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William and Jonathan had an intimate celebration at Hampton Court Palace Images courtesy of Roger Brown Photography
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illiam and Jonathan met on a dating app. “We had our first date in a bar and hit it off immediately,” shares William. “I was attracted to his passion for family, tennis and his handsome good looks.” Jonathan proposed to William on his birthday at the Skygarden in London. “It was a complete surprise,” explains William. “He asked the question after dinner while we were sitting at the table overlooking the London skyline.” Here William shares some of his favourite moments from their big day...
hunting, but it took a while to get After getting engaged, we wanted to begin venue e, and after our tour, we turned Palac t going. We decided to start with Hampton Cour get married there. We looked at four or to each other and agreed we both wanted to five other venues, but they just didn’t compare.
Given the uncertainty sur roundi ng the wedding, we were both very relaxed about things. The Little Banqueting House at Hampton Court Pal ace is such a stunning room that you could probably put a sack over a table, and it would still look stunning.
Our original wedding was scheduled for Septe mber 2020, however, as we got to May, we were still locked down, and it became clear that we would not be able to have the wedding we planned, so we postponed it to May 2021. As time went by, things were still not back to normal, so we decided to postp one the large party until 2022 but still get married this year. We planned a small cerem ony for 20 people and then at the very last moment the rules relaxed slightly and we were allowed 24 guests!
CH&CO, a few days before the wedding We only met Stacey, our catering lead from because it was a small and low key at our food tasting. There was very little stress ssionals who made the day everything we affair and we were working with true profe could have wished for.
Our cake was made by Jonathan’s mother, which was lovely.
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