When a Yellow Wiggle and a Purple Wiggle Wed

When they are on the road as part of children's entertainment troupe The Wiggles, Emma Watkins (Yellow) and Lachlan Gillespie (Purple) channel all their energy towards the audience.

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"Pretty much before every show, they will meet children with special needs," says Wiggles managing director Paul Field. "They are so good when they are with children. They just devote their total focus to them. That's why something where they are just giving each other the joy is something you can sit back and go, this is also good."

Emma Watkins. Photo: Lara Hotz

That something else was their wedding. After two years of dating, Watkins, 26, and Gillespie, 30, got engaged on May 2, 2015, and celebrated their union in front of nearly 200 guests at Hopewood House in Bowral, NSW, in the Southern Highlands on April 9.

"My parents were married on April 9 as well," Watkins says, "and my great grandparents were married on April 9, too, and my great grandmother had a watch she wore on April 9, 1919, and I wore that watch."

A Wiggles Wedding. Photo: Lara Hotz

The number nine figured into their wedding bands, created by New Zealand jeweller Brent Sutcliffe, the artist who made Watkins's engagement ring.

"We were talking about lots of different things and because of the April 9 significance in our family, we ended up getting nine rubies in each of them on each side to remember the date," Watkins says. "We were talking about engraving them around the edge and I said to Lachy, 'I think I might like some bows, not overly girly but just bows as an engraving pattern, like something kind of Celtic.' And then Lachy said, 'Well actually, I think I'd like the same,' and I said, 'Well, I'm not pushing you to get bows, I'm just saying that might look nice,' and his ring looks amazing!"

A Wiggles wedding. Photo: Lara Hotz

As for Wiggles accents, their colours of yellow and purple figured into ribbons, balloons and the icing that coated their wedding cake, decorated by pal Felicity Beutler of Sydney's Sugar Bee Cakes.

"Everybody who read was a friend of ours," Watkins says of the people involved with creating their special day. "The celebrant was a friend, the people that made the cake and the shoes and everybody was somebody we were already friends with."

Among the couple's key collaborators were Lara Hotz, who took their photos; Viktoria Novak, who designed the headpiece for Watkins; and Suzanne Harward, who created the gown for Watkins and the corresponding bridesmaids dresses. Gillespie and his groomsmen were clad in suits by Arthur Galan.

"We just had so much fun planning it," Gillespie says. "We put tiny musical excerpts in from some of the songs I have written for the Wiggles, which I think was really special just playing on a string quartet — that was just for us. It was all special."

On April 10, the pair capped off their wedding weekend by riding horses at Silver Pines in Mittagong (at press time for the magazine, the location had been given as the Equestrian Centre in Berrima). And then it was back to work.

Photo: Lara Hotz

"We got four days in Sydney and then we head to South Australia and basically won't stop touring until June and July," Gillespie says, "then we'll head over to the States about September, so it's all systems go!"

A Wiggles wedding. Photo: Lara Hotz

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