WHEN Jeanna Brose packed her bags and set off to attend a friend's wedding in Ireland, she didn't expect that she would return herself a married woman.

A spontaneous engagement and whirlwind wedding took the new Mrs Scarlett across two continents and back again with a ring on her finger.

Being an organised woman who likes to plan ahead, Mrs Scarlett didn't miss a beat when her new husband Daniel spontaneously got down on one knee in a 12th century Irish castle just outside Dundalk.

Forty-eight hours later, the Warwick couple were on a plane to Denver, Colorado, frantically trying to make arrangements for the wedding they didn't see coming.

In the space of a day, Mrs Scarlett tried and purchased her wedding dress, arranged her flowers, bought rings, had her hair and make-up done and made it to the place where she would tie the knot with her partner of four years.

But the spontaneity of it all was what made the wedding so perfect in Mrs Scarlett's eyes.

Without the fuss, planning and agonising detail that goes into most weddings these days, Mrs Scarlett said the impulse wedding allowed the attention to stay on the couple.

"To me the focus is so often on other people and it's not on the bride and the groom,” Mrs Scarlett said.

"But this was perfect, it was better than what I ever could imagine.

"It was just about us and our love for each other because we were the only two there.”

With no one else but a marriage celebrant and a photographer, Mr and Mrs Scarlett said their vows to the stunning backdrop of the Rocky Mountains in Denver.

Like a fairytale, a light snow fell around them at sunset on February 5 this year.

But adrenaline and the warmth of love kept the couple from shivering in the crisp winter air.

Even to this day, Mrs Scarlett needs the ring to prove to herself it was real.

"It was a total surprise, I wasn't expecting it at all,” she said.

"It still doesn't feel real, it feels like a fairytale and it feels like a dream.”

Already on holidays, the fun continued from there as the two rented a motorhome and travelled around America for their honeymoon.