Traditional Chinese Qipao formal outfits.
This lovely, successful young Chinese couple are friends of ours in Singapore. As is popular there among the young Chinese citizens, they chose to experience the double ceremony, to be recognized in their customary Chinese marriage ritual plus the legal Western marriage. This is to signify their reality, life within a dual cultural existence. Continue reading
Gorgeous traditional Malay wedding attire!
Rahim Hussain was my colleague in Singapore and as a widower this was his 2nd marriage, but Fauziah’s 1st. It was a hot, tropical day in equatorial Singapore as usual and this was an outdoor reception, staged in the undercover common area of the apartment complex where Rahim lived. The Wedding ceremony is usually an intimate family affair, held in the Groom’s home on the morning of the same day. Continue reading
The full Bridal Party during the service, including Father of the Bride, Dr Jack Strong of Louisianna on the Sydney Harbour foreshore.
On this unforgettable occasion I was Bridesmaid to my dear American friend Maury, who’s entire family is from New Orleans, Louisianna. This was a formally structured wedding, based around the ‘famous Southern hospitality’ prerequisite for a ‘damn fine party!’ Continue reading
My dear friend Max Lambert and I.
This was a stylish celebration of the wedding of two very popular people within the entertainment industry. The ceremony was of a traditional format, held at dusk, in the garden. The reception followed immediately, into the night, under a voluminous marquee erected on the front lawn of a large home on Whale Beach. Continue reading
Susanne and Bernd at Berowra Waters Inn, north of Sydney. To my left is my father Brian and my niece Janna. The tall, composed lady is Jill-Ellen Fuller, our Celebrant and the other man is Bernd’s close friend from W.A. and Groom’s Witness, Ross Lyndon-James.
This was at Berowra Waters Inn, the famous restaurant north of Sydney, which was under the superb management of Gai Bilson in those heady times.
We had a total of 16 guests attend, including us (i.e. Bride and Groom) on a summer Friday at lunchtime, which was perfect – for us. My parents sailed southward into Sydney for the occasion on their yacht Tekani, only just making it in time for my Father to give me away, with the seasonally unfavourable wind direction at that time of year.
Coming from a family of nomads, none of my siblings were nearby at the time unfortunately. My only ‘attendant’ was my niece Janna, who has always had a special place in my heart, who traveled from Brisbane to fulfill her childhood dream as a Flowergirl that day. Continue reading