Lake Osborne Wedding by Bee Photographie
I could spend all day soaking up the loveliness of this Florida affair by Bee Photographie, and I may or may not have spent all morning doing just that. There is just soo much pretty in one post! From the sweetie pie bride (she is one of those people that just looks nice, know what I mean?) to her handsome Australian groom, this wedding is worthy of a few moments, minutes or even hours of your afternoon, trust me. Click here for even more!
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From the Bride… Josh and I love the outdoors and are all about and having fun with friends and family, so a backyard wedding on Lake Osborne was the perfect setting for us. We are a young couple on a shoestring budget having just moved back to Florida after spending a year in the Josh’s home country, Australia. We were extremely blessed to be granted permission from a family friend to use their stunning backyard as the backdrop for our special day. The yard backs onto a lake, which gave the guests a beautiful setting to watch the sunset.
The wedding was small, around 60 guests consisting of mainly close family and friends, along with the Josh’s parents, aunt, uncle and groomsmen who flew in from Australia, London, and New York. One of the front row seats was taken by a Mac Book, which was logged into skype, so the entire thing could be watched in real time by more family back in Australia.
The flowers and details reflected our earthy, vintage, lace and organic inspired theme. We spent the short 3 months we had to plan the wedding gathering different things such as doilies, birdcages, old picture frames, old books, lanterns, and flower vases. We used an old suitcase as a cardholder and had a globe symbolizing the many months we spent on opposite sides of the world throughout our relationship. Instead of a guest book we opted for a Dutch tradition using a Wishing Tree. For the guests favors we potted succulents and had Australian honey brought over by Josh’s parents. We attached hand stamped Cheers tags to the succulents and honey for an Australian touch (cheers being the typical Aussie way to say thanks).
When it came to deciding whether or not to do a unity candle we felt as though the unity candle and/or sand ceremony was too traditional and wanted to do something unique so opted to come up with our own tradition. A few nights earlier while sharing a bottle of wine, we each wrote a letter detailing all the reasons why we love one another and why we are getting married. We each gave those notes tied up to our mothers to bring with them to the wedding ceremony. During the ceremony we had our mothers present us with the unread letters and we placed them inside the empty wine bottle and sealed the bottle with a cork. The wine bottle is to stay with us wherever we go with the unread letters in it and if we ever feel as though our relationship is in desperate need of rekindling, we can smash the bottle and read the letters to be reminded of why we made the commitment of marriage to each other. If we never run into such a predicament, we will smash the bottle and read the letters in celebration of our tenth wedding anniversary.
With such a time crunch and tight budget using friends and family as vendors was what made this wedding possible. The cake was made by a friend, my hair and makeup were done by friends and we used a member of our church’s praise team as our DJ. Friends and family members helped with everything from hanging the Christmas lights, decorating the tables, and staking in wedding signs the day before and the day of the wedding.
The day ended up being more perfect than we could have imagined and we love reliving it all through the amazing photos captured!
Wedding Photography: Bee Photographie / Wedding Venue: Private Residence / Wedding Dress: Allure Couture via Bridal Couture / Bridesmaid Dresses: Ann Taylor / Garter: Rosebud Lips / Hair: Eryn Alphenaar, Friend of the Bride / Makeup: Lisa Miller Sanford, Friend of the Bride / Groom & Groomsmen Attire: Perry Ellis + Calvin Klein / Cinematography: Jamice Ivie / Flowers: The Flower Market / Wedding Cake & Cupcakes: Kelly Zylstra, Friend of the Bride / Cake Bird Toppers: Michael’s / DJ: Adam Guadalupe, Friend of the Bride
29 Comments about “Lake Osborne Wedding by Bee Photographie”
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June 3, 2011 at 1:03 pm
The photography here is gorgeous!!!
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June 3, 2011 at 1:24 pm
LOVE the colors and details. The pictures of the groomsmen holding beers clashed with them holding flowers is lovely. Wonderful wedding!
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June 3, 2011 at 1:37 pm
The hair in this wedding is off the hook! Beautiful ladies!
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June 3, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Yay! I loved this wedding the minute I saw it on Bee's blog. Beautiful couple! I love all of the homey details :)
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June 3, 2011 at 1:57 pm
I've been really very beautiful wedding on the internet and by chance I got engaged a new site, very good quality shots I've seen and done in this direction is also very impressed by the Photographer at the wedding so beautiful places in turkey have a really impressive, but this is quite a difficult thing to make a good organization of everything Thank you for the salutations
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June 3, 2011 at 2:14 pm
I love the location! absolutely gorgeous!
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June 3, 2011 at 2:21 pm
The photographer made these memories perfect. she captured every adorable detail.
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June 3, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Gorgeous!
I'm assuming the hair flowers are an etsy find...anyway we can find out the seller? Thanks!
Simply beautiful wedding!
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June 3, 2011 at 3:47 pm
Just beautiful. Love the casual elegance. I especially love the brides soft romantic hairstyle.
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June 3, 2011 at 4:07 pm
photog a rockstar, bride a total beauty, theme total preciousness.
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June 3, 2011 at 4:33 pm
hot groomsmen
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June 3, 2011 at 4:50 pm
such gorgeous nude bridesmaids dresses, such classic styling
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June 3, 2011 at 5:19 pm
everblessed: the hair flowers are from etsy :)
http://www.etsy.com/shop/VirginiaGeigerJewels -
June 3, 2011 at 8:58 pm
I WAS ONE OF THOSE WATCHING ON SKYPE IN AUSTRALIA WITH TEARS OF JOY. AMAZING TECHNOLOGY COVERING A MOST SPECIAL EVENT.
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June 3, 2011 at 11:42 pm
If the bride is reading these comments- I'm a CA bride marrying an Aussie and we were just looking at your wedding and the Aussie wants to know where you got the Coopers from and what other beer you served at the wedding that other Aussies liked. He's in charge of picking alcohol for ours and is having trouble deciding what beers the Aussie palette will enjoy.
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June 4, 2011 at 1:01 am
Her hair is great. They look so happy. Great job capturing their joy!
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June 4, 2011 at 11:05 am
Hey Dana,
We got coopers pale ale and sparkling ale from total wine they sell 6 packs of it, we also had corona, heineken, miller light, budwiser select, shock top and blue moon! If they're aussie and its beer im sure they'll like it :) -
June 4, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Thanks Amanda!
Love how your hair was styled by the way! We are definitely taking lots of inspiration from your wedding :) -
June 4, 2011 at 6:36 pm
I love that you started a new tradition. A very romantic one at that.
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June 4, 2011 at 10:17 pm
I love the bridesmaids dresses, does anyone know where they are from? or who makes them?
Thank you,
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June 5, 2011 at 5:10 am
Stunning.
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June 5, 2011 at 8:51 pm
the bridesmaid dresses are from ann taylor:)
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June 6, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Hi Amanda - What type of table linens did you use? Were they a standard white or an upgrade?
THanks!!! Meghan -
June 7, 2011 at 12:31 am
Hey Meghan...the table linens were just standard white
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June 11, 2011 at 8:54 am
Beautiful wedding, where's the bride's shoes from?
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September 19, 2011 at 5:10 pm
I absolutely love the wedding dress, I know this is allure couture but do you happen to know the style #? I can't find it on the website.
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October 2, 2011 at 1:43 pm
The dress was a discontinued style. I bought the sample off the sale rack back in March.
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