Meet the mother who fulfills the dreams in New York – from the suburban solihul – Birmingham live

Claire Ady arranges the wedding in the iconic central park from its own dining table 3,000 miles from the big apple

She is a mother who has bitten from the big apple – organizing Dream New York Weddings from thousands of miles in Midlands. Claire Adi, 46, manages Wed in Central Park, offering the best options for the budget of couples to marry in the iconic Central Park.

The distance of 3,000 miles between New York and her home Solihul was not a problem as it works from the comfort of her table table and uses a reliable team of ground employees. Claire, initially from Stoke on Trent, married the park himself in 2011 when he lived in New York before moving to Las Vegas and California and then returning to the UK to raise his two sons.

“We planned our own wedding through mouth -mouth, I thought it was a good way to help the British and foreigners do the same. After reading a book on how to make my own website, I had my first client and I went from there,” Claire He told Birmingham.

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Claire has planned 650 weddings, taking care of 575 to $ 3550 budget packages after launching its business in 2012 Couples can tie the knot against the emblematic silhouette of New York, a home for hitting television shows such as friends, sex and a city and gossip girl.

She said: “In the first year I made about 15 weddings, then appeared. The best year was 2022, I did 82 weddings after Covid. I’m going to New York for a week of the year and I attend some weddings to check everything goes well. “

Claire has helped people from all over the world tie the knot, including couples from Birmingham and Coventry, Scotland and Ireland. She said: “In 2011, I moved to New York with my boyfriend at that time and he had a working visa. So we had to get married if I would continue to live with him. We got married to a central park.

“We lived in New York for a year, then Las Vegas and then California. My first son was born in Vegas, my second son was born in the UK. We wanted to raise them here in Solihul. We knew the area here, the schools are nice, It is good for the children. “

Claire said that her clients often get away or want to do things according to their own conditions after the stress of planning a big traditional event. She works part -time but checks her emails every day by coordinating the Solihull ceremonies. “I work around the kids and I feel like I have enough business,” she said.

“The people I provide on the day are really reliable. Initially, I used my own wedding providers, I will make photographers come and go all the time. My clients don’t even know where I am!”

Claire said she had received “100 percent five -star reviews” since she started, with her emissions on Instagram and Facebook showing hundreds of happy couples. She said: “It is a big part of my job to manage expectations and get them through my decisions. People come to me to save money – they get their wedding and their honeymoon in one move.

“They would focus on each other other than spending that money on an extended family dinners. People come to me to say they want to get rid of stress.

“I cry from all of them, the most emotional are the eloopements. People say things to each other who would not say to another family. It is so easier to marry in the United States than the UK. If you want to marry New York, You raise a license, wait 24 hours, sign it at the ceremony and the ceremony should be performed by a New York staff.

“I write the ceremony, the license is sent, it is returned to the license office, they register your marriage and send you your certificate.”

Regarding his salary, Claire said, “I suspect pick up to plan every wedding, depending on what couples need me for them.

“I did more when I had a salary work, but I do enough. I do this from my dining room in my pajamas. I love New York, I like to help people, I like to plan and think about the details, asking people what they want and makes them happy. “