{"id":193861,"date":"2014-08-28T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/real-weddings\/royalty-for-a-day-lauren-jacobs-chic-wedding-in-melbourne\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T22:01:11","slug":"royalty-for-a-day-lauren-jacobs-chic-wedding-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"uk-real-wedding","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/uk\/real-weddings\/royalty-for-a-day-lauren-jacobs-chic-wedding-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Royalty for a day: Lauren & Jacob’s chic wedding in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"

“People always tell you that your wedding day is the most special day of your life. I have to agree.”<\/p>\n

Lauren Grabowski says she and Jacob Muraca were “treated like royalty” at their chic wedding on January 25, 2014. Surrounded by 175 guests, “we could not wipe the smile off our faces all day,” she says, enjoying every moment of the perfectly still 23-degree weather in their “own little bubble” of love.<\/p>\n

It was fate \u2013 and mutual friends \u2013 who brought the 26-year-old lawyer and 28-year-old accountant together at a debutante ball in their late teens.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe both did not want to go to the deb but our tickets had been purchased for us already,\u201d explains Lauren. \u201cJacob was trying to get rid of his ticket on the day but he just couldn\u2019t\u2026 Eight years later we are still together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their wedding style was classic with modern touches including the ceremony music at St Mary\u2019s Parish in East St Kilda. \u201cI walked down the aisle to a beautiful cover of Calvin Harris\u2019s \u201cFeel So Close to You\u201d sang by Abbey Stone,\u201d says Lauren. She says their first dance to Lana Del Ray\u2019s \u201cYoung & Beautiful\u201d \u201ctied in perfectly with the theme.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fitting of the event’s minimalist aesthetic, guests received clear acrylic photo frames to house their In the Booth<\/a> photos, which also doubled as name cards.<\/p>\n

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“I just had to have the red sole,” says Lauren of her dazzling Christian Louboutin platform peep-toes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Jacob proposed to Lauren after a helicopter ride over the Great Barrier Reef in Port Douglas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The classic Audrey Hepburn-inspired bridesmaids’ dresses were designed by Lauren Acciarito, the bride’s friend. The pearl trim belt complemented Lauren’s Steven Khalil couture gown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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AbFab Cakes<\/a> continued the pearl motif with a silver bauble encrusted, three-tiered wedding cake topped with fresh flowers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“We absolutely love our wedding album,” praises Lauren of Sujon Photography<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photos courtesy of Sujon Photography.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":105187,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"uk_real_wedding_category":[],"uk_real_wedding_tag":[],"uk_real_wedding_style":[],"uk_real_wedding_location":[],"uk_real_wedding_setting":[],"uk_real_wedding_colour":[],"uk_real_wedding_competition":[],"class_list":["post-193861","uk-real-wedding","type-uk-real-wedding","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-real-wedding\/193861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-real-wedding"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uk-real-wedding"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-real-wedding\/193861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_category?post=193861"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_tag?post=193861"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_style","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_style?post=193861"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_location?post=193861"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_setting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_setting?post=193861"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_colour","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_colour?post=193861"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_competition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_competition?post=193861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}