Morgan and Callum got married at The Billabong Kuranda, sage green and hints of baby pink woven through a day they'd designed around one thing above all else: making sure every guest actually had fun.
Morgan and Callum matched on Tinder at seventeen — long before either of them had met in person. Morgan flew all the way to Nhulunbuy, out on the remote Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory, just to be there for Callum's eighteenth birthday. Three months later, Callum had packed up and moved to Cairns, and they haven't been apart since. Nine years on, both of them now operating heavy machinery at a coal mine in Central Queensland, their relationship still runs on the same thing it always has: camping trips, good takeaway eaten somewhere with a view, and any excuse for a holiday together.
The proposal, when it finally came, was worth the wait — over seven years in, with Morgan admittedly getting impatient. On the last morning of a Bali holiday, Callum arranged a floating breakfast in the pool of their private villa, ring propped up in the middle of the tray, while their friends Rosie and Dion — who'd smuggled the ring over from Australia in the first place — listened in from just outside the gate. Callum had been sitting on that secret for nearly three months, dodging a few near-misses from Morgan's family along the way.
For the wedding, Morgan and Callum's main brief was simple: keep it fun, keep it easy, and don't let the traditions tip over into stress. Neither of them had ever done a proper couple's photoshoot before and were genuinely nervous about it — but that's exactly the kind of nerves that tend to disappear once the day actually gets going.
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Venue: The Billabong Kuranda
Celebrant: Blessings by Kate Bellman
Videographer: OTA Productions
Catering: Coast to Coast Golden Roast
Dress: Irene Costa Devine Bridal
Band: Careless Band
 
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