We chose to celebrate our wedding on 9th May - Europe Day 2026 because Europe is what brought us together: We met at the European Commission in Munich’s “Zamanand” (voter mobilisation) festival - just before the EU Elections in 2024. I was performing on a very wet and freezing cold day - hardly anyone was at the festival or watching my performance. My husband’s pro-EU youth organisation, JEF Bayern, was due to have a stall at the festival, but it was called off at the last minute because of...

I married my husband, Johann Hubmann, on 07/05/26 in Bad Reichenhall. And now for a lengthy rant about kafkaesque bureaucracy and the complex legal process of arranging a transnational marriage, which has been made infinitely more challenging by the impacts of Brexit (specifically the 90/180 day rule), and has also neccessitated marriage in order to allow a Brit to live with their EU partner. Germany is infamous for it's stringent and excessive bureaucracy, but we decided it would be better...

Special request of the Bride was to get photos with our kitties before our wedding... The kitties were less thrilled by this idea, and it proved to be practically impossible to get them both to look at the camera at the same time - but we still got some nice shots! We also did a few photos without the cats amongst the beautiful field of daisies...