The karma bus: Day 265 - The Wedding of Mr & Mrs Spencer

Melbourne
19°c

Happy Birthday Dad & Grandpa, hope you had a fantastic day!

Today was an early start, it's Bec & Brad's Wedding Day!

Bec seemed quite relaxed as she sipped Mimosas with Gran & Ella. The flowers arrived and they were absolutely amazing, the detail the florist went to was awesome.

Steve assumed the role of delivery man and drove the Groom & Best Mans buttonholes over to them. Meanwhile us girls were being made up by the lovely make up artists and then it was time to get a move on!

Once Ella, Oscar & I were dressed we bid them farewell and headed off to St Kilda Pier to drop off the wedding decor to Little Blue before the ceremony. Steve stayed behind as he was riding in the bridal car with Bec & Emma.

On arriving at the pier, Rhys sent someone down to drop the bollards and we proceeded to drive down the pier, that was a very strange experience! People just turned and looked at us and didn't seem particularly concerned about moving out of the way, Ella & Occy said I should toot the horn, but I didn't want to be rude, so instead they wound down their windows and shouted out "Beep Beep"!! It was a bit scary when we reached Little Blue at the end of the pier and had to turn the car around on the old wooden part! But we dropped off our goodies and made our way back down the pier and into the city. We found a parking garage near the Old Treasury Building where the ceremony was taking place, but on exiting the garage I had lost all bearings and had about 5 minutes to get to the building! After dodgy directions, we finally found the right way and ran all the way there, we arrived just in time with the wedding music in hand and managed to find our seats before the ceremony began!

It was an absolutely beautiful and emotional ceremony, both Bec & Brad looked amazing and were truly supported by everyone in the room. The Old Treasury Building itself has a great ambience to it and provided a great backdrop for photos.

Whilst the Bridal Party headed off to Graffiti Alley & Spencer St Station for photos, we headed back to St Kilda and with a couple of hours to spare met up with the other guests for drinks & snacks at Republica. There was a older gentleman having a bite to eat, he was a Salvation Army volunteer, Ella & Oscar went over to him to put some money in his tin and he struck up a conversation with them. His name was Hal and he had been a volunteer for many years, he thanked them and told us what lovely children they were. Hal said he would just finish his meal and then would see if our other friends would care to donate, I volunteered Ella & Occy to do it for him whilst he finished his meal. They were more than happy to help and they got lots of donations, Hal was so very grateful and it made his day as it did ours.

The wedding reception was awesome, Steve was MC for the night and did a fantastic job, the microphone only had to be taken from him once, much later into the night!