When Shenai and Stuart met on the dance floor at a nightclub in Ballarat in 2011 they had no idea they were each other’s person. Instead they only started talking because their friends were getting together. Eight years later Stuart popped the question on holiday in Byron Bay. “For a week we had been saying that we wanted to take a picnic to the beach at sunset, so Stuart organised it, not something he typically does,” Shenai recalls. “We found the secluded Little Wategos Beach and right at sunset Stuart got down on one knee. “Little to our knowledge there was a group of hikers along a path in the scrub behind us and they started cheering once I managed to stutter ‘yes’.”
Gown: Marquise Bridal | Shoes: Loeffler Randall | Hair: Zo & Co Hair
Makeup: Shaylan Ketchen Makeup | Champagne tower: Truffleduck | Flowers: The Refined Bloom Co Bridesmaids’ dresses: Shona Joy | Suits: Ferrari Formalwear Ballarat | Rings: Cushla Whiting
Ceremony: Site 3a Old Fyansford Papermills | Reception: Site 3a Old Fyansford Papermills | Catering: Truffleduck | Photography: Miranda Stokkel Videography: Luke Bickley Weddings | Entertainment: M and the Best Men | Transport: White Classic Jags | Prop hire: Elderberry Events, Memphis Hire, The Hire Co and Swans Lane Events | Stationery: Sketch & Etch | Celebrant: Nat Sproal | Honeymoon destination: Byron Bay
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