TILLY + TYLER
“For us, it could’ve only ever have been Lake Breeze. Being a member of the Follett family, Tyler grew up helping his dad, Tim, in the vineyard, running through the vines. His first ‘real’ job (aside from pruning vines, packing and labelling) was working in the kitchen and restaurant. My family and I moved to Langhorne Creek when I was 12 years old, and it became an instant home for us. I’ve been working at Lake Breeze for 8 years, first as a waitress and kitchenhand, then as a member of the Cellar Door team and currently as the Cellar Door Manager. Tyler plans to one day be the winemaker at Lake Breeze, and I see myself there for quite some time. We both love the philosophy of Lake Breeze Wines and are both passionate about Langhorne Creek as a region. Lake Breeze is such as special place for the both of us and holds such significance for both our past and futures.
We’ve both worked many a wedding at Lake Breeze, so we went into our planning with two main goals. One, have a wedding that is utterly authentic to us, and two, create an event the likes of which Lake Breeze has never seen. Tyler really gave me full reign with the creative side of planning, but every decision we made was with intention and made together. We wanted every part of our day to be an experience for our guests. Our stationary was all designed and printed by me. The design on our stationary was a culmination of us. From things we love, to our favourite sports and foods, to small jokes about our childhoods, it’s a collage of every second of our lives. It started small, with our save the dates; a single sheet designed like a playing card, printed on water colour and individually heat embossed. I found that every new task presented an opportunity to one-up myself. The invitations became a small deck of cards, presented in a pocketfold from Peterkin stationary. I learned more that I ever thought I would about my Cricut to make namecards out of 150 mini tambourines. I taught myself bookbinding to make cloth-bound hardcover food and drink menus, printed with our design.
The wine on the tables was picked from my family’s vineyard in 2024 by Tyler, his parents, one of his brothers and myself. We didn’t necessarily make it with the intention of using it for the wedding, but found ourselves a year out from the day, thinking about favours and how we could personalise them. We floated a few ideas, until one day the idea popped. What if we bottled our wine and used it not only as favours but also as the wine we served on our tables? The benefits of marrying a winemaker. Every single person that was involved in the making of the wine attended the wedding, from picking and pressing off the wine, right through to bottling and hand labelling each bottle, which made it extra special. On the back label of this botte, we had the line ‘made with love, for love’, which I then, of course, made into a 3-metre-long vinyl floor decal to put in front of the bar.
We were incredibly lucky to have such a talented team of vendors surrounding us. Our florist, Sophie from Bloomhaus ADL, and I clicked straight away. From the very get go, nothing was too hard for her. I very much had a vison, but Sophie saw the vision and took it to a whole nother level. Originally, we were only going to have one string of hanging calla lilies, but as the whole wedding snowballed, we came up with this idea of a ‘path’ starting at our seating chart, winding its way through the venue, and ending up at the bridal table with a cascading line of stacked lilies. Sophie and I had a couple of meetings, we initially parred it back a bit, but after our final consultation we just decided to go for it. If we did it by halves, I thought it really wasn’t going to be as effective. It would’ve been amazing nonetheless, but we wanted that wow factor, something that truly had never been done at Lake Breeze.
It’s hard for me to choose a singular favourite moment from the reception. Our entrance was pretty awesome though. We had our whole bridal party enter before us, so it was just Tyler and I for a quiet moment by ourselves. Georgia surprised us by telling our emcee to get all the guests that were able to get up on their chair with their tambourine in hand for our entrance. I remember Tyler and I just looking at each other just before the door opened, with huge grins on our faces thinking how insanely lucky we were to have someone as invested in our wedding as we were. I was locked out of the venue from the Thursday, so I had no idea what everything looked like. I was in doing the tablecloths on the Wednesday, and then everyone made sure to keep it a surprise for me, which was such an amazing thing to do. It made seeing th barrel room for the first time on the evening all that more emotional, to see all of our hard work come together in such a perfect way was just magical.
Our biggest collaborator throughout the whole process was Georgia from Lake Breeze. From the very get go, Georgia was as invested in our wedding as we were, and I don’t think that is a trait exclusive to us as a couple. I think there is such genuine care and investment from the whole team at Lake Breeze that goes into every single wedding, event and service that they do. “ - Tilly and Tyler (2026)
