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e got together five years ago and
on 18 april this year we celebrated
our second wedding anniversary.
Like so many people we met
through work, recruitng staff for
uS summer camps. I was working at our head office
in London and Sue worked in our uS office – we
spoke practcally every day (all work-related of
course!) and by the tme we finally met each other
at a conference in Texas we were great friends.
Our friendship grew untl finally
a New Year’s Eve trip to London
changed everything.
We did the long distance relatonship thing for
a while (whoever invented Skype – we owe you a
drink!) but when Sue decided to come to London to
study an MBa I was overjoyed. Two years later, Sue
proposed on a romantc trip to Valldemossa,
Mallorca – she’d even been to Tiffany’s!
It was important to us that as many of our
family and friends as possible could be with us to
Kerry lived in London, Sue lived in New York.
When their long distance friendship turned into
romance, they wanted to make sure all their
family and friends could join in the celebration.
Kerry shares a wedding day they will never forget
celebrate. So afer an intmate and emotonal civil
partnership at the Kings road registry Office in
Chelsea, we decided to wait and save up for an all-
out celebraton that reflected us as a couple.
In October 2009 (afer I developed a serious
wedding magazine addicton), 80 of our family and
friends flew in from all over to join us for our
wedding in rye, east Sussex. We chose rye as it is
one of our favourite places – and with its cobbled
streets and old pubs we knew it would have the
wow factor for our out-of-town guests. It also
perfectly reflected our vintage-style wedding.
Our close friend Jason conducted the ceremony,
which included a Pam ayres poem – ‘yes I’ll marry
you my dear’, with a few tweaks to make it work! –
and finished with everyone singing ‘Can’t Take My
eyes Off you’ in place of the ‘traditonal’ hymn. We
also had the poem ‘Love’ by roy Crof, and a friend
performed ‘I’m yours’ by Jason Mraz. aferwards,
everyone walked down the road to ‘The George in
rye’, where we enjoyed a Pimms and champagne
recepton followed by a fabulous wedding breakfast.
Kerry and Sue