Garden wedding

Our friends Garry and Kate tied the knot just before Christmas, in an intimate ceremony in the Treasury Gardens, East Melbourne. It was a beautiful sunshiney day. The actual site of the ceremony was the John F Kennedy memorial in the Gardens, which was erected after JFK's assassination. Today it's a peaceful area, surrounded by lush greenery, pretty ponds (with a fierce duck that attacked me for walking too close to its ducklings) and a lovely waterfall. The sound of falling water was a serene background to the ceremony -- we think it should be the new wedding standard!

We toasted their vows with champagne cocktails at the Sofitel and then lunch at Mo Vida. Say no more. (Okay, for non-Melburnians, I will. Mo Vida is probably Melbourne's most splendid Spanish restaurant. It has redefined anchovies: one of its signature dishes is white anchovy with smoked tomato sorbet. Ooooh.)

  

Mo Vida is in Hosier Lane, one of Melbourne's famous little laneways in the CBD. Hosier Lane is renowned for its ... um ... street art. There was another bride (in white) being photographed in Hosier Lane at the same time, but we think Kate knocked the socks off her.