{"id":183195,"date":"2018-04-06T02:50:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T16:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/real-weddings\/vanessa-adam-return-began-classic-black-tie-wedding\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T01:52:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:52:29","slug":"vanessa-adam-return-began-classic-black-tie-wedding","status":"publish","type":"au-real-wedding","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/real-weddings\/vanessa-adam-return-began-classic-black-tie-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa and Adam return to where it began for classic black tie wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"
It is possible to meet your match at another couple’s big day, just ask Sydneysiders Vanessa and Adam.<\/p>\n
“Adam and I met at a family friend’s wedding in 2014,” Vanessa, 23, explains. “Little did we know that our parents had been friends years before we were even born.”<\/p>\n
By the end of the evening, Vanessa put her number in Adam’s phone (“followed by a princess emoji, of course”), and the rest is history.<\/p>\n
Just under two years later Adam, 27, whisked Vanessa away for a dawn picnic overlooking Sydney Harbour.<\/p>\n
“Just as the sun was rising, he asked if I wanted to start eating (knowing I\u2019d of course say yes, because who turns down food, ever?) I opened the picnic and there were a bunch of roses,” Vanessa recalls.<\/p>\n
“Laughing, I took them out, because hey, I\u2019d just woken up and I was starving. But to my surprise, there was no food. There was just a little black box. I took it, opened it up and looked up at him, shocked to see him in front of me on one knee.”<\/p>\n
The couple returned to the same venue where they met –\u00a0Doltone House Sylvania Waters<\/a> – for their classic black tie wedding on February 3, 2018.<\/p>\n The ceremony was held at\u00a0Holy Name of Mary Church in Hunters Hill in front of 250 friends and family.<\/p>\n “After all the chaos and stress of planning, I wouldn’t have done it any other way,” Vanessa says.<\/p>\n “When I walked in to our room it took my breath away! Our wedding was perfect in every way, and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.”<\/p>\n Photos courtesy of D’Amico Photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I spent all day trying to surround myself with my grandfather so I could feel his presence. He was like my second father and practically raised me and we lost him one year before the wedding,” Vanessa says. “We had a bracelet made which was a rosary, and my husband surprised me with a Saint Michael pendant with my grandfathers initials \u2018GM\u2019 carved on the back. I wore it all day along with a pinned photo of him on my bouquet<\/a>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n
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