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When 38 year old Recruitment Consultant Natalie O’Neill from Edinburgh agreed to marry her Kosovan fiancé she had no idea of the attention that the couples’ nuptials would command.
The bride and her 37 year old groom Al Sylejmani made the decision to hold their wedding ceremony in the grooms native Kosovo. Bu the modest, low key affair was transformed into a public celebration when Kosovo publicly announced its freedom and independence 72 hours before the couple were due to wed.
This momentous decision made the pair the very first to marry in the former Yugoslavian new state. As result the couple became overnight media personalities and the entire nation united together to celebrate their matrimony.
The bride said of the event:-
“It was luck and coincidence but we ended up at the centre of things and everyone was making such a fuss over us. Our wedding certificate was the first to feature the Kosovan flag. It was one of the things that brought home to the Kosovans that they had finally achieved independence.
People followed us into the town hall where we got married and filmed us as our ceremony took place. The paparazzi were snapping away at us. I felt like Britney Spears! The TV and newspapers couldn’t get enough of us. We were even on the evening news. People were coming up to us for days afterwards and saying they recognised us. It was amazing.”
Al and Natalie went on to hold a second ceremony at Fingask Castle in Perthshire, providing members of the groom’s family with the opportunity to travel beyond Kosovo for the very first time.
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