Last weekend we were in Victoria to celebrate Nathan and Kelly’s wedding. The ceremony and reception were held at Werribee Park and Gardens, which has to be about the most scenic place you could ever get married. I would hate to be the guy responsible for mowing their lawns in straight lines, though I reckon he’d have an awesome ride-on mower.

Anyway; with a perfectly blue sky and temperatures hovering around the late teens, they couldn’t have asked for a nicer day to get married! (Celeste – who forgot to bring a coat – may have argued that it could have been a touch warmer, but I thought the weather was just lovely!)

Unsurprisingly, the paparazzi were out in force, snapping shots of all the celebrities that had turned up.

In keeping with the wedding’s fairytale theme, Kelly and her cohort of bridesmaids made a spectacular entrance on horse and carriage. (And after the ceremony, the driver and his young assistant were giving rides around the grounds to everyone – it was awesome!)

After a sand ceremony, a butterfly release, and of course the exchanging of vows and first kiss, Nathan and Kelly walked back down the aisle together as Mr and Mrs Rolfe, showered in rose petals and bubbles all the way.

Werribee Gardens was such a magical backdrop for a wedding, and I’ve no doubt that Nathan and Kelly will have some amazing photos to commemorate their day.

The reception was held inside the ballroom of Werribee Mansion. The food and beverages were divine – I especially loved the dessert, which was a sampling of four different mini-desserts. The profiteroles were the easy the favourite!

After cutting the cake and a well choreographed bridal waltz (which put all of us “just sway to the music” crowd to shame!), we ducked out a little early to wait for our cab. Unfortunately, cabs in Werribee do not seem to understand the concept of a booking – not only did they not have the maxi-taxi that we booked, but after repeated phone calls to try and work out where they were, we were told us that they’d be over two hours late! Dodgy! A big thanks to Bill (Kristy’s Dad) and Ray (Michelle’s Dad) who trooped out to pick us all up.

Still, it did little to sour what was otherwise an amazing day! A big thanks to Nathan and Kelly for inviting us along – we felt very privileged to have been a part of it all!

More photos online in the Nathan and Kelly’s Wedding album on Picasa, or on Facebook.

After work tonight, Bender, Nathan, Karl, and myself went for beers and dinner at Lonestar. After that, I headed to Rebel Sport down at Chermside, to pick up my heart rate monitor which had been in for repairs. Seems like a pretty normal thing to do of an evening.

Well, seemingly if you’re a “kid” aged (say) 15-17, your ideal plans crossed somewhat with mine. The number of kids down at Chermie was amazing! There must have been about 300 – 400 of them, all loitering around the cinemas, Playtime, and just outside the entrance. Madness! But why, I ask you? When I was that age, I would have been either at work, or home doing school work. Why don’t these kids have jobs? Why aren’t they studying? What’s so cool about hanging around a shopping centre? What’s wrong with the world? (Or have I missed something here… ?)