Your Kent Wedding - Page number 43 - July/August 2021 (Issue 97)

Despite a whole host of changes to their original plans, Georgia and Charlie were determined that their big day was meant to be Images courtesy of Photography by Kirsty GO WITH you hear G eorgia’s family and Charlie’s were friends for many years before the pair became a couple. They bonded thanks to their mutual love of Millwall FC and their relationship blossomed over a series of Saturdays at its matches. Charlie proposed to Georgia on her 21 st birthday. During celebrations at her nan’s house, as she began to open cards and presents, Charlie told her he wanted to give her a meaningful gift that she’d remember forever. He then got down on one knee and asked her to marry him! “Of course I said ‘yes.’ My mum and nan were both in tears,” Georgia tells us. It was then revealed that before she’d arrived her mum and nan had been frantically tearing down congratulations banners at Charlie’s behest. He’d originally planned to propose over breakfast at the Shard, but when he got stopped by security on the way in thanks to the engagement ring in his pocket, he thought he’d been rumbled by Georgia and aborted the plan. Still, all’s well that end’s well. So, by the time it came to planning the wedding, the couple were already used to rolling with the punches. The intention had been to get married in their local church and host the reception at Millwall Football Club, it being so dear to their hearts and key to their love story. However, due to the pandemic they thought it best to make some changes and decided to hold their day in one location. They’d discovered Westerham Golf Club the first time they started looking for venues and it’d stuck in their minds. “Plus, Charlie’s hobby is golf, so it was a winner with him,” Georgia says. As the Covid crisis worsened more replanning was necessary, but the couple were determined and set about rescheduling their day. Georgia explains, “When the country went into lockdown in March 2020 we knew our June wedding would be unlikely to go ahead. So, we decided to move it to 27 th December and I began the process of replanning. However, as the big day approached the pandemic had started to worsen and we knew another lockdown was imminent, leaving our plans hanging in the balance. At this point we both decided we’d had enough of rearranging everything and decided to bring our celebration forward to 18 th October – at the time just six weeks away.” Read on as the bride shares more memories of the couple’s hard-won big day... REAL WEDDINGS 43 