Your Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Wedding- Page number 25 - August/September 2021 (Issue 28)

K elly and Tim met via an online dating app in 2015. “It was a picture of him wearing an Exeter Chief headpiece after watching them play rugby that did it for me!” Kelly tells us. Tim adds, “It was Kelly’s dark hair and signature red lipstick that caught my eye.” The couple became engaged during a surprise proposal in New York on Kelly’s 30 th birthday. “We were so excited to visit the city ahead of Christmas but I had no idea that he was going to propose,” Kelly tells us. “My birthday fell on the last day of our trip and we had an evening ticket booked to visit the Empire State Building. We were on the top level when I turned around and saw Tim holding a ring box open with the most beautiful ring inside. How he managed to get it through security at the airport I’ll never know although I now know that he put it in his hold luggage - if it were me, I wouldn’t have let it out of my sight!” SETTING THE SCENE “Growing up, I had always envisaged a barn wedding,” Kelly tells us. “I remember being about 18 years of age and looking at wedding barns all the time online. After we became engaged, I went to view Hyde House with my mum and sister, thinking that maybe we’d need to keep searching but as soon as we arrived, I had fallen in love there and then. The fact that the ceremony and “I felt nervous most of the morning but also excited to see everyone and especially to see Kelly.” - Tim REAL WEDDINGS 25