Your Hampshire & Dorset Wedding - Mar/Apr 2019 (Issue 73)

BESIDE THE SEA Eloise and Erlingur tied the knot in a picture-perfect setting on the Dorset coast Images courtesy of redManhattan Photography Shared interests helped bring Eloise and Erlingur together. They met while Eloise was at university in Exeter and they were friends for a long while before getting together. “We’re both creative people and found we had a lot in common,” Eloise explains. Erlingur popped the question while they were walking through the park in Dorchester. “We were going for a belated Valentine’s Day meal and it was completely unexpected. I had no idea he was planning to propose,” she recalls. They opted for an autumnal rustic theme with a seasonal palette of green, orange, yellow, brown and burgundy colours. Read on for Eloise’s account of their big day... 53  REAL WEDDINGS Eloise Tong married Erlingur Einarsson at Smedmore House in Kimmeridge, Dorset on 10 th October, 2018.