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DEBORAH & DALLAS 26 AUGUST 2016

IT ’ S FINA LLY O FFICI A L HAVING THEIR DAUGHTER INDIANA AS THE ONLY MEMBER OF THEIR BRIDAL PARTY WAS PRECIOUS FOR DEBORAH SARTOR AND DALLAS KINGDOM

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aby sitting duties don’t usually lead to meeting the love of your life… but they did for 38-year-old flight attendant Deborah Sartor and 31-year-old emergency rescue officer Dallas Kingdom.

“Our mutual friend Genna wasn’t well one weekend and needed help looking after her two gorgeous little dudes,” Deb says.

“I couldn’t get there ASAP so she called Dal to help out in the meantime. When I arrived he was on the trampoline with the boys being a SNAG as I watched on through the kitchen window thinking ‘Awww that’s so sweet’. Little did I know he knew I was watching and was ‘playing the game’ as he calls it.

“Instead of going once I arrived, he stayed. We all got takeaway for dinner and we’ve spent every day together since.”

After only a year of dating Deborah and Dallas bought their first house together at Sanctum, Mt Low. Another year later they got engaged with Dal proposing in front of family and friends.

“Our birthdays are on consecutive days so we decided to organise a dinner with our closest friends and my family where we were going to surprise everyone by sharing the news I was three months pregnant,” Deborah says.

“Well, Dallas thought he’d surprise us all, including me, by popping the question. He only had one request – that he owned a Harley Davidson before our big day… and he did!”

It was nearly four years later that Deborah ‘actually got around to organising’ their wedding and the couple decided on ‘vintage glam’ for their theme.

“My champagne-coloured dress was comfortable, affordable and had just the right amount of edge. It popped up on a millinery page I was on and I tracked it down from there,” Deborah says.

“I ordered it off the Iconic site. It was the last in my size and fit like a glove. My shoes were burgundy Steve Madden Lola booties all the way from New York.”

The ceremony took place at the Rain Tree Lawn in Queens Gardens with around 80 guests gathered for the special occasion. Deborah’s talented friend Lilly came up from Brisbane to arrange the flowers. A bouquet of David Austin roses, disbuds, thryp, gum leaves and snap dragons brought the pictures in Deborah’s mind to life.

“Watching Indi walk down the aisle before me and running to Daddy was a special moment – knowing we’d all have the same last name,” says Deborah, who arrived in a 1969 Silver Shadow Rolls-Royce to set the scene.

“Our wedding cake was A-MAZ-ING with white chocolate mud on the bottom, red velvet in the middle and Ferrero Rocher on top.”

As for the groom’s experience of the day, he only has one regret…

“I wish I’d known burnouts on the Harleys when leaving the ceremony were ok to do,” Dallas grins.

“A mate did a small burnout when we left but if he’d known Deborah was okay with it he would’ve went longer!”

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JOHANNA & PAU L 26 JULY 2015

DAD DY, H ER E COMES YOU R BRID E TEARS OF JOY FELL WHEN JOHANNA MOORE AND PAUL LEVISTON GOT HITCHED WITH SOME HELP FROM THEIR SONS ZAC AND SAM.

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ot afraid to leave things to chance, Johanna

around like a typical four-year-old when I asked Jo if

Moore asked a mutual friend to introduce

she’d like to be a ‘Levo’.”

her to Paul Leviston after she spotted him

The ring choice wasn’t spontaneous, however, with Paul

at the Embassy Nightclub.

having the foresight to ask Angelo Catalano from Loloma

“I knew Paul was the kind of man I could marry from the

Jewellers to custom-craft a masterpiece. The result

moment I saw him — it was his self-confidence, spunk

was a semi-white and yellow gold ring with a cushion

and charm that caught my attention,” Jo says.

cut Belgian diamond shouldered by two pink Argyle

The feeling was mutual, with Paul soon deciding she

diamonds flanked by five smaller diamonds either side.

was ‘The One’ when she wasn’t put off by some bad

It was a perfect sunny NQ winter afternoon at the

Chinese food.

“I knew Jo was a keeper when she said yes to a second date after the world’s worst first date,” Paul says.

“I took her to a buffet Chinese restaurant and the food was awful. Then I backed it up with an ordinary cinema selection – ‘Shaun of the Dead’. It’s funny to look back on it now but at the time it was terrible.”

Not people to conform to the norm, the couple’s

“ZACHARY WAS RESPONSIBLY CARRYING OUR WEDDING RINGS AND SAMUEL WAS PROUDLY HOLDING A SIGN THAT READ DADDY, HERE COMES YOUR BRIDE.”

courtship didn’t unfold in the usual order.

“Some would say we did things in reverse,” Paul says.

Bourke Street Headland on The Strand when Jo

“We met in 2004 and were blessed with our first born,

and Paul, who manage their own business (Leviston

Zachary, in 2009. Our second child Samuel arrived in

Constructions), said ‘I do’.

2012, we bought our first home in 2014 and married

“I almost lost it when I saw our boys arrive and walk

in 2015.

down the aisle,” Paul says.

“In my true spontaneous style, I popped the question

“Zachary was responsibly carrying our wedding rings

to Jo in the rain on the back of a horse and cart with

and Samuel was proudly holding a sign that read

our two boys present.”

Daddy, Here Comes Your Bride.”

The couple had been celebrating Jo’s Dad’s 60th

The wedding reception was held at Pier Restaurant

birthday in Wodonga and were on their way home to

where Paul, who admits he has ‘a thing’ for dancing

Townsville via Melbourne. Paul suggested they take a

on tabletops at celebrations didn’t disappoint with an

horse and cart ride to Hardware Lane for some dinner.

unscripted performance to ‘You Can Leave Your Hat On’.

“Jo had Sam in a baby carrier and Zac was bouncing

“I even gave him a tip,” Jo laughs.

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Photos courtesy of Brooke Miles Photography

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MADELINE & JOSHUA 28 MAY 2016

HEAD OVER HEALS WHEN JOSHUA OLLETT SAYS HE FELL HARD FOR MADELINE BARRA HE MEANS IT — LITERALLY

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MADELINE & JOSHUA 28 MAY 2016

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fter four years together, shy lab technician Joshua Ollett had finally worked up the courage to ask fiery Italian Madeline ‘Mad’ Barra to marry him during a holiday to New

Zealand. Nerves, however, have a way of making people unsteady on their feet…

“We were in Queenstown and I knew exactly where I wanted to propose to her,” Josh says.

“I pulled over by a lake near Queenstown and, as we were walking, I kept my hands in my pockets, grasping the ring box. I couldn’t find exactly the right spot to do it!

“We paused to skip rocks for a little while when Madeline said ‘Come on, let’s go back…’ As she walked towards the car I could see my perfect opportunity fading away… With a lump in my throat, I called out to her and when she turned around I was half on one knee and half falling down because the ground was uneven.

“Mad just stood there laughing at me so I pulled myself up, then got back down on one knee and tried again.”

Three months later his courage in the face of adversity was rewarded when Madeline walked down the aisle towards him at Villa Botanica in Airlie Beach. With the Whitsundays as their backdrop, Madeline and Joshua swore to love each other forever in front of 65 close family and friends.

Wearing a long-sleeved dress with lace material that made her feel like a princess, Madeline added something borrowed in the form of her nana’s wedding ring. For something blue, her sister gave her a ribbon pendant with a photo of her nana and pop, which she tied around her bouquet.

“The lead-up to the wedding was so surreal, it wasn’t until I started saying the vows that it hit me I was about to marry the man of my dreams. I caught my breath, the tears started flowing and Josh thought I was about to call the wedding off, but it was completely the opposite!”

The newlyweds’ four-tier chocolate mud cake with ivory fondant icing was a hit. Made by Sweet Ideas in Airlie Beach, it was decorated with the couple’s initials, sugar lace and petite pearl piping.

“We can’t wait to celebrate our first wedding anniversary and enjoy our wedding cake a second time around,” Madeline says.

“I knew Josh was the one when he continued to want to make a strong-headed Italian woman happy. I’d marry him again in a heartbeat.”

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SARAH & TERRY 6 OCTOBER 2016

WE DID IT OU R WAY FORGET ARRIVING AT THE CEREMONY SEPARATELY! SARAH BOISEN AND TERRY EBERT THREW TYPICAL WEDDING TRADITIONS OUT THE WINDOW WHEN PLANNING THEIR BIG DAY… AND THEY’RE SO HAPPY THEY DID.

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draftsperson by trade, 38-year-old Terry

photographer who makes you feel at ease is such a

Ebert isn’t afraid to think outside the box

relief and Josephine is so much fun to work with.”

and draw up his own plans. So it was

After their 50 guests watched Sarah and Terry say “I do”

no surprise when he and his wife-to-be,

they enjoyed afternoon tea at the Tea Rooms, which

32-year-old Sarah Boisen, decided to buck tradition

was followed by an intimate dinner with immediate

and do things their own way.

family at A Touch of Salt.

“We spent our morning together, got ready together

“The whole day unfolded perfectly,” Terry says.

and drove to the wedding together, which made for a

“Everybody even just happened to wear the right colour

wonderful day,” Sarah says.

clothes without knowing we’d gone with a navy-and-

“Not having bridesmaids or groomsmen made things

white theme.”

a lot simpler and we kept visitors to a minimum while

It didn’t take long after their first coffee date on The

getting prepared. We spent our morning together, got

Strand in April of 2015 for Sarah and Terry to work out

ready together and drove to the wedding together,

they were meant to be together.

which made for a wonderful day. Don’t be afraid to do

“When I met her family, I realised her upbringing was

things your way!”

similar to mine and everything I already knew about her

The ceremony took place at Hervey Range Heritage Tea

added up,” Terry says.

Rooms, which began its life as the Eureka Hotel built by

“At about the same time, we went out for dinner one

pioneer Charles Saville Rowe in 1865 — just one year

night and the way she looked in a white skirt and heels

after Townsville was first settled. Its charming country

sealed the deal!”

chapel is nestled in a creek-side enclave set amongst

Terry surprised Sarah by proposing at the Bamboo Forest

25 acres of bush land, complete with a mango orchard

in Kyoto when they were on holiday in Japan. “We were

and majestic Snow Gum. All of this natural beauty

in a beautiful temple with a garden overlooking Kyoto,”

makes it a scenic spot for photography.

Sarah says.

“A work colleague suggested a number of photographers

“He’d hidden my ring in my backpack and I was carrying

and Josephine Cater was on the list,” Sarah says.

it around for eight days unknown to myself. On the inside

“Her work matched our rustic theme and the timeless

of my ring was the date he proposed so it was lucky the

type of photos we were looking for. Having a great

clouds didn’t open up!”

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BRYDIE & DANE 5 SEPTEMBER 2015

BEERS , CH EERS AN D HAPPY TE ARS BEACH LOVERS BRYDIE KIPPIN AND DANE TREZISE GOT MARRIED AT THE STRAND WITH DANE SPORTING A VINTAGE HEINEKEN BEER BELT BUCKLE (ONE OF HIS FAVOURITE BREWS).

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rydie Kippin and Dane Trezise have been

Everything was smooth sailing… until their reception

virtually inseparable since they met at a mutual

venue fell through three months before the big day.

friend’s party eight years ago.

“Luckily the Townsville Picnic Bay Surf Life Saving Club

“We got chatting overtime before I nervously

(TPBSLSC) came to the rescue and we got married

asked her out, even if she does say she pushed me to

in front of 100 family and friends on the Burke Street

do it,” says 29-year-old hotel manager Dane.

Headland at The Strand, with the reception nearby at

“We moved overseas to Vancouver, Canada, together

The Surf Club,” Brydie says.

a year into our relationship and it was one of the best things we ever did. Our adventures have been continuing ever since...”

One of those adventures was when Dane proposed to Brydie after a low-key lunch at Montes Reef Resort in Hydeaway Bay.

“ME AND THE BOYS WORE VINTAGE BEER BELT BUCKLES, EACH WITH A DIFFERENT BEER.”

“I knew she didn’t want anything big or anything public,

“One of my favourite things about the ceremony was

so after lunch I convinced her to take a walk on the

seeing our mothers standing together, shedding a tear

beach with me,” Dane says.

or two...”

“I then played one of our favourite songs, ‘The Girl’

For couples currently planning their wedding, Brydie

by City and Colour, and got down on one knee. Little

and Dane say their advice is to stress less about the

did we know the entire restaurant could still see us!

small stuff.

Everyone gave us a big cheer when we walked back

“At the end of the day you and your guests won’t

to the car.”

remember what colour the napkins were, or what shoes

For her wedding dress, Brydie chose a style from one of

your groomsmen were wearing,” Brydie says.

her favourite labels — Lover — and had gold-coloured

“During the bridal waltz I turned to Dane and said ‘This is

shoes custom made by Shoes of Prey.

the only time in our lives when all of the people we love,

As for the lads, “Me and the boys wore vintage beer

and who love us, will be together in one place.’ It really

belt buckles, each with a different beer,” Dane says.

put things into perspective for us.”

PHOTOS • BRENDAN OTTLEY WORDS • KYLIE DAVIS

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T

o many, Mount Isa is an industrial City. A central

The shoot portrayed an enchanted story of a fanciful

hub for miners, cowboys, heat and dust. Okay,

hostess waiting for her guests to arrive. Lake Moondarra

yes, that is a large portion of our culture, but there

is only 16km drive North of Mount Isa. A perfect spot for

are many more aspects to this outback lifestyle

a picnic, swim or water sports.

that we wish to share!

Our next session, a romantic engagement shoot called

Recently, a group of Mount Isa businesses joined forces

‘A Love Like This’, took place West of Mount Isa. This

to complete a series of styled photoshoots. The group

location shows a more arid environment, particularly

was comprised of local professionals from industries

appealing to the seasoned camper or 4WD enthusiast.

including event styling, photography, fashion, hair,

It possesses our infamous red dirt, spinifex and the

make-up, floristry and cake decorating. This venture

gorgeous purple wildflower, Mulla Mulla.

was named ‘The Collaborative Project’. The intent of the

The last session, a playful children’s shoot called ‘What

project is to highlight Mount Isa’s amazing landscapes,

Dreams Are Made Of’, was shot South of Mount Isa, in

whilst promoting a sample of the quality products and

a more turbulent terrain. This spot is ideal for the bush-

services available locally.

walkers and wildlife watchers. The photos were taken

Mount Isa is located upon a geological mapping term

right next to the Leichhardt River where the gum trees

called the Mount Isa Inlier bioregion, which best identifies

and buffel grass grow wild.

the landscape as rugged hills and ranges, separated by

‘These photoshoots have allowed local vendors to

winding valleys. The styled photoshoots were captured

showcase their products and services on a new platform,

in separate locations surrounding Mount Isa to showcase

in a new fashion. The Collaborative Project aimed to get

this diversity in scenery.

uniquely creative and remind Australia that Mount Isa

The first photoshoot, named ‘Ebony’s Soiree’, was taken

is alive and leading the way in several industries’, says

on the way to Lake Moondarra, within thick woodland.

Jennifer Termine-Toth, Stylist from Andii Mihay Events.

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GEORGIA & JASON 30 SEPTEMBER 2016

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GEORGIA & JASON 30 SEPTEMBER 2016

PAR ADISE THE PER FECT BACKDROP WHEN RECEPTIONIST GEORGIA KOPITTKE (23) ADDED CAR DETAILER JASON CURNOW (25) TO HER LIST OF FACEBOOK FRIENDS HE WASTED NO TIME TURNING THE INVITE INTO A LIFELONG ONE

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hen Georgia added me on Facebook,

“One of the most magical moments was walking down

I messaged her straight away and it

the aisle with my dad and seeing Jason for the first time. I

just went from there,” says Jason

was trying really hard not to cry but I just couldn’t help it.”

Curnow.

Neither could Jason. “When I saw her, she looked so

“She makes me laugh constantly with all the weird

beautiful and it was the best feeling knowing I’d get to

and funny things she does. I knew right from the start

spend the rest of my life with her,” he says.

Georgia was special. She made me feel so loved and

“Another favourite part was our first dance. There was

was always so caring towards me. I had never been as

a lot of crying and laughing because we aren’t the best

happy as I was when I was with her.”

dancers!”

Won over by Jason’s “contagious” smile and laid-back

Both the ceremony and reception were held at the

attitude, Georgia didn’t hesitate when Jason came

Sofitel, with 32 guests in attendance and decorations

home one day after work with a white gold diamond

in blush pink and navy blue. The bridesmaids wore

engagement ring from Wallace Bishop.

Multiway Dresses, from Signature Bridal in Townsville,

“I was going to propose when we went to Port Douglas

which could be worn whichever way they felt most

two weeks later but I just couldn’t wait,” Jason says.

comfortable.

“I’m really bad at hiding things from her.”

“If you’re considering having an overseas wedding, Fiji

The duo decided on a destination wedding with

is the place to go,” Georgia says. “We had the most

everything included (wedding planner, accommodation,

stress-free wedding anyone could have hoped for and

photography, flowers, ceremony, reception, marriage

the locals are so friendly and eager to help.”

licence, serenaders, wedding cake, celebrant).

The only hitch is remembering to use sunscreen in the

“We got married at the Sofitel Resort on the beautiful

lead-up…

Denarau Island in Fiji, which has a stunning chapel

“I had a pretty dodgy hat tan,” Jason laughs. “Luckily

overlooking the water,” says Georgia, who wore a lace-

a friend came in to save the day and fixed it before the

back gown designed by Ingham talent Trish Bellero.

ceremony!”

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