Randa & Jimi’s London wedding started with a ride on a 1960s London double decker bus. The bride and her family used it to travel to the ceremony site, The London Wetlands Centre in Barnes, all together. The ceremony took place inside the centre, and the surrounding gardens made the perfect backdrop for photographs. After pictures and mingling, the entire wedding party loaded back onto the bus for the journey across the river to The Old Stationhouse pub in Chiswick.
“I am half Palestinian and half Belgian and my husband is English”, began the bride “Turns out there is no easy way to combine all those cultures and cultural expectations, so instead we completely abandoned tradition and what might have been expected. We didn’t have a church, a sit down dinner, a first dance, three part speeches – all the things we never much liked about weddings anyway. I never was a ‘wedding person’ before getting married and never thought once about what kind of wedding I was going to have. I had no preconceived ideas about what sort of colour scheme or theme we were going to go for. Luckily, my husband was happy with whatever I chose and decided to do!”
