Party on
REAL WEDDINGS
When Bethany and Sam finally managed to tie the knot they were determined to celebrate in style
Images courtesy of Sam Gee Photography
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matchmaking friend helped bring Bethany and Sam together. “During a girls night in with Kelly, I told her that I’d love to start dating again after being single for about three years. She mentioned Sam and I messaged him there and then, even though it was 2am! He’d just got home from working offshore and was heading off to Ibiza at the time,” reveals Bethany. She didn’t think anything more about it until up popped a friend request a few days later. “We started chatting and that was that,” she adds. Sam proposed in December 2018 following a lightbulb moment while working away from home for 11 weeks. “One
day it just suddenly hit me that I wanted to propose. I always knew that Bethany was the one, but I’d never thought about marriage until that moment,” he recalls. With six weeks left before returning home, he set to work on organising how and where to pop the question. He had the whole moment mapped out in his head and was planning to do it during a trip to Iceland in December, on a romantic tour by private jeep to see the Northern Lights. A storm put pay to that though as the tour was cancelled so he ended up asking her in bed, during an ad break while watching Killer Women with Piers Morgan! Read on for Bethany’s account of their big day… 29
