Your South Wales Wedding - March/april 2021 (Issue 78)

The Coal Exchange has always been a special place for us. We based our wedding around live music, and wanted a property that reflected that. When we saw that the hotel, which had once been a music venue, was available it fit our idea perfectly. We visited it during a wedding fair and instantly fell in love. My bouquet was made by About Flowers and included roses, celosias and petrol berries. To reflect our love of music, we chose autumnal flowers accompanied with images of album covers for our centrepieces. Our favours were personalised guitar picks with our date and venue on. We also gave our guests face masks, hand sanitiser, tea bags, bottles of whiskey and sweets. I felt very nervous but excited on the morning of the wedding. We were able to stream the ceremony for our guests that couldn’t make it. As I was fashionably late, there were lots of comments on the stream saying I was too busy making tea! 24