Real Wedding: Anna + Grant II

Thanks to Joanna Wickham for sending in this gorgeous wedding, and to Anna and Grant for sharing it with us. Anna proves that you don't have to wear the dress as you bought it, with some ingenuity she transformed it into something that made it unique to her...

It was so funny – it was the very first one I tried on!! I had wanted a strapless dress but my mother was adamant that I should get one with straps and annoyingly, as always, she was right! I bought a very plain dress and then had an amazing lady do the embellishments – she took French lace and embroidered it with tiny crystals and pearls to make it really special. I was so happy with how it turned out.

We have a house on Waiheke and LOVE the island so we always knew that we would want to get married there and we also really wanted to have the reception at Cable Bay so it was very lucky that they had a date free. I guess the inspiration was the Island as we wanted the whole day to be very relaxed and outdoors and my favourite colour is pink so that was also an important inspiration!



It was great that we had so many family members there – Grant’s sisters did readings and his nieces were our flower girls. Both of our grandmothers were there too. As NZ is so far from London where a lot of my school friends are we also recently had a London wedding reception that was a lot of fun as I got to wear my dress again!



Vendors: Dress {Dessy}, Embellishments {Jacqueline Byrne}, Shoes {LK Bennett}, Bridesmaids Dresses {LK Bennett}, Venue {Cable Bay Vineyard}, Cake {Sweet Cakes}, Florist {Wild Flower}, Stationery {Letterpress of Cirencester, UK}

Real Wedding: Anna + Grant

If pink is your thing then today's gorgeous Waiheke Island wedding from Jo Wickham is right up your alley....full of pretty, pink, girly details, not to mention a très romantique proposal as Anna shares some of the details with us...

Ooo la la – last June we were in Paris for the weekend (we live in London) to watch the French Open tennis final. We went out on Saturday night to a beautiful rooftop restaurant overlooking Paris and at midnight with the Eiffel tower light display going off Grant asked me to marry him! Of course I said yes! …actually I think I said are you serious? Oh my gosh – get down on one knee! Which he did and then he pulled out a beautiful little ring from Tiffany with a little pink sapphire in it (we later went ring shopping and bought the real one).
I did a lot of DIY! Mainly because I couldn’t find or buy exactly what I wanted but also because I wanted the wedding to have a homemade vintage feel. With help from my two sisters I bought the A & G letters and painted them, I made the order of service cards, I tied different coloured pink ribbon around each napkin and made the table plan and name cards, I also made a map of the island for the invitations and lots of other little details. It all took a while but I think it was worth it.



Our flowers were pink pink pink!(and some white!) I love all shades of pink - we even dyed the water in the vases at Cable Bay different shades of pink! The flowers were simple, I wanted them to look like we’d just picked them (sort of!). I couldn’t get cherry blossom branches but the florist had a lovely idea of having willow branches in tall vases with gypsophila wired into the branches which looked very pretty.