Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Perth influencer Rahnee Bransby has revealed her unconventional wedding plans ahead of her 2027 marriage “somewhere in Australia”.
The lifestyle and fashion influencer with more than 258,000 followers on Instagram and TikTok got engaged in November and shared the news by posting a beautiful video of the proposal.
Her partner, Jian, placed an incredible yellow diamond ring on her finger that was “beyond everything” Bransby has ever dreamt of.
In a TikTok video, Bransby said the couple haven’t organised any wedding plans for the 2027 ceremony, which will be a destination wedding within Australia, but revealed some of the non-traditional things she will and won’t be doing.
Bransby said she and her partner will actually already be legally married before their wedding, surrounded by family and friends.
“After our first kiss and when we walk back down the aisle, we won’t go away and sign papers, we want to get legally married at a courthouse weeks before in Perth,” she said.
Bransby said the reason behind this was so the couple could spend more time with their friends at the wedding because they “are our whole world”.
And to ensure their friends are involved in the wedding as much as possible, the couple are looking at asking one of their mates to be the officiant on the day.
However, despite her love for her friends who will make up the bridal party, Bransby doesn’t want them to be “standing up the front with us while we do our vows”.
“We want the photos to be just us at the front, so they will join us but only for a little bit,” she said.
After the official proceedings, when everyone sits down for dinner, Bransby said she wants the speeches to get underway pretty much straight away.
She is hoping to get all the speeches done in bulk within 20 minutes to keep it short and sweet — “there’s nothing worse when people are distracted.”
“If we have four people, five minutes each, maybe even less,” she said.
“I’ve witnessed a lot at weddings, as the night goes on and speeches are broken up, people get a lot more rowdy, their attention span starts to minimise especially when people start to drink, it just naturally happens.
“Speeches are very personal. I don’t think people will care that deeply about how we met or acted as three-year-olds.”
Bransby said she also wanted to break tradition by spending cocktail hour with her guests rather than going off to take photos with her groom.
“I’m not missing having a (margarita) with my guests and mingling with them, that is my favourite part of a wedding.”
Lastly, Bransby said in the lead-up to the wedding, she won’t be sending out paper invites.
“We are 95 per cent leaning towards doing a destination wedding within Australia so I think we’ll do a digital RSVP and save the day potentially on a website,” she said.
“I don’t want to invest money into it because I personally think it’s a little bit of a waste and typically people throw them away, I also want to be mindful about waste.
“I want to have one place for (guests) to refer back to that covers absolutely everything about the wedding.”
