Manchester Central Library are offering happy couples the chance to start their next chapter as husband and wife in the historic city-centre landmark.
Following a four-year £50m refurbishment, the venue has now gained licensing to become a wedding venue which means love birds can exchange vows inside the iconic building.
After reopening in March last year, the library boasts new heritage spaces and the Wolfson Reading Room provides an ideal location for wedding photographs.
Manchester City Council’s executive member for Culture and Leisure, Rosa Battle, said: “After the successful, painstaking refurbishment of Central Library, we are now able to offer couples the chance to celebrate one of the most important days of their lives at one of the city’s most beautiful and treasured buildings.”
While under construction in the 1930s, Mancunians referred to Central Library as the ‘Corporation Wedding Cake’, in reference to its unusual and unmissable shape.
Now couples can literally have their wedding cake and eat it inside E. Vincent Harris’ architectural masterpiece.
Curved contemporary spaces – each offering a unique view of the city – are also the perfect place to continue wedding celebrations into the evening.
It’s all rests on whether loved up partners get down on one knee and read the situation well enough.
Fingers crossed, couples can live happily ever after fulfilling a once in a lifetime experience.
Image courtesy of Michael D Beckwith, with thanks.
