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HOORAY MAGAZINE FEATURE: Colourful wedding with live roaming band

Sham + Gerard's colourful wedding extravaganza included tinsel, sequins, a cocktail bus, a pool party and live roaming band complete with glitter beard.

​We worked together with a kickass vendor team to bring this elopement-style wedding to life. Then Hooray Magazine decided to feature it - woohoo!

First up is the video (with original music by us), then read on for the full story and rad snaps from the day.
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Wedding video song; Tiny Proposal, by Fidel & Sarah

The couple

Meet Sham + Gerard. 
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Sham is an actor/dancer/performance artist with an infectious smile and killer dance moves. Gerard is a skeletal articulator, which is as cool as it sounds - a kind of taxidermy of tiny amalgamated animal bones. Both are keen music lovers and brilliant artists in their own right.

And since all our couples get amalganames, Sham + Gerard are heretofore known as = Shamrard.


Sham + Gerard: Rock'n'roll couple in rachel burke tinsel jacket

The plan

Kate from Good Day Club put together a killer wedding concept including a cocktail bus, pool party, and a veritable f-load of sparkly, glitter, colourful decor. We kinda like dressing in with wedding themes, so we took it too far this time with glitter boots, glitter drumsticks, glitter fringes and glitter beards. At some point during the day, Kate hung a disco ball 'round my neck. Who needs stage lights eh?

My glitter wedding boots & roaming band drum
Retro colourful cactus wedding sign
Rock n roll wedding disco balls + bangin hangins
Electric Confetti neon sign in retro wedding cocktail bus
Non traditional wedding makeup on alternative bride Sham
Wedding guitarist Fidel getting a glitter beard
Live roaming band 'Fidel & Sarah' ceremony processional


​The ceremony

Being the wonderful wedding musicians that we are, we took charge of the music plans. We like the wedding songs we play to have some meaning for our couples. We start with the simple stuff:

Fidel: "What kinda tunes you like, Gerard?"
Gerard: "Definitely into the alternative stuff..."
Sarah: "You like punk, dude?"
Gerard: "Oh yeah, we both love punk!"
Sarah: "Rad. You know the Misfits?"
Gerard: "Of course! Sham loves 'em!"

So we put two and two together. Gerard plays with skulls, Sham loves misfits. And that's how Shamrard's processional song was born. We rocked on in behind them with portable drums and glitter absolutely everywhere, and they danced their way down the aisle like happy lunatics.

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Shamrard's processional song sounded a bit like this, but with drums instead of uke, and glitter flying everywhere.
Wedding ceremony with live musicians processional
Live roaming band with drums during wedding ceremony aisle walk
Awesome live music processional dance wedding ceremony
Live acoustic duo during elopement ceremony wedding
Acoustic wedding singer/guitarist Fidel & Sarah
Alternative wedding singer / drummer Fidel & Sarah
Processional song dance with live acoustic band
Canapés + ceremony music with live roaming band Fidel & Sarah
Walk-in ceremony aisle song with live music
Colourful wedding ceremony with live music featured on Hooray Magazine
Alternative bride Sham with cactus wedding ceremony backdrop
Colourful wedding ceremony with Gerard in Asos sequin shirt
Exchanging rings at colourful wedding ceremony featured on Hooray magazine
Good Grace and Humour colourful wedding ceremony floral arbour teepee
Live ceremony exit song for Gerard + Sham's colourful wedding
Alternative wedding ceremony recessional song with live band
Rockstar vegas-style wedding elopement with sequin shirt & tinsel jacket


​The party

Post-ceremony, the party kicked on with poolside portraits, gourmet grazing, a magical cocktail bus, and plenty of dancing. Shamrard's first dance extended to an all-out boogie fest, and then we closed the night with some super romantic arm-in-arm serenades. The end!
Colourful wedding for alternative couple featured on Hooray magazine
Colourful wedding neons + canapes featured on Hooray mag
Rockstar retro wedding cake in vintage cocktail bus
Vegas-style elopement wedding celebration drinks
Retro wedding cocktail hour with canapes + campari
Non traditional wedding with electric confetti neons, mobile bar + sweets
Retro rocknroll wedding canapes from mobile bar
Awesome vegas style elopement with live band music
Colourful wedding band for canapes + cocktail music
Live wedding band acoustic duo Fidel and Sarah
Non-traditional wedding rockstar - alternative groom with sequin shirt + glitter
Tinsel, glitter, colour-filled wedding first dance to live band
Colourful wedding bangin hangins reception on Hooray mag
Tableware at pop up wedding elopement with outdoor dinner reception
Rock and roll wedding elopement gourmet reception food
Hooray magazine featured elopement party reception
Pop up wedding elopement dinner + tattooed groom
Disco pop up wedding vintage furniture hire from Good Day Club
Bold colourful wedding styling + rachel burke tinsel jacket
Cool couple at retro vintage disco wedding in cactus garden
Non traditional wedding band with glitter beard + glitter fringe
Tinsel sparkle wedding first dance to live band
Colourful wedding reception first dance with acoustic band Fidel & Sarah
Alternative disco 70s wedding dance with live band
Live wedding band at alternative retro reception party
Acoustic music roaming band at colourful australian wedding
Alternative rock n roll wedding dance to live band music
First dance with live band at outdoor wedding reception party
Rad wedding dance music by live band fidel & sarah
Disco glitter wedding with acoustic music by Fidel & Sarah
Disco rock wedding dance to live acoustic band Fidel & Sarah
Electric confetti neon wedding with rockstar couple
Live music wedding dance with acoustic band fidel and sarah
Wedding dance to adelaide acoustic duo fidel and sarah
Rockstar wedding band's glitter boots on reception stage
Non traditional romantic wedding songs by live band Fidel & Sarah
Alternative rock wedding couple watching live band fidel & sarah
Electric confetti neon behind wedding dance with live music
Pop up wedding band stage for rock n roll elopement with live music
Couple hugging to alternative romantic wedding songs by acoustic duo Fidel & Sarah
Live alternative wedding song last dance couple clapping
acoustic duo fidel and sarah gold and grit photography stina
"The best way to make an entrance to your ceremony is by dancing. This is best facilitated with fidel and sarah in tow, playing up a storm! "
STINA EVJAN - GOLD AND GRIT PHOTOGRAPHY


​The after party

You just can't have a pool party without Fidel jumping in in his gold shorts...
Fidel & Sarah post wedding pool party fun
Awesome wedding after party pool fun - Fidel jumps in

...and they lived awesomely ever after.
The end.

Alternative wedding testimonial for Adelaide acoustic duo Fidel & Sarah
" Fidel and Sarah are excellent humans. They bring a great vibe, an awesome range of tunes, and have a rad dynamic energy that seeps through their music! Bouncing from super fun covers of 80's punk songs like 'Skulls' by The Misfits, to incredibly adorable original songs... they made the soundscape a blissful hit. ”
LEGENDARY MODELS - GERARD + SHAM

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The suppliers

Street cred goes out to all the rad suppliers who put this wedding shindig together.

Photography: Gold and Grit
Live Music: Fidel & Sarah (that's us)
Videographer: BTW ILY
Event Styling + Hire : Good Day Club 
Location: La Serre
Florals: Good Grace and Humour
Catering: Finesse Catering Group 
Drinks: Miss Angie Bus
Sham wore: Moonstruck Bridal + Rachel Burke
Gerard wore: ASOS
Rings: Midnight Kiss
Tableware: Betty May Vintage Hire
Hair + Makeup: Made You Blush
Streamer Install: Bangin Hangins
Balloons: The Confetti Room
Cake + Desserts: Torte By Mirjana

With special thanks to Gerard + Sham
and to Hooray magazine who went nuts over this love-fest and featured it on their mag/blog.
Their fav detail? "It has to be Fidel's glitter-filled beard!"
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