{"id":214572,"date":"2017-07-13T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/uk\/real-weddings\/worth-the-wait-cathy-and-alans-classic-elegant-wedding\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T00:53:35","slug":"worth-the-wait-cathy-and-alans-classic-elegant-wedding","status":"publish","type":"uk-real-wedding","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/uk\/real-weddings\/worth-the-wait-cathy-and-alans-classic-elegant-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth the wait: Cathy and Alan’s classic elegant wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Cathy Hammond and Alan Wilson met 14 years ago, before there was no such a thing as swiping right.<\/p>\n

“We met in the very early stages of on-line dating through a local newspaper,” Alan, 54, says.<\/p>\n

Alan and Cathy, 51, wanted to keep their classic elegant wedding low-key, without sacrificing on style.<\/p>\n

“We had both been married before so wanted a less formal affair and we had a small budget but still wanted the glitz and glamour<\/a> of a big party with all of our family and friends to celebrate with us,” Alan says of the April 14, 2017 celebrations at\u00a0The Yellow Broom in Twemlow Green, Cheshire.<\/p>\n

But after the months of planning, the big day threatened to be derailed by a missing registrar.<\/p>\n

“All the guests had arrived had refreshments and were now seated ready for the ceremony and I was ready to walk in with my best man,” Alan explains.<\/p>\n

It was then the groom got a tap on the shoulder that the registrar had yet to arrive.<\/p>\n

“Flip I thought! Cathy was due to arrive, I was already a little tense and we now have no one to marry us. What\u2019s more, it\u2019s Good Friday and the registrar\u2019s office is shut!”<\/p>\n

What followed was a two-hour wait for the couple and their 80 guests as a registrar was tracked down – it turned out a timing mix-up was to blame.<\/p>\n

“We eventually started the ceremony just after 1.30pm and it ran really smoothly from then on,” a relieved Alan says.<\/p>\n

“And what an evening party<\/a>! Our highlight was Cathy singing two songs for me and our first dance to Nat King Cole\u2019s The Very Thought of You which we had a foxtrot to.\u00a0What a day, scary at times but all worked out well in the end.”<\/p>\n

Photos courtesy of Amanda Balmain Photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Cathy kept it simple and elegant in her wedding dress<\/a>\u00a0with train and veil.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Alan wore a classic grey suit matched with shoes from Debenhams<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“We had waited a long time to get married and we took time to make the wedding very personal. We could create a welcoming atmosphere for all our family and friends. We learnt to dance, Cathy had singing lessons, we had a Jazz pianist and we chose the whole evening music playlist<\/a>,” Alan says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The couple’s elegant wedding cake<\/a> kept with the day’s classic theme.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The happy couple had one on one foxtrot lessons for 12 weeks to learn their memorable first dance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":214599,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"uk_real_wedding_category":[9086],"uk_real_wedding_tag":[10019,10020,9171,9209,9374,9465],"uk_real_wedding_style":[10474,10475],"uk_real_wedding_location":[10535,10533],"uk_real_wedding_setting":[10488],"uk_real_wedding_colour":[10641,10624,10628],"uk_real_wedding_competition":[],"class_list":["post-214572","uk-real-wedding","type-uk-real-wedding","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","uk_real_wedding_category-9086","uk_real_wedding_tag-amanda-balmain-photography","uk_real_wedding_tag-classic-elegant-wedding","uk_real_wedding_tag-classic-wedding","uk_real_wedding_tag-elegant-wedding","uk_real_wedding_tag-real-weddings","uk_real_wedding_tag-white-wedding-2","uk_real_wedding_style-classic","uk_real_wedding_style-elegant","uk_real_wedding_location-cheshire","uk_real_wedding_location-north-west","uk_real_wedding_setting-restaurant","uk_real_wedding_colour-blush-wedding","uk_real_wedding_colour-burgundy-wedding","uk_real_wedding_colour-grey-wedding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-real-wedding\/214572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-real-wedding"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uk-real-wedding"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-real-wedding\/214572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_category?post=214572"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_tag?post=214572"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_style","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_style?post=214572"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_location?post=214572"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_setting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_setting?post=214572"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_colour","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_colour?post=214572"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_competition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_competition?post=214572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}