Simon + Marah

“Jam brought a calming presence to the wedding lead up and most importantly on the actual day. Her style suited ours to a tee which added to our very personal and relaxed wedding vibe. Lots of our guests were asking who Jam was as she is a very contemporary and impressive celebrant. Recommend this wonderful human highly!”

Simon and Marah sure know how to play host to a rockin’ good ol’ time and their wedding day delivered all the epicness that you’d expect from them and more!

I was introduced to the fabulous Marah through hot new multi-functional venue space in the West The Line. We were both stallholders at their monthly ‘Footscray Finds’ market, where Marah had set up her Houlahoops stall, selling bold and colourful handmade resin earrings. I fell in love immediately with Marah’s vivacious energy and her grand vision for her and Simon’s wedding day spectacular.

In order to pull off Simon and Marah’s epic wedding celebrations they had enlisted a dream-team of the Best in the West wedding vendors. Seriously it was such an honour to be amongst this stella line up of wedding industry magic makers! They had the cool kids at Good Day Club taking care of the venue staging and ceremony styling, complete with colourful streamer installations from Banging Hangins and lush green foliage provided by Green Empire St. Simon and Marah’s wedding ceremony took place within the picturesque amphitheatre of Footscray Community Arts Centre, one of my ALL TIME favourite ceremony spots, and their reception afterparty was held conveniently across the road at the aforementioned multi-functional venue space The Line.

The week of Simon and Marah’s wedding was looking a bit dark and stormy, but thankfully on the day of their ceremony the skies held off and it was perfectly calm. Their guests were greeted with drinks upon arrival to help with making themselves at home and settle into a spot within the amphitheatre. The ceremony kicked off with Marah emerging gloriously through the Bangin Hangin installation at the bottom of the amphitheatre to the thumping tune of Africa by Toto. Simon and Marah declared their everlasting love to each other in front of their nearest and dearest, they then sealed their vows with a kiss accompanied by explosions from eco bio-degradable confetti cannons showering them in glittering love. The ceremony concluded with Simon and Marah being presented for the very first time as husband and wife followed immediately by the amazing Mr Mariachi man Alejandro’s surprise appearance at the top of the amphitheater to serenade our newlyweds and their guests as they made their way across to ‘The Line’ with maracas in hand for the massive reception afterparty.

I could only imagine the wild times had by all at Simon and Marah’s post ceremony celebrations where they had enlisted super rockers Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever along with other bands and DJs to perform live sets at their wedding party extravaganza. Thanks to their eagle eyed photographer Jackson Grant, for capturing all the good vibes from the day and offering a tiny glimpse into the most epic love party of all parties!

Marriage Celebrant: Celebrant Jam
Photographer: Jackson Grant
Styling: Good Day Club
Ceremony: Footscray Community Arts Centre
Reception: The Line
Florist: Miss Kiera Picked a Posy
Installations: Bangin Hangins
Foliage: Green Empire St.
Band: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever