For most couples, their wedding day celebrations end with a farewell to their guests, not a front row seat to a Teddy Swims concert. <\/p>\n
But that’s exactly what newlyweds Neil and Leighann Hanna experienced on Monday night. <\/p>\n
Last October, Neil bought tickets for the American singer-songwriter’s appearance at Belfast’s Ormeau Park. While the date was marked in the calendar, it slipped Leighann’s mind when she booked their wedding for the same day. <\/p>\n
“We’ve been together for a while,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I just said ‘right, let’s just do it’, so I booked the wedding about a month ago and I messaged Neil at work and said ‘this is the date we’re getting married’.” <\/p>\n
But when Neil checked his work calendar, he said he was already off that day for something else. <\/p>\n
Speaking to BBC News NI Leighann said she thought her now-husband was “just trying to get out of it”.<\/p>\n
“And then he went no, honey, we’ve got the Teddy Swims concert that night.”<\/p>\n
The couple live in Neil’s home town of Bangor in County Down, but Leighann is originally from Musselburgh in Scotland. <\/p>\n
With just 12 guests due to attend the wedding, including their three children, they decided to go ahead with both events. <\/p>\n
“That was not in question, I was not missing Teddy Swims for anything,” Leighann said. <\/p>\n
Neil joked that he was “just doing as I was told”.<\/p>\n
“We moved the time of the wedding to 12 o’clock. We had our little ceremony. We went to a restaurant in Bangor for our little lunch and straight after it Neil and I went up to Ormeau Park,” Leighann said. <\/p>\n
“This is going to sound strange, but we don’t really like big gatherings \u2026 unless Teddy Swims is singing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For most couples, their wedding day celebrations end with a farewell to their guests, not a front row…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-654558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}