Hi Mate,
I too am an Aussie, I married a polish girl in 2004 with the wedding in Sydney, and best day of my life until out little boy came along recently to match another great day. I was actually scanning this website for ideas for our little fellow's baptism coming up, wen I saw your message.
Our wedding was a mix of Aussie, Polish, all the way , and was a big winner.
Preist did the ceremony, very much half / half, and was very good. I.e, some of the prayers were said in polish, and a reading or two in English.
All guests could follow the service all of the way through.
Do you Brett -my name, take Malgozata (used Polish Name), not Margaret, to be your wife. ect. , and other really simple stuff, that really went down well with everyone.
Readings in Polish, always following another different one in English.
I dressed in Tux, Marg in white wedding dress, - No differences as I can recall in the whole ceremony as to any other wedding.
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The reception. - On arriving at the reception we had photos taken on the golf course in the normal manner, and were then wisked into the room where the bridal parties walk out for the entrance to the reception.
I had organised, a Cracoviak outfit , prior to this, which I picked up from the Polish Club in Ashfield. You know its the picture of the bloke on a Zywiec beer bottle.
I got changed, just prior to walking out, and this was a surprise to my wife as well.
I still remember the absolute joy, applause, and laughter, on everyones faces, in seeing me in a big pair of black boots, these funny overalls and Jacket, and a peacock feather hat, walking into the reception hall with my lovely wife in her wedding dress.
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That was heaps of fun. In walking into the reception and after the laughter had died down, My wifes parents were there to greet us, with the bread, salt, and wine(I think?).
We had our MC describe what was going on, whilst, they threw the salt and broke the bread ect. - wedding size was about 200 guests. About 150 english speak 50 polish.
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Food. - We had nibbles organised for the guests in the reception hall, so that they could eat, while we were having photos taken. Bread, and polish meats (hams), salami, which went down really well for everyone, in that waiting for things to start time.
Food - we did alternate meals for everone, Entree- 1) Tartar , and 2)Prawn Coctails (ausise style - lettuce mayo) .
My comment is that their was far too much waste on the tartars , with the raw egg, and raw fillet, going to alot of waste. - as alot of people had just come off nibbles, they really didn't want to eat the tartar.
Mains , we did a steak, fish alternate , everone loved it. vegetarian on request.
Dessert, we did the wedding cake cut up, with ice cream, cream.
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Drink, - I had organised it with the club prior, that I could supply the Vodka, we had 2 bottles of Wybrovia on every table, that I purchased bulk at discount liquor.
This was a hit - and although my friends are usually beer drinkers, the occasion lent itself to vodka drinking. My bar tab on beers at the end of the night wasn't actually that bad.
We gave out shot glasses to everyone as our bonbonaire gift. These were not expensive, and I had them printed on by a glass printer with our names and wedding date and the words, Cheers and Na Zdowie on the back. These shot glasses are something that all of my friends still have on their bars or kitchens today and were a big winner, as compared to the almonds or chockies that you normally get at weddings and toss out.
Music, Dance. - We had a polish band (mother in laws request) and an Aussie cover style band. It was an overkill, but the best thing was the music never stopped, and my friends got into the spirit of the polish singinging after many vodka's.
Tip - I did dance lessons with my wife, leading up to the wedding, and we did the rumba as a first dance and everone was impressed.
Speaches - all in English, except my father (aussie) who had a go at his in Polish. He mumbled his way through, and finished each sentance with Na Zdovie , which everyone new what to do.
Had a great day, and wouldn't change a thing, except mabee cutting back on the tartar.
Coming up to 5 years married, parents in law great. I can only speak about 2 dozen words after 7 years together, which is poor I know. My wife still speaks polish to her parents all of the time. I am looking forward to our little boy learning Polish as he grows up.
Honeymoon - we did Europe, with the compulsary stop at Poland for more relies, had the video of the wedding and reception flown over to poland ASAP, so that we could play it out at all the cousins, aunties ect.
NaZdowie ,
Clebek . ( Note the Poles call be clebek, because thats the closest they came to for Brett - bread - Clebek) .
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