Hi, My name is Eileen and I live in a rural town called Humpty Doo (it's a real place!) in Australia and I work in a university art gallery as an exhibitions and collection officer. My background is Chinese-Khmer and my family arrived in Australia in the mid 80's. My husband Rion is a tattoo artist and has a knack for fixing almost anything and loves plants. We both enjoy art and music and we've just moved into our new home and have started gardening.

Being from a small town, there wasn't a lot of dress options that suited my body shape. I had a lot of ideas of how I wanted the dress to look but it either didn't suit or was too expensive and decided I wanted something more customised. I came across the Big Celebration skirt and immediately loved the flow of the skirt and how it fitted and hung. My mum and my aunt helped make the bodice as I had trouble finding one that would fit my large top half!

My husband and I have been friends since high school and ran in the same circles. It wasn't until afterwards that we became closer and started bonding over long-boarding....which did not last after I had sprained my ankle 3 days afterwards. On our first "date" we were walking and talking and I thought it would be cool to high-kick a tree branch, and I did, but I ended up landing on my back! At the moment we really enjoy our Sunday brunches with good coffee and singing old classics in the car together. Rion proposed after dinner and we were sitting and relaxing.

Our wedding was held interstate as most of our combined family lived there. It was spread over 2 days as we decided to incorporate my Khmer heritage and have a traditional Buddhist ceremony. The first day was being blessed by Buddhist monks and then the following day was packed with smaller ceremonies including, a procession to the bride's house, offerings to our ancestors, paying respect to our parents and a hair cutting ceremony. Each ceremony requiring a new outfit change! My whole family pulled in together to do the food an the flowers for the traditional ceremony and we are grateful for their help. Our reception was held at a venue in a park that we found on the last day of scouting plenty of venues. It was exactly what we pictured as we wanted something with a natural, botanical with a historic meets modern feel. It was a very long day and everything was a bit rushed in the end and we had to forego the Chinese Tea Ceremony. We ended up being half an hour behind as my father decided to go for a walk before the vows and we had a search party looking for him!