Charlotte and Jamie eloped all the way from Wales to have a Central Park wedding. Charlotte’s father walked her down the aisle of friends and family to their ceremony at the Ladies Pavilion.
Charlotte shares, “We chose New York because it is one of our favorite places in the world. We wanted a more intimate fairytale wedding and that’s exactly what we got.”
Jamie is a postman and Charlotte is a teacher. They met as young teenagers. Charlotte shares, “I was the girl next door to Jamie’s best friends and we met when we were about 12 and 14 years old. We were friends ever since, and then made it official six years later. Jamie and I went on holiday to Lisbon in Portugal. One night walking along the lit-up promenade Jamie got down on one knee.”
Charlotte carried a beautiful wooden spoon around her wrist. She shares, “My goddaughter Macy and Jamie’s goddaughter Cara gave me a love spoon to carry with my bouquet.”
Charlotte taught me about two Welsh traditions. The tradition of a love spoon is a wooden spoon decoratively carved and presented as a romantic gift. The spoon is normally decorated with special symbols. The bell on Charlotte’s spoon represents marriage and the heart represents love.
Another Welsh wedding tradition is to give honey. The “honeymoon” is the month after a wedding, when a bride’s father would give the groom all the honey mead he wanted. Welsh people believed that by eating some honey for a month after the wedding the bride would “bear fruit” and a child would be born within a year. They started calling the month the “honey month” but we now call it a “honeymoon.”
Congratulations Charlotte and Jamie!
What stunning pictures! It was an amazing day and there really show it too.
Beautiful photos representing a beautiful couple x x