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W E D D I N G S<br />
A day to remember<br />
KELIE AND RICH GARRATT, FROM WALSALL, TIED THE KNOT IN A FUN-FILLED DAY AT THE BOND<br />
COMPANY IN DIGBETH, AND THEIR CELEBRATION IS PACKED WITH WEDDING DAY INSPIRATION<br />
After nearly 20 years and two children together,<br />
Kelie and Rich’s wedding last autumn was a truly<br />
joyous affair, captured perfectly by award-winning<br />
photographer Lisa Carpenter. Here, Kelie tells us<br />
about their wedding journey...<br />
Kelie says: “Our engagement was a long one; we got<br />
engaged in 2002 and have been together since 1999;<br />
we met through mutual friends who Rich was in a<br />
band with at the time. Another friend of mine had<br />
joined the band and I’d gone to see him play his first<br />
gig with them at JBs in Dudley and after the gig, I<br />
was dancing and Rich sent up a friend to ask me if<br />
he could dance with me. I said yes and that’s where it<br />
all began...<br />
“In 2000 we bought our house together and in 2001<br />
we had our son Jack and then in November 2002<br />
after a night out when we’d been to see my favourite<br />
band Suede play a gig in Birmingham, Rich<br />
proposed and I said yes!”<br />
“We always said we would go away to get married<br />
as we didnt want a huge wedding and there was no<br />
where local to us that we really liked. We would look<br />
for venue ideas but nothing we saw really appealed<br />
to us, and everything was so expensive. The years<br />
went on and then, in 2006, we had our daughter,<br />
Isabel. Time flies when you have children and we<br />
were so busy bringing up our family the wedding was<br />
no longer a priority and instead we saved our money<br />
to go on family holidays and camping trips in our<br />
camper van.<br />
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