IT’S NOT EVERY DAY THAT A CATEGORY 5 CYCLONE THREATENS THE GREATER HALF OF THE EAST COAST OF AUSTRALIA. HOWEVER TC MARCIA CREATED HAVOC IN THE AIR AND ON THE GROUND. DELAYS AT THE AIRPORTS MEANT ONE VERY EXPERIENCED TRAVELLING WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER (ME) WAS LEFT WITH LITTLE OPTION TO GET TO WALCHA FOR JORDY AND DICKO’S WEDDING. HOWEVER, AS THE OLD ADAGE GOES, IT’S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW, BUT WHO YOU KNOW, GOT ME OUT OF A DELAYED PICKLE. A QUICK TEXT MESSAGE TO THE GROOM LETTING HIM KNOW I WAS BEING CHOPPERED IN AND TWO HOURS LATER I WAS LANDING IN HIS FRONT PADDOCK.  IT WAS REALLY A GREAT WAY TO ARRIVE AND APPRECIATE THE ANYTHING BUT GRAND WEATHER THAT HUNG OVER WALCHA. KNOWN AS THE COLDEST PLACE IN AUSTRALIA, WALCHA HELD ITS TITLE AND PRODUCED, DRIZZLY, FOGGY DISMAL WEATHER MUCH SIMILAR TO THAT EXPERIENCED IN JUNE.

GUESTS SHELTERED UNDER A KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLOURFUL UMBRELLAS BUT THE RAIN WAS NO DETERRENT TO THE EXCITEMENT AND SMILES OF BOTH BRIDE AND GROOM. MARRIED IN THE MANICURED GARDEN OF DICKO’S PARENTS, JORDY TRIED TO HOLD THE TEARS BACK AS SHE MARRIED THE MAN OF HER DREAMS.

THERE WAS NO BETTER PLACE FOR THEM TO SHARE IN THEIR PHOTOS ON ONE OF THE HIGHEST POINTS ON THEIR PROPERTY AND WATCH THE FOG ROLL IN THROUGH THE VALLEY.

JORDY (WITH HER OWN EVENT DESIGN BUSINESS) EXCEEDED EVERY EXPECTATION I HAD OF HOW WONDERFUL THE RECEPTION WOULD BE. WITH A CLEAR ROOF MARQUEE, OVERLOOKING THE LAKE ON HER PARENTS PROPERTY, IT WAS FILLED WITH STRIKING TONES OF PINKS, WHITES AND CREAMS FROM FLOWERS PICKED LOCALLY. SUCH AN AMAZING SETTING OVERLOOKING THE VAST BODY OF WATER THAT RESEMBLED SOMETHING FROM SCANDINAVIA.

DESPITE THE CONSTANT COLD AND WET, JORDY AND DICKO, NEVER FELT THE NEED TO COMPLAIN NOR MAKE MENTION OF THE WEATHER. THIS WAS THEIR HOME AND THEY HAD EACH OTHER. IT WAS ALL THEY NEEDED.

A BIG THANK YOU TO THEM FOR INCLUDING ME IN SUCH A MAGNIFICENT AND MEMORABLE DAY.

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