{"id":193668,"date":"2015-03-13T21:54:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T10:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/real-weddings\/thurza-michael-win-wedding-of-the-year-2014\/"},"modified":"2022-03-16T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T05:40:08","slug":"thurza-michael-win-wedding-of-the-year-2014","status":"publish","type":"au-real-wedding","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/real-weddings\/thurza-michael-win-wedding-of-the-year-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Thurza & Michael win Wedding of the Year 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have a winner! Thurza & Michael of Melbourne have\u00a0been voted our\u00a0favourite couple in the\u00a02014 Wedding of the Year competition.<\/p>\n

I don’t think it matters how many times I read\u00a0this story<\/a>, it still makes me well up with emotion.\u00a0Like, literally, knot in my stomach, lump in my throat and tingling goosebumps all over.<\/p>\n

I imagine it’s these very feelings invoked in everyone else that resulted in the staggering number of votes,\u00a0higher than\u00a0any other of our 12 amazing nominees<\/a>, and in fact, higher than even our inaugural 2013\u00a0winners Sinead & Matt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thurza says,\u00a0“I\u00a0posted the news on Facebook to an OVERWHELMING response! People have been in tears! I think everyone who voted for us feels as though they have won too \u2013 it\u2019s just been an incredibly uplifting experience for everyone involved.”<\/p>\n

She\u00a0summed up her better-late-than-never marriage to long-time partner Michael with\u00a0“it was a damp, poignant, wonderful day – wonderful for Michael and I, but also incredibly special to have our children there.”<\/p>\n

Photographer Tizia May<\/a> captured this sentiment precisely and, absolutely beautifully. She says, “I was so fortunate to photograph their very intimate wedding. The weather was cold and wet but nothing could dampen their happiness.\u00a0I loved this couple from the moment I met them.”<\/p>\n

And we, too, loved this couple the moment Tizia sent in her submission back in July last year. They certainly weren’t your typical bride and groom, that’s for sure. They were older, had kids (who essentially did the proposing!) and their wedding was a raw and intimate gathering of just six guests, under an old oak tree on a rainy Melbourne day.<\/p>\n

But the one comment from Thurza that really struck me, which ultimately led to their nomination for competition was, “We\u2019d given all those vows a good testing over the years and I was so impressed by Michael\u2019s response to \u2018in sickness and in health\u2019 that after 21 years together it was finally the right time to get married.”<\/p>\n

Like I said. Goosebumps.<\/p>\n

Thurza and Michael will now celebrate their win at InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa<\/a>, flying in business class comfort with Fiji Airways<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We are so looking forward to this very special holiday together,” says Thurza. “The prize is unbelievably luxurious!!”<\/p>\n

(Can I come too?)<\/p>\n

From all of us at Easy Weddings, congratulations and we wish you both the very best. xx<\/p>\n

Rebecca – Real Weddings Editor.<\/p>\n

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