“OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS HELPED FOOT THE BILL”

After meeting in a bar in Brooklyn in May, Jacob Rossignuolo, from Melbourne, and Nicole, from New Jersey, US, fell in love and decided to get married in September.
Jacob had been travelling for 18 months and maxed his credit cards so created a GoFundMe page to ask friends and family for a bit of help for the $1500 they’d need to hire an Elvis impersonator to marry them by Lake Tahoe in Nevada, plus pay for a hire car for a honeymoon road trip.
“We saw it as a gift for the wedding. I specifically asked people to just give what they could — anything would make a difference,” Jacob, 27, says.
They had a few friends in attendance and planned to get them to take some photos but in a stroke of good luck, a wedding photographer saw them on the day and offered to take some photos for free.
Now they’re planning wedding parties with all their friends and family in Melbourne over New Year’s and in the States in February.
“It was like the wedding in Tahoe was the ceremony but we are having two different receptions in each country,” Jacob says.