borrowed and blue. Adam wore a navy suit with check detail from Reda 1865 and accessorised it with a green tie, pocket square and waistcoat from Hisdern. His groomsmen meanwhile were all dressed to match him. The beautiful bridesmaids were dressed in green, full-length dresses with flutter sleeves and ruffle detail at the front. They accessorised with initial necklaces gifted by Fiona on the morning of the wedding. CELEBRATE IN STYLE The superb Mairi Therese performed during the ceremony and drinks reception. A singer and guitarist, she has a chilled, silky voice bringing just the right ambience to the day. “She received some great compliments from guests and mesmerised a few of the younger ones!” Fiona remembers. “She also went out of her way to learn a song very special to us for me to walk down the aisle to.” In the evening local band Fake Plastic Chairs brought the fun, keeping everyone entertained and boogying on the dancefloor, where Fiona was able to enjoy the dance moves from Adam she loves so much! MEMORABLE MOMENTS “I just felt excited to marry Adam and celebrate this wonderful day with our nearest and dearest,” Fiona shares. “I was tearful just before I walked down the aisle on hearing our special song but was reassured by my father Brian.” Adam remembers, “I was extremely nervous at first and my groomsmen commented on my newfound pacing and inability to stand still! Seeing Fiona at the top of the aisle led to a flurry of relief that she’d shown up though and an unrivalled happiness washed over me imagining the future we’d build. The quivering of my bottom lip didn’t go unnoticed by our guests, but the attempt to keep it under control did make for some great jawline photos!” THE GREAT GETAWAY The newlyweds’ dream honeymoon didn’t get off to the best start. They arrived at Heathrow at 5.30am as planned, tickets to Lima Peru via Madrid in hand. Sadly, UK air traffic control had other ideas and cancelled their flight to Madrid. “It appeared our dreams of a romantic honeymoon had been scuppered at the first hurdle,” Fiona says. Having been cornered by an opportunistic reporter they soon became flooded with messages from home about their unwitting appearance on Good Morning Britain, Lorraine and ITV News! None the more for that, Trailfinders and British Airways support teams were both on the case and managed to solve our couple’s problem in under an hour, and as they quickly applied for emergency visas, they were finally on their way to Lima via Miami. “The next three weeks were some of the best of our lives,” says Fiona. “We travelled to multiple locations in Peru starting in Puerto Maldonado staying in the five-star Amazon jungle resort of Inkaterra Hacienda Conception, where we were taken on river and forest excursions.” Other stops included Cusco, hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, taking a luxury train ride to Lake Titicaca, and a stay in a Pacific coast spa resort in Mancora where they were able to watch a pod of whales from their infinity pool vantage point. Truly the honeymoon, indeed holiday, of a lifetime. 25 REAL WEDDINGS
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