London isn’t just the royal family, double-decker busses and smog. Weddings aren’t only Church ceremonies, white dresses and boring speeches.
London is home to some of the most talented, exciting and diverse people from all over the world. Weddings are creative, beautiful and unique events.
London is also full of people who are a little too ‘hip’.
Weddings can also find themselves a little too ‘hip’.
So, just to live-up to the dark and moody sense of humour that Brits are known for, we’ve decided to marry a few of the London stereotypes to their wedding partners - recognise any?
THE ‘COOLEST’ COUPLE YOU KNOW
This pair will laugh and reminisce about how they ‘used to be’ hipsters as they ride back home to their Dalston pad on the overground after a lazy morning spent at Columbia Road Flower Market. He’ll be layering up in two shirts styled with a cropped jean and she’ll be dressed in white and cream wearing an expensive gold chain and sporting cap and/or a very short fringe.
They gave up drinking last year and can often be found having dinner at a pop-up ‘culinary experience’ on a rooftop/car park no closer than zone 3.
THE ‘COOL’ WEDDING
The menu will be offensively vegan (with bacon sandwiches coming out at midnight; so down-to-earth). The ceremony will take place in an ancient Mayan temple (in London) and the reception in an exclusively-hired pub.
Despite being in a ‘pub’, tonight you may choose freely out of three drink options: kombucha mules, half pints of the groom’s home-brewed IPA or oat milk flat whites.
Present at the reception there will be a local designer from Hackney ready to upcycle guests outfits for use at the next wedding.
After this wedding you’ve bought a Moleskin notebook, pledged to do meat-free Mondays and updated your Whatsapp picture to a photo taken with a retro filter.
THE WHOLESOME OVER-ACHIEVERS
You know them well, he’s an avid road cyclist (self-proclaimed faster than the tube), head of his department at work in the City and just a generally top guy at Wednesday evening football (centre midfield - runs the game). She’s a fabulous Notting Hill-based fabric designer with more weekly social engagements than Kate Middleton and a bum better than Pippa’s (best friends with her TriYoga instructor).
They spend weekends away in Cornwall, Norfolk and the Cotswolds. This gives them an infuriating glow all year round and probably lungs a few shades less grey than yours.
THE ‘PERFECT’ WEDDING
You’ll be awoken a year and a half before this wedding by the sound of the post hitting the floor. The huge thud that rudely disturbed you was caused by the luxuriously thick paper (close to platinum in cost per gram) of this couple’s wedding invitation. Copied from the pages of Debrett’s A-Z of Modern Manners and sent from the bride’s parents, plus-ones encouraged, morning suits and “carriages: when the Prosecco runs out”.
The whole day will take place in a rustically furnished tipi in a meadow south of London. Rustically furnished, plus, double-glazed, marbled-floored and blessed with gas-fired central heating. A man of faith will carry out the hour-long ceremony of course.
Once the Best Man’s speech has won him a BAFTA nomination and the ‘77 vintage port is flowing, the blushing bride will re-appear in a stunning white silk jumpsuit and the groom will have lost his tie and unbuttoned down to the navel.
After this wedding you’ve vowed to stop biting your nails, googled the best time of year to swim at Hampstead Heath and decided that you’re ready to start a family.
THE CANARY WHARFERS
Work is king for these guys; work has become their key personality trait; every sentence they say ends with “agreed?”, agreed? You’re more likely to have Vivienne Westwood on your Clapham pub quiz team than catch sight of them wearing anything other than their machine-washable suits.
Snooping around their kitchen you’ll find a Nutribullet, a top of the range coffee machine, a fridge so empty it might as well be a hotel minibar and thousands of Pret/Deliveroo/Pod packages. Her makeup might not always be on top form having been applied on the DLR and he will be turning prematurely grey any day now after all the evenings working late in order to expense dinner & an Uber home.
THE ‘CORPORATE’ WEDDING
Thanks to their keen eye for detail, healthy joint bank account and having a handful of PAs at the ready, this duos wedding will be more streamlined than Michael Phelps’ legs. A rare time away from the office for these two also means that it’s not going to be a tame and whimsical day. Expect flashy centrepieces made from red roses, a 3-course wedding breakfast with a classy Japanese influence and espresso martinis forced upon you round every corner you turn.
This wedding will be held at a 5-star hotel venue in central London and the newlyweds will drive away quite early on in the night, waving goodbye from their ribbon-adorned Rolls Royce and driving straight to Heathrow to board their flight to an exotic beach honeymoon destination. ‘Out of office’ replies are switched on but they’ll be itching to check their inboxes once in the wifi zone of business class.
After this wedding you’ve drafted your boss an email to ask for a salary increase, replaced Netflix on your phone with a podcast app and have truly appreciated an open bar.
PLEASE REMEMBER, this is just a bit of fun and we promise whoever you are - we love you and love that you’re reading this and/or deciding to get married!
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