Your Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wedding - October/November 2019 (Issue 79)

SPIRITS High The change in the weather didn’t dampen Simi and Duncan’s mood for their big day at The Elephant Hotel, Pangbourne Images courtesy of Sapna Odlin Photography 47  S ome couples fall in love on their first day at school. Others have an office romance. And some... bond over bar snacks. “We met in a pub in Reading, through friends,” says Simi. “Dunc won me over by buying me some honey-roasted peanuts. Big spender!” Still, it must have worked, because they’d been together a decade, bought a house and had two children by the time Duncan proposed on their anniversary weekend in Oxford. “It was meant to be a surprise, but I had a hopeful inkling!” says Simi. Here the bride tells us more about their big day... Simi Warah, 40, married Duncan Anderson, 37, on 22nd September, 2018, at The Elephant Hotel, Pangbourne REAL WEDDINGS