{"id":54881,"date":"2018-08-02T00:30:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T14:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/50k-wedding-whitsundays\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:07:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T01:07:40","slug":"50k-wedding-whitsundays","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/50k-wedding-whitsundays\/","title":{"rendered":"$50,000 same-sex wedding winners to wed tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Joshua Starr and Joshua Breakwell were the lucky winners of a $50,000 wedding giveaway celebrating marriage equality. Dubbed &#8220;The\u00a0 Joshua Wedding&#8221;, the same-sex wedding celebration will take place tomorrow, Friday, August 3rd on the grounds of Paradise Cove Resort.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86649\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86649\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/J2-047-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Supplied<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The pair is from Newcastle and are now going to be the first same-sex\u00a0of this scale in the region, known for its status as one of the top\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/DestinationWeddings\/Melbourne\/\">destination wedding<\/a> areas in Australia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86644\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86644\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/J2-01-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Supplied<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The co-owner of Paradise Cove Resort, Julie Telford said that the couple &#8220;have been the ideal couple to win this competition. When we started this I thought, &#8216;let&#8217;s give away a wedding, let&#8217;s celebrate marriage equality and let&#8217;s give something to Australia&#8217;- but now I feel like &#8216;let&#8217;s give something to Josh and Josh&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86646\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86646\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/J2-03-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Supplied<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Groom-to-be Joshua Breakwell said: &#8220;Having all the people who are really close to you in the one spot on a day that&#8217;s all about you and your partner is very special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86647\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86647\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86647\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/J2-051-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Supplied<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The couple will celebrate along with 60 guests, comprised of family, friends as well as some media personalities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86643\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/J2-02-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Supplied<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/competition\/\">Click here to see our competitions section and see how you can make your dream wedding come true like Joshua and Joshua.\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":54882,"template":"","au_article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-54881","au-article","type-au-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","au_article_category-same-sex-marriages"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/54881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/54881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290438,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/54881\/revisions\/290438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=54881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}