{"id":181444,"date":"2018-01-27T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/real-weddings\/island-romance-shalissa-and-joshs-glam-rustic-wedding\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T01:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:30:13","slug":"island-romance-shalissa-and-joshs-glam-rustic-wedding","status":"publish","type":"au-real-wedding","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/real-weddings\/island-romance-shalissa-and-joshs-glam-rustic-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Island romance: Shalissa and Josh’s glam rustic wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"
The venue might have been battered by 70km\/h winds and the groom might have shown up in a moon-boot, but nothing could spoil Shalissa and Josh’s glam rustic wedding.<\/p>\n
The couple, from Launceston, chose Tasmania’s beautiful Cloudy Bay on Bruny Island to celebrate their love on November 4, 2017.<\/p>\n
“We always knew we wanted an outdoor wedding, beside the seaside, with a marquee for our reception venue,” Shalissa, 26, says.<\/p>\n
The rough weather meant the ceremony, watched on by 119 guests, had to be moved indoors, but the couple still describes the day as a fairytale.<\/p>\n
“The fairytale wedding I had always dreamt of had come true,” Shalissa says of the wedding at Cloudy Bay Villa.<\/p>\n
Luckily, groom Josh, 27, completed his DIY duties before breaking his leg in a bucks day mishap, creating bench seats and an arch for the ceremony.<\/p>\n
“Not ideal,” says the bride, “however the fact that Josh was stuck at home on the couch enabled him to take over finalising suppliers.”<\/p>\n
Shalissa says the beautiful location allowed the guests to take a mini-holiday while also enjoying the rustic glam wedding.<\/p>\n
“The location of our wedding was very unique, a remote, natural, untouched island in Tasmania,” she says.<\/p>\n
“It was a little bit of paradise.”<\/p>\n
Photos courtesy of Cassie Sullivan Weddings<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shalissa flew to Melbourne to choose her gown at Bluebell Bridal<\/a>. “All the staff were beyond amazing,” she says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shalissa says the planning for their rustic glam wedding began a year before the celebration after Josh popped the question<\/a> in Bali.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n