To Love And Cherish

Collette Dinnigan’s wedding in Positano, Italy, was an impromptu, low key affair — much like her simple but meaningful wedding dress, she writes

JUST BEFORE I MET BRADLEY [Cocks, Dinnigan’s husband], I was a single mother with a three-year-old daughter and a very, very busy life. Estella and I were travelling three times a year to my store in London, to Paris, and, often, New York and India, and because she wasn’t in school yet, she was with me all the time, by my side. I was working very hard and usually for a good six days a week. And then I met Bradley.

He said, “Let’s go for lunch”, and I thought, What do you mean, lunch? I’m working.

Bradley loved Estella straight away — he is fantastic with children — and he began to do trips with us and we’d try to work them out together. If I worked on Saturdays, he’d often take her swimming or we would go down to Milton [on the New South Wales South Coast] and I would work from there.

He proposed to me on New Year’s Eve. We decided to elope and we were married in July. It felt right to me because I have had so many events associated with my brand, events for customers, Paris fashion weeks and so many after-parties. There were always a lot of parties in my life; a lot of people and a lot of invitations and name cards.