic ;)
what a beautiful wedding! love the photography -- love the details like the seating board, the favor bags with the doillie and clothespin, the simple table number wrapped around the glass vase, the groom's boutonierre. and i love the venue!
Stunning details! The photography is gorg!
Absolutely Gorgeous! and the cake looks great !!
Most of all the photography is awesome!
I love EVERYTHING.. from the dress to the shoes, to the flowers, to the hair, to the venue, and that darling cake.. I could go on..
Oh and the photography just topped it all off!
I love the style on the cake... who'd have thought to put buttons around it! Such attention to detail all round with some fantastic photos! Loving it :)
this is surely a top five for me. simple. stunning. one of a kind. personal. with just the right splash of style. absolutely love every detail. well done
Absolutely stunning, I love sense of space and warmth in the photography. Beautiful :)
This is a very beautiful wedding, I love all the romantic details, it's so personalized. The love is truly in the details!
This is definately my favourite wedding of the year so far. I am getting married in a little over a month and despite the fact that everything is all ready to go, this feature makes me want to change all my stationary and blatantly copy the style of this couple! Wonderful features, thankyou SMP.
Yay!! so excited to see an Australian Photographer featured on this! gorgeous work pobke!
Beautiful wedding! Where are the programs from?
Thanks sooo much for the feature!
we had an absolute ball on the day and it was perfectly captured by Christine:)
Berle, bridesmaids dresses were individually made for the girls by a dress maker in Cessnock and the suits were bought from Roger David.
Jules, as were most things in the wedding, the programs were printed and put together by us. Not sure where Katir got the idea from and although they were very tune consuming, I loved the way they turned out :)
Damn iPhone! The suit and dress answer was for Neele, not Berle!!
I am in love with the groom's tie. Does anyone know how to find out where it was purchased or how to contact the bride & groom?
Thanks for your help!
Danielle, tie's were purchased at Roger David
Hi there, I am the bride from this wedding. Thank you style me pretty for such a lovely post and kind words. It was such a fun day and very much inspired by this blog!!
wow what a roller coaster of 6 months since our wedding. I know Morgan has answered some questions, and here are my answers hopefully they can (still) be useful?
Sheri – my shoes are not actually ‘flats’ they are heels, but small heels which were comfy enough to stay in all day. I got them from zappos.com I cant find the link anymore but these ones are very similar: http://www.zappos.com/vaneli-madora-ivory-satin-zappos-exclusive and if you’re a size 6 I have a never before worn (but too small for me) extra pair?? :)
Neele – the bridesmaids dresses were hand made by a local dressmaker in the Hunter Valley from our sketches, inspired by dresses we had seen online. We got the fabric at Saigon fabrics in Sydney. Groomsmens suits, shirts and ties were from Roger David (one of our bridesmaids worked there – yay!)
Jules – we made our wedding programs (designed by the groom and printed on regular office paper) were bound in cardboard, twine and a bird stamp in coral was all it took to finish it off :)
Danielle – as morgan mentioned the tie was from Roger David. You can contact me through my blog – if you need anything else :)
Thanks everyone for your kind words :)
Beautiful photos. I like the idea of the destination wedding (I'm American), but I wonder how practical they are for most people.
This is gorgeous! I'm getting married at Margan winery in 4 months time, it's so nice to see someone with the same ideas make it work so perfectly, this has made me even more excited for our big day! What beautiful details and photography, the buttons on the cake are too cute! Congratulations.