Josh + Marni

This past weekend our friends Josh and Marni were married (congrats!). A perfect day- great atmosphere + great friends + great food + great music + lots to drink... What more can one really ask for? It was truly a “Sydney” wedding. Just as the dress code on the invitation read “elegantly casual” the wedding matched the attire. As Josh put it best, “think Hamptons cocktail party,” or even better, “think an afternoon cocktail party at the Trump’s Hamptons estate,” a perfect description, with the addition of the breathtaking Sydney Harbour and the city as a backdrop.

The wedding was a precise display of Josh and Marni’s unique and quirky personalities. It was all about the details, from the location at The Gap Bluff, at south head (the ends of the world) where the harbour meets the sea, to the ever so appropriate nautical theme. That’s just the beginning, there were custom made pinwheels and other hand crafted decorations, hand sewed napkins for every guest (referred to as serviettes in Oz, which I am still trying to understand), a borrowed ship’s bell, Tabasco sauce name cards (which some of us sprinkled on our meal- genius), specially ordered striped straws, Corona with a lime (which is not as typical in Oz as it is in the US) and did I mention Mexican food? The perfect ingredients…

The evening drew to an end with more drinks at the Watson Bay Hotel. As the sun set over Sydney, I got a bit nostalgic, which was obviously exacerbated by an excess of cocktails. While I am sad that the wedding marks their move back to NYC, I cannot imagine a better planned event that celebrates Josh and Marni, their friends, and this upside-down city…