THROUGH Cruising life Jack and Carmen Baxter’s beautiful wedding brought together friends and family for a love-filled day Images courtesy of Alfie Wright, Clique Visuals Jack and Carmen Baxter met in February 2015 on Valentine’s weekend. Carmen reveals, “We were both on nights out in the town where we lived at the time with our own friends. These friends knew each other and in passing each other at the pub thought it would be fun if we all continued the night out together, so we did! The next day we became friends on Facebook and started talking from there!” With the couple having similar interests including a love of travel, it was only right that Jack popped the question on a cruise in Central America. Carmen tells us, “The cruise was two weeks long, so we had the first week on our own before we were joined by Jack’s mum, dad, auntie and uncle on the second week. Jack’s parents brought the ring with them in their luggage so the whole thing was a surprise and well thought out. The proposal was on the black-tie evening! We all decided to go and have some nice photos in our suits and dresses before dinner. Jack’s parents went first so it didn’t look suspicious, then we went for our photo, little did I know Jack’s dad wasn’t taking a photo, he was filming a video and whilst we were posing Jack got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. It was a big surprise and amazing that we now have the video of it. We celebrated the rest of the evening with lots of prosecco and the stewards also decorated our room with balloons and cute towel love hearts on the bed. Also, very un-romantically we also celebrated rather drunk at the midnight buffet with some fried chicken and a vindaloo curry – who said romance is dead!” Wedding planning commenced and the big day took place on 21st August, 2021 at The Parsonage Hotel and Spa. Here, Carmen shows us all the little details that made their special day… REAL WEDDINGS 25
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