Love and Light Wedding Festival

About Love and Light Wedding Festival

Fresh and contemporary, Love + Light Wedding Festival showcases the region’s best and most creative wedding suppliers, making finding your dream team easy!

We have a whole weekend of celebration inspiration, adventure and fun featuring wedding workshops, venue + accommodation open days and menu tastings on Saturday 23^rd May and a wedding festival showcase and rolling fashion event on Sunday 24^th May at the incredible Mount Ophir Estate.

Sweet Keepsake’s Wedding Workshop: SATURDAY 23 MAY, 9:30AM - 1:30PM
Plenary Room, Tuileries @ De Bortoli, Drummond Street, Rutherglen

Anita Human is the sweet talent behind Vintique Cakes, a boutique sugar art business based in rural NSW. She is mostly recognised for her regal and timeless cake designs, winning awards across Australia and having her work featured in magazines and books internationally. As a pastry chef she teaches and demonstrates sugar art all over Australia at major industry events, cooking schools and retailers. She also works in product development and packaging design with KWARE Australia.
Join award-winning local pastry chef Anita Human of Vintique Cakes for a fun-filled morning of sweet delight. Learn the sweet art of whiskey caramel sauce, decadent chocolate truffles and wedding cookie keepsakes. Each student will take home their own whiskey caramel pot, handmade couverture chocolate truffles in a selection of four flavours, and decorated fondant cookies. Recipes and notes included.
- Whiskey caramel sauce pots: Learn to make an easy whiskey caramel sauce, recipe included and small jar to take home.
- Truffles: Learn to make delicious couverture chocolate truffles, how to create different flavours. Recipe included and four different Flavor truffles to take home.
- Wedding Cookie decorating: Learn how to create simple yet gorgeous cookies for wedding keepsakes. Different techniques in fondant, adding decorations, embossing, gold leaf etc... Tips for those on a budget. Recipe included. 3-4 cookies to take home. Cookies are pre baked.

Each student will also receive a free cookie embosser to take home.

Florals Workshop with Thistle + Fern: SATURDAY 23 MAY, 10AM - 4PM
Mount Ophir Estate, Stillards Lane Rutherglen VIC 3685. Access strictly via Gate A
Arrive by 9:45AM

Carla and team from Rutherglen Florist and more recently Thistle & Fern Florist in Wodonga will provide all of the materials to create a number of installations and arrangements in the events space at Mount Ophir Estate. Learn some tricks of the trade and help to create florals to decorate the Main Hall space at Mount Ophir Estate. Maybe you are a DIY Bride who, along with your bride tribe, are interested in decking out your own wedding?! Maybe you have an interest in wedding and event florals?! Perhaps you're a florist in the making and keen to pick up a few more floral tips, or, you are interested in getting into the styling and florals side of the wedding industry?!

Wedding Festival Showcase + Fashion Event: SUNDAY 24 MAY
Mount Ophir Estate
Stillards Lane Rutherglen VIC 3685
Access strictly via Gate A

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