Samaire and Barry met on a night out in Bicester with mutual friends. “Barry was sober and I wasn’t but he didn’t realise!” Samaire tells us. “We chatted and enjoyed an ice fight on the dancefloor and at the end of the evening, he drove me back safely to my friend’s house.” The couple became engaged in 2016 during a visit to the National Trust property Stowe with their one-year-old daughter. “Barry first asked me to marry him back in 2013 the night before we were departing for a trip to the USA,” Samaire tells us. “He had arranged to see my friends and family to share the news. Unfortunately, I turned him down. Three years later, I knew that Barry and our family were what I wanted for my future so I asked him while sitting on a bench having thought of nothing else during the visit.” SETTING THE SCENE Samaire and Barry chose the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre in Quainton, Aylesbury as the backdrop for their special day. “We had visited the centre numerous times before at Christmas but had never looked at it as a wedding venue,” Samaire says. “I attended a wedding fair there and saw it in a new light; it was quirky, it wasn’t weather dependant and it was something different, (not to mention it could hold plenty of guests and was a ‘dry’ venue meaning that we could use whichever suppliers we wanted). At the time, neither of us had any interest in trains, but we both agreed that it was the perfect place to bring our loved ones together and we knew that the photographs would be amazing. After choosing the venue, Barry became very invested, first as a volunteer, then a member of the executive and he is now chairman of the Buckinghamshire Railway “We used the milk churns, delivery bicycle and the trains that were at the venue in our photographs.” - Samaire and Barry 43 REAL WEDDINGS
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