Jannicke Steen and Paal Andre Utvik first met in 2009, while working in Manila, Philippines. Paal was instructed to find his replacement, before moving back to Shanghai, China, where he was primarily based. He contacted Jannicke for an interview. Little did Paal know, he had found a worthy candidate—and his future wife.
Over the next few years, Jannicke and Paal kept in touch occasionally for job-related matters, and met from time to time if they were both in Shanghai or Manila. Both originally from Norway, they met for dinner in 2015, with their children in tow. "It was a sweet and cozy dinner, where we were mainly fascinated with how our kids talked and seemed to get along," Jannicke recalls. A few months later, they went on their first "real" date and their years as just friends were behind them.
During a road trip up the California coast, the couple were cruising along when Paal asked what Jannicke would say if he asked her to marry him. "Bluntly and probably without thinking too much over the question, just knowing in my heart and mind that I was happy, I told him I would have said yes," she says. So, they drove from San Francisco to Las Vegas, secured their wedding certificate, planned an intimate wedding at a hotel the next day, and were married in a spontaneous ceremony on November 3, 2015 with two dear friends as witnesses.
About ten months later, Paal proposed to Jannicke in the garden of the home they share with their three children. And on July 1, 2017, Jannicke and Paal tied the knot in Provence, France, at Chateau d'Estoublon. Over the course of three days, the pair celebrated with 180 guests, and in Provencal style. With soft, sophisticated colors inspired by the venue's exterior, and a ceremony among 100-year-old olive trees, Jannicke and Paal's château wedding was charming and chic.
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