Victoria and Oli met online in 2011. “For our first date, we had arranged to meet at Costa Coffee in Cheltenham but Oli was 20 minutes late and I had accidentally left my phone at home so he couldn’t contact me to tell me that he was running late!” Victoria says. “After 15 minutes of waiting outside and wondering if I was waiting at the right place, I almost gave up thinking I had been stood up! Thankfully, I waited a little longer and we hit it off straight away!” Victoria tells us how the couple booked the venue, purchased the ring and then got engaged. “I had been hinting about getting married for a couple of years and Oli finally came round to the idea of having a small wedding (but little did we know that it would be very small due to the Covid restrictions in place at the time.) We visited a couple of wedding fairs and viewed some venues including Dumbleton Hall Hotel The Cotswolds. After having a chat with Sarah there, we booked the venue for December 20th 2020.” The couple then purchased a ring and months later, as they were getting ready to head out for their anniversary meal, Oli presented it to Victoria and asked her to marry him. SETTING THE SCENE The main reason that Victoria and Oli chose Dumbleton Hall Hotel The Cotswolds was that “People often find it hard to tell Oli and his twin brother James apart. On our wedding day, James popped up to the room where I was getting ready and my mum answered the door and thought it was Oli, telling him that he wasn’t allowed to be there because it was bad luck! James had to quickly explain that he wasn’t Oli!” -Victoria REAL WEDDINGS 39
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