How To Plan An Epic New Zealand Wedding From Australia

It is no secret that Australians are enamoured with the luscious shores of New Zealand – how could you not be? The surroundings is soaring & epic, and the individuals are generous & warm. All of this makes for a quite superb destination for a wedding ceremony, wouldn’t you concur? But how particularly does scheduling a marriage ceremony in New Zealand from Australia engage in out? We asked previous Polka Dot Marriage ceremony real bride Holly, whose amazing Queenstown wedding to Phil can be browse below, how she went about executing their great working day in New Zealand from Sydney in “How To Plan An Epic New Zealand Marriage ceremony From Australia” for The New Zealand Challenge. Their wedding day working day was captured exquisitely by Kellie Francis. 

PDW: Holly, what built you choose New Zealand for your wedding ceremony spot?

New Zealand has to be just one of the most beautiful destinations in the earth – it’s picturesque and tranquil and the people are just remarkable, so it was an simple determination to make to land on New Zealand as a vacation spot, and Queenstown, in distinct, is a person of our favorite destinations. My husband Phil was born and lifted in the US and moved to Australia 12 yrs back. His moms and dads had truly migrated to the US from New Zealand, so most of his prolonged relatives reside in both equally Australia and New Zealand. Not also extensive immediately after Phil moved in excess of to Australia, his mother moved back to NZ and shortly immediately after so did his sister and her stunning relatives.

We realized all people was likely to have to journey to join the wedding from across both of those Australia, New Zealand and many other components of the world – and we actually couldn’t go earlier the gorgeous Queenstown, so everybody could working experience how amazing of a spot it is.

PDW: What were your initial concerns when you made the decision to have your wedding day in NZ? Company? Vendors? And many others?

As we were being scheduling our marriage from Australia, we wished to try out and make things as straightforward as possible for ourselves, which was to uncover a wonderful place that could also do a lot of the further preparing for us – which includes transportation, flowers, décor, foodstuff etc. We were so thankful to uncover the wonderful Winehouse in Gibbston Valley, and the unbelievable Sam who just produced our lives so easy by organising most items for us. For parts that Sam could not organise, she delivered strategies on other sellers and then these distributors experienced their recommendations too.

It was also vital for us to discover a photographer that we would gel with. You devote your overall day with this person, so you want to make certain you feel snug and comfortable with them. We were being thrilled when we uncovered Kellie Francis – we swiftly bonded on our original Skype phone and was unbelievably handy recommending further sellers like our videographer, Emily from Woven Visuals. Both of those Kellie & Em just made our day added distinctive and enjoyment, understood the venue and offsite areas to shoot at, and then made the most breathtaking photos we could at any time think about.

PDW: What was your favorite component of preparing your wedding ceremony?

Our favorite portion of setting up the wedding ceremony was just the one excursion we did above to Queenstown prior to get a entire internet site tour of the venue, and go by way of the finer information of seating arrangements, desk settings, together with the meals and wine tasting!

On this vacation, we also received to have a person on just one time with our incredible celebrant Charlotte Winkel (from Your Massive Day & Shaken and Stirred Weddings) to get to know every single other improved. We initially bonded around our adore for doing work out, so we did an F45 session jointly, followed by a bottle of Rosè. Which is the usual way to get to know your celebrant, ideal?!

PDW: Any difficulties you confronted planning your working day from Australia? Anything at all you would do in a different way?

Truthfully, it was so simple. New Zealanders are just the most accommodating individuals and absolutely everyone produced our life so simple. We had FaceTime/Skype phone calls with the venue, our photographer and videographer and our celebrant. I truthfully do not feel it would be overly various doing it by means of length than it would if we were being scheduling in just our household town.

PDW: If you ended up arranging a New Zealand wedding ceremony from Australia all over again, exactly where would you start off and who would you get hold of?

Venue very first – that is going to identify every little thing about it. It’ll enable you to know what vibe you want for the marriage ceremony, it’ll deliver you with your date to be certain all sellers are out there, and if you are blessed ample to have another person at the venue to assistance coordinate just about anything like we did, then even improved!

PDW: Any other guidelines & information for arranging a wedding day offshore?

If you really do not have a venue coordinator, I would endorse sourcing a marriage coordinator that has associations with other suppliers to assistance.

PDW: Any favourite NZ distributors you want to give a shout-out to?

Charlotte Winkel – our celebrant from ‘Your Large Day’ and ‘Shaken & Stirred Weddings’ – she delivered a ceremony that matched our entertaining, loving and quirky personalities.

Kellie Francis – our photographer produced the most astounding photographs that we will cherish for the rest of our life. She also produced us really feel so cozy and peaceful, additionally was very organised in the guide up.

The Winehouse – Such a beautiful venue and, as talked about, designed every little thing actually arrive to lifestyle for us by performing with most vendors on our behalf

In2Food Catering – They operate immediately with the Winehouse and supplied some of the most remarkable food I have eaten. They took a person of my husbands only requests, staying tacos for canapes, and then mouth watering shared plates for mains.

Sarah Bergin at Pure Hair Studios – making sure my hair seemed perfection on the day, and stayed place the full working day, like from the wind at the major of the mountain.