Real Life Bride - Alex & Paul
Sun Oct 17th 2010
| Their Perfect Romance |
| Paul is a bookseller and I am in publishing and worked in a |
| bookstore in Notting Hill. One day we discovered my youth |
| hostel was just round the corner from his home in Kensington. |
| He asked me for coffee and that as they say in the classics, was |
| the beginning of a beautiful romance. We had no doubt about our |
| lifetime commitment to each other, and every so often one of us |
| would light-heartedly propose but we didn’t take them seriously. |
| We returned to England and visited Kensington. Near Paul’s old |
| home is a locked walled garden and I found someone to unlock it |
| for me. I organised a table with candles and red wine and a ring. |
| I was serious and I wanted to propose to show my commitment |
| was as strong as his. He thought we were meeting at a local |
| French restaurant. When I rang him and said I was lost he wasn’t |
| surprised, as I get lost quite easily. We arranged to meet outside |
| his old home and I dragged him over to the garden and showed |
| him the ring and asked him to marry me. The ring was for him and |
| it became his wedding ring. |
| Their Ideal Wedding |
| We decided to have a wedding to celebrate our 10 years of being |
| together. 1st March 2009 was exactly 10 years from the day we |
| had coffee. We were married on the grass outside my parents’ |
| shack at Tugun Beach. Our celebrant was a retired schoolteacher |
| and friend of my uncle. Our theme was vintage; we even asked our |
| guests to dress in the time period of 1920s-30s. After I walked |
| down the ‘aisle’ our celebrant read an excerpt from The Prophet. It |
| was our celebration so instead of the usual readings etc, the bridal |
| party acted out a scene from Much Ado About Nothing. Another |
| friend sang an original composition for our wedding. |
| Their Unique Choices |
| In keeping with the vintage look, the bridesmaids wore chocolate |
| brown, fascinators and big vintage earrings. The flowers were |
| cream roses with brown berries. I wore a birdcage veil and |
| 1920s styled dress. The men wore dark brown suits, hats and |
| different coloured trainers. |
| Our dog Neo, was part of the bridal party and stood with the |
| groomsmen. |
| Our photographers -The Best Man -were recommended to us |
| and it turned out that Leith was an old family friend that we had |
| lost touch with! Our guests had Latin/Salsa dancing lessons while |
| our photoshoot was on. Later at the reception there was going |
| to be a fantastic Latin band, Miguel, and we wanted everyone |
| up and dancing. We love this band so much we changed our |
| wedding venue two weeks before the wedding because of noise |
| restrictions at the first venue. We had our reception at Elephant |
| Rock Café surrounded by the ocean. |
| As a memento of our day, we bought vintage Penguin books that |
| are now on the market -my favourite, Pride and Prejudice and |
| Paul’s, Love in the Time of Cholera. We wrote a personal note in |
| them and sent them to our guests after the wedding. • |
| Thank you for your story - Ideal Bride |
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