Paige and Ryan met via the online dating app Tinder. “Ryan was in the Royal Navy based in Portsmouth, and I was visiting family there,” Paige tells us. “After speaking for a few weeks, he travelled to Newport, where I lived, from Portsmouth to meet me for a coffee. We talked for several hours, and the rest is history.” Ryan proposed on March 18, 2023. “I was sitting on the sofa in my pyjamas, and he asked me to close my eyes before running upstairs,” Paige says. “When I opened them, he was down on one knee. He knew that I didn’t want a big proposal; I wanted something intimate, just the two of us, so this was perfect.” Paige wanted a fairytale-inspired wedding, and the location needed to suit family travelling from Portsmouth and the Cotswolds. “While researching online, Hensol Castle provided us with the wow factor,” Paige tells us. “It was the first and only 28
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