It’s Friday! Almost the weekend again which means it time for our weekly roundup… We began the week with Dana and Tylers wonderfully colourful Destination Wedding in Savannagh on Saturday. On Monday Lindsay brought us some really beautiful Secret Garden Wedding Inspiration. Tuesday saw us jetting to sunny California for Chloe and Will’s Destination Beach Wedding and evening ocean trash the dress session.
On Wednesday Lisa from 2 People 1 Life shared Weddings No. 15 & 16 in El Salvador and Nicaragua! And finally yesterday we brought you Danny and Jessi’s FAB 1940′s Style Vegas Elopement.
Which bring us to Friday’s FAB 5 destination wedding links from around the web…
✈ A London Engagement Shoot With All-American Style – Love the iconic backdrops.
✈ The Morning After Their Dominican Republic Destination Wedding – FAB!
✈ A Romantic Italian Destination Wedding On Lake Como – Fairytale!
✈ San Francisco City Hall Wedding – An Army couple’s romantic City elopement.
✈ An Arizona Destination Wedding – Details, Details, Details!
Finally we have our FAB 5 picks for this week…
Flying High ✈ Wedding Kites
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Today we have Whitney and Tim’s wonderful nautical feel harbor wedding complete with a FAB first look. One Eleven Images, their very talented photographers tell us a bit more about their special day…
“We first met Whitney and Tim when we had the pleasure of shooting their engagement photos for them. We all instantly got along and had a great shoot in downtown Boston. We were lucky enough to be invited up to their wedding at the Seabasco Harbor resort in Maine for their wedding. The morning started off with a round of golf with the boys, followed by a relaxed and friendly few hours of getting ready. They chose to do a “first look” shoot and having the extra time to make some great portraits of the two of them in and around the grounds of the resort was great. Their ceremony was officiated by a great mutual friend and had plenty of great personal stories and laughs. The night continued with a great cocktail hour right by the ocean and a reception that was filled with dancing.”
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Today we are gracing the shores of Hawaii for Johnna and Ryan’s beach wedding, complete with flower garlands, wooden boats, a beautiful sunset and a bride brave enough to take a dip in her wedding dress! Melissa McCrotty their photographer tells us more about this FAB couple…
Johnna and Ryan originally planned for a wedding in their hometown in Russellville, Arkansas. However, Johnna just couldn’t shake the desire to get married in Hawaii… a place she had never been, but always dreamed of going. So, she made it happen, and two two brought about 15 of their closest family along for a Hawaiian Wedding.
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Today we are thrilled to feature the wedding of a a Japanese bride who married her South African groom in his home country after meeting in Japan where they plan to return. Their photographer Cheryl McEwan tells up as bit more about this FAB couple…
Yuka and Aidan’s love story is one of pure romance that stretches across the globe! It goes a little something like this.. Dashing young South African boy jets off to Japan to teach English and meets Yuka, beautifully elegant Japanese girl, romance begins and Aidan proposes at the top of a beautiful mountain in Japan, they fly out to South Africa and tie the knot in a wonderfully intimate ceremony at Blaauwklippen in the heart of Stellenbosch. Wow I can’t tell you all how blessed I was to capture this amazing couple and how excited I was to photograph my first beautiful Japanese bride! Yuka got ready at the gorgeous SW1 guesthouse in Somerset West, which is a photographers dream for bridal portraits…
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Beso, Beso, Beso!… Kiss, Kiss, Kiss!
The Hotel Meson de Maria had kindly placed two dozen roses in our room the night before the wedding and I asked Anita if she would mind if I used the beautiful flowers for my bouquet. She said she would be happy for us to use them so I made up a posy and buttonhole and I was ready to go! Normally we rush around getting ready in the van so having a room was true luxury! I helped Alex get ready and he fastened up my dress just in time for Jose, our photographer to arrive.
We were mixing things up a little (just for a change) and heading out into Antigua for some photographs before the wedding as we wanted the wedding to be at sunset to make the most of the stunning view at Hotel Meson de Maria.
We set off onto the cobbles and wow did we turn heads! We strolled up the middle of beautiful streets, posed under the stunning lemon yellow arch and leant against rustic terracotta walls. We even got coo’d at by a bus load of French tourists, they told us we were beautiful and wished us luck. We were still giggling when we turned the corner and were face to face with the local school out on a day trip. They giggled and clapped and almost immediately started chanting in unison ‘Beso, beso, beso’. We giggled and laughed not really knowing what they were saying, Jose told us they were shouting ‘Kiss, kiss, kiss’ so we did and they applauded and then started chanting again! It was such a happy moment and I will never forget it, we were laughing so hard while we were kissing its a wonder we managed at all! It was one of those floating on a cloud feelings and one we have not experienced anywhere else. It was like our happiness and love was infectious and everyone on the streets around us could feel it too, it only made us love Antigua more!
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Island time is real. All none island dwellers have heard of this phenomenon but few believe it is real. Utila is by far the slowest Island time, we went and decided to stay for 3 days…6 days later, the island would not let us leave! It was like an episode of Lost
Wandering around the island in our island time trance we happened upon the most fantastic magical wonderland known as the Jade Seahorse! It was the last thing I expected and we were both in absolute awe of the beauty of the place. Every surface sparkled, glimmered or glittered in the sunlight, the paths were brightly coloured shards of pottery and trinkets and tidbits hung from every possible place. Globes of colored glass reflected rainbows all around and I felt like I was in wonderland.
As we walked around we could feel eyes following our every move. We ducked under trees and arches and wound our way around the fluid paths of colour but it wasn’t until we were nearly eye to eye with a huge spider that we realised who it was that had been watching us! With the realisation of our company we opened our eyes properly and saw hundreds of huge black and yellow spiders hanging everywhere. They are banana spiders and they were everywhere…mainly at face level! We tentatively picked our way back to the safety of the bar and caught our breath and waited for the goosebumps to calm down. It was such an amazing place and so different…we HAD to have a wedding here!
We spoke to Neal who’s blood, sweat and tears had created this mystical myriad of mayhem and on meeting him we knew he was the man we needed to hold the ceremony. He greeted our request of holding a ceremony there with a recital of Shakespeare and we left wondering if he had agreed or not!
We decided we would just rock up anyway and hope for the best! Fingers crossed wedding number 13 here we come!
Luckily we spoke with Neal’s daughter who confirmed that Neal was happy to hold the ceremony for us. We were delighted and set about preparing for our upcoming 13th wedding. Alex went to the hairdressers where we met Christine and I booked in for the morning of the wedding to see if she could tame my crazy hair for the ceremony. We unpacked Tabitha (wedding dress) and got Alex’s shirt washed and ironed and went to the bar to celebrate having our 13th wedding ceremony planned!
Christine made my hair beautiful and she kindly offered to be camera-woman for the wedding…and of course our guest. We arrived at Jade Seahorse and got changed into my wedding dress, Tempy took some photographs of us while Neal got into ‘character’ and I got up close and personal with the aforementioned spiders! Having my face really close to them was not so much fun but not as scary as I had anticipated. As you look through the pictures you will have to try spotting the spiders… there is probably at least one in every shot.
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This week has been another super busy one on Fly Away Bride as Pamela and I are up to something but it’s still secret! We also celebrated Valentines day and just incase you missed anything, here is our weekly round up.
On Saturday we were in San Francisco for Sabrina and Jeffs outdoor wedding. We had treats on Monday to celebrate the run up Valentines Day for those of you planning a special night in with Pamela’s post on the Food of Love.
For Valentines Day, where else could we have been only in Paris for Rachel and Deans Engagement Session.
Then on Wednesday we were on Irish soil for the Wedding of Pam and Rick who flew all the way from Colorado to get married in Waterford Castle with just their children present. Yesterday, the multicultural wedding of Miki and Paulo took place in the Pousadas de Amares in Portugal.
Friday is upon us once again so here are our FAB 5 Destination links from around the web…
✈ A Styled Shoot in Venice -Makes me want to book flights straight away
✈ A 50s inspired engagement shoot in Croatia – Black belted bride! Not what you think!
✈ An engagement session in London – When in London baby….
✈ A beautiful wedding in Sydney – A groom from the UK, gorgeous bouquet
✈ A romantic picnic on the streets of Spain – Just. So. Gorgeous.
Sooo…. Cake. Everyone likes it, including myself and Pamela… perhaps too much. So instead of eating, we are going to do a whole lot of looking this week and for this Fridays FAB 5 Finds, we have chosen 5 of our favourite cakes, in 5 of our favourite styles, thats 25 cakes people. We like LOVE cake.
Rainbow and Ombre Sponge…
Images source from; Green Wedding Shoes | Ruffled Blog | Call me Cupcake | Rummy Tum Tum | Morgan Norris
Destination weddings in Irish Castles hold a very special place in our hearts here at FAB. They remain traditional in the best of ways through their old world charm and offer true character that is just so hard to find. So, today’s wedding by Lisa O’Dwyer in Waterford Castle made us melt the minute opened the first image. Not only does this intimate family affair embody elegance and class, the couple Pam and Rick from Denver, CO are absolutely overflowing with happiness.
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I’m here to tell you how unbelievably amazing Mexico is for a destination wedding!
The Mexican Riviera shimmers lazily in the Caribbean Sea, its powder fine white sands and turquoise waters transport you to another world all together. The sheer beauty of the place is astounding and that’s before we mention the Maya ruins, the jungle and forest all around and the magical cenotes. All of this and fantastic weather, great service and fantastic people to boot and you know you are onto a winner! We had the help of the superstar wedding planner, Maria Tripaldi from weddings in Playa who helped us plan our ancient Mayan ceremony. She introduced us to the Shamen and arranged the perfect beach location and of course introduced us to some of the best Tequila to come out of Mexcio! With all of this arranged we met our fantastic photographer Dean of Dean Sanderson weddings who has just moved from Canada to live in this beautiful, laid back country. His work is beautiful, elegant and an absolute work of art. His balance and symmetry skill is that of a mathematic genius and he is most importantly…fun to be with!
We are always very nervous before every wedding and this one was no exception to the rule. The Maya ceremony is a very spiritual ritual and is practised very seriously as a sign of respect for the Mayan Gods.
On the beach we saw the Shamen, Miguel and Christian, in all of their traditional Mayan dress ready for our Nahautl. Beads on their ankles, huge feather headdresses and animal skins draped across their chests. A mat lay in front of them on the beach and they were lighting the copal. The mat held their offerings and bamboo poles with ribbons floating in the breeze marked the site of the wedding. We approached nervously with our offerings and my bouquet and were individually blessed. Christian played the drums and conch while Miguel blessed us by passing the smoke from the copal, produced by burning coal and sacred incense, over our bodies with a feather wand. It was a very cleansing experience, I felt all of my anxieties and nerves wash away, the heat and the smoke drifted over me and I felt completely at peace. Alex was next to be blessed and the tension in his shoulders vanished and he looked relaxed and ready for the ceremony. Christian had asked if we would like to hear the ceremony in English so we could feel more involved than had the ceremony been completely in Mayan as we anticipated. We had asked for him to explain the ceremony to us and then to complete it in Mayan with the calling of the Gods to witness the ceremony.
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