An Essex Wedding - Mar/Apr 2017 (Issue 79)

52 It’s the grand final and we have five fantastic weddings, but which one deserves the Wedding of the Year 2017 title? Take a look and cast your vote… THE FINAL Amber & Steven Danielle & Liam Amber Richmond married Steven Turtill atWivenhoe House,Wivenhoe, on 29 th April, 2017.Their day followed a white colour palette and had a rustic, country theme and was captured by Trebor Photography (treborphotography.com ). Danielle Lochhead married Liam Michael Connor at the Channels Estate, Chelmsford, on 12 th August, 2017.Their day followed a vintage rose colour scheme and was captured by SE Photography (seweddingphotography.co.uk ). Married life “Overall, married life doesn’t feel that much different than before,” says Amber. “I think it’s the small things that we notice and love most, like getting to call each other husband and wife or getting mail to ‘Mr and Mrs Turtill’, which I still haven’t got used to!” First anniversary celebrations “Before we got married, our anniversary was on Boxing Day, which made it a bit difficult to go out and celebrate. Our wedding anniversary is now in April, I’m sure we’ll have plenty of options,” adds the bride.“We have been talking about a trip toWales this year, so we might tie that in with our anniversary.” Why they should win… “We feel very honoured to have made it to the final, we’re very private people, so for our wedding to make it into a magazine is quite exciting, but to make it all the way to the final is just amazing,” says Amber.“Our nuptials were the best day of our lives and winning the competition would just be the cherry on top of the wedding cake!” Married life “We love spending every day planning new adventures for our future,” says Danielle.“Also having a new last name and building a home together as best friends – we’ve only been married a short while but I look forward to many happy years.” First anniversary celebrations “We’ve booked a romantic week away to Paphos, but my family have decided to join us and invited themselves,” adds the bride.“We’ll manage to get away for a nice day excursion, meal or drinks just the two of us.” Why they should win… “It’s an amazing feeling and we feel honoured to be part of this competition,” says Danielle. “I think we deserve to win as we haven’t had a honeymoon yet, we rarely get time to ourselves as our work schedules are busy – this would be a nice break for us both to spend some real quality time together.”