They met beneath a rose arbour and, following their wedding, they were sprinkled in its very petals.

Casie, a doctor, and Damien, a project manager, met at a party one night, which just happened to be staged at Damien’s family home.

She had been invited through Damien’s sister, who she’d met at medical school. Casie hadn’t yet clapped eyes on Damien though. 

The garden at Damien’s family home is so picturesque it has appeared in the pages of Home Beautiful magazine. So, Casie grew rather agitated when party guests began throwing a Frisbee about and repeatedly hitting their Pierre de Ronsard rose arbour, showering petals everywhere. Casie remembers: “I said, ‘We have to rake up all these petals’ and Damien appeared, went into the shed and got me a rake. The rest, as they say, is history.” (The rake came out again as a humorous memento during their wedding speeches.)

The October wedding began with Casie being transported in an Audi to the ceremony at St Peter’s College Chapel. The Zephyr Quarter provided a pleasant backdrop. Casie wore a white, strapless, Duchess silk number from Rapsimo. Her bridesmaids wore gowns in a biscuit hue, sashed with black grosgrain ribbons, from George Gross and Harry Who. The men wore black suits.

Casie and Damien were married before 90 guests, with Casie’s family having swept in from her birthplace of Queensland.

Post-ceremony, photographs were taken at Damien’s family property and the duo was dutifully sprinkled in the arbour’s rose petals.

The reception followed at the Art Gallery of SA, where guests enjoyed a sit-down meal and scrumptious wedding cake from How Sweet It is, with creamy frosting and peonies on top (matching Casie’s bouquet).

Dancing is one of Casie’s favourite pastimes, so she enjoyed both a bridal waltz to Tony Bennett’s The Way You Look Tonight and a father/daughter dance to Glenn Shorrock’s A Little Ray of Sunshine. 

The bonbonniere was designed by the couple - a printed box, tied up with a grosgrain ribbon and a card that read: “They met in Damien’s parents’ garden. He proposed at Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen. Today, Casie and Damien are married.”

How to top it all off? A night spent at the presidential suite at the Stamford Grand in Glenelg – the same room singer Dido once inhabited.

DIRECTORY

Ceremony venue
St Peter’s College Chapel
Reception venue
Art Gallery of SA
Rings
Bell and Brunt
Bride’s dress
Rapsimo Bridal Wear
Bridesmaids’ dresses
George Gross & Harry Who
Groom’s suit
Tailors of Distinction
Groomsmen’s suits
Ferrari’s
Wedding cake
How Sweet It Is
Flowers
Victoria Flowers of Hyde Park
Hair
The Hair Lounge with Beauty
Make-up
Proof Cosmetics
Music
The Zephyr Quartet and
Tom Putnam & band
Transport
Eurocars
Registry
David Jones
Photography
Glenn Hawke Photography
Stationery materials
Colin Murch Office Equipment
Wedding night
Stamford Grand Adelaide
Honeymoon
Hayman Island, Queensland