When you organise fashion shows for a living, your expectations of what constitutes “doable” to take on alone probably looks slightly different to your average bride. Such was the case for fashion PR Amelia Penfold, founder of AP Communications, who took on the mammoth task of organising her dream wedding: an intimate church ceremony followed by a weekend-long party surrounded by family and friends in Marrakech, largely by herself – albeit with support from her mother, her London team, and a select few on the ground in Marrakech. The couple met before the first lockdown in 2020 on a dating app, before becoming engaged during a trip to Provence in August last year.
“We hired a vintage 2CV and went out for a picnic,” remembers Amelia. “I’d had a few glasses of wine by the time he proposed – he didn’t get down on one knee, we were just sitting on the blanket – and I was quite surprised!” A village church in West Sussex, where her mother and stepfather live, was the location of the official marriage ceremony, which took place in front of just a handful of guests, with Yorgo’s two sons as his best men, and Amelia’s four nieces as flower girls. “We didn’t want our vows to become some kind of spectacle or event, we just wanted it to be about us with the support of our family,” she shares.
“Even though there were not a lot of us, it felt like the church was brimming with energy.” Some of this was provided by the Get Gospel choir, who sang Rudimenta.
