Claudio and Charlotte's Wedding in Malmesbury, Wiltshire
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14 Dec, 2024
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(I selected my hometown for the wedding location, as it wasn't an option to choose a location abroad. We got married in Quintero, Chile, not Malmesbury.)
I am from Wiltshire in South West England and my husband is from Santiago, Chile. We met in 2018 when I was studying abroad in Santiago, and made it through several periods of long distance, before living together in Chile and then moving to the UK last year.
After getting engaged in front of the Eiffel Tower in December 2023, we had to decide in which country we'd get married. We were initially planning to get married in England, as we knew it would be difficult for my parents to travel to Chile, but we then found out that we couldn't legally marry in the UK, as we'd entered into a civil union for visa reasons in May 2023.
Once we'd established that we had to get married in Chile, I knew that I wanted to take advantage of its warmer climate and beautiful beaches, and get married by the Pacific Ocean. And the moment we saw pictures of Yachting Hotel Quintero, we knew that it was our dream venue.
Continue reading »We had to plan our wedding from a distance, while going through a UK visa application process at the same time, which was definitely challenging at times! Claudio had to return to Chile for a while in order to complete his visa application, which fortunately for us, had the benefit of giving him the chance to go along to the venue a couple of times and get some wedding planning done.
In the end, our wedding was the most beautiful and special day we could have imagined. The location was so beautiful and the celebration afterwards was a lot of fun. The only thing missing was the fact that my parents couldn't be there, so we've decided to have a religious blessing of our marriage after our honeymoon this year, followed by a little celebration.
Overall, we're really delighted to be married at last, and we're always going to look back on our wedding day with a lot of happiness.
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