
In honour of Mamamia’s wedding planning podcast Hitched, we wanted to celebrate (and perve on) YOUR weddings.
Each week, we’ll deep dive into one Aussie couple’s wedding day to bring you all the details about the important stuff. From the practical things like the dress and vendors to the words of wisdom they wish they’d heard before their big day, below you’ll find everything you want to know.
Oh, there are lots of beautiful photos too.
This week’s Wedding of the Week is Ihita and Tim’s not one, but two unique weddings. Enjoy! Don’t forget to Subscribe to Hitched here.
The basics.
Who: Ihita, 24, and Tim, 26, from NSW.
Wedding date: Hindu wedding, January 21, 208, and Western wedding, January 28, 2018.
Number of guests: Approx. 600 in total.
Total cost: Aprrox. 75,000.
Photography: James Day, James Day Photography.
Ihita and Tim’s love story.
“Tim and I met at a mutual friend’s birthday party in our first year of university. We ‘drunk-flirted’ and cuddled a few times, but had never really talked or hung out until I had a Halloween party a year or so later.”
“I think my Snooki outfit must have stolen his heart because a few days later, Tim asked me out on a very romantic date to watch Paranormal Activity 4 with him and his friends. It must’ve been a slow day, because I said yes even though I hate horror movies. The rest is history…
“Marriage, to us, is just an opportunity to grow and learn and be with your best friend, proudly and openly.”
The wedding dresses.

Top Comments
What stunning, stunning pictures! Such joy - and so beautiful!
"The moments that made Ihita's and Nick's wedding days special" - I would hope that $75,000 got them a LOT of those sort of moments: personally, that just seems WAY over the top to me, but clearly I don't have the same family connections they have...
They were catering for 600 people. Are you suggesting they could have done that for a lot less?
I'm suggesting that there's no way I could have afforded to have 600 people at my wedding, even if I actually wanted that many. I was 25 and my fiance was 20 - we put our savings towards the deposit on our first apartment together. My parents are both working class people and my fiance came from a single parent household, both of us with more than 1 sibling - we were NOT going to ask them to pay for our wedding, and even if we did, they wouldn't have been able to come up with anywhere near this figure without re-mortgaging their family home. It's great that Nick and Ihita have that support from their immediate and wider families and a cultural background that has probably prepared for that sort of expense from the very beginning, but it's just not something I personally relate to.
Part of the point of showcasing different kinds of weddings is to widen people's perspectives regarding social settings to which they don't personally relate. I certainly couldn't afford that budget either, but I don't have a problem with people who can.