A WOMAN has got married in a church in King's Somborne, the same place as her parents and grandparents.
Katy White and Jack Cullen tied the knot at the church on Saturday, September 2.
Katy’s mum, Tracy White, said that the day was even more special as the wedding was held at King’s Somborne Church, where she and her husband David were married in August 1986, and Katy’s grandparents, Michael and Anne Snellgrove, were wed in September 1962.
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Tracy said: “My daughter now lives on Sark, in the middle of the Channel Islands, but she always wanted to get married in King’s Somborne church, basically because I got married there, my mum got married there, she was baptised there, and it just held a really special place in her heart.
“So, that’s why she wanted to come back to King’s Somborne.
“Everything in the church was locally sourced. The floral arrangements and everything were from local people who do things for the church; the Somborne Singers, the bells and everything. We tried to keep everything as local as we could.”
The theme of the wedding was “My Granddad’s Garden”, with flowers provided by Michael Snellgrove, Katy’s grandad.
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Tracy said that Katy and Jack dated 10 years ago before breaking up. However, they later reconnected on social media, falling in love before getting married.
She continued: “(Katy) looked back through my photo album and my parent’s photo album, because she wanted to see what the comparisons were, because it meant so much to her to be married there and she wanted to make sure everything as much as she possibly could mirror some of the images and photographs she had taken.
“The most important thing was using the flowers from my dad’s garden. The local people who did the church took five hours to arrange all the floral arrangements. The wedding itself was kept quite small, put it was all people they wanted there, including people who had came over from Sark, which was quite significant.”
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