Chris and Angela met online. “Not very exciting, but I guess it’s the modern way of dating,” Angela laughs. Perhaps so, but there is nevertheless a funny story behind how they were matched. While Chris was on holiday in Sweden he’d accidentally set his Tinder account to Singapore, where Angela was working as a nurse at the time! Three months after they started talking, Chris decided to travel to Singapore to meet Angela. “It definitely wasn’t love at first sight,” she says. “Chris and I are totally different apart from our love of travel. We don’t have any common interests at all, but we enjoyed learning a lot from each other. I think that’s what excites us, there’s never a boring day.” Angela and Chris would then meet up every three months and during those times travelled around Asia and Europe together, without thinking of anything serious. Having visited England on one such trip though, Angela unexpectedly fell in love with the place, the culture and the people, and successfully applied for a nursing job in Bath. “Chris and I finally decided to give our love story a try and I moved to England in 2019,” she tells us. Lockdowns brought the pair closer and by the end of 2020 Angela knew Chris was the man for her. They started to discuss the subject of marriage soon after and decided to make it official. “There was no grand proposal, no traditional one knee. Chris proposed with a glass of gin and tonic and a ring, which was no less special. Everyone has a different take on how they want it to be, and I’m truly, genuinely happy,” Angela tells us. The bride envisioned an intimate, simple and elegant big day, and luckily Chris wanted the same. They told their friends they wanted their wedding to be a party where everyone could be themselves and have fun while celebrating their love story. They opted for the registry office to make everything official. “I didn’t want to walk down the aisle with all eyes on me. I wanted our vows and our promises to be between the two of us. So, we chose a room where there were only two witnesses allowed,” Angela shares. However, since it had been two years since everyone had been permitted a real party, the happy couple wanted to celebrate with their friends and family too. They viewed only two venues and as soon as they saw the Hotel du Vin, they knew it was the one. Join us, as Angela tells us more about the couple’s wedding-day adventures... SETTING THE SCENE Angela’s vision was of a chic, intimate, elegant affair and opted for a minimalist black and white palette. For favours, the couple wanted something guests could use, something that would represent them. So, they gifted everyone gin in honour of Chris’ proposal and Angela’s love for the tipple. She found the perfect Glaswegin bottles to suit the monochrome theme and bought tags to label each one. 27 REAL WEDDINGS
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