Qld’s biggest weddings of 2024: All the photos and details
They are dubbed the best day of our lives – but sometimes the wedding event can be even better than we expected.
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They are dubbed the best day of our lives – but sometimes the wedding event can be even better than we expected.
We have had no shortage of beautiful – and quirky – weddings in 2024, and these are some of the best of the best.
‘Get married a different month’
This couple married in the middle of a tropical monsoon weather event, but thankfully the rain held off for their ceremony.
Mitchell Malt, 30, and Jamie Malt (nee Harper), 28, tied the knot on March 23 with a ceremony at Maison La Plage on Noosa’s Main Beach, followed by a reception at Noosa Boathouse.
“We have travelled to Noosa many times just the two of us and each time has been so beautiful, it was actually the first time it had rained when we have been there,’’ Jamie says.
Couple’s epic City Hall wedding
This couple married in a beautiful, flower-filled ceremony on the lawn at Old Government House and followed up with a reception for 350 guests at Brisbane City Hall.
Kimmie Tran and Bao Pham, who live in Eight Miles Plains, wed on June 22 and went all out: the bride had three dresses, a bubble tea cart dispensed drinks in monogrammed cups, there was a lion dance, a traditional tea ceremony the day before and a limitless bar tab.
Two cultures, 370 guests, three days
With 370 guests, a ceremony on Speaker’s Green at Queensland Parliament House and a reception in the main auditorium at Brisbane City Hall, this wedding was a huge undertaking.
But Auchenflower couple Christopher Piggott-McKellar and Sarath Bodapati, who have been together for eight years, were determined to personalise the event which ran over three days from April 5-7 by handwriting notes for each of their guests on the back of the place cards at the reception.
Guests stunned after speech gag
A Townsville couple incorporated their love of the North Queensland city’s rugby league team into their wedding, with their first dance to the club song, Cowboys Are My Team.
The South Townsville couple, who married on September 29 last year on the lawn at Townsville’s Bridgewater restaurant, followed up with a long lunch reception for their 56 guests inside. Jane Meredith and Ben Galvin had been together just over a year when they wed, after meeting more than 10 years ago at work.
Couple’s epic Bali wedding
A three-day celebration at a clifftop Bali resort that spared no expense was the culmination of a love story that began three years ago.
Gold Coast couple Luke Brechin and Katie Stevens married on August 20 at Ungasan Clifftop Resort with more than 80 guests who flew in, and more than 150 family and friends joining via livestream, with an event also the night before and a recovery the day after. Guests were briefed to wear “neutrals” and dress formally.
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After meeting at a football fan day where they were both working in 2018, this Kedron couple celebrated their wedding with two ceremonies that celebrated their cultural backgrounds.
A Chinese tea ceremony was held at the bride Nancy Hsu’s family home in Macgregor on March 13 followed by a full western ceremony and reception, which included nods to groom Andy Allan’s heritage, with 88 guests at Summergrove Estate at Carool in northern NSW on March 16.
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After meeting at a primary school tutoring class, this couple met again in high school, went to the formal together and then when they thought they’d never meet again, ran into each other at university.
Jennie Tran and Kha Ngo have been together for the 10 years since, marrying in the Brisbane City Hall and holding their reception in the Watermall at the Queensland Art Gallery on June 3.
The Wishart couple, who own Espresso Hut in Eight Mile Plains, worked “seven days a week for five years straight” due to staff difficulties over Covid and were determined to have an amazing wedding and celebration.
Couple’s wacky choice turns heads
After knowing each other for years, this couple, who were living in different states, started dating during Covid via Facetime.
Tim Mountford and Bernadette Syrimi married after three years together on April 20 this year at The Refinery in Brisbane’s Newstead before 90 guests.
The Noosa Heads couple broke with a few traditions, opting not to have a cake and to use that money towards a gin bar, and rather than a first dance together they asked everyone to join them in one big first dance to Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance with Somebody.
Bride blown away by mum’s epic wedding gesture
This couple met as teenagers and after 12 years together they married in a beautiful, fun-filled ceremony that included a surprise Maori blessing and haka.
Southport couple Jesse Bowker and Monique St Clair met over the summer of 2011/2012 while camping with mutual friends at Wilson’s Promontory in Victoria. Jesse had just turned 18 and Monique was 17 and after living in Melbourne, then travelling to Europe, they moved to the Gold Coast.
The planning fail that made for a dream wedding
This bride and groom met in Brisbane on a night out three years ago, hitting it off straight away.
Burleigh Waters couple Camille Lagana and James Ridley married three years later with both ceremony and reception at Summergrove Estate on August 4 before 94 guests.
“We met in July 2021 at Sixes and Sevens bar in Brisbane,’’ Camille says.
Bride and groom break major wedding tradition
Only a few weeks out from their wedding, Ashleigh Ferguson and Byron Thick had dinner with their close friends. They asked them what they would do differently about their own weddings.
Their answer? They would ditch this one tradition.
“In the moment, Byron and I were like, why can’t we do that?! So we did,’’ Ashleigh says.
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