{"id":194006,"date":"2013-05-20T03:53:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T17:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/real-weddings\/body-armour-designer-styles-modern-romantic-wedding\/"},"modified":"2022-03-16T15:31:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T04:31:49","slug":"body-armour-designer-styles-modern-romantic-wedding","status":"publish","type":"au-real-wedding","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/real-weddings\/body-armour-designer-styles-modern-romantic-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Body armour designer styles modern romantic wedding: Hayley & Chris"},"content":{"rendered":"
Style-savvy bride Hayley Wandelt-Smith had just graduated from a Bachelor of Fashion Design in Canberra when her beau of seven years, Chris Morgan, proposed.<\/p>\n
It was an exciting time. A fashion degree, a wedding to plan and then, a move to Melbourne \u2013 Hayley had accepted her first design role at a company unlikely of an upcoming fashionista – Australian Defence Apparel. Designing protective clothing for the military and law enforcement, she says, \u201cI design body armour by day and more girly things in my spare time!\u201d<\/p>\n
And there’s fewer more girly things to design than a wedding. Hayley was her own wedding planner and, armed with a fashion degree, she styled the pair\u2019s modern romantic wedding using mood boards to outline her feminine vision. “It helped to get everyone on the same page,” she says.<\/p>\n
Despite having all the skills and creativity needed to design her own bridal gown (she had already designed her aunty\u2019s wedding dress), Hayley decided not to put herself under unnecessary pressure and opted to buy a ready-to-wear design from Fairytales Bridal Boutique<\/a>. \u201cPeople expected that I would design my own gown, but I wanted to enjoy the experience of planning the wedding and not have to worry about doing my own fittings,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n In front of 120 guests, Chris and Hayley exchanged vows before a beautiful release ceremony on the steps of the picturesque Chateau Wyuna<\/a> chapel in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges.<\/p>\n High school sweethearts, Chris and Hayley were together for seven years before Chris proposed. Hayley says, “He planned a surprise proposal, but I totally knew what he was up to. You don’t spend seven years with someone and not know what they are up to!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n She adds, “He took me out to one of my favourite places for dinner (Black Mountain Tower). It was so cute to see him nervous! By the time we finally had dessert and went up to the lookout, I was so excited that I didn’t even let him finish the proposal! As soon as I saw the ring box I started to squeal and cry and practically bowled him over. Poor guy didn’t even get the chance to get down on one knee.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n
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