{"id":193875,"date":"2013-11-07T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/real-weddings\/lauren-leighs-modern-country-wedding-in-central-victoria\/"},"modified":"2022-03-16T15:32:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T04:32:03","slug":"lauren-leighs-modern-country-wedding-in-central-victoria","status":"publish","type":"au-real-wedding","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/real-weddings\/lauren-leighs-modern-country-wedding-in-central-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"A modern country wedding in central Victoria: Lauren &amp; Leigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Having\u00a0lived by the motto &#8220;live, laugh, love&#8221;, it&#8217;s no wonder the wedding of Lauren and Leigh was filled with happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Bride Lauren said the couple&#8217;s life objective to live every moment, laugh every day and love beyond words was encapsulated on their wedding day; March 30, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting at a country football event in 2008, the pair began their long-distance relationship, overcoming a 300km stretch to be together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We talked for hours on the phone and showed off our poetic talents via email,&#8221; reflects Lauren. &#8220;Things quickly progressed as did the kilometres in our cars, and the prices of fuel skyrocketed, as did our love for one another,&#8221; added Leigh.<\/p>\n<p>Within a year they were living together in Ballarat and a few years later on Lauren&#8217;s 28th birthday, Leigh proposed.<\/p>\n<p>Plans were soon in place for a modern country wedding, with a ceremony on Lauren&#8217;s family rural Mangalore property, overlooking the banks of the Goulburn River. One hundred and twelve guests then gathered at Kirwan&#8217;s Bridge Winery in Nagamble for a celebration boasting the region&#8217;s finest food and wine.<\/p>\n<p>A highlight of the day was the moment Lauren&#8217;s father saw her in her <a title=\"Raffaele Ciuca\" href=\"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/WeddingDress\/Melbourne\/RaffaeleCiucaBridalAndFormalWear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raffaele Ciuca<\/a> bridal gown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My dad is a formidable character as well as a devoted family man &#8211; a farmer who does not wear his heart on his sleeve,&#8221; states Lauren. &#8220;I asked him numerous times in the lead up to the wedding as to whether he would cry&#8230;to wish he responded &#8216;it&#8217;s not your funeral, Lauren&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well my dad did have tears in his eyes, and words cannot describe how much that meant to me,&#8221; she beams.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_006\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_006.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"929\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_007\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_007.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_005\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_005.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_001\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_001.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_021\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_021.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_003\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_003.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_008\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_008.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Lauren said the family property was the ideal setting for a modern country wedding. &#8220;We were married under a rotunda that was transported to the farm many years ago from the top of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_029\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_029.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"929\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_009\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_009.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_010\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_010.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_026\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_026.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_027\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_027.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"933\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_012\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_012.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_016\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_016.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The day&#8217;s design was very clean and fresh, based around a colour theme of white, green and a hint of black. Lauren turned to Etsy and eBay for some of her decorations, which included personalised lanterns, fairy lights, table numbers and wooden signs made by Lauren&#8217;s brother using old shearing shed materials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_036\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_036.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"929\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_047\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_047.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_037\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_037.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_054\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_054.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_043\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_043.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"929\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_034\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_034.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_029\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_029.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Lauren described the day as more incredible than she could have ever imagined. &#8220;It was just the way we wanted to start the new chapter in our life together.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_047\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_047.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"929\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_039\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_039.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_040\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_040.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_061\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_061.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_051\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_051.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"929\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_024\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_024.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_026\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lauren_Leigh_Country-Wedding_309_026.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"463\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Guests were treated to bomboniere of a personalised milk chocolate Easter egg &#8211; fitting as the wedding was held on Easter Saturday. &#8220;Sue Vinden is an amazing chocolatier from a small country town out of Ballarat, Creswick. She was willing to make over 100 individually handmade chocolate Easter eggs and hand pipe every guests name on them in white chocolate,&#8221; says Lauren. 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