{"id":93707,"date":"2015-08-02T14:17:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T13:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.5starweddingdirectory.com\/?p=93707"},"modified":"2018-12-26T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T21:28:00","slug":"decs-girl-glows-in-phillipa-lepley-gown-at-newcastle-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/decs-girl-glows-in-phillipa-lepley-gown-at-newcastle-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Donnelly&#039;s Girl Glows in Phillipa Lepley Gown at Newcastle Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s hard to believe the boyish Declan Donnelly, first seen on British screens in 1989 at the age of 14, is all grown up and tying the knot! It only seems like yesterday that Byker Grove favourite Duncan was getting into paintballing hi-jinks with best friend PJ (Ant McPartlin)&#8230; In actual fact, yesterday was the day Donnelly married his manager of ten years, Ali Astall, who looked gorgeous in a sleeveless ivory gown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Philippa-Lepley-Instagram-Ali-Astal-Gown-Dec-Donnelly-Wedding-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Declan Donnelly&#039;s Girl Glows in Phillipa Lepley Gown at Newcastle Wedding\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93710\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Philippa-Lepley-Instagram-Ali-Astal-Gown-Dec-Donnelly-Wedding-.jpg\" alt=\"Philippa Lepley Instagram Ali Astal Gown Dec Donnelly Wedding\" width=\"643\" height=\"605\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Declan Donnelly&#039;s Girl Glows in Phillipa Lepley Gown at Newcastle Wedding\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93710\" src=\"http:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Philippa-Lepley-Instagram-Ali-Astal-Gown-Dec-Donnelly-Wedding-.jpg\" alt=\"Philippa Lepley Instagram Ali Astal Gown Dec Donnelly Wedding\" width=\"643\" height=\"605\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The groom and his groomsmen &#8211; including, of course, Ant McPartlin &#8211; continued this year\u2019s hot trend of beautiful blue tailoring, accented with grey waistcoats. Ali\u2019s gown was made by one of this year\u2019s top celebrity wedding dress couturiers, Phillipa Lepley, who also created the designs for Geri Halliwell\u2019s and Guy Richie\u2019s second wife Jacqui Ainsley\u2019s wedding gowns this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Down-to-earth Donnelly has never forgotten his Geordie roots, and yesterday\u2019s traditional ceremony took place at St Michael\u2019s Church, Newcastle, officiated by Father Dermott Donnelly &#8211; Dec\u2019s brother. Earlier in the day, an excited Dec took to Twitter to share the anticipation and joy of his big day with some 5 million followers. First thing he joked \u2018I know I\u2019ve got somewhere to be today but I can\u2019t for the life of me remember where\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Morning! I know I&#8217;ve got somewhere to be today but I can&#8217;t for the life of me remember where&#8230;. ? D<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 antanddec (@antanddec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antanddec\/status\/627405840824336384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 1, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Later, on his way to the church, he tweeted a picture of best man, Ant, behind the wheel of the Aston Martin in which he arrived, with the caption \u2018Slow down man, what\u2019s the hurry?!\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Slow down man, what&#8217;s the hurry!? D <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/bYrnbaCyj3\">pic.twitter.com\/bYrnbaCyj3<\/a> \u2014 antanddec (@antanddec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antanddec\/status\/627463466870304768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 1, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>After the ceremony, the elated groom took to social media just once more to thank his followers for their well wishes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thank you for all the kind and lovely messages, they are appreciated. My wife and I ? had the most amazing, magical, wonderful day. D x<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 antanddec (@antanddec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antanddec\/status\/627799541354483712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Congratulations to the happy couple!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the day, an excited Declan Donnelly took to Twitter to share the anticipation and joy of his big day with some 5 million followers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,19],"tags":[269,211],"class_list":["post-93707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-weddings","category-latest-blog-post","tag-declan-donnelly","tag-phillipa-lepley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5starweddingdirectory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}