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A Wedding reception at Asda
259 promises of marriage. A time and place, which was far more romantic than the Registry Office, and as far as I was concerned was the time and place of our marriage. It was in September 1996 and was beside the horse trough in Rebekah’s Field, Stubbington.
I was so delighted about the event that I wrote a song about the situation and this is called “Rebekah’s Field”. This song was sung at Oliver’s Bar, in Gosport, when our band entered a Beat the Band competition on 5th May in 2000 as I will relate later on. Video link below:
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The Horse Trough in Rebekah’s Field
As I look back on this event I believe I must have been on a manic high as I also sung my other song, “Can your Remember”, at the same event.
A Wedding reception at Asda
I began to feel much happier at the prospect of us living together as man and wife and we both wanted a simple and legal ceremony, at the Fareham Registry Office. How ever upon reflection I realize my mood was rising and I was high as we were preparing for a simple wedding and I took Silver Girl’s off the cuff comment about having wedding reception in Asda quite literally and arranged it with the management at Asda, in Fareham. I simply asked if we could have our wedding reception in their store and the management were very obliging. Once the local news got hold of our plans they were very interested in the story and before we knew it local and national newspapers published the story. This was all too much for Silver Girl and she pulled out of the wedding. However this didn’t stop the story going to the press. Here
260 is the story:
FAREHAM / Pressure too much for bride-to-be (THE NEWS, Friday, November 22, 1996)
Asda reception couple put their wedding on ice
By TANYA JOHNSON A Fareham couple due to celebrate their marriage with a reception in a supermarket have postponed their wedding.
David Clarke and Silver Girl were due to tie the knot at Fareham Register Office this afternoon.
The ceremony was to be followed with a reception in the self-service cafeteria at Asda in Fareham
More then 20 guests were expected for a £2.50 -a-head meal of roast chicken, lasagne and hot pot.
Yesterday Dave 47, contacted The News to say that is was not going ahead. “I regret to say the pressure has been too much”, he said. “Silver Girl has called off the wedding.”
It is too much for her to cope with. I am very upset.
Dave an engineering lecturer at Fareham College did not elaborate on his girl-friend’s reason for cancelling the wedding.
Silver Girl who is expecting the couple’s first child is a psychiatric nurse.
Both were getting married for the second time. Dave, of Hayling Close Fareham has four children from his first marriage, and his new wife lives in Stubbington and has two children.
Yesterday Dave said: “We want a nice wedding but without frills, which cost a lot of money. “But we hope the wedding will go ahead at a later date.
Continuing in their unconventional style he added: “ I don’t think my wife will be disappointed if I don’t give her a wedding ring but I’m not sure how she will react to the ball and chain that I have made.
