This wedding was featured in the Autumn 2023 edition of Queensland Brides magazine. Click to read the full wedding story (free to read).
It’s fair to say we all needed a holiday from the holiday!” laughs Sharaine of the fabulous five-day wedding/birthday celebrations she shared with husband Daniel at Noosa Springs Golf & Spa Resort on the Sunshine Coast.
“We did things a little backwards with our wedding,” she explains. “Daniel had already organised his 40th birthday in Noosa, with 160 friends mainly travelling from New Zealand, so we decided to have our wedding two days before as everyone was making the effort to make the trip over.” So the couple had actually booked their wedding before even getting formally engaged! Now there’s a twist! “Two months later we got engaged in an intimate setting at home,” says Sharaine.
Rewind a decade and there was “an instant connection” when the pair was first introduced by mutual friends – but the timing wasn’t quite right. “We had an eight-year break but never lost that certain spark for each other,” says Sharaine. “When we eventually got back together, we knew we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together.”
Although based in New Zealand (the family is completed by Sharaine’s daughter, and their cat Bruce), these travel-lovers looked to the Sunshine Coast enclave of Noosa for their celebration. “We thought Noosa Springs was just beautiful and we loved that we could take our wedding guests on a journey there,” says the bride. The couple was certainly thinking big when it came to their event, organising five days of activities and celebrations.
DREAM TEAM:
Photography Graeme Passmore Photo & Film // Ceremony & reception venue Noosa Springs Golf and Spa Resort // Gown Made with Love Bridal // Celebrant Ceremonies by Emma // Makeup Erin Fidele // Stylist Splash Events // Florals Suncoast Flowers // Earrings Windsor, purchased at Brides of Merivale, Christchurch
This wedding was featured in the Autumn 2023 edition of Queensland Brides magazine. Click to read the full wedding story (free to read).
