vaucluse yacht club wedding

….and the old clare

liv & nick

This was a masterclass in doing it your own way.

Liv and Nick had not one, but two ceremonies. A registry quickie at the Old Clare for immediately family and the closest of friends (and to you know, make it legal), followed by beers and champagne and chips at the pub downstairs. Then a bus and a ferry across to Watson's Bay for a big emotive celebration run by one of their best mates for all and sundry. A decadent meal was had. Speeches were spoken. A few dress up boxes opened up at the end of the night for an outrageous disco DF. It was joyful. It was unique. It was, to be honest, a little rogue in the best of ways. Romantic party RSL vibes with cracking grub and drinks I believe was pretty close to the brief.

And all of this is literally nothing to say of the wildly beating heart at the centre of it all. These two have been together over 9 years. They met at that bastion of life long romances, schoolies, where Nick immediately fell completely and utterly in love with Liv from the get go to the point he even gave her a nickname so he could talk about her in code - Grace Van She. Grace for Grace Kelly, Van She for the mid 2000’s electro band Van She (incidentally for a teenage kid on schoolies to come up with this nickname alone I think speaks volumes about Nick - old school romantic meets larrikin party boy). Liv, for her part, didn’t even register meeting him or was even remotely aware of the effect she had upon him when they reconnected a few years down the track, after Nick had spent a few years lamenting over his loss.

These are two people who clearly bring an incredibly rare combination of stupendous amounts of joy, thoughtfulness and introspection into, not just each other, but every relationship they have. How. Freaking. Glorious.

Enjoy

Dane