‘ There wasn’ t an official proposal – just a few nights opening bottles of champagne while we talked about our visions of our perfect day.’
Dee aND DeBS
We met at a fancy dress party in Kent. The party was themed as‘ the L word’, so you had to dress as something beginning with L. Dee was the Cowgirl of Love and Debs decided to dress as a dog – Lassie! We met again in Brighton the following weekend and have been together ever since. That was 1 July 2006 and we married on 2 July 2016, ten years later.
We were going to celebrate our tenth anniversary and decided to have a big party, so a wedding seemed the perfect idea. We had already bought rings for each other from the same designer a few years earlier, so these just became our engagement rings. There wasn’ t an official proposal – just a few nights opening bottles of champagne while we talked about our visions of our perfect day.
We wanted to have an intimate venue that had space outside where everyone could sit and we could have our own
entertainment – also somewhere that our bridesmaid, our little dog Dillie, could enjoy! Somewhere in Brighton and Hove would enable us to invite everyone to a party by the sea.
Living on the coast we wanted the style of décor to be‘ beachy’, with candles in jars of shingle and small votives placed all around the reception venue and garden area. Flowers for the table were ivory and blue, again in vases of pebbles.
Neither of us knew what the other was going to wear, although we’ d both talked about probably wearing ivory dresses. Dee had her dress made by an online company in Canada. It was three-quarter length,’ 50s style ivory lace, with beautiful matching shoes. Debs chose a figure-hugging sleeveless ivory lace dress, which she’ d bought in town and coincidentally had taken up to be three quarter length. The dresses were the exactly the same colour ivory and length, which was amazing considering neither of us knew about the other’ s.
‘ There wasn’ t an official proposal – just a few nights opening bottles of champagne while we talked about our visions of our perfect day.’
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