Dancing With Them

Ash had a grand plan. It involved Penguin Island, a professional camera crew, and a metaphor about penguins mating for life. It was supposed to be the 'perfect' proposal.

Then, life happened. COVID shifted the coordinates, and the 'perfect' proposal became a spontaneous moment in their living room on Ash’s 30th birthday - tipsy on champagne, with Ash’s daughter Mckenzie and their spoodle, Harry Winston, right there in the middle of the chaos. It wasn't the island, but it was exactly them.

They first met at a Jungle Body mega class in 2015, but the spark didn't truly catch until a Facebook message and a starlit picnic at Cottesloe Beach four years later. Since then, they’ve been building a life that balances Ash’s eye for design and sports stats with Rosie’s 'boss babe' energy as a CEO.

Their wedding at Sandalford Winery was a reflection of that balance: black velvet and gold details, a one-of-a-kind Tuscany Bridal princess gown, and a vibe that felt both incredibly high-end and deeply personal. They ditched the traditions that didn't fit, wrote vows to Kenzie, and danced into their marriage to Tim Halperin.

"Marriage is a daily choice," Rosie says. And at Sandalford, under a canopy of fairy lights and surrounded by the people who fight for them, that choice looked like pure magic.

Ash & Rosie’s elegant winery wedding is now live on the blog 💫
www.dancingwiththem.com/ash-rosie-wedding

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There's a line Kayla and Tiffany come back to a lot - we know how this ends. It doesn't mean certainty about the details. It means certainty about each other, which it turns out is the only kind that actually matters when you're trying to build a life 💫

They eloped in the Anza-Borrego desert last November. Two proposals, vows they wrote themselves, a best friend who flew in from Florida, and an officiant who asked them to pause before they began - just to take it in.

The night before, they found a record player in the Airbnb with a Chris Stapleton record on it. One of their songs. They slow danced in the living room and called it a night.

This eloepemnt is up over on the blog for you 👆

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Dancing With Them is for LGBTQ+ people planning weddings. That's it. Not just the couples who photograph as obviously q***r. Not just one slice of the community.

Your identity doesn't disappear because of who you married. A pan person in a hetero-presenting partnership is still pan. A trans person planning their wedding has specific needs that most wedding content doesn't address. Nonbinary couples need ceremony language that actually fits.

We feature all of it. Some of you have been here for years. Some of you just found us because you searched for something specific and kept coming up empty everywhere else.

If you're LGBTQ+ and planning a wedding, this is your space 🖤