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A wedding to remember in Switzerland
By nealejames | January 17, 2007
Beautiful venue, excitable couple, amazing blue skies, incredible champagne, crisp snow… we wish were back there right now. Zermatt in Switzerland was the venue for Jamie and Rebecca Gunning’s wedding, which we were commissioned to photograph midway last year. Along with close relatives they did the formal bit in the town’s tiny (estate agent types would call it bijou) but cute, registry office. The fantastic registrar had the biggest hair I’d seen, since watching Tina Turner from the front row play a gig at Ipswich Town in 1990. Anyway, I digress. We moved on to a kind of pre main-event reception in das Grand Hotel Zermatterhoff, which “ist ein Funf Stern Deluxe Hotel mitten in Zermatt.” In English; wooden panels everywhere worth a fortune, and an everything you can eat menu for £421.60 a head. And then after a change of outfit, the wedding party attended an early evening blessing in Zermatt’s English Church. In view of the Matterhorn, the party concluded at Mont Cervin Palace, another hotel blessed by five stars. Just about the best beef I have ever eaten. Infact no. The best beef I have ever eaten. I’d say that’s the kind of wedding that dreams are made of. Often, and it’s a fabulous accolade, a couple will comment how we became like part of their guest list for a day. I’d like to say that on this occasion, thanks Jamie and Becks, for making us feel like your guests. As ever, an honour and privilege to be part of the start of your life together as a married couple.
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