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LIVING A LIFE: MARRIAGE

responded to all the other bridesmaids, world looks on, happy for them
rather than either singling her out or but unsurprised. Thanks to Leela Bennet of Leela Bennet
ignoring her. And it is perhaps this photography, and to Joe and Polly and their
approach, the way in which she treated When that is achieved, we will know families for permission to use these photos.
the wedding as a joyous union we have taken another step towards htp://www.leelabennetphotography.co.uk/
of two people rather than an unusual an inclusive society. It shouldn’t be so
disability event, that gave her pictures hard, should it?
such power and elicited such an
extraordinary response.

Somewhere between the dead
hand of local authorites using the
Mental Capacity Act to try to
prevent the marriage of two people
who love each other, and joyous
‘unicorn weddings’ that go viral
because they are such a surprise
to the rest of the world, lies a
middle ground – a middle
ground where people with
learning disabilites who are in
love are able to marry, as quietly or
as loudly as they wish, while the

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