Many young girls and women spend no small amount of time imagining what their wedding day will look like – from brunch with the girls and her mother, to hair and makeup, to those magical moments while all eyes are on her walking down the aisle.
They say the most important thing about any wedding is that it represent the two of you as a couple, though, and French bride Cloé Étienne Verlaguet and groom Romain Étienne Verlaguet really took that to heart.
Instead of a relaxing morning full of champagne and primping, they invited their 135 guests to join them for endorphins instead – in the form of a 7K run around the estate where their wedding would be held.
“We decided to create custom T-shirts and told our friends and family that for whoever wanted, we were going to do a physical activity at 8:30 a.m. the day of the wedding and then serve breakfast. For us, it was also a way to start the day with endorphins and have people mixing up from all our different friend groups.”
Somewhere between 35-45 of their guests obliged, donning custom matching t-shirts and lacing up their shoes for a run.
They wound around the grounds of Le Domaine de la Fauconnie near Bergerac, an 18th-century manor house where many of them stayed the night previous.
Cloé was all smiles, a veil…
