{"id":181148,"date":"2018-01-10T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/real-weddings\/love-cold-climate-ruth-marcels-romantic-winter-wedding\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T01:26:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:26:24","slug":"love-cold-climate-ruth-marcels-romantic-winter-wedding","status":"publish","type":"au-real-wedding","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/real-weddings\/love-cold-climate-ruth-marcels-romantic-winter-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Love in a cold climate: Ruth and Marcel’s romantic winter wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"
A cool-climate engagement inspired Ruth and Marcel’s romantic winter wedding.<\/p>\n
The Melbourne couple first met at a wedding in Romania a decade ago, but lost touch after Ruth, 29, returned to Australia.<\/p>\n
“We were both young and awkward and had no idea how to connect beyond that meeting,” Ruth recalls.<\/p>\n
Luckily, fate had other plans and at the beginning of last year Ruth and Marcel, 27, reconnected through mutual friends.<\/p>\n
“At first I didn’t remember him as that same shy young man I met all those years ago because he was so confident and different – his English had definitely improved too!”<\/p>\n
Ruth flew to Romania for Christmas and their whirlwind romance culminated in Marcel’s proposal on the rooftop of Timisoara’s highest building under falling snow.<\/p>\n
The couple paid homage to this winter engagement with their wedding celebrations on June 10, 2017.<\/p>\n
More than 300 guests from all over the world flew in for the romantic winter wedding at\u00a0The First Romanian Baptist Church in Endeavour Hills before the reception at Linley Estate.<\/p>\n
“Our wedding was a magical winter wonderland set in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges<\/a>,” Ruth says.<\/p>\n “There were sentimental touches, like grandpa penning a poem for us that got everyone tearing up, but there was also laughing and everyone having a blast. Best of all I married the love of my life!”<\/p>\n Photos courtesy of Vanilla Images<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ruth says she felt like a princess in her\u00a0ball gown-style wedding dress<\/a> made from organza falling in layers to the ground. “The bodice was a plunging illusion v-neck and low cut back embroidered with Swarovski crystals and pearls.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Burgundy bridesmaid dresses helped keep with the winter wedding theme<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The couple hired a\u00a0White Chrysler Arion limousine from Raco Special Vehicles<\/a> to ensure the whole wedding party could fit in together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n
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