Your Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Wedding- Page number 37 - August/September 2021 (Issue 28)

H elen and Shane met through a group of photographers and models. “We both shared the same passions for photography and music and enjoyed a similar sense of humour which were big attractions for each of us,” Helen says. The couple became engaged during a surprise proposal on the 18 th of May 2019 at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire. “There was a science exhibition taking place there where a large sculpture of the moon was being featured,” Helen tells us. “I love the moon so Shane set his camera up so that we could get some cute couple shots beneath it. Then, out of the blue, he got down on one knee and proposed to me. It was a very elaborate surprise and so romantic – he had been planning it for months!” SETTING THE SCENE The history of Woodchester Mansion, as well as its unique gothic beauty, attracted the couple. “The team are kindly letting us have venue hire there on our first anniversary this September, almost to the date that we got married there, so that we can have a mock vow renewal ceremony and a large evening reception,” Helen says. “We will invite all of the guests who weren’t able to make it to our actual wedding due to the restrictions in place at the time.” Shane had to enter the ceremony room after the registrars. “He took the opportunity to enter to his own choice of wedding music, a song from his favourite band Mötley Crüe called Kickstart My Heart ,” Helen describes. MICRO WEDDING SPECIAL 37