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Wedding planning advice, ideas & inspiration from real couples<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jade & Karla got married back in September 2018, but their wedding still stands out as being one of my favourites. There wasn’t a lot of tradition in Jade & Karla’s wedding and I absolutely loved it! So I wanted to find out what advice they had for couples who are planning their wedding now and are wanting to break a few traditions themselves.

But before we get to the wedding planning advice here’s a quick summary…

Multiple proposals, dark industrial warehouse, Manchester pub band, surprise drag queen act, two brides getting ready together and zero formal photos… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jade & Karla’s Victoria Warehouse Wedding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  1. Can you tell everyone a little about yourself?<\/strong>
    We are both from Manchester but have lived in Amsterdam, NL for the last four years. We met officially at Manchester Pride in 2009, but Karla had worked with my sister previously so we were already on each others radar and being honest, I very much already had a crush on Karla. Once we\u2019d crossed paths on Canal Street, the rest was history. We both now work in the travel industry, Karla on clever finance stuff and I work in sustainability and inclusion\/diversity. We\u2019ve been together now for almost eleven years, and married for two!
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  2. Well, how did they ask?<\/strong>
    We had a string of proposals. Weird right? The first one was one year in, when Karla proposed at the top of the Eiffel Tower (before almost being blown off by the wind). This was extremely romantic and lovely, but we both knew it was too soon. So, we decided that we would practice 4 proposals, and that when we reached the fourth, it was for real. The second proposal was written in the sand on a Dublin beach, the third on the boating lake in Central Park, NYC, and the fourth and final one was a \u201cshall we do just it?\u201d conversation on our sofa in Amsterdam.
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  3. How long were you engaged?<\/strong>
    Technically engaged since 2010, but if you count from the fourth and final proposal, 2 years.
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  4. What were you most looking forward to about your wedding?<\/strong>
    We always knew we\u2019d come back home to Manchester to tie the knot, and we most looked forward to that moment happening in front of our most loved friends and family.
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  5. Did you have a specific theme, style or colour palette?<\/strong>
    We tried to combine all of our loves to make a theme; Manchester, travelling, sunflowers and alcohol. We had the whole wedding day\/night in Victoria Warehouse (very industrial) and had a Manchester band playing a great set in the evening. We slipped in travel with a world map table plan, table names and stories based on our favourite trips. We had sunflowers in lots of alcohol bottles (it was quite an enjoyable challenge drinking all of the alcohol in the year before the wedding – what diet?), and we also had sunflowers as our wedding flowers and on the cake. Finally, we decided to have two fabulous drag queens<\/a> sing a few numbers during the wedding breakfast, because why not.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n