The Love Story
Our love story is what makes Olivella so special. It started in our teens no more than a summer holiday romance. Of course we knew we were young, with our parents reminding us that things like this end, we had no idea that this was the start of our forever love.
You can’t make it through some of your craziest years without your best friend, and that’s what we were. School finished and we started learning to become adults, hand in hand. We travelled, both still young, making mistakes, and making stories. We were always looking to create that “remember when we did that” moment, whether that was a late night out or driving a caravan across America.
At 20 and 22 years old we scraped up enough money together to jump on a plane and head to Europe. Every place we visited we immediately started looking up house prices and letting our imaginations run wild. Spain was top of the list. With main cities having the history, food and night life, and coastal towns and islands delivering Pinterest-worthy, European scenery. We just had to come back.
Now fast forward 10 years of being together, Rhys pops the question in Fiji. We knew straight away we wanted a destination wedding. I mean we did have family and friends in New Zealand, UK, USA, Canada and all around Australia, so it only made sense. If they were getting on a flight, we might as well too! You could take one guess where we got married, yep, SPAIN!
For the wedding we wanted to have everyone on the same grounds. We needed a place big enough. Long story short we found our Casa, in a small village 45 mins out of Barcelona, called Olivella. We brought an Aussie party to Spain. The house (Casa) once holding 70 of our most loved family and friends, is now somewhere we dream of taking our children back to. Not only to see where we got married, but where Olivella’s name comes from.
Which brings me to our two mini’s, Beau and Roman. Born in 2022 and 2024, making the last few years of this love story a little different. They have started a whole new chapter for us, one that centres all our priorities around family, bringing me to Olivella, our brand, but that’s another story….