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Wedding planner: Russell Wilson, Ciara moved ceremony to avoid controversial North Carolina law

Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and pop star Ciara Harris moved their wedding in order to avoid a controversial North Carolina law that discriminates against transgender people, according to the couple's wedding planner.

In an interview with wedding site The Knot published Monday, Mindy Weiss said she planned the A-list wedding three times after the couple moved the ceremony from North Carolina to Paris before finally settling on a medieval castle outside of Liverpool, England.

"I did the whole thing three times," Weiss told The Knot. "They were first getting married in North Carolina, but they called it off due to the transgender bathroom laws.