月別アーカイブ: 2016年10月

Hundreds of future brides will gather at Park Crest this month to watch a “fake” bride take a walk down the aisle.

It’s part of The Big Fake Wedding, a bridal show that travels the country with a different approach to showing off its vendors’ work. The show is coming to Park Crest Events, 2030 Little Valley Road, Nov. 3.

Marketing Director Johna Castro said The Big Fake Wedding was created in 2008 by Callie Murray, a wedding photographer looking for a new way to show her work. Rather than sitting at a convention hall booth, she decided to gather a group of wedding service vendors and put together an actual ceremony. Castro said they now host about 30 events a year.

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“They [Big Fake Wedding attendees] are able to really experience the vendors in live action. They’re able to taste the cake and try the flowers and listen to the bands,” Castro said.

About 30 vendors come together to build the 20-minute ceremony and the dance party and reception that follows, including florists, caterers, DJs, musicians and photographers. Vendors for Hoover’s event include Southern Bridesmaids, I Do Linens, Facetime Photobooth, Cakes by Kim, Exchange Vintage, pianist Jenn Brooker, Southern Cotton Photography, TheBirminghamBride.com and Black Sheep Bride.

Each fake wedding has its own theme for the vendors to design around. The theme for the Hoover event is called “Crisp Copenhagen,” focusing on minimalism, light and a color palette based on snow, birch trees and pine needles. Castro compared it to a “walk through Pinterest in real life.” There is time before and after the wedding itself for couples to talk to the different companies in the “Tunnel of Love,” where the vendors set up booths.

“It’s a lot more organic way to really get a real glance at the vendors,” Castro said.

This is the third time The Big Fake Wedding has come to the Birmingham area, but its first outside of downtown. Castro said Park Crest was chosen as a good nontraditional venue that’s close enough to pull interested couples from throughout Birmingham. While the event is a chance for local businesses to show off their talents, Castro said The Big Fake Wedding staff wants to give couples inspiration not only for their wedding ceremony, but for their marriage as a whole.

To that end, the couple chosen for the ceremony is always a local married couple. They do a vow renewal instead of wedding vows, and Castro said it can be an emotional time for the future brides and grooms in the audience to reflect on their commitment.

“A lot of our guests have just said that it’s an experience like no other,” Castro said.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the ceremony begins at 7 p.m. It is followed by a dance party and reception with light food and desserts with a grand exit at 9 p.m. Tickets to The Big Fake Wedding are $25.

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It was a touching scene as a bride, confined to a wheelchair after she was seriously injured in a car accident weeks earlier, was carried down the aisle by her doting groom.

Hannah Kyle, 23, told InsideEdition.com that when she found out she suffered a broken pelvis and ribs, a concussion and a punctured kidney in a car accident before her August ceremony, “I thought my wedding day was going to be ruined.”

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Kyle and her childhood sweetheart, Stuart Peterson, 25, both of Northern Ireland, knew changing the date was out of the question.

The pair were hosting their wedding in Ontario, Canada, where they now live, but have planned for friends and family to fly in for the big day.

Sure enough, her groom reassured her that everything would be okay, and even though Kyle was in recovery for the crucial weeks leading up to the wedding, loved ones gathered to finish last-minute details.

On the big day, Kyle’s father planned to wheel the blushing bride down the aisle, but, her groom instead met the pair by the aisle, and carried Kyle in his arms the rest of the way.

“When I saw Stuart heading toward her, I was momentarily confused… and then overcome with emotion,” said photographer Emily Harris, who captured the touching scene. “It was such a touching moment. [Stuart] showed us all the true meaning of love that day.”

Kyle told InsideEdition.com she had met the love of her life when she was 4, and he was 6.

“Obviously, it wasn’t love at first sight,” Kyle joked.

She and Peterson started dating in their teens, and eventually spent much of their relationship oceans apart after Peterson moved to Canada with his family five years ago.

They were reunited when Kyle moved to Canada to be with Peterson, and they were engaged after Peterson surprised her with a ring last year.

Despite being in constant pain, and even standing on one leg during most of her wedding day, she said she was able to enjoy the big day with her new husband by her side.

“I was glad to be able to sit the rest of the evening,” she said.

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