LUCKY IN LOVE
SWIPING RIGHT CHANGED THEIR LIVES
In November 2018, Nicole Ryan and James Gilbert joined their lives together at the picturesque Preston Manor & Village Chapel.
In defiance of the odds, the pair had connected on Tinder three years previously and fell in love the moment they met.
They immediately ‘clicked’, with Nicole describing James as caring, kind, loveable, loyal and handsome.
Nicole being an honest, down–to–earth person, with a caring heart and intelligent mind, sealed the deal for James.
The fact that he finds Nicole incredibly beautiful also didn’t escape him, so he decided to make things official, popping the question one year (to the day) before the couple got married.
“I decided I want the relationship I treasure so much to be a forever kind of thing,” James said.
On a weekend trip to the coast, the pair passed a lighthouse and James suggested they have a look.
At the top, while they had a beautiful view all to themselves, he went down on one knee, asked Nicole for her hand in marriage, and was rewarded with a happy ‘yes!’.
The newly engaged couple went to dinner that night to celebrate and the rest, as they say, is history.
When both their hen’s and buck’s nights washed out — Nicole said these were probably two of the wettest weekends Toowoomba had seen all year — the couple wondered about the weather on their coming wedding day.
But, luck favoured the brave and their wedding day was perfect.
“The week of the wedding, we experienced four seasons.
“It was 38 degrees one day and 11 degrees the next, yet our wedding day was just amazing,” Nicole said.
Their wedding was simple and elegant, with a colour scheme of grey, white and black, to which they added some greenery and timber.
The reception had many highlights but, for Nicole, having James’ 98-year-old grandfather shaking it on the dance floor with them, topped them all.
Nicole’s advice for your wedding day, is to remember that you are probably the only ones who know if something’s ‘not quite how it was meant to be’.
The pair honeymooned in Singapore and on the Thai island of Koh Samui before settling down.