Ashleigh is a fashion graduate who made her own wedding dress. Morry is Australian-born Lebanese. Together they created one of the most beautiful Curzon Hall weddings Sydney has ever seen — complete with a Lebanese Zaffeh entrance and portraits at the State Library of NSW.

El’s mum couldn’t make it to the wedding. She was at home, fighting stage 4 breast cancer. This is the story of what happened before El got in the car — and why we turned the gallery in five days.