Your North East Wedding - Sep/Oct 2019 (Issue 34)

Science lesson Working in the same laboratory saw love blossom for biomedical scientists Kayleigh and Richard Images courtesy of Carn Patrick Kayleigh Elizabeth Fee, 29, married Richard Stanley Main, 29, at Doxford Barns on 21 st October, 2018. K ayleigh met Richard at work at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital. “We’d both trained as biomedical scientists and started in the haematology and transfusion labs within the same year,” says Kayleigh. “We had a pre-date a couple of months after I started, watching a local band at The Cluny. It was never broached as a date, but it gave us an opportunity to get to know each other. Richard even roped in a couple of his friends at the last minute so he didn’t look overly keen!” The couple had been together for three-and-a-half years when Richard proposed. “We’d booked tickets to see The National in Berlin so were in Germany for a long weekend,” continues the bride. “Richard arranged dinner at Solar, a sky lounge restaurant from which we could see the city lit up. Afterwards, we went for a walk through the Tiergarten park to see the changing leaves lit by oil lamps. We came across a little stream, where Richard proposed.” It took the couple a year to plan their wedding, starting by booking a venue visit on the flight home from Berlin. Here Kayleigh tells us more about their big day… REAL WEDDINGS 31 