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‘My £300 wedding ceremony in £15 costume was so particular – we went to Spoons for reception’

A pair had a marriage they will “never forget” for lower than £300 as they headed off to their reception at Wetherspoons whereas carrying classic apparel.

Eleanor Hawthorne, 29, wed her husband Feisal in a £15 classic costume with an impromptu reception on the beloved boozer. The actor and publicist mentioned the couple lower out “a lot of unnecessary parts of a typical wedding” and nonetheless ended up with a romantic day, StokeonTrentLive reported.

“I’ll never forget it. It was so special,” mentioned Eleanor. “Feisal and I have been together for three years now, and when we were planning the wedding, all we wanted was to be married.

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“We did not need all of that focus on us, and we did not wish to spend an obscene amount of cash once we might use that cash to journey the world as an alternative.



Eleanor on the day of her wedding
Thrifty Eleanor bagged her costume for £15 and spent a complete of £300 on the marriage

“The day itself was really relaxed. We woke up around 6am, Feisal and his best friend went to the gym and brought me back a coffee from town whilst I got ready before we got a taxi to St George’s Hall, where we met our guests. We only had 20 guests in total, and it was only our parents who came into the actual ceremony with us.”

Eleanor has shared how they stored the price of their wedding ceremony down, revealing she wore a £15 costume to the ceremony at St George’s Hall in Liverpool as a result of she might put on it a number of instances. She added: “My dress was just a vintage slip dress from Pop Boutique in Liverpool, and it was just £15.

“I needed one thing that felt timeless and in addition one thing I might put on time and again – I wore it on our first wedding ceremony anniversary journey to Barcelona final yr. We lower a variety of pointless components of a typical wedding ceremony day trip. We did not wish to spend 1000’s of kilos on issues we did not care about.

“We didn’t have bridesmaids or groomsmen because there was no need for them, and we didn’t even bother with a hen do or stag do. Instead of hiring a photographer, we took our own film camera, which is my grandad’s from the 80s, and a few disposable ones and gave them out to our friends and family so they could capture moments throughout the day.”



Family and friends gather for Eleanor and Faisel's wedding
Family and pals got here and went from the reception which ended off in a Wetherspoons

Aside from the ceremony, Eleanor and Feisal had nothing else deliberate for his or her large day, and as an alternative let the day unfold. She added: “After the ceremony, we were all super hungry so we just casually strolled into the city centre to try and find somewhere for us all to eat.”

After their meal out, the group thought, ‘the place goes to be quiet on a Monday afternoon?’ and somebody mentioned ‘Spoons!’ So they ended up within the native Wetherspoons. It additionally meant a couple of pals might cease by and be part of after work.

“People left as and when they wanted to,” she added. “I really don’t like the idea of people feeling like they have to stay somewhere all day and night. I’ll never forget it. It was so special.

“You wish to look again on today in years to come back and really feel such heat from the reminiscences, realizing that it was precisely what you needed. Anyone in your life that loves you and your accomplice ought to simply be proud of no matter your alternative is. To be blunt, nobody else issues however you and your accomplice. It’s your day, do it your manner. Remember that.”

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