Couples plan Lapland double wedding (From Northwich Guardian)

Couples plan Lapland double wedding

8:10am Sunday 28th December 2008

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A SNOWY winter wonderland will be filled with warmth and love when two Northwich couples jet out to Lapland for a double wedding.

Neighbours Mandy Nancollis and Ann Anderson are being swept off to the home of Father Christmas by their husbands-to-be, Rod Skillen and Paul Norbury, in the New Year.

The two couples, who live next-door to each other in Leftwich, get married on January 22 and will have a reception for all their friends and family at Hartford Golf Club for Valentine’s Day.

The foursome are also all going to the Maldives for their honeymoons in March.

Mandy, 37, said: “We’re good friends and this has been really good – there’s been no falling out or anything and we’ve done everything together.”

The couples are flying out to Lapland on January 18 and enjoying a few days there before the big day itself, when the brides, pageboys and bridesmaids will be transported to the ceremony on a reindeer-drawn sleigh.

The venue itself is a traditional wooden teepee-style building called a kota, complete with an open fire in the middle of the room.

Mandy said: “It will be lovely.

“I love all the snow and as I’ve been married before I said if I ever did it again that’s where I would like to get married.

“I’m looking forward to the whole thing really – I’ve been to Lapland before and it’s all pretty and picturesque.”

Mandy’s two daughters Kylie, 20, and Lucy, 14, and her daughter and son with Rod, Kia, four, and Jay, six, will make up the wedding party along with Ann’s daughters Jay, 15, Paige, 13, and son Connor, 10.

Mandy said: “They’re so excited – more than me.“They’ve been on the webcams looking at where we’re actually staying.

“It’s something to look forward to after Christmas.”

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