Your Bristol & Somerset Wedding - June/July 2020 (Issue 77)

Jodie and Ben knew they wanted a barn wedding, and Wick Farm Bath was the perfect setting… Images courtesy of Oobaloos Photography D espite going to the same secondary school, it wasn’t until sixth form college that Jodie and Ben became friends. “We spent a lot of free periods between lessons together,” Jodie remembers. “He used to lend me his hoodie when I was cold, and we’d pop back home at lunch together for cheesy pasta and Neighbours !” Their friends noticed there was something going on between them before they did, but eventually Ben plucked up the courage to ask Jodie out by text, and the rest is history – after Jodie had made up her mind three days later! Ben planned a trip to Cornwall under the guise of celebrating Jodie finishing her degree. One evening, after fish and chips on the beach, they sat outside their cottage with an Aperol Spritz. “Everything about it was Jodie’s perfect evening,” Ben says. “I knew she would say the words “it’s perfect”, which would be my cue to say how the only thing that could make it more perfect, would be if I was sat not with my girlfriend, but with my fiancée.” Unfortunately, he fluffed his lines and, in Jodie’s words, “went all weird.” Of course, the answer was still the same – Jodie said “yes”and it didn’t take her three days to decide! The pair set the date for 5 th September, 2019, and chose Wick Farm Bath for the setting. Jodie fills us in on the details… Country ESCAPE 37  REAL WEDDINGS