James and Nikki are wonderfully thoughtful people. So much of their day (and the whole weekend) was dedicated to making sure everyone attending could have fun alongside them… that of course meant that their wedding included axe throwing, archery, board games, and lock picking (with the prize being booze various). Additionally, their wedding cake was a cheese cake, as in a literal cake of cheese. Whilst I am not cheese eater myself, I saw several eyes light up upon seeing it. And they did in fact build a giant dragon out of wood which they then burned whilst everyone sang ‘Wake Me Up – Avicii’ for the two of them.
There were such lovely wonderful personal touches at the wedding, such as Nikki’s friends from when she lived in Japan attending the wedding and showing everyone how to make paper cranes.
Instead of exchanging rings and vows, they instead wanted something that they could keep and use after the wedding, and involve James’s young niece and nephew in the celebrations. So they had some goblets made, based on the traditional of exchanging cups in Japanese Weddings, and through the wedding they drank the mead from them that had been ageing specifically for the wedding (although not drank during the ceremony for legal reasons).
I hope you enjoy looking through the images as much as I enjoyed attending and seeing it all come to life in the stunning Yoghurt Rooms. They were probably the wedding that really first inspired the name ‘Unique Unions’, and hopefully you’ll see why.
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