{"id":198420,"date":"2015-10-19T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/uk\/real-weddings\/meeting-in-the-middle-chloe-and-matts-chinese-rustic-wedding\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T22:59:53","slug":"meeting-in-the-middle-chloe-and-matts-chinese-rustic-wedding","status":"publish","type":"uk-real-wedding","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/uk\/real-weddings\/meeting-in-the-middle-chloe-and-matts-chinese-rustic-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting in the middle: Chloe and Matt’s Chinese rustic wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stubbornness may have brought this Birmingham couple together, but it’s compromise that helped create their Chinese rustic wedding.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe met after Matt’s friend tried to get in front of me at a concert, but despite his vulgar techniques (which we will resist mentioning) I was too stubborn to let him past me,\u201d laughs Chloe, 28. But for \u201creasons we still can\u2019t explain\u201d, they hit it off and have been together for 11 years since.<\/p>\n

Planning their October 17, 2014 wedding at a museum<\/a>, the couple had to consider one another\u2019s heritage. \u201cIn theory the wedding ceremony itself should have been quite problematic;\u00a0Matt coming from a secular\/culturally Anglican background and me being a BBC (British Born Chinese), but we managed to compromise quite easily,\u201d explains Chloe.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless Matt embraced his bride\u2019s Chinese blood with a touch of his own! \u201cMatt probably cares more about films than he does his heritage so we decided to try and add a Chinese film theme to our wedding lay out too \u2014 naming each table after a classic Chinese-language movie for instance,\u201d says Chloe. \u201cAt the end of the day you hope only to ever have one wedding, so making it a celebration of the type of people we are rather than our heritage was important to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photos courtesy of Jay Emme Photography.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The bride couple\u00a0married on the balcony of\u00a0Avoncroft Museum, Bromsgrove.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Chloe found her stunning lace gown at\u00a0Your Wedding Shop in Birmingham<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A wedding isn’t complete these days without a selfie stick! The boys were dressed by\u00a0Ben Sherman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The couple’s cake was homemade by Chloe’s mum!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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