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Sani & Mike | Chinese-Jewish Wedding with an ‘Adventure Through London’ theme at Ranger’s House and RSA House, London, UK

05/01/2016 by Karen

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Wow. Like… WOW.

That’s pretty much all I said for five  minutes  when Sani & Mike’s Chinese / Jewish (can I say  ‘Chewish’?!) wedding landed in my inbox. It’s the perfect first real wedding  to kick off  2016 with as it epitomises the STG mantra of your Jewish wedding day, your way. So for Sani & Mike  that meant  peking duck, Jewish wedding traditions,  a Taiwanese tea ceremony, honey cake, table tennis, street feast food stalls,  table tennis, a boat trip down the Thames, and so many  more ideas that reflected them both.

This is a  particularly inspiring post for couples planning a wedding that combines two different cultures — it’ll give you the confidence to plan exactly the kind of  wedding that feels right for you. On a frivolous note, Sani and Mike  totally nailed their red colour scheme (red is the traditional colour of good luck in Taiwanese weddings) so if you’re looking to thread a specific colour through your big day, you’ll be  inspired by lots of their ideas.

I also absolutely LOVE  that they  devised an  ‘adventure through London’ for their wedding guests (read the bride’s  wedding report below for more on that!). After the ‘London escapade’ part to their day, Sani and Mike chose the vaults at central London’s  RSA House  for their party venue. I’m a huge fan of RSA House as it has a plethora of beautiful traditional spaces, but you can get entirely  creative with their ‘underground chamber’ vaults too. Sani, the  Bride, explains:

We wanted to have  a bit of festival feel across the vault spaces… so the guests could pick and choose what they wanted to do, be it playing table tennis, singing karaoke with the  Rockaoke  live band, dancing, or watching England vs. Wales rugby on an iPad by the bar.”

Let me hand  you over to Sani  now for her  full report, exquisitely documented by the hugely talented Andrew Billington, and wish  ×ž×–ל טוב and 恭喜 to the Bride  and Groom!

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how we met

Sani, the Bride: Mike and I have been friends for years, having been introduced by mutual friends, just after university about eight years ago. We got to know each other through parties and mutual friends, but gradually got closer over the years, and then played in a  band together which resulted in spending even more time in each others company.

It definitely was not love at first sight and we used to genuinely annoy the hell out of each other and have massive shouting matches, storming out of rooms, slamming doors and calling each other all sorts of names! In fact, if you had told either of us four years ago that we’d end up marrying each other, you would have been declared mad and laughed out of the room.

Mike and I both had different partners throughout our friendship but I guess all that bickering, winding each other up and arguing, spending so much time together, living on top of each other in the lead up to gigs and band recordings, resulted in a closeness which we then finally and very reluctantly realised was love. Needless to say, most of our close friends were not that surprised and if anything, relieved that all the public shouting matches have stopped since we got together!

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Looking for a truly unique London wedding venue? RSA House may just be ‘the one’

08/01/2015 by Karen

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Image by Allister Freeman Photography

Finding a venue  for a  London wedding can be a complete minefield. There are so many  generic venues  out there that will ‘do the job’, but if you’re looking for something  truly awe-inspiring, versatile and sophisticated, then I would enthusiastically  recommend  RSA House.

RSA House  offers a huge  assortment  of breathtaking  spaces for an unforgettable wedding celebration in the heart of the capital. From the chuppah ceremony to the reception, to a post-wedding brunch, they create truly special customised events that rival all other London  wedding venues.

Your venue will set  the tone for your entire wedding, so it’s important to find a place that you love, and fits your style. As one of London’s  most exciting  wedding venues, RSA House  would love to show you around  on Saturday 17th January 2015 on a personal tour at their exclusive VIP Open Day, so that you can see for yourself what makes their venue so exceptional.

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Clockwise from top left: Martin Beddall, Allister Freeman,  Allister Freeman,  David Pullum,  Allister Freeman,  Allister Freeman, Julie Kim, Jessica Alexander,  Allister Freeman, Richard Ford, Allister Freeman, Julie Kim

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