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and sewed a name tag inside with ‘Will you marry
me’ printed on it. at the gig, when the song started
playing, I told Kerry I’d accidently lef the label in
her t-shirt. as she looked down to remove it, I got
the ring out of my bag. She unfurled the label, read
it and looked up to see me proposing. afer a couple
of expletves… she said yes!
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AT fIrsT KErry WAnTEd To gET mArrIEd
AbroAd on our oWn.
But being a family girl, I
pushed for Wales where I’m from – and Kerry, being
the gracious person she is, relented! Taking a trip to
Wales, we picked up a list of registered venues from
the county registry office. Carreglywd manor House
was one of our stops and we instantly fell in love
with the licensed stable block. It was a blank canvas
inside and we knew it would allow us to put our
stamp on the day – something that was paramount
in our planning.
There was no specific theme to our wedding, but
Emma and KErry
every element got our atenton. There was a
recurring motf of a key – I have a tatoo of a locked
heart and Kerry, of course, holds the key! We had a
stamp made up of a key and our names for our
invites – Kraf card Cd cases with our wedding playlist
on the enclosed Cd. Our bridesmaids and Kerry wore
key necklaces, and one of the custom buton badges
we had made for wedding favours featured the same
antque key design – the others were of a Welsh love
spoon and one design saying ‘Have a Gay day!’ We
wanted to inject a bit of fun into the day, so we made
moustaches on stripy straws for our guests to adorn
themselves with in informal piccies. One of my
favourite purchases for the day was the wooden
leterpress blocks, available by leter – I got m-r-S-&-
m-r-S to dress the top table.
deciding what to wear was a headache. I’m a
tatooed but nerdy girl who lives in jeans and Kerry is
surgically atached to a hoodie. We don’t belong in
most bridal shops! I’m clueless about dresses, but
know that I like rockabilly ’50s shapes, which suit my
frame. you don’t see many of those in La Generica
Bridal Boutque, so I called on Future Couture’s
mother and daughter custom couture team in
norwich. I went with a storyboard of images and my
hand held by my best friend and bridesmaid, Lou;
vintage lace, full net skirts, sweetheart necklines, and
from the medley in front of them, those clever ladies
were able to create a beautful, sweet litle dress.
With no idea what to do with my hair, my
eagle-eyed mum spoted a dainty vintage tara in a
retro shop, which sorted the problem. as for make-
up, a litle meltdown in House of Fraser prompted
my fabulous mum to book a Bobby Brown bridal
‘Therewas no specific theme
to our wedding, but every
element got our atenton.
Therewas a recurringmotf of
a key – I have a tatoo of a
locked heart and Kerry, of
course, holds the key!’